The Pale Blue Dot - A Tribute to Carl Sagan
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- As I rejected religion for the first time in my late 30s, I only recently discovered the power and poetry of Carl Sagan's work, and as I was no longer bound by the constraints of religious thinking, I couldn't help but experience a feeling of profound gratitude that, even after his death, he could help me feel awe and wonder at the universe.
Mine is just one of many visual translations of his words. But with it, I hope that a new audience will be introduced to Carl Sagan and can experience this amazing look at the cosmos through his eyes. -Seth
Heaven is not my home. Hell is not my home. And despite what anyone says. Earth will always be the place where my family, friends,and memories will always be. Its where I rode my first bike, It's where I lost my first tooth,and where I had my first kiss. Earth will always be my home. :)
But you 'stepped out' of a super nova.
Its been repeated time and again, but I still have to say: Carl Sagan's words can help any being's day.
No matter the trouble, neither big nor small, can give me this feeling of hope and wonder through it all.
And so Mr. Sagan, as I raise my glass renewed, this one here, this one is for you.
This version of 'Pale Blue Dot' remains my favorite. Reid Gower's is great, but this is better. I just spent about ten minutes trying to find it because I hadn't watched it in a long time and couldn't remember the uploader. Thanks again Seth. Thanks again Carl.
DAMN that's some good video editing. :D
This puts things into their true context...
The version in the Atheists OK conference is slightly different to this one. Probably just the audio. Is this Sagan's voice used here, or simply someone with similar vocal traits? I'm not familiar enough with his voice to be sure but it sounds like him. And as good as the voice is in the other version, this one works better in my opinion.
I read this book so many times I can't count.
@Alargator Dragons of Eden won him a Pulitzer, but Pale Blue Dot and Cosmos are terrific too. Cosmos might be the best one with which to begin.
This never gets old. I watch it frequently to keep me dialed in. Sagan is missed.
Me too. Every time, I feel desolate, in moments of despair, I play this video and other versions of it and each time I hear, I can feel the calm. The profoundness of the words and the thought is immense, leaving you humbled. I like this version of "The pale blue dot" too... ua-cam.com/video/zpZHUjKnDpE/v-deo.html
He lives on in our memory
To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die. -Carl Sagan
He will live on for eons
Same. And I try to share it with others who haven’t seen it as often as I can.
It's like rational spirituality.
That "Pale Blue Dot" Image at the beginning was actually Sagan's idea. He had to convince the Project Manager to turn the craft around and take the pic.
Imagine someone builds a city. He builds it from the ground up. Every single building, wall, window, park, corner, street, bar, sidewalk. A really really big city built from scratch; and the builder says: "I built everything here FOR YOU, but you are not allowed to leave this tiny room. If you go outside, you will die". That is how stupid the "God made the universe for us to enjoy" argument sounds to me. Peace to everyone!!
yep. That's how I see it as well. A lot of infinite unused space surrounds the Earth. God is either stupid or doesn't fucking exist.
@@StaticBlaster ... that or she/he/it likes to isolate their experiments.
It's ironic that the mind boggling achievement of getting a picture of our tiny blue pinpoint dot from billions of miles away demonstrates such a deeply humbling perspective.
When I was a kid, AI read Sagan's book.THE COSMIC CONNECTION. It said for the firsttime, humans have an accurate picture of our place in the universe.
This gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. So powerful, so Sagan. I just love it. I miss him. May his memory continue to inspire people to science, reality and humanism, just like he have done to me and many others. He was a great man with a great goal - to make reach out to everyone and teach about science - and he did it exceptionally well.
I can't do anything but truly admire, love and respect that man. A true hero.
how can ANYONE watch this and dislike it so disappointing it was beautiful
Probably believers disturbed by their insignificance
@@myrenmusic1611 well put
Thank you Seth Andrews for making this beautiful video of Carl Sagan's poetic thoughts.
