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Pale Blue Dot

t wasn’t quite a ‘Pale Blue Dot’ moment, but it was humbling nonetheless. I was putting together the spreads of every cover Wild has ever run and … actually, before I go on, maybe I should take a step back and talk about the pale blue dot. If you’ve never heard of it, the phrase was coined by astronomer and author Carl Sagan. In 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe was just about to leave the Solar System, and—as

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