40.5AU by A Last Picture From Voyager

«40.5AU» is all about distances. The main title refers to the distance the Voyager 1 space probe was, when it recorded the famous picture «A pale blue dot». Distance is how, as human beings, we can place us in the small place we are, regarding everything else. Distance is how we are far from our past and from our future.

«The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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 of 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 hatreds.»
Carl Sagan

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