This is the most beautiful video I've seen. An amazing and worthy tribute, a work of poetry - of art. It really opens your eyes to how insignificant we are, and how little our actions here matter - but how much we need to change them.
I got a little misty-eyed watching this. It's absolutely amazing and inspiring. Such a shame we lost such a brilliant mind. :'(
Einstein, Sagan and most recently Hawking.
Out of all the versions of 'Pale Blue Dot' on UA-cam, this is the best!
Yes, there have been countless visual interpretations of this now iconic monologue. To me, this is the finest of them all. Beautiful work. Thoughtful, unpretentious, and masterfully executed. Thank you.
37 people have an ego the size of the whole goddamn universe.
What a very humbling video. Just shows how very small and insignificant we all are in the grand scale of things. How fragile our "pale blue dot" really is. Should we not all work in our own small way to make a better happier pleasant place to be for us all no matter how long or short our lives are. And be thankful not to a god but to the universe that we were given a time to enjoy it. Do not spoil it for future generations.
If only more people thought the way you did. The world would be a much better place.
Take care.
I somehow question the given part. Humans look for the daddy image, mom however is totally ignored!
I would like to point out "a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam" is on the scale of just WITHIN our Solar System alone! Say we make a scale model of our Solar System something comprehensible, like the width of a home 45 feet across - about the width of a mid-sized home, with the Sun in the middle and the orbit of the outermost planet (Neptune / Pluto) 22.5 feet out. The Sun would be 1/16 of an inch in diameter. The Earth would be 6 3/4 inches out from the Sun. The size of the Earth would fit FIVE TIMES across a human hair! Truly "a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam" on just the scale of the Solar System, forget about the Universe, or even the galaxy! Take the same 45 feet width and make that our Milky Way Galaxy... our Solar System at the scale could be placed 370 times across the width of a human hair. Place the known Universe in that 45 feet, and at that scale our Milky Way Galaxy could be placed 5 times across the width of a human hair.
I think everything I could say at this point has been said. So instead.. Look at the playback history graph of this video. Others are all spikes and troughs. The graph here shows a strong bias to people watching from start to finish in one go. You did good with this one, Seth. Thanks.
I havent told anyone yet. But today, after a long Journey of listening, learning, thinking and maybe a little bit of understanding, i made a decision.
A little Storytime: I grew up in a conservative religious Household, all my thoughts, habits and time had been drawn towards God and how i need him in my life. I got taught, not only through my Parents but also Church and friends that i am a bad Person, we all are, since birth and we need Salvation. If we dont have that, we wont go to Heaven. Heaven, a better Earth with no Evil, no hatred and only love and peace. But one day i dared to ask Questions about my own Religion. Questions that i got told, are bad. That they would take me away from God and would perish my salvation. At first it seemed to me that those Questions even strenghtens my faith in God. And its beautiful. Faith is a beautiful thing. Faith creates alternatives. Alternatives for those who's life's got to difficult to stand. But then i started to question myself, my Motivations to believe, my Motivations to have faith. And i found..nothing. Everything that i used to believe got taken its ground away as i started to Question it. I mentaly went into a state of Delirium, flooting helpless in the Void, with nothing in there but Questions. Who am i?, why am i here?, what is my task? all those Questions which usually were answered with "Jesus" got rolled new in a different light of perspective. A perspective of honesty. All my Questions changed essentially from; "Are you believing in God?" to "If you are Honest to yourself, are you realy believing or just acting like it, because you got told to, with the consequenz of 'HELL' if my answer would be "no"?
My Journey isnt over. But i reached an important timestamp. I decieded today, to go full Honest in the Atempt to Match what i think and what i believe with what i do. I will leave the Church. Not because i dont believe. But because i cant say "Yes" without lying to myself and to whoever asks me. I simply dont know!
So if there is a God, may he forgive me for loosing my faith in a World that is so beautiful that it can make Grown Men and Women standing in awe and humility, but yet so cruelsome that it makes people taking their own life and often others because they simply cant bear the difficulty of it.
