Today’s November 3rd, a Japanese national holiday, and popularly known as “Culture Day.”
The Tokyo weather’s glorious, if a little cool (about 14 C), and I’m taking it easy with some gentle garden weeding, in between writing about this, that and the other.
On a recent web surf for ideas I rediscovered some thought-provoking words from the late Carl Sagan, an American astronomer and popular author.
It’s called “The Pale Blue Dot” – a term used to describe how our earth appeared on a photo taken in 1990 by the Voyager spacecraft, 6 billion Km into its incredible journey.
I like this 3 minutes YouTube version, set to Dr. Sagan’s own voice, because it reminds me that there’s probably no extraterrestrial cavalry coming to humanity’s rescue anytime soon.
I wonder if they have Culture Days on Alpha Centauri? 
- Mark McClure
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