Sounds very religious to me. According to a comment below, this little "preaching" even made someone cry.
Apparently, all humans [Except myself and a few] are sheep; They just cant' help, they will always buy into sentimental messages.
Well, we have at last a serious competitor for the religious bull; And this time we don't get to stone some sabbath breaker, burn a witch, or kill an infidel-kafir before taking his belongings, and his wife and daughters as sex slaves.
The photo of Earth 3.7 billion miles away was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990. I was 11 years old then. I wonder what I would have been doing - playing with friends? At school? Or maybe...just maybe I was gazing into the night sky with my dad.
I'm proud to have existed when this picture was taken.
Thank you, Carl Sagan, for leaving us with these inspiring words. Humanity journeys onwards in your memory, striving towards the future you imagined so vividly. You truly were humanity's ambassador to the cosmos.
This is why we ask ourselves many times "Why do all Great Minds think alike" as there is only one answer to the question "Cause no one believed them when they're were wright before they're time".
Carl Sagan was a great man this video does bring a tear to my eye also. One day maybe our children when have no uncertainty as they will surely have clarity. I just as an optimist think we'll get our path right .
@BjornSeverinLarsen "Valid expression of emotions" Maybe but depends on each personality. According to my Epicurian/Stoic worldview I try to minimise any kind of drama (both cry and laughter) in order to pursuit a general happiness. Also, humans are the biggest crybabies in the animal kingdom, that's another disadvantage we have.
@Neueregel haha yeah alright. I find contendment to be seriously overrated. I would much rather be euforicly happy which on the flipside allso mean the possibility to be deeply sad. I however have a saying: "In the end of the year and you look back and if you can't remember atleast one time you cried and one time you where euforicly happy, then you (I) are not living your (my) life". However to cry cos you are touched by beauty, is not part of this and is not the same kind of crying
@BjornSeverinLarsen People who don´t express their emotions loose the capability of feeling. They become like "No emotion Zombies". I prefer to be a pussie than a zombie. Greetings from a german pussie.
this is beautiful, there is hope for humanity to be a competitive yet compassionate and sustainable race. We have a long way to go but the spirit of possibilities and adventure lies before us if we can open our hearts and minds to challenge dogmas of any kind and learn before we judge eachother
@mewboy5 For me it's more like I wish he was my grandfather, that I could have learnt from him as a child, instead of being indoctrinated as a Christian.
i havent cried in like 2 years, and hearing this for the billionth time always brings a tear to my eye because it just renews my hope in humanity. I miss this man
The driving force of economics has been disguised by politics, commercialism and ideologies; Religions get sold to believers by priests, governments get sold to citizens by politicians, and real-estate gets sold to us by banks.
None of these people have value to you if they lie, cheat and steal. Give something that means something, your effort, your honesty, and your patience, and you'll often be rewarded by something beyond what can be bought, stolen, or cheated; you'll have friends.
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. This planet Earth misses you and your beautiful mind. I wish that one day, the human race or our descendants will be able to achieve your greatest hopes for us.
we miss you Carl....happy that you live your life like you did a very good one from my point of view a very good man....very happy that I can still watch and listen to your videos...thank you internet : )
Thank you for your words and your contributions, Carl Sagan. I wish everyone could see this video and understand just how petty our differences really are in the vastness of the cosmos in which we live.
We have such an opportunity while we are here to make that dot a little better for everyone. Thank you for posting this.
The best "Pale Blue Dot" video by far available imo, both for sound and visual quality, well done !. RIP Carl, for as long as there are humans on this planet, you shall never be forgotten :).
Religion and superstition sucks. Professor Sagan taught me more about love and respect of my fellow human beings and my home than any Asswad religious 'give me your money' preacher ever did. Life is short, you die and that is it. Live with it and try to do something good today.
CARL SAGAN: "More of our free time should be spent with things that are intellectually valuable - reading, solving problems, thinking critically. I'm not saying people should stop watching TV, but a lot less wouldn't hurt. Brain Building by Marilyn vos Savant and other books like it do a good job of laying out all the ways education and intelligence can help us and more importantly how to foster intellectual growth. There are so many wonders that knowledge and the intellect can bring us."
