Carl Sagan is one of my favourite person ever. The main reason is not that he was a brilliant scientist, or writer or communicator etc. But that you can feel and see, he has all the best intentions. He has love for humankind, and kindly helping everyone the ways he was able to. This is sadly super rare.
Hear, hear!! He should be on Mt. Rushmore - or better, have his own - but he would be vehemently opposed on so many levels. An unparalleled sage, humanitarian, brilliant scientist, author, provoker of thought, uncommonly succinct orator, general all-around great guy...
I miss him terribly. Mr. Sagan, you will always hail in my life as the greatest Astronomer /Physicist to have ever lived. I am honored that you were here in my life time. Every time I hear "The Pale Blue Dot", I am brought to tears, because I have a comprehension of how important and special our little blue dot is. I so wish everyone could have such a realization. If so, then Humanity would finally breach the final hurtle of becoming ... human. Next to the Universe its self, you stood as my inspiration. May you be enjoying your afterlife, and enjoying the universe in unparalleled splendor.
They already have Anthony. They're just not telling us. I have had ufo encounters and my friends have had encounters with the Tall Ones and the Greys. The Vatican knows all about them and of course the Elite Military who inform some of the government officials including some Presidents.
@@royw-g3120 Kyle Hill is an up n comer with similar traits and he looks like he's only in his 20's...let's hope his work gains traction, for the benefit of all.
Carl Sagan died before his time, I'd loved to have met him when he was alive. I remember as a boy (I was about eight) when I first watched "Cosmos" and that TV series blew me away.
There have been many beautiful words written throughout the ages. Some by famous people, some by simple folk. But Mr. Sagan's encapsulation of both the obvious insignificance of our species, the futility, and yes, even the hope, are without equal in the pantheon of thought.
I discovered Carl only recently during the pandemic, Wow a treasure trove of information, some of which has been since factually corrected as tech and space probes improved over the years. I'm sure that's what carl intended too. The narration quality and his voice in cosmos has a kind of spiritual experience on the listener. : )
Wherever I am, whoever I am with, whatever I am doing, when I hear Carl Sagan’s voice I stop and listen because I know whatever he is saying is worth my time and attention. Such a beautiful, brilliant soul 🌟
A man who thought outside the box, who from my understanding had to convince NASA to step back from pure science and have the spacecraft point its cameras back at Earth so we could see ourselves in the context/background of everything.
The fact that we are so rare in our universe and yet everyday the only thing you hear over and over again is war and death in our tiny dot is just so heartbreaking😢💔
“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.” carl sagan
It was an utter tragedy for the USA that he died so young. We have been so fortunate in the UK to have sir David Attenborough and other broadcasters educating people.
I would love to see the fotage of the whole press conference. In your similar video of two years ago we can see a bit more. Carl Sagan, what an inspiration.
RIP Carl Sagan, you were a brilliantly illuminating human being and teacher. May we someday learn and live in peace with nature and with each other at last.
Tremendously powerful and moving. It would be nice if the information for this video could state the exact date and location (I assume maybe JPL in Pasadena?) where Sagan gave this speech. Was this actually the occasion when the image was first unveiled or perhaps a later speech he gave about it? These things are historically important and should be specified. UPDATE: I see that another video of this same wonderful short speech, posted by the Planetary Society a few years earlier (with a much more annoying and distracting "jazzy" music background), gives the date as June 6, 1990. I have not verified that date but it is helpful that they provided it.
Carl Sagan was a truly remarkable mind who the world greatly benefited from knowing, but sadly misses in his absence. For those wondering about the song its by : Beneath the Mountain - Hammer and Felt . May you get the same happiness and joy from this song I do 🙏 God Bless
If anyone ever fails a test in school, argues about politics, complains about inflation, or gets offended by something someone else said, show them this video.
I come back to this video every single day. He was such a great man. And this video makes me so grateful to be alive. It "underscores" the mystery and pure beauty of the cosmos Carl wanted us all to see. I think ive found my favorite video of all time
Breaks my heart that all humans want to do is WAR with each other over petty reasons while still oblivious to the great words of a man like carl's Sagan.....
He never got to see the finished film Contact. When my mom watched it here at home, she felt Dr. Sagan standing behind her, smiling. She wrote this to his wife. If anybody can travel through space and time, I am sure he can.
