The Pale Blue Dot.

We are a small species, If there were any aliens out there, What makes you think they want to see us, We would be considered barbaric to them, We have one home, We need to change that, Life on mars would be quite fun, We can travel there, We are preparing to settle, There are many types of civilizations, We are type 1, Type 2: They can use their entire planet’s resources and “disasters” which would just be a source of energy for them, Type 3 Civilizations: They would be able to use energy and all of the resources of multiple planets, Type 4 Civilizations: They use their entire solar system for energy and there wouldnt be much terrible stuff happening to them, Type 5 Civilizations: A Type 5 Civilization could and would use their entire GALAXY as energy, Black holes, Neutron stars, Regular stars, And all sorts of planets in various sizes and types, Type 6 Civilizations: They not only control their entire UNIVERSE, But also make THEIR OWN LAWS OF PHYSICS, Type 7 Civilizations: They CREATE their own universes, Yes, Universes, Its plural, And they can take energy and resources from anything and everything, Unstoppable basically, Type 8 Civilizations: The last civilization on the kardashev scale, Their create and infinite amount of universes and do whatever they want, Almost, This puts into scale just how small we are, We aim to be a type 3 civilization, When we arent even type 2 yet, However we do have plans for Mars, We plan to colonize it by 2040-2050, But we shouldnt aim this high yet, We need to become a type 2 civilization on our tiny pale blue dot, As Carl Sagan said “From a far distance, The Earth may not seem of any particular interest, But to us its different, Consider again that dot, Thats here, Thats home, Thats us, On it everyone you love, Everyone you know, Everyone you’ve ever heard of, Every human being who ever was, Lived out their lives, The aggregate of our joy and suffering, Thousands of confident religions, Ideologies and economic doctrines, Every hunter and forager, Every hero and coward, Every creator and destroyer of civilization, Every king and peasant, Every young couple in love, Every mother and father, Hopeful child, Inventor and explorer, Every teacher of morals, Every corrupt politician, Every superstar, Every supreme leader, Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived here, On the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, The Earth is a very small stage, In a vast, Cosmic arena, Just think of the rivers of blood, Spilled by all those generals and emperors, So that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot, Think about the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel, On the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, How frequent their misunderstandings, How eager they are to kill one another, How fervent their hatred, Our posturings, Our imagined self importance, The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challen by this point of pale light, Our planet is a lonely speck in the great, Enveloping cosmic dark, In our obscurity, In all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere, To save us, From ourselves, The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life, There is nowhere else, Atleast in the near future to which our species could migrate, Visit, Yes, Settle, Not yet, Like it or not, For the moment the Earth is where we make our stand, It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience, There is perhaps no better demonstration than the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world, To me it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, And to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, The only home we’ve ever known” - Carl Sagan.