A World, unnoticable in the light of the Universe but yet so astonishing and unique that we can barely explain its Origins and complexity in their tiniest detail.
A World where the only thing i can say is that we Humans right now, realy dont deserve to life on this tiny blue pale dot we call our Home because with all our Intelligenze, with all our knowledge we still havent developed the ability to Show respect for the very Nature that Provides us everything we need, to life a happy life even with our own Species.
"The Earth is where we make our stand"
Chris Beard That keyboard riff after that line is expertly placed...
Very humbling... We humans are not who or what we think we are. So we invented "Gods" out of arrogance and ignorance to prop up our own delusion self-importance. But we are nothing more than insignificant creatures, ants if you will, on a speck of dust in a vast, timeless and endless cosmic ocean.
BROADCAST THIS VEDIO EVERYDAY TO EVERY HUMAM ON EARTH
DEFINITELY IT WILL HELP
NOW HUMANITY DECOMPOSING
Wow I could not believe the power behind this video. I must tremble at the feet of Jesus as I allow him to come in me for the greater good of Christianity and spreading his word. Bless you all, praise God!
You were at the wrong place.
Carl Sagan is gone but his words and works are still and always will be a huge inspiration to us humans. Every time I see a presentation by Carl Sagan it makes me put things in perspective.
Excellent work. Thanks for the very nice compilation and sharing with the world.
I've read parts of that book and I also read another book called the Dawkins Delusion. I agree with Dawkins that religion has caused harm however it's not religion per se that causes harm. It's the human ego which causes harm. Even if the whole world was atheistic, I could guarantee you that there would be just as much violence and suffering. We need to humble ourselves from the tiny point of light taken 3.7 billion years into space and realize we need more love and compassion.
I remember when i first heard this and couldn't stop crying from sheer beauty.
3 years have passed since I first heard those words spoken by Carl Sagan and they remain as powerful as ever.
They make me want to never speak to someone in anger again.
They make me want to try my best...and then try a little more
They make me...well, me
We are not conquerers and explorers. We are builders. We were born centuries after our world was explored and centuries before other worlds may be explored. We are builders. We do not migrate from star to star. We stand our ground and build for a better future.
HOLY COW, CARL'S VOICE!!! *orgasm*
Please, make portuguese subtitles so i can show it to my family?
I know many people from Brazil watchs your videos. Thank you :)
His way is the only way to look at cosmos and ourselfs. His words and knowledge is the truth about us
It always fills me with joy to listen to what Sagan wrote and yet it also fills me with sorrow.
Extremely well done!!!!!!! A tear follows, will we actually draw our own extinction?
Not likely
Earth.....it's a given!! Hopefully LIFE will survive our insane self-destruction!
probably the best video i've seen so far. really powerful from the start. makes me wish that we could all set aside our petty differences and work to make our pale blue dot a better place for ALL living on it. an incredible video so glad i got to watch it!
"To Become A Fraction Of A Dot."
Poetic words and ever so poingant.
I worthy shrine for a Man of such greatness
This message was simply too beautiful.. It's sad that Mr Sagan died way too young as his was a mind needed in today's society, filled with war and violence.
If we wish to be deemed civilized we must become like Carl Sagan. However he was indeed unique and it would be wishful thinking to expect that we can change our ways. This beautiful planet is filled with a bloodthirsty and greedy bunch of savages called Homo Sapiens with little prospect of them ever becoming like Carl Sagan. You also have the corrupting influence of competing religions with deitys that espouse violence on a global scale and dividing populations and driving them to wars in the name of their deity. If we want to emulate Sagan we must divest ourselves of these corrupting influences and strive to become civilized. I dont think that will ever happen because at the moment we are hell bent on destroying ourselves, and will succeed in doing just that..
