Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you 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 there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of 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
When your ego is the size of the universe, seeing your physical size relative to that of the Earth will not alter you.
I think it’s more like paying for an expensive holiday or being gifted one.
The original Apollo astronauts were salaried men seeing the gift of the Earth from space. They were like newly weds being upgraded to the honeymoon suite for free – beyond gratitude.
Bezos paid for the whole excursion himself and probably thought “huh, nice, but was it really worth 100Million dollars to get this?”
I’ve seen my parents balk at beautiful things when I was a kid, mostly because I wasn’t paying for them.
Not defending the horrific man that he is, just offering an explanation.