Carl had an ability to make the average person understand complex scientific things and teach them why it was important in our lives to know these things. A Great Man. An American legend. I miss his voice in our world today….. 🍻😎
I wished he was still around, as 2025 will be the year we will have our last contact with the Voyager-1, he should have been here for it's final farewell
Like Carl Sagan said….Let us preserve and cherish the only home we have! Let’s not take Earth for granted, for it is so precious, that it can be gone in a blink of an eye…May there be peace and may humankind protect all the natural resources that the Earth provides!
What is this woke sjw antifa nonsense? Next you'll be saying we should be funding Healthcare and preserving rights for people instead of blowing up children.
I have a question about this photo and it's full version... it's supposed to be taken at distance of around 6 billion kilometers or 3.7 billion miles and yet the Earth is the only planet in the photo? Shouldn't there be a red dot and a white dot representing Mars and Venus?
No, it's one of the pictures of Family Portrait (six planets on the solar system) took by Voyager back in the 1994. Six planets are visible in the images including Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury was too close to the Sun to be seen. Mars could not be detected by the Voyager cameras due to its position resulting in it only producing a thin crescent from the viewpoint of the spacecraft. Pluto was not included because its small size and distance from the Sun left it too dim to image. Dr. Sagan used the earth photo (Pale Blue Dot) as a message for the people to cherish the planet and also it would be meaningful as a perspective on humanity's place in the universe.
Best photograph ever taken, tied only with the Hubble Deep Field. Where science and art and philosophy collide.
This is the most beautiful comment I've read in a long time.
@@mightychondriaofthecell3317 Agreed. Beautiful words!
The deep field blows my mind. Pale blue dot and his speech make me cry.
I’d say the black marble is slightly more beautiful than the Hubble deep field photo, but that’s a whole set of photos
Wow!
Carl Sagan is one of my favourite person ever. The main reason is not that he was a brilliant scientist, or writer or communicator etc. But that you can feel and see, he has all the best intentions. He has love for humankind, and kindly helping everyone the ways he was able to. This is sadly super rare.
How do you KNOW that's rare... my friend how co you think humans got this far? They helped, hoped and held each other. Stop making things up.
@@cliffdariff74 We all are only guessing :) But I am not saying you stop saying anything...
Hear, hear!! He should be on Mt. Rushmore - or better, have his own - but he would be vehemently opposed on so many levels. An unparalleled sage, humanitarian, brilliant scientist, author, provoker of thought, uncommonly succinct orator, general all-around great guy...
I miss him terribly. Mr. Sagan, you will always hail in my life as the greatest Astronomer /Physicist to have ever lived. I am honored that you were here in my life time. Every time I hear "The Pale Blue Dot", I am brought to tears, because I have a comprehension of how important and special our little blue dot is. I so wish everyone could have such a realization. If so, then Humanity would finally breach the final hurtle of becoming ... human. Next to the Universe its self, you stood as my inspiration. May you be enjoying your afterlife, and enjoying the universe in unparalleled splendor.
Even ALL of these decades later, this speach and photo still move me...and brings me to tears!
Carl Sagan is one of my heroes. He speaks for Earth. If extraterrestrials were to encounter humans I would want Carl to speak for us.
They already have Anthony. They're just not telling us. I have had ufo encounters and my friends have had encounters with the Tall Ones and the Greys. The Vatican knows all about them and of course the Elite Military who inform some of the government officials including some Presidents.
Thankfully Sir David Attenborough is still going.
@@royw-g3120 Kyle Hill is an up n comer with similar traits and he looks like he's only in his 20's...let's hope his work gains traction, for the benefit of all.
@@carlsaganlives5112He's in his mid30's iirc
Do you think that aliens would show up to speak to important political and scientific figures? 😃 They’re not stupid.
If only more humans were immersed in the knowledge of our own insignificance, might we work together to be more significant.
Class~ we are created by God for significance. Life is precious as is our planet and the slim circumstances that make life possible.
Is that quote accreditable to someone or is that a small slice of your own genius?
@@grahamjay666 why do you have to make things religious all the time?
@@wubbalubbadubdub64 Mainly fear lol. Because they can't deal with the notion that the universe doesn't revolve around us nor was created for us.
Perfectly said, But we so distracted by our own intelligence we forget the bigger picture😮💨🌍🤯
I miss this incredible man everyday and will do for the rest of my life
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. That pale blue dot was immeasurably enriched by your life and works. Your memory continues to be a blessing.
What an amazing human he was. One of the greats.
Definitely not.
@@mathyre232 Speak for yourself.
Such a beautiful and humbling view of where we are in the universe
I can't tell if this is a typo...
@@ab-dc4id It was.
Happy birthday, Dr Sagan. I wish you were still with us.
So well spoken. A true gentleman of our cosmos. R.I.P. Carl.
