everything we know originates from that small speck of the universe. everyone we know.
another image of our home from saturn taken in July 2013


this is not to signify the uselessness of our race or place but rather the fact that we really don't have many options once we screw up ourselves and this place.

Imagination? Sure. In the same ways that the Bible, Koran and other religious tracts can be considered fiction.

It is also skewed by our view of space/time as real. Think of this:

1. We are told the universe started as a big bang – an ‘outward’ explosion from a singularity which created the space/time framework on which matter/energy became distributed to form the Universe that we see.

2. We are also told that a black hole is an implosion of matter/energy into an infinite point (a singularity). Yet despite this implosion, the black hole retains all the information that existed before it was formed , including the space/time, matter/energy distribution that existed before– see black hole information paradox: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/...es-destroy-information/

Meaning: If we lived inside a black hole (a singularity) we would never know the difference.

Space/time is an illusion. So is matter/energy for that matter.

On pale blue dot, another way to look at the scenario is for instance consider a plane up high in the sky...it appears 1 feet long...in reality it is tens of metres long. The illusion of 1 feet is the result of our own limitations..e.g. we rely on light from the object to the eye.... and interpretation of size is affected by the distance...yet in reality, the plane is same size and doesn't lose any of its properties. So the pale blue dot is an illusion, the result of voyager's own limitations rather than the converse.

sounds like the story of the ants.