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan
Now we know where the "thumbs down dislikes" are coming from - they are coming from people similar to "bornagain001" - Ridiculous! Religious folks are never going to believe in science so I suggest that all religious folks stop going to doctors and stop vaccinating your children. And when you get really sick and your kids get sick, just pray. A suggestion to all you believers to PROVE that god exists is to STOP using the medical technology created by unbeliever scientists.
I wish that I could get Obama, Gaddafi (wherever he is), Cameron, Mugabe, Putin, Netenyahu, Kim Jong-Il, and all the rest together, lock them in a room, and play this to them over and over until they finally get it
Dr. Sagan is INCORRECT. Earth is NOT OUR HOME. Heaven is home for us who follow Christ. Earth is just a small stop before we head home for eternity. Unfortunately, Dr. Sagan did not make it to Heaven.
@bornagain001 And that's why Christians are persecuted. You care nothing for our finite planet and pollute it to your hearts content because you think you're entitled to it. You are a threat to the survival of our species.
It's quite fortunately that he didn't go to heaven, since nobody with a brain in their head would want to spend eternty with the likes of people like you who jerk off to the thought of people being tortured forever.
@bornagain001 unfortunately, idiots like you exist who believe in a claims of a book that nobody even knows who wrote based on such imbecile things.. think with your brain! get out of the cage of religion and open your mind to our vast cosmos and the insignificance of our mere existence.. please dont come to a scientific video again to bash on us with your religion.. man i hate christians..
@omglaz0rz ...but we DO know who wrote it. Many of the books are named after the authors. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Corinthians, Galatians and Romans were letters written BY PAUL to the churches in those areas. Song of Soloman, Ester, Ezekiel...all known authors. The C=hristians do not languish in confusion. It is the UNRIGHTEOUS that lives in DARKNESS.
@bornagain001 hahaha!!! moron. Your 2000 year old superstitious book for uneducated bronze age shepherds has seen its day. Christians... I implore you to read your bibles so you can become the atheists you already are. There's nothing divine about them. Nothing. Superstitious. Don't be a prat like bornagain001 here. Yahweh was a bronze age "god" of war. Shitty to the core. Kill this one! Kill that one! Stone this one to death! Stone that one to death!! Give me a break.
@bornagain001 hahaha!!! moron. Your 2000 year old superstitious book for uneducated bronze age shepherds has seen its day. Christians... I implore you to read your bibles so you can become the atheists you already are. There's nothing divine about them. Nothing. Superstitious. Don't be a prat like bornagain001 here. Yahweh was a bronze age "god" of war. Shitty to the core. Kill this one! Kill that one! Stone this one to death! Stone that one to death! Give me a break.
Sagan's words are a beautiful and compelling message. Why is a comment from "Outlawzand1" that is filled with profanity listed as a "Top Comment?" This demeans what Sagan was trying to convey. Surely you can do better than that from all the comments received for this video. The English language has sufficient vocabulary to express ones concerns in elegant prose without resorting to obscenity, as is clear from from the "Great Words" of Sagan and other "Great Minds" on your YouTube channel.
@kempfsc Your critical comment is just stupid mate. So what if I said a few curse words... 0_0 I was conveying the frustration I felt at the time, with a simple comment on YouTube. Yes that's right, YouTube. I'm not going to bloody sit around all day thinking up sentences that would be worthy in a presidential speech. So fuck you kempfsc, my comment is top-rated for a reason. BECAUSE I SPOKE THE TRUTH. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE PROFANITY, RINSE YOUR EYES OUT WITH ACiD. Thank you.
@Outlawzand1 I think you're missing part of my point. I don't disagree with what you say, I feel much the same way; however, have you considered the fact that many people are "turned off" by profanity. As a result, when they see it they dismiss what that person is saying regardless of the fact that he/she may be speaking important truths. As a result, they don't get the your message. You will only increase your audience by taking a little time to express yourself in more elegant prose.
@kabivose I disagree with point 2), "Fuck" is a wonderfully emotive word and "shit" has got to be the most versatile word in the english language haha
It is my uderstanding that all life occupies space and the same "energy" that created us created all things, known and unknown. The energy or frequencies we recieve we also transmit a constant stream of "?" back to the Cosmos. We do travel to infinity and back. As the revised info returns some are upgraded while others are downgraded to create a perfect balance.
The religious extremists and fundamentalists of course. They don't like logic, reason, or the folly of their delusions they so cling to in a faith of hatred for anything not of them, their GOD, or ideology.. And yet they only prove the validity of Carl Sagan's premises of this point of pale white, the pale blue dot.