Carl Sagan was one of my heroes. The world is a little darker without him in it.
He’s been one of mine since I first saw, as a 15yo boy in 1980 an astonishing TV show called….Cosmos.
Carl Sagan died before his time, I'd loved to have met him when he was alive. I remember as a boy (I was about eight) when I first watched "Cosmos" and that TV series blew me away.
There have been many beautiful words written throughout the ages. Some by famous people, some by simple folk. But Mr. Sagan's encapsulation of both the obvious insignificance of our species, the futility, and yes, even the hope, are without equal in the pantheon of thought.
One of the all time great pictures. A photo of almost nothing, and at the same time everything.
The most beautiful photograph ever taken, and the most beautiful speech ever given in human history.
Thanks Carl for the most wonderful and introspective photo ever taken in the entire history of space exploration...
Excuse you, but it's Dr. Carl Sagan. What makes you think you can call a renown astronomer simply by his first name?
Such a beautiful image, revealed by such a beautiful mind. I miss Sagan. :(
I discovered Carl only recently during the pandemic, Wow a treasure trove of information, some of which has been since factually corrected as tech and space probes improved over the years. I'm sure that's what carl intended too. The narration quality and his voice in cosmos has a kind of spiritual experience on the listener. : )
'Cosmos' is an amazing book along with his others.
A true astronomer poet, whether intentional or not. His passion and eloquence should make us all strive to be the best we can be.
The original cosmos series is phenomenal
I've known about him since I was a kid. I watched his Cosmos series many times.
Unforgettable iconic and very moving image of our planet. Thanks to visionary Carl Sagan.
CARL SAGAN. he has my vote for one of the greatest human beings of our planet ever.
Should put that on a flag for every school in the country
Wherever I am, whoever I am with, whatever I am doing, when I hear Carl Sagan’s voice I stop and listen because I know whatever he is saying is worth my time and attention. Such a beautiful, brilliant soul 🌟
A man who thought outside the box, who from my understanding had to convince NASA to step back from pure science and have the spacecraft point its cameras back at Earth so we could see ourselves in the context/background of everything.
Brave! So nostalgic. 🥺
The fact that we are so rare in our universe and yet everyday the only thing you hear over and over again is war and death in our tiny dot is just so heartbreaking😢💔
“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.” carl sagan
Thanks for posting.
amazing how a low-res image (taken with the technical at the time) speaks so much volume and still resonates today.
It was an utter tragedy for the USA that he died so young. We have been so fortunate in the UK to have sir David Attenborough and other broadcasters educating people.
I would love to see the fotage of the whole press conference.
In your similar video of two years ago we can see a bit more.
Carl Sagan, what an inspiration.
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I love Carl Sagan work.
This teaching of "our" world needs to be mandatory for every human being. Imagine if we actually respected our planet and others.
RIP Carl Sagan, you were a brilliantly illuminating human being and teacher. May we someday learn and live in peace with nature and with each other at last.
Tremendously powerful and moving. It would be nice if the information for this video could state the exact date and location (I assume maybe JPL in Pasadena?) where Sagan gave this speech. Was this actually the occasion when the image was first unveiled or perhaps a later speech he gave about it? These things are historically important and should be specified. UPDATE: I see that another video of this same wonderful short speech, posted by the Planetary Society a few years earlier (with a much more annoying and distracting "jazzy" music background), gives the date as June 6, 1990. I have not verified that date but it is helpful that they provided it.
Only the earth rise over the surface of the moon, comes close.
Hail the Pale Blue Dot!
Carl Sagan is my hero
I miss him so much and the sound of his voice 😢😢😢😢
Watch UA-cam, you will not miss him
I recently obtained a copy of 'Cosmos' by Dr. Sagan and have been enjoying every single page.
Watch the series too. It is a classic in science.
Carl Sagan was a truly remarkable mind who the world greatly benefited from knowing, but sadly misses in his absence. For those wondering about the song its by : Beneath the Mountain - Hammer and Felt . May you get the same happiness and joy from this song I do 🙏 God Bless
I miss the feeling of wonder this man made me feel as a child.
If anyone ever fails a test in school, argues about politics, complains about inflation, or gets offended by something someone else said, show them this video.
I come back to this video every single day. He was such a great man. And this video makes me so grateful to be alive. It "underscores" the mystery and pure beauty of the cosmos Carl wanted us all to see. I think ive found my favorite video of all time
RIP legend. Carl Sagan
Where can I find the full video? I would love to see it!