My thoughts, also. Except I think there is a small chance we will "survive our technological adolesence" (as it says inthe great movie COSMOS)). If we blow ourselves up, we join the other Type 1 civilizations that probably litter the.universe.
The only home we have ever known........ Hits me everytime.
Happy Birthday Carl Sagan :)
Carl Sagan the best
Carl Sagan, My role model. His wisdom, Intelligence and amazing fore-thought is what I wish to have. R.I.P Carl, never forgotten.
Amazing video, brought tears to my eyes. Excellent job!
Fucking amazing Seth! You are the best man!
Thanks a lot - Merci beaucoup
- Beautiful film and tribute to a man a head of his time. In Dr. Sagan's time; A proponent and much criticized for the legalization of cannabis and look where we are today. Dr. Sagan continues into space in a sense as he designed the gold plaques about human kind on the Voyager ships. The only space crafts today to have pioneered uncharted space. Onward! Dr. Carl Sagan ...
Trump this is for you.
Carl Sagan was one of those "Agnostics" who misrepresented atheism. "An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence."
The Pale Blue Dot ............our home..puts things in accurate perspective doesn't it??!
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter-intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.” - Carl Sagan
Honestly, even if the things he said and the ideas he presented weren't as inspiring, Carl Sagan was just a wonderful man to listen to and to watch. His love for science and humanity were invigorating. You are missed, Mr. Sagan.
carl sagan you are great !!!!
epic music makes epic video epic.
Yeah and all of that is driven by the human ego. Here's the thing. I'm not religious however I am a spiritual person and there is a difference. Religion shrinks your world. Spirituality expands your consciousness. I find science particularly astronomy to be humbling and spiritual. All of these endless cruelties and acts of violence are senseless. With this vantage point, I can actually see how juvenile and uneducated humans really are.
It would be just another matter at that point. Politics, economic doctrines, and other touchy issues all involve the ego. If 911 or the crusades didn't happen there would have been another war taking place of those. Humanity in general is screwed up. The only way to fix the problem is to stop being in denial, recognize our faults, and admit it, and fix it. We need to save our species before it's too late.
911 or the Crusades wouldn't have happened, but that type of event would. We are fantastic at finding ways to hurt one another, and the kind of delusional person that thrives on these things would just find another excuse. Religion may be the cause of our current problems, but if it were to be destroyed we would just find something else. It is simply natural for us. We seem to require a constant state of hatred and conflict to survive, and that will eventually be our downfall.
you might want to read Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". As biting as the title is, the actual content is of Dawkins (he's a professor of evolutionary biology at Oxford) systematically addressing both the doctrines of the Christianity aswell as common arguments that try and defend them. Its strange though, personally, whenever i hear someone speaking about religion its always in a very dogmatic way (just basically screaming at the top of their lungs) but in his book Dawkins is just... calm(?)
WOW! Superb. Kudos to Carl Sagan, and kudos to you, Seth, for this visualization. I was awed and enthralled by Sagan's "Cosmos" in its original run on PBS in 1980. I anxiously awaited each new episode. I was 20 then, and am now making my 52 trip around the Sun. His words still resonate and captivate today as they did so many years ago. And yes, you can feel proud that you've done a little part to expose a new audience to a man many of us have known and admired for so long. Tnx, Seth. Tnx, Carl.
"As long as men can breathe and eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
-William Shakespeare...one of the most miraculous inhabitants of the Pale Blue Dot.
So long as we take care of Earth, of ourselves...
Shakespeare and Sagan will live on, for as long as we mere players strut and fret about the Pale Blue Stage we, and all our fellow players and people, have spoken every speech ever heard to man.
"The Rest Is Silence"...ONLY when the Pale Blue Dot is Silenced. :D
I lie here, in this dark room, on comfortable bed, listening to the voice if a true genius. As I hear the sound waves from the speakers in this computer, washing Carl Sagan's voice across my eardrums, I eat a cucumber. Atoms consuming atoms, cells consuming cells. To think that not only is this sustenance small, but that I am tiny, that the earth is but a dot, and that even our galaxy in all its vastness, is simply a dot, in the overwhelming superiority of the universe.
