“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.” That was how noted astronomer, planetary scientist, author and TV star Carl Sagan – in his celebrated 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space – described Voyager 1’s 1990 photo of Earth.
It remains a stark representation of the insignificance of humanity amid the vast cosmos. Steven Wilson would have been about 13 years old when Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage aired in the UK; but, like many creatives, he found a deep fascination in the idea of the vastness of space and the fact we’ve barely scratched its surface.
