| Pale Blue Dot |
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The original adaptation of Pale Blue Dot:
A Vision of the Human Future in Space,written
by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and published by
Ballantine Books in 1994.
Available on Amazon in both paperback and
audio book version.
This video was first uploaded to YouTube on
February 2007 as part of the Celebrating
Sagan Blogathon and subsequently featured on
the front page in June 2007.It was a finalist
at the Portobello Film festival in London,
and the Concorto Film festival in Italy 2007.
Used with kind permission of Cosmos Studios.
Dr Sagan first presented this perspective to
the world in 1991, when he revealed the
parting image of Earth taken by Voyager from
a distance of 4 billion miles.
Some good related links:
http://www.carlsagan.com
http://www.celebratingsagan.com
Quotes:
To bake a cake, you must first invent the
universe !- Carl Sagan.
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we
are. -Erik Satie
Atheists aren't that bad. - Zackie Chan
There are many videos of Pale Blue Dot now on
YouTube which employ spoken samples of Dr
Sagan's audio book, most notably by
Darknlooking and Palebluefilms [ links below]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw
You can't keep a good Atheist down!
Music and film by Ice Core Scientist.
The song Ghostdancers is available from
iTunes.
All images courtesy of Nasa / Esa / Prelinger
Archive /Public domain,but
unless otherwise stated,remain the exclusive
property of their respective copyright
holders.
Laughing Slim by Vern Evans
Used with kind permission.
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| We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot |
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The Pale Blue Dot: The picture of Earth from
4 billion miles away. As told by Carl Sagan
through some my favorite films set to the
music of Mogwai.
http://palebluefilms.com/?p=11
Edit: I've had some requests for subtitles
from people abroad. I hope the English
subtitles help a few more people understand
the narration. Please feel free to translate
the subtitles into your native language.
http://subtitle.in/w/2pfwY2TNehw/IL__xdkgNMS
Chinese Subtitles (thanks to wedgewu):
http://subtitle.in/w/2pfwY2TNehw/HfnL_knYxX1
Korean Subtitles (courtesy wittjess)
http://www.mncast.com/?5822428
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| Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot: On The Turning Away |
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I've seen a Few Pale Blue Dot vids on
YouTube, just wanted to take a shot.
"Please Post any Video Respons, Thanks."
-RevTyson
This is one of the best PBD vids on youtube:
Pale Blue Dot - Gabebro1 's Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lgW21hSZw
"Since, in the long run, every planetary
civilization will be endangered by impacts
from space, every surviving civilization is
obliged to become spacefaring--not because of
exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the
most practical reason imaginable: staying
alive... If our long-term survival is at
stake, we have a basic responsibility to our
species to venture to other worlds."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Music by, PINK FLOYD
Momentary Lapse of Reason: "ON THE TURNING
AWAY"
A remembrance of Carl Sagan, astronomer,
writer, and national teacher of science. Here
is how he introduced his 1980 public
television series "Cosmos."
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CARL SAGAN: ("Cosmos" 1980) The size and age
of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human
understanding. Lost somewhere between
immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary
home, the Earth. For the first time we have
the power to decide the fate of our planet
and ourselves. This is a time of great
danger, but our species is young and curious
and brave. It shows much promise. In the last
few millennia we have made almost astonishing
and unexpected discoveries about the cosmos
and our place within it. I believe our future
depends powerfully on well we understand this
cosmos in which we float like a mode of dust
in the morning sky.
We're about to begin a journey through the
cosmos. We'll encounter galaxies and suns and
planets, life and consciousness coming into
being, evolving, and perishing, worlds of ice
and stars of diamond, atoms as massive as
suns and universes smaller than atoms. But
it's also a story of our own planet, and the
plants and animals that share it with us, and
it's a story about us, how we achieved our
present understanding of the cosmos, how the
cosmos has shaped our evolution and our
culture and what our fate may be. We wish to
pursue the truth no matter where it leads,
but to find the truth, we need imagination
and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to
speculate, but we will be careful to
distinguish speculation from fact. The cosmos
is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of
exquisite inter-relationships, of the awesome
machinery of nature.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the
cosmic ocean. On this shore we've learned
most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a
little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the
water seems inviting. Some part of our being
knows this is where we came from. We long to
return. And we can't, because the cosmos is
also within us. We're "made" of star stuff.
We are a way that the cosmos can know itself.
The journey for each of us begins here. We're
going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the
imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on
speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic
harmonies. It can take us anywhere in space
and time. Perfect as a snowflake, organic as
a dandelion seed, it will carry us to worlds
of dreams and worlds of facts. Come with me.
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| Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot |
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On February 14, 1990, NASA commanded the
Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its
primary mission, to turn around to photograph
the planets it had visited. One image Voyager
returned was of Earth, 4 billion miles
distant, showing up as a tiny dot.
"The spacecraft was a long way from home. I
thought it would be a good idea, just after
Saturn, to have them take one last glance
homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear
too small for Voyager to make out any detail.
Our planet would be just a point of light, a
lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the
other points of light Voyager would see:
nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely
because of the obscurity of our world thus
revealed, such a picture might be worth
having."
"It had been well understood by the
scientists and philosophers of classical
antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in
a vast, encompassing cosmos -- but no one had
ever seen it as such. Here was our first
chance, and perhaps also our last."