Carl Sagan's work always amazes me. He is one of the few people that could discuss the grand and infinite nature of the universe and the fleeting nature of time in a way that I can only describe as timeless. The clothes may be dated, and scientific discoveries cast more light in the darkness of ignorance, but I will be sure to share Carl Sagan's words with my children, and expect that this will be continued with their children. That is what I consider a healthy awareness of greater powers.
The positive thinker in me hopes that a thousand years from now the descendants of our race will recall our history on their intergalactic space stations and just shake their heads at how fucking stupid we were back then. But the pessimist in me thinks that eventually humanity is going to fall back to the stone age because of childish bickering over who has the best imaginary friend.
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Carl Sagan was a true inspiration to me. He made so much more sense then the dogma I was taught as a kid and I will forever be grateful to him for his popularization of science. I bought the DVD collection of Cosmos recently and still enjoy it very much. He was a wonderful person and the world is richer place for having had him among us. I wish our budget would put more money in NASA and science then in the Military and bombs. We are not going in the right direction, we are not growing.
Wow. Another absolute out of the park home run video. Top notch visuals paired with inspiring, thought-provoking words. His life was gone far too soon, and this is a very admirable homage to the legacy of his vision, a vision I ardently wish could penetrate the indelible urgency of religion to keep our species ignorant and in its infancy. Thank you for taking the time to make & share this with the world.
I never get tired to listen this text narreted by Carl Sagan. Evrey time I listen to it, somehow I feel hope for mankind and our future in a way that religion have never done to me.
Makes me cry :( Our precious bit of cosmic real estate must be cherished and protected for future generations to enjoy. Someday we might just have a bit more cosmic real estate for our species to inherit.
I agree. I don't see how anyone could dislike this. I wonder if people are afraid of world peace for some reason. I want world peace and that is why I read a lot of spiritual books and love astronomy. This video puts things into a much bigger and "godly" perspective so that we can treat each other with more love and compassion. Life is a miracle and is very fragile.
PLEASE people, who just found Carl Sagan through this - Please go watch his COSMOS series for PBS, on Netflix, or maybe here on UA-cam. Listen to what he taught us, if only we would open our mind. He was the greatest teacher we've seen since Plato, and now we have Neil DeGrasse Tyson to turn to - hear his teachings too.
@razioth I agree. He's gone, but left us so much. I disagree that you ought to be ashamed. The strongest thing one can do is reveal themselves-hope, sadness, elation, empathy. It takes infinitely more strength, by gosh, to shed tears than to be a profile in stoicism. Be happy you're capable of feeling, and sharing that. :-)
:'( I still cry when I hear him speak about the Pale Blue Dot....its hard to contemplate how big the universe really is, but Mr Sagan was one of few who could....oh, he knew so much.....
He contributed so much to planetary science, and with his death, the world lost one of the most inspirational and smartest peeople.....RIP Mr Sagan.
Carl died when I myself was only 38 days old, and I did not discover he and his great works until many many years later. A true inspiration, genius I dare say. Though the earth is but an atom in contrast to the overwhelming gigantic size of the universe, it is the most important atom we have yet discovered, and we must preserve it, if we wish to live on.
@PoppinFreshMe. YOU should read some more Einstein. Einstein was definitely not religious in any sense that 99% of religious people would recognize. He used the word "God", but by that he meant the workings of physical reality in a very general sense.
By the way, how do you KNOW there's a universal energy? I'm curious.
@NihilistMachinery It's not contradictory. He's saying power is not important, but human kindness is. Those who try to rule the world do it in order to control an infinitesimally small fragment of the physical universe which they inhabit. They're egotistical beings who can't see beyond the illusions of their reality. Kindness and love transcend that.