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@scarfacethx No need to be an asshole... some people are younger and may not know about certain things, there are no bad questions only stupid answers, like yours.
@AidanVaroloWhite7 The camera was fixated inside the Voyager 1 spacecraft taken in 1990. The primary mission of Voyager 1 was to take pictures of our solar system, which it did for over 33 years (and still does today!). It is the first probe to leave the solar system, and is the farthest man made object from Earth.
When the probe finished taking pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, and the surrounding moons, Carl Sagan had the idea of turning it around and taking a snapshot.
The guy who commented under me is so ignorant.... It makes me sad... I could make an argument but he wouldn't understand, it's easier to make a rock cry. I think that it's because of these intolerant, ignorant, uncomprehending people that humanity is t
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAA!!! NOW SCIENTISTS CHANGED THERE STORY AND NOW SAY "WE FOUND MORE PLANETS LIEK EATRH!!!!!" LOL IDIOTS CAN"T SEE THAT GOD IS REAL SO THEY KEEP CHIANGING THERE STORY!!!!!!?!?!?!?! LOL MEAK UP YOUR MIND SMART SCEINTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
@azurewrath2224 LMAO WTF THAT MEAKS NO SENES U FUCKING DUMASS!!!!! WAT R U STUPID OR STUPID LIEK THE FUCKING IDIOT SCIENTISTS!!!?!?!?!?!! LMAO... NO LMFAO!!!!!
Deep thoughs by 86devilheadz. "sometimes I watch video's that have no meaning what so ever, just for the simple fact to waste time, to talk about a vision of a blue dot that I cherish from a distant part of the Galaxy that none of us will ever see unless we're getting paid millions of dollars. I say in all this vastness, I'm going save myself and settle with a different meaningless uploaded video to kill just a little more of my soul."
@bjohnson55555 if you watched the video you'd see we are all of little self-worth. Also you don't need God to make you special, money and dominance helps too.
I love Carl Sagan's non-invasive and kind manner of explaining our existence. Some of our atheist friends should take some lessons from this humble man, if they are to convert the way of thinking of a theist, be it a Creationist or non-Creationist.
@LuiKang043 I'm an atheist and I disagree with many of the things he has said. People kill each other for many more reasons than just land and feeling of ego. If we only have one single existence and there's no one to punish you higher than a sovereign (which in this case you can control or be part of) and indeed the world and humanity is a small pixel of insignificance, then why not be selfish and take as much money and resources to enjoy your one and only existence?We're all selfish by nature.
@SirGeorge8600: No your a immoral sociopath and in the nuclear age more then ever before, it is better that persons with your mental illness be snuffed out or imprisoned with haste.
@selenadelos So you believe that most of fat cat oligarchs who run governments and corporations ought to be snuffed out in the same way? Atheism doesn't teach morals, it's a LACK of belief...there's nothing there to attach morals to. I speak realistically...if people who are resource utilitarian, individualistic, and materialistic...then I guess most of society needs to be locked in a mental hospital, much like Stalin did with his politically opposite...then he would snuff then out.
@SirGeorge8600 why would atheism need morals, isnt it enough to know you only get one chance, so its best not to fuck it up, and at least make it enjoyable to yourself and others?
@slightlyst0o0pid the word moral is nothing but a word just like the word atheist, it stands for more than what the religious people says it means. Morals is just means be a caring person be kind have fun without screwing up others lives, you get what im saying.
@selenadelos but you are right, eugenics and heavy discrimination against the mentally ill is necessary. They are of no use to society and eat shit loads of resources for doing nothing in a mental hospital. There's absolutely no rational or empirical reason as to why society ought to be burdened by them...just let them be on their own and natural selection shall take over more or less.
@SirGeorge8600:: Well I am not a Atheist nor a Christian more of a animist you could say, I was speaking more of sociopaths then those with simple mental illness whom are not any danger to the rest of humanity. Anyone that can not get beyond their own greed or desires and feels it their right to do as they please to meet these goals no matter whom they may whom be harmed when identified should by all rights face the wrath of humankind that also has interest in stability.
