John Assaraf says one of his major goals is to see Earth from the moon. He frames space travel as crucial for humanity's long-term survival and cites Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot as a reference for understanding Earth's fragility.
So when I get asked, you know, what's on my bucket list, one of the big, hairy, audacious goals I have is to see the Earth from the moon. I don't know what it is about space and time. I do know that, you know, the survival of our species will depend on, you know, us traveling to other planets, living somewhere other than Earth. But there's something, you know, magical, you know, that I find, you know, looking at the Earth from the moon and to remember, you know, the beauty, the abundance that, you know, is right here on planet Earth. I remember seeing a video or listen to a video with Carl Sagan, just a brilliant philosopher. He has a phenomenal video called Pale Blue Dot. And in the video, you know, he talks about how, you know, there's, I think, 100 billion people that have lived on planet Earth. You know, every king, every emperor, every savage, every person who did good, and every person who, you know, is part of the evil empires. All of us live on this beautiful blue planet. All the people that ever were and maybe all the people that ever will be on planet Earth. But there's going to be a group people that leave Earth at some time. I think one of the first jumps is the moon. And I would love to see the Earth from the moon. Just to be able to be in that glory, in that spectacular creation. I don't know what created it all, but I do know that something magical is there.
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