I do that too. I'm quite fascinated with astronomy and even more intrigued with the idea of extraterrestrial life. There IS life on other planets (or even moons), maybe within our own galaxy, the trouble is pinpointing their exact location. I think this is the current big project for NASA right now. I would love to be apart of that.
Very well done. I still prefer the one with the music of Ludovico Einaudi Earth Prelude.
And you're psychotic and need some serious help, if you are serious about that. Go to the store and buy some bread, peanut butter, and jelly or you can ask someone nicely and politely. Why would you want a fraction of a fraction of the universe to be in this state. What's wrong with peace?
I have mixed feelings hearing Sagan's words. It makes me happy that I am one of the smallest pieces in the universe, yet I can't help feel sad for what the earth has endured... And for what we do next, I hope we make it that far out to space someday... but not while going to space is a "race"
Hardly a week goes by that I don't revisit this video. It is so moving and really does put things into perspective. "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."
Being a male I'm ashamed to say that this video/speech literally makes me drop a couple of tears, but it's true, every time.
Humanity misses Carl Sagan dearly.
(Notice how I didn't address this directly to him, since he can't see this, sadly he isn't anywhere at all anymore)
Almost brought tears to my eyes, which is the first time a video has done that. I'm thankful that such a man lived, and passed on his words of wisdom. I will strive to fill the void he has left in his death, and hopefully, give a fraction of what Carl's done to mankind.
I wonder what would happen if we met an aliens species and were able to comunicate with them. If we shared any gods or religous thoughts. How would the church handle this? Did God also create these aliens? If so, why do they not believe in God? Why didn't God give them the Bible too?
I love all of these Carl Sagan tribute videos but for some reason this one braught tears to my eyes like no other. I know its a complicated effort to get that reaction from an audience being an editor myself so cudos to whoever put this together. You should be proud.
At 14, i was paralyzed from the chest down by a dirtbike accident. When i didnt want to live any longer, it wasnt "God" that saved me, it was the notion that the only number we can come up with for the probability of life... Is 0. That we are so unimaginably lucky... Not chosen.
I agree with you. All I'm saying is violence is never the answer even for vengeful reasons. We all need to be more understanding, tolerant, patient, compassionate, and loving to one another. We need to fix this world before it's too late.
@N21X
The reality of the stacked bodies is the message.
They will find out about atrocities some time in their future anyway. Just let them see it and be prepared to come with a good explanation for how people or groups can act sometimes.
It makes me so terribly terribly sad to know that I was unaware of this brilliant man while he was alive. I would have delighted in him as a child and young teen, I'm sure, and maybe I would have been able to shed the shackles of belief a decade sooner.
@Antifides
You think one silly event or personal experience is going to change my mind? Who gives a shit about someones personal grievances and the need to smear people?
I look at the big picture and i prefer a1000 Dawkins over 1 clown who wants attention
really looks like sagan was voicing it specifically for this video, it's awesome. So awesome I like to watch it before I go to sleep. So right before I go to sleep I can try and see the universe, in all its complexity, in all its beauty.
@HellRehab
"technological adolescence" is one accurate term. We have left childhood with the embrace of knowledge, but have yet to leave the family nest and spread across the stars. But as for all troubled teens, the transition may be long and hard.
@NihilistMachinery Yes and in order to reach towards the stars we have to stop fighting over nothing.
For the moment we are stuck together wither we like it or not so we might as well get along the best we can without killing each other.
Funny how such words and thoughts from man without faith in anything, living in a world without purpose or meaning, have no value at all...
Carl Sagan is a poet
In future years, modern Isaac Newtons and Michael Faradays and Albert Einsteins will utter the famous phrase "we saw further than others, because we stood on the shoulders of giants."
Carl Sagan is one of those giants.
Al gore quoted him and used the same picture in his film, but I thought he did it wrong, He said "that (the pale blue dot) is what is at stake".I was thinking, If it was just a small dot, then we don't need to care anymore.