A very profound presentation. RIP Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan was greatest Astrounoumer...in the world really Amazing work..❤
"It's a very small stage in a great cosmic arena"
The Grace of our God is amazing
Breaks my heart that all humans want to do is WAR with each other over petty reasons while still oblivious to the great words of a man like carl's Sagan.....
Stop. Please. Nonsense.
Wonderful to see the great man present this image himself.
Carl Sagan was wonderful! Gone But Never Forgotten!!! ♥ 🌹
hey, does someone know the song from the background?
I'm trying to find out too!
Karl’s wisdom will live on forever
33 years later, we have not asborbed the message of this picture...
I fully understand.. and I also understand there are others out there..
This guy is a LEGEND ❤
Chokes me up every time
GOD BLESS U U DEMONSTRATE HOW SHORT OUR LIFE IS AND WE SHOULD LIVE IN HARMANY AND PEACE AND LOVE OBE ANOTHER NOT HATE ONE ANOTHER
He never got to see the finished film Contact. When my mom watched it here at home, she felt Dr. Sagan standing behind her, smiling. She wrote this to his wife. If anybody can travel through space and time, I am sure he can.
CARL SAGAN. he has my vote for one of the greatest human beings of our planet.
Wonderful and mesmerising man
Carl had an ability to make the average person understand complex scientific things and teach them why it was important in our lives to know these things. A Great Man. An American legend. I miss his voice in our world today….. 🍻😎
I wished he was still around, as 2025 will be the year we will have our last contact with the Voyager-1, he should have been here for it's final farewell
Like Carl Sagan said….Let us preserve and cherish the only home we have! Let’s not take Earth for granted, for it is so precious, that it can be gone in a blink of an eye…May there be peace and may humankind protect all the natural resources that the Earth provides!
I luv earth
Mr segan ..a wise man ❤❤❤
Tragedy for the US he died so young, a strong and poetic voice of reason who could have inspired another generation of thinkers.
No we just don't have others like him
one photo that shows how great we are and at the same time how insignificant
If I was omnipotent I would go back and grab Carl Sagan and bring him to modern day Nasa or Space X or a museum to show him just how far we've come.
UNSTOPPABLE
Hail Sagan!
Oh, so that's why the song is called that, thanks youtube
I have the picture hanging in my home...you would be surprised how many people didn't know what it was about...
Thznk you Mr. Sagan
What a great man.
Can anyone please, please tell me the music used in this clip!? Thank you :)
Hammer and Felt - Beneath The Mountain
@@Taking8DKD you're 3 weeks too late. But I forgot to share with everyone on here. Thank you though :)
The music was irritating beyond measure
@@workdevice7808 not at all. . .it added to this clip.
But the *real* question is.... how can we consume that blue dot to maximize short-term shareholder profit for the fantastically wealthy?
What is this woke sjw antifa nonsense? Next you'll be saying we should be funding Healthcare and preserving rights for people instead of blowing up children.
What music is this? So good!
Beautiful!
Why do these videos always have to have overly loud music. Why drowned out the words of such a knowledgeable and famous scientist?
I love Carl Sagan 🎈
If all politicians spoke like this, the world would be a better place
That's not what their contributors are asking for....
This insignificance is relieving though
We are just one out of many planets that exist out in the vast cosmic sea of space. There could be other planets out there that could have life.
Correct!
What’s the name of the background song?
Proof that we must follow our scientific breakthroughs with any and all art that can be made from it. Lest our wisdom fall behind.
Makasih
Some say that carl sagan will one day return and teach us how to save the earth.
Does anybody know the background song?
Epic
I'm not crying
Nor am I..........
Yes it is 🌎
I need help , where is mars relative to earth in this picture ? Is it even further away or too small ?
Sagan, kau kan selalu diingat
Amazing
Who gave this video a thumbs down?!?
I have a question about this photo and it's full version...
it's supposed to be taken at distance of around 6 billion kilometers or 3.7 billion miles and yet the Earth is the only planet in the photo?
Shouldn't there be a red dot and a white dot representing Mars and Venus?
No, it's one of the pictures of Family Portrait (six planets on the solar system) took by Voyager back in the 1994.
Six planets are visible in the images including Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Mercury was too close to the Sun to be seen. Mars could not be detected by the Voyager cameras due to its position resulting in it only producing a thin crescent from the viewpoint of the spacecraft. Pluto was not included because its small size and distance from the Sun left it too dim to image.
Dr. Sagan used the earth photo (Pale Blue Dot) as a message for the people to cherish the planet and also it would be meaningful as a perspective on humanity's place in the universe.
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Background music ?
My role model.