To be secure in person and possession is a age old interest of humankind, I do respect your opinion though I think your missing the big picture here. Yes I think all people whom seek control and power over other humans be they in government corporate or in private life, should be held to a strict moral code and killed without pity or remorse if they step out of line regardless of their positions. This is in every ones interest to be so not just in the select few, and if it was your
life and or freedom at stake you would feel the same be honest. No human is self sustaining and a island unto themselves, interactions and trade require a moral code of conduct to work tho it may not be written in some sad little black book it is still needed indeed.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them.
You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both bad and evil: bad people do not know about either.
@SirGeorge8600 Maybe your question was a rhetoric, but I'll answer it in the case that it wasn't: Because those selfish acts that we may employ would still leave a gap within ourselves, a social vaccum as such, as the selfish life you may lead would guarantee you a life with no deep social relationships; eventually (some are quite skilled at the "art" of this deception...)
We are a social species, after all. Our intelligence is rooted in this trait we possess.
@RationalAtheism The universe's constants exist within extremely small ranges, otherwise, we would not exist. The total mass of the universe, the uniformity of matter in the universe and the universe's size, determine our existence. If they were not exactly what they are, we could not and would not exist. It's interesting that what makes us insignificant (e.g. the size of the universe, etc) in your view actually allows for our existence. Why is it ludicrous to contemplate?
Really sad that these wise words are proven so poignantly true by someone calling another person gay (and meaning it as an insult). Thank you, @HopesRedeemer. Way to live up to your name.
Carl Sagan was mistaken, the universe does not show our insignificance but rather the eternal power of God. The book of Romans in the Holy Bible says, "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
@HopesRedeemer It depresses that you can write something like this after watching such a powerful vid. You have clearly not listened to a word he said.
Believe what you want, just don't let yourself be exploited by the church.
@RationalAtheism I once, like you, had a problem with the notion of God's existence and the belief that our lives are significant. However, science is showing that our previous materialistic ideas are inadequate to explain our existence. For example, see Frank Wheeler's (Professor of Physics and UTA) book, The Cosmological Anthropic Principle. Here is an excerpt from the Forward of the book, "What is man that the universe should be mindful of him?
@RationalAtheism Telescopes bring light from distant quasi-stellar sources that lived billions of years before life on Earth, before there even was an Earth. Creation's still warm ashes we call ‘natural radioactivity'. A thermometer and the relative abundance of the lighter elements today tell us the correlation between temperature and density in the first three minutes of the universe. Conditions still earlier and still more extreme we read out of particle physics.
@RationalAtheism In the perspective of these violences of matter and field, of these ranges of heat and pressure, of these reaches of space and time, is not man an unimportant bit of dust on an unimportant planet in an unimportant galaxy in an unimportant region somewhere in the vastness of space?
No! The philosopher of old was right! Meaning is important, is even central. It is not only that man is adapted to the universe. The universe is adapted to man.
Beautiful clip
georgiana1010 2 days ago
Sounds very religious to me. According to a comment below, this little "preaching" even made someone cry.
Apparently, all humans [Except myself and a few] are sheep; They just cant' help, they will always buy into sentimental messages.
Well, we have at last a serious competitor for the religious bull; And this time we don't get to stone some sabbath breaker, burn a witch, or kill an infidel-kafir before taking his belongings, and his wife and daughters as sex slaves.
Thus said, I don't complain.
deutschbuch30 6 days ago
Poetry for the modern society...
omnomnomnagon 6 days ago
Another thing I find interesting....
The photo of Earth 3.7 billion miles away was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990. I was 11 years old then. I wonder what I would have been doing - playing with friends? At school? Or maybe...just maybe I was gazing into the night sky with my dad.
I'm proud to have existed when this picture was taken.
DIGITALSCREAMS 1 week ago
So profound - almost brings a tear to my eye.
DIGITALSCREAMS 1 week ago
@DIGITALSCREAMS Actually it did bring a tear to my eye.
Makes me hope mankind will better itself....Star Trek style.
DIGITALSCREAMS 1 week ago
simply beautiful !
ItsNAM1982 1 week ago
Mr Sagan makes me feel proud to be a citizen of the "Pale Blue Dot"
ChannelUmptyThree 1 week ago 2
Thank you, Carl Sagan, for leaving us with these inspiring words. Humanity journeys onwards in your memory, striving towards the future you imagined so vividly. You truly were humanity's ambassador to the cosmos.
AnonymousDiv0 2 weeks ago
Good Video. Thanks for info..