"So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid
down on top of the planets in a background
smattering of more distant stars. Because of
the reflection of sunlight off the
spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in
a beam of light, as if there were some
special significance to this small world; but
it's just an accident of geometry and optics.
There is no sign of humans in this picture:
not our reworking of the Earth's surface; not
our machines; not ourselves. From this
vantage point, our obsession with nationalism
is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On
the scale of worlds, humans are
inconsequential: a thin film of life on an
obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal."
"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's
home. That's us. On it, everyone you love,
everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard
of, every human being who ever was lived out
their lives. The aggregate of all our joys
and sufferings; thousands of confident
religions, ideologies and economic doctrines;
every hunter and forager; every hero and
coward; every creator and destroyer of
civilizations; every king and peasant, every
young couple in love; every mother and
father; every hopeful child; every inventor
and explorer; every teacher of morals; every
corrupt politician; every supreme leader;
every superstar; every saint and sinner in
the history of our species, lived there -- on
a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast
cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties
visited by the inhabitants of one corner of
this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner. How
frequent their misunderstandings; how eager
they are to kill one another; how fervent
their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood
spilled by all those generals and emperors so
that in glory and triumph they could become
the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,
the delusion that we have some privileged
position in the universe, are challenged by
this point of pale light."
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great
enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity --
in all this vastness -- there is no hint that
help will come from elsewhere to save us from
ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment,
the Earth is where we make our stand."
"It has been said that astronomy is a
humbling and character-building experience.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of
the folly of human conceits than this distant
image of our tiny world. It underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one
another, and to preserve and cherish the only
home we've ever known: the pale blue dot."
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I decided to combine the great audio from
palebluefilms' video with the great footage
from VendettaVV's video.
The monologue is spoken by Carl Sagan.
The music is Mogwai - Stop Coming to My
House.
palebluefilms:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw
VendettaVV:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g-aX4kT_N9c
Various individual clips are from a dozen
other videos all over youtube.
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| Carl Sagan reads from Pale Blue Dot - Galileo |
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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 -- 8
January 1642) was an Italian physicist,
mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
who is closely associated with the scientific
revolution. His achievements include the
first systematic studies of uniformly
accelerated motion, improvements to the
telescope, a variety of astronomical
observations, and support for Copernicanism.
Galileo's experiment-based work is a
significant break from the abstract approach
of Aristotle. Galileo is often referred to as
the "father of modern astronomy", as the
"father of modern physics", and as the
"father of science". The motion of uniformly
accelerated objects, treated in nearly all
high school and introductory college physics
courses, was studied by Galileo as the
subject of kinematics.
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| Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot |
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This is not my video. This video was compiled
by the YouTube user 'torbad'. I take no
credit whatsoever. I'm uploading it on my
channel because I admire the work put into it
and want to spread it around.
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On February 14, 1990, NASA commanded the
Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its
primary mission, to turn around to photograph
the planets it had visited. One image Voyager
returned was of Earth, 4 billion miles
distant, showing up as a tiny dot.
"The spacecraft was a long way from home. I
thought it would be a good idea, just after
Saturn, to have them take one last glance
homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear
too small for Voyager to make out any detail.
Our planet would be just a point of light, a
lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the
other points of light Voyager would see:
nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely
because of the obscurity of our world thus
revealed, such a picture might be worth
having."
"It had been well understood by the
scientists and philosophers of classical
antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in
a vast, encompassing cosmos -- but no one had
ever seen it as such. Here was our first
chance, and perhaps also our last."
"So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid
down on top of the planets in a background
smattering of more distant stars. Because of
the reflection of sunlight off the
spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in
a beam of light, as if there were some
special significance to this small world; but
it's just an accident of geometry and optics.
There is no sign of humans in this picture:
not our reworking of the Earth's surface; not
our machines; not ourselves. From this
vantage point, our obsession with nationalism
is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On
the scale of worlds, humans are
inconsequential: a thin film of life on an
obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal."
"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's
home. That's us. On it, everyone you love,
everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard
of, every human being who ever was lived out
their lives. The aggregate of all our joys
and sufferings; thousands of confident
religions, ideologies and economic doctrines;
every hunter and forager; every hero and
coward; every creator and destroyer of
civilizations; every king and peasant, every
young couple in love; every mother and
father; every hopeful child; every inventor
and explorer; every teacher of morals; every
corrupt politician; every supreme leader;
every superstar; every saint and sinner in
the history of our species, lived there -- on
a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast
cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties
visited by the inhabitants of one corner of
this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner. How
frequent their misunderstandings; how eager
they are to kill one another; how fervent
their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood
spilled by all those generals and emperors so
that in glory and triumph they could become
the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,
the delusion that we have some privileged
position in the universe, are challenged by
this point of pale light."
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great
enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity --
in all this vastness -- there is no hint that
help will come from elsewhere to save us from
ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment,
the Earth is where we make our stand."
"It has been said that astronomy is a
humbling and character-building experience.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of
the folly of human conceits than this distant
image of our tiny world. It underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one
another, and to preserve and cherish the only
home we've ever known: the pale blue dot."
--------------------------
I decided to combine the great audio from
palebluefilms' video with the great footage
from VendettaVV's video.
The monologue is spoken by Carl Sagan.
The music is Mogwai - Stop Coming to My
House.
palebluefilms:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw
VendettaVV:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g-aX4kT_N9c
Various individual clips are from a dozen
other videos all over youtube.
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