When we try our best to spend all our energy to complete something, it turns out that it is easily completed by others, which gives people a sense of powerlessness. Similarly, when human beings work hard to make the earth a global village, we can go anywhere we want to go without any effort. Just when we were proud, we found that this is too pediatric, as if everything is meaningless. Before
, human technology was too backward. Everyone lived in a fixed regional circle, and communication with each other would be reduced if the distance was farther. At that time, it felt that the world was really big, but with the development of technology, the means of transportation have gradually developed. The earth has really become a global village.
Gradually, our eyes are no longer confined to the earth. We have long been aiming beyond the earth. For example, the farthest footprint has reached the moon, which is 380,000 kilometers away. Apollo in the late 1960s and early 1970s In the manned moon landing plan, a total of 12 astronauts will land on the moon. After that, NASA also launched a number of interstellar probes. The primary goal is to detect four asteroids . After the preliminary conclusion is completed, the four probes will continue to fly into deep space with the goal of flying out of the solar system.
A glimpse of Voyager 1
launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977, and completed the overtaking of Voyager 2 and passing through the small space within three years after the successful launch. The planetary belt, the exploration of the "Jupiter system" and the "Saturn system", and finally had to abandon the mission of detecting Uranus and , Neptune and due to the flight orbit. The detection of Uranus and Neptune can only wait for the Voyager 2 to follow closely. To be done. The latest data of
shows that Voyager 1 is flying outside the solar system. It has been flying for 43 years and is about 22.5 billion kilometers away from the earth. In 2025, Voyager 1 will completely lose contact with the earth and be alone. To the universe deep-sky flight exploration.
13 years after the launch of Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, it flew to a place 6.4 billion kilometers away from the earth, and was instructed by the ground to turn the camera to take a "picture of home" from the photo. You can see our lovely earth.
The little blue dot that is less than one pixel is the world we live in. The beautiful blue planet. The bits and pieces of millions of species on the earth are gathered on that little blue dot. The last photo taken by
Voyager 1 is of great significance. Looking at the earth from a distant place, it is like a grain of dust. It is on such a dusty celestial body that life was born and developed a civilization of wisdom. But no one congratulates us on everything. At present, life on Earth is very lonely in the universe. The photos taken by
Voyager 1 6.4 billion kilometers away make scientists think deeply that
has mentioned millions of species on the earth. Only mankind has developed a civilization of wisdom. When we turn the earth into a global village and explore at the same time The moon landed on the moon and even explored deep space farther away, but looking back, we found that everything that once made us proud looks like a dust in the deep space of the universe.
After reading this photo, you should be able to better feel the dark forest rule in Liu's "Three-Body". It doesn't seem to be that cruel anymore. There are particles of "dust" floating in the vast universe, seemingly no one It doesn't matter whether life is born or a civilization of wisdom appears on these "dust", everything is too insignificant and seemingly unnecessary.
Summary
We often say that the universe is vast, tens of billions light-years , but there has never been an intuitive impression, and a simple photo taken 6.4 billion kilometers away from Voyager One makes us feel it. Here comes the vastness of the universe and the "smallness" of the earth.
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