Flusercom 2 weeks ago
Good Video. I like this Video, Very Infomative..
Spasatcom 2 weeks ago
dont know why but this video made me cry
saigondj 3 weeks ago 2
Thanks for putting in the original pic at the "distant image of our tiny world"
ineedboostbad 3 weeks ago
And i'm getting angry, because of people failing in WoW BG's xD Haha. So stupid.
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This is why we ask ourselves many times "Why do all Great Minds think alike" as there is only one answer to the question "Cause no one believed them when they're were wright before they're time".
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georgepotter428 1 month ago
Carl Sagan was a great man this video does bring a tear to my eye also. One day maybe our children when have no uncertainty as they will surely have clarity. I just as an optimist think we'll get our path right .
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@drek456ful Wipe your tears Miss. We have to be happy every day and not crying like little children.
Neueregel 1 month ago
@Neueregel why?
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago
@BjornSeverinLarsen because the planet Earth is Fuc*** amazing. This Solar system rocks!! We are lucky to be here.
Neueregel 3 weeks ago
@Neueregel then why not cry a bit at its beauty? To feel inspired and touched.
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago
@BjornSeverinLarsen Crying is for pussies. Are you gonna cry if an asteroid strikes? No. We gotta man the f** up and rise to the occasion.
Neueregel 3 weeks ago
@Neueregel no it's not. Crying is a valid expression of emotions. It is only pussies who limits themselves to not look like pussies...
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago 2
@BjornSeverinLarsen "Valid expression of emotions" Maybe but depends on each personality. According to my Epicurian/Stoic worldview I try to minimise any kind of drama (both cry and laughter) in order to pursuit a general happiness. Also, humans are the biggest crybabies in the animal kingdom, that's another disadvantage we have.
Neueregel 3 weeks ago
@Neueregel haha yeah alright. I find contendment to be seriously overrated. I would much rather be euforicly happy which on the flipside allso mean the possibility to be deeply sad. I however have a saying: "In the end of the year and you look back and if you can't remember atleast one time you cried and one time you where euforicly happy, then you (I) are not living your (my) life". However to cry cos you are touched by beauty, is not part of this and is not the same kind of crying
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago
@BjornSeverinLarsen Maybe, but there are no rules for stuff like that. Each personality behaves differently in each occasion.
Neueregel 3 weeks ago
@Neueregel truely :)
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago
@BjornSeverinLarsen People who don´t express their emotions loose the capability of feeling. They become like "No emotion Zombies". I prefer to be a pussie than a zombie. Greetings from a german pussie.
loveandpeace71 3 weeks ago
@loveandpeace71 *nods in agreement*. However - is it really pussy behavior to cry?
BjornSeverinLarsen 3 weeks ago
@BjornSeverinLarsen No. For a man who can cry in our society and with people like "Neueregel" means it to have real power.
loveandpeace71 3 weeks ago
My remark was not made towards the Carl Sagan video, sorry
valvetrom 1 month ago
Where did you go FFreethinker?
Task5003 1 month ago
Ah great here come the water works. ;"(
1roxylinkinparklover 1 month ago
Great video. Carl Sagan is the man. You have a fine taste for videos . Thanks !!
Bocharlesband 2 months ago in playlist ╞ Mother Earth... ╡ ⋗ Modern times
Those were some mighty spot-on words.
guyNbluejeans 2 months ago
this is beautiful, there is hope for humanity to be a competitive yet compassionate and sustainable race. We have a long way to go but the spirit of possibilities and adventure lies before us if we can open our hearts and minds to challenge dogmas of any kind and learn before we judge eachother
boogiebuddy01 2 months ago
soso guckt mich an bin ein elch
FaithOuidalb165 2 months ago
Thumbs up if you are a guy and have a man-crush on Carl Sagan!
mewboy5 2 months ago 3
@mewboy5 For me it's more like I wish he was my grandfather, that I could have learnt from him as a child, instead of being indoctrinated as a Christian.
jappud 2 months ago
Carl Sagan gives such a sobering perspective that often shuts people up.
Typhoonbladefist 2 months ago
hiya ich hab was unanständiges entdeckt
RoxanaCelineve101 2 months ago
Hij zoomt in op Nederland.
Kyandros 2 months ago
Love it!
