Pale Blue Dot Socks
Description: "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." — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot — In 1990, Carl Sagan asked NASA engineers to turn the Voyager I probe around for one last look at its home planet. The resulting galactic selfie showed us Earth as a tiny pale blue dot, all but obscured by the surrounding light rays. I made this shirt as a reminder.
Description: In white Graduate and Edo fonts, this is an excerpt from a quote from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Description: Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. A part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.
Description: In black Graduate and Edo fonts, this is an excerpt from a quote from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