SybillieJean 2 months ago
i havent cried in like 2 years, and hearing this for the billionth time always brings a tear to my eye because it just renews my hope in humanity. I miss this man
smigafilms 2 months ago 34
The driving force of economics has been disguised by politics, commercialism and ideologies; Religions get sold to believers by priests, governments get sold to citizens by politicians, and real-estate gets sold to us by banks.
None of these people have value to you if they lie, cheat and steal. Give something that means something, your effort, your honesty, and your patience, and you'll often be rewarded by something beyond what can be bought, stolen, or cheated; you'll have friends.
vgastudent 2 months ago
Happy birthday Carl. You are dearly missed.
photodube 2 months ago
happy birthday, carl
loosekarrott 2 months ago 2
If only every being on earth thought like Carl.
TheSkellimancer 2 months ago 2
Billions and billions of happy birthdays to you.
12345mrjakko 2 months ago 3
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. This planet Earth misses you and your beautiful mind. I wish that one day, the human race or our descendants will be able to achieve your greatest hopes for us.
oldben101 2 months ago 4
this just makes me cry.
SuperKimtastic 2 months ago
Carl Sagan is a damn hero!
kamikrazi123 2 months ago
I listen to this once or twice every week so I dont lose hope in humanity
Moatw001 2 months ago
we miss you Carl....happy that you live your life like you did a very good one from my point of view a very good man....very happy that I can still watch and listen to your videos...thank you internet : )
TZMmary 2 months ago
I try to listen to this at least once a week. I also used it in my groom's speech at my wedding.
I think it is one of the most important things that I've ever read / heard.
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Thank you for your words and your contributions, Carl Sagan. I wish everyone could see this video and understand just how petty our differences really are in the vastness of the cosmos in which we live.
We have such an opportunity while we are here to make that dot a little better for everyone. Thank you for posting this.
Apollonius0fTyana 2 months ago
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Apollonius0fTyana 2 months ago
what cunts disliked this
Apemanwithcalculator 3 months ago
The best "Pale Blue Dot" video by far available imo, both for sound and visual quality, well done !. RIP Carl, for as long as there are humans on this planet, you shall never be forgotten :).
N4SONIC 3 months ago
the best speech i´ve ever heard.
moxigen 3 months ago
top 25 most played number 1 on my ITUNES
HangZhien 3 months ago
Religion and superstition sucks. Professor Sagan taught me more about love and respect of my fellow human beings and my home than any Asswad religious 'give me your money' preacher ever did. Life is short, you die and that is it. Live with it and try to do something good today.
dagda825 3 months ago 67
@dagda825 You just summed up my beliefs in a brief YouTube comment. Good show. :)
DoloresHaze84 2 months ago
@dagda825 Thanks for your comment! Thumb him up
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@dagda825 you are another dawkins cocksucker and asshole licker you dirty fucking cunt LMFAO
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CARL SAGAN: "More of our free time should be spent with things that are intellectually valuable - reading, solving problems, thinking critically. I'm not saying people should stop watching TV, but a lot less wouldn't hurt. Brain Building by Marilyn vos Savant and other books like it do a good job of laying out all the ways education and intelligence can help us and more importantly how to foster intellectual growth. There are so many wonders that knowledge and the intellect can bring us."
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
lol at 3:03 the camera zooms in just a few kilometers away from my home in the Netherlands
ps34evah 3 months ago
@ps34evah lol same!! haha I live in Zuid Holland XD
alex007152 2 months ago
@alex007152 Lol yeah I live in Leidschendam.
ps34evah 2 months ago
134 people who do not deserve science and the wonders it has wrought.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
♥ .
MrMLD72MLD 3 months ago
Now we know where the "thumbs down dislikes" are coming from - they are coming from people similar to "bornagain001" - Ridiculous! Religious folks are never going to believe in science so I suggest that all religious folks stop going to doctors and stop vaccinating your children. And when you get really sick and your kids get sick, just pray. A suggestion to all you believers to PROVE that god exists is to STOP using the medical technology created by unbeliever scientists.
diegodann 3 months ago 6
Possibly the most eloquent writer that I know of!
The3nlightened0ne 4 months ago
What I can't understand is that after trillions of years of cosmic evolution we have ended up with things like "taco bell". WTF ??!!
MrBeautifulba1 4 months ago
@MrBeautifulba1 are u being ignorant or just using a hyperbole. it's only been 13.7 billion years. not trillions
JackyRBKwan 4 months ago
@JackyRBKwan yes I'm ignorant. Very very ignorant.
MrBeautifulba1 4 months ago
@MrBeautifulba1 ok you are. thanks for admitting.
JackyRBKwan 4 months ago
@JackyRBKwan no problem. Glad I could be of help.
MrBeautifulba1 4 months ago
I miss Carl Sagan so much. He was a brilliant man, and a true hero.
NousNoesis225 4 months ago 5
weareorarewe?
AlgisKemezys 4 months ago
God damn why does this video make me feel so emotional? I literally could cry while watching it
But it's not a sad cry
voidergary 4 months ago 8
I wish that I could get Obama, Gaddafi (wherever he is), Cameron, Mugabe, Putin, Netenyahu, Kim Jong-Il, and all the rest together, lock them in a room, and play this to them over and over until they finally get it
Freshfroot1 4 months ago 5
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THIS IS SO MOVING
poop88474 4 months ago
@bornagain001 It's are home for now, but yes your right Heaven is are real home.
breezypaola 4 months ago
Agreed! Thank you so much for making this video! I loved it!
breezypaola 4 months ago
This makes me want to cry. Why are we so diseased?
AlgisKemezys 4 months ago
Dr. Sagan is INCORRECT. Earth is NOT OUR HOME. Heaven is home for us who follow Christ. Earth is just a small stop before we head home for eternity. Unfortunately, Dr. Sagan did not make it to Heaven.
bornagain001 4 months ago
@bornagain001 And that's why Christians are persecuted. You care nothing for our finite planet and pollute it to your hearts content because you think you're entitled to it. You are a threat to the survival of our species.
It's quite fortunately that he didn't go to heaven, since nobody with a brain in their head would want to spend eternty with the likes of people like you who jerk off to the thought of people being tortured forever.
Keitaro2011 4 months ago 93
@Keitaro2011 ....Christians are a threat to the survival of the species? That funny coming from a HOMOSEXUAL.
bornagain001 4 months ago
@bornagain001 lol wut
Keitaro2011 4 months ago
@bornagain001 What do you mean homosexual?
Keitaro2011 4 months ago
@Keitaro2011 You don't make sense
valvetrom 1 month ago
@valvetrom What part doesn't make sense?
Keitaro2011 1 month ago
@bornagain001 unfortunately, idiots like you exist who believe in a claims of a book that nobody even knows who wrote based on such imbecile things.. think with your brain! get out of the cage of religion and open your mind to our vast cosmos and the insignificance of our mere existence.. please dont come to a scientific video again to bash on us with your religion.. man i hate christians..
omglaz0rz 4 months ago
@omglaz0rz ...but we DO know who wrote it. Many of the books are named after the authors. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Corinthians, Galatians and Romans were letters written BY PAUL to the churches in those areas. Song of Soloman, Ester, Ezekiel...all known authors. The C=hristians do not languish in confusion. It is the UNRIGHTEOUS that lives in DARKNESS.
bornagain001 4 months ago
@bornagain001 hahaha!!! moron. Your 2000 year old superstitious book for uneducated bronze age shepherds has seen its day. Christians... I implore you to read your bibles so you can become the atheists you already are. There's nothing divine about them. Nothing. Superstitious. Don't be a prat like bornagain001 here. Yahweh was a bronze age "god" of war. Shitty to the core. Kill this one! Kill that one! Stone this one to death! Stone that one to death!! Give me a break.
mouthyweasel 4 months ago
@mouthyweasel Well said !!! Vote Peyote Party in 2012
MrBeautifulba1 4 months ago
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@bornagain001 hahaha!!! moron. Your 2000 year old superstitious book for uneducated bronze age shepherds has seen its day. Christians... I implore you to read your bibles so you can become the atheists you already are. There's nothing divine about them. Nothing. Superstitious. Don't be a prat like bornagain001 here. Yahweh was a bronze age "god" of war. Shitty to the core. Kill this one! Kill that one! Stone this one to death! Stone that one to death! Give me a break.
mouthyweasel 4 months ago
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@bornagain001 time to take your medication, nutcase
Ataeginaa 4 months ago
@bigredballoon1 The creationists... :(
spanier24 4 months ago
Sagan's words are a beautiful and compelling message. Why is a comment from "Outlawzand1" that is filled with profanity listed as a "Top Comment?" This demeans what Sagan was trying to convey. Surely you can do better than that from all the comments received for this video. The English language has sufficient vocabulary to express ones concerns in elegant prose without resorting to obscenity, as is clear from from the "Great Words" of Sagan and other "Great Minds" on your YouTube channel.
kempfsc 4 months ago in playlist kempfsc's Favorited Videos
@kempfsc We are free... you dont need to tell us how to talk, or how to express our opinions.
spanier24 4 months ago
Outlawzand1 4 months ago
@Outlawzand1 I think you're missing part of my point. I don't disagree with what you say, I feel much the same way; however, have you considered the fact that many people are "turned off" by profanity. As a result, when they see it they dismiss what that person is saying regardless of the fact that he/she may be speaking important truths. As a result, they don't get the your message. You will only increase your audience by taking a little time to express yourself in more elegant prose.
kempfsc 4 months ago in playlist kempfsc's Favorited Videos
@Outlawzand1 There are three things that tend to make me not take a post seriously:
1) USE OF CAPITALS WHICH IS OFTEN A SIGN OF NOT HAVING THE BRAN CELLS TO FIND THE CAPS LOCK KEY.
2) Profanity. Again, most people with working brains don't use it and those that use it don't tend to have much in the way of brains.
3) Not being able to write coherent English.
I am far from being the only person to react in this way.
Of course telling someone to rinse their eyes out with acid doesn't help.
kabivose 3 months ago 3
@kabivose I disagree with point 2), "Fuck" is a wonderfully emotive word and "shit" has got to be the most versatile word in the english language haha
mehico33 3 months ago
@kabivose lol BRAN cells :)
Bowenwww 3 months ago
@Bowenwww Oops! I agree, not checking what I'd written was hardly sensible. Well played sir! :-)
kabivose 3 months ago
It is my uderstanding that all life occupies space and the same "energy" that created us created all things, known and unknown. The energy or frequencies we recieve we also transmit a constant stream of "?" back to the Cosmos. We do travel to infinity and back. As the revised info returns some are upgraded while others are downgraded to create a perfect balance.
mrrutledge1967 5 months ago
@bigredballoon1
The religious extremists and fundamentalists of course. They don't like logic, reason, or the folly of their delusions they so cling to in a faith of hatred for anything not of them, their GOD, or ideology.. And yet they only prove the validity of Carl Sagan's premises of this point of pale white, the pale blue dot.
TheJackelantern 5 months ago
The Cosmos and I are One. I am my world. Together we seek more consciousness...
GordonMorrice 5 months ago
Some day some time people well unite lestento this great words...
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DENKENSelbst 5 months ago
tl;dr version you're insignificant
epicseizurenow 5 months ago
SHUT UP and enjoy his brilliant words!
epicseizurenow 5 months ago
This is just a tiny fraction of truth. The rest is in consciousness.
Katara888Energy 5 months ago
Thats so crazy how small we are compared to just are solar system, wow.
breezypaola 5 months ago 29
@breezypaola yeah but no. the only thing thats crazy is the people who think,believe there is a god that created it all=)
robbantheshit 4 months ago
@breezypaola and how small the solar system is compared to the milky way, and how small that is compared to our local cluster, etc.
icannotfly 4 months ago
How did they get that camera 3.7 billion miles away?
AidanVaroloWhite7 6 months ago
@AidanVaroloWhite7 Voyager 1
treasuredroperX 6 months ago
@AidanVaroloWhite7 Since, engineering, and lots and lots of equations.
slipperywhenwet5 6 months ago
@AidanVaroloWhite7 I just lost a few IQ points after reading that.
scarfacethx 5 months ago
@scarfacethx Wow that taught me
AidanVaroloWhite7 5 months ago
@scarfacethx No need to be an asshole... some people are younger and may not know about certain things, there are no bad questions only stupid answers, like yours.
Judicial78 5 months ago
@scarfacethx and you didn't have many to spare!!!
BlameRepublicans 5 months ago
@AidanVaroloWhite7 The camera was fixated inside the Voyager 1 spacecraft taken in 1990. The primary mission of Voyager 1 was to take pictures of our solar system, which it did for over 33 years (and still does today!). It is the first probe to leave the solar system, and is the farthest man made object from Earth.
When the probe finished taking pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, and the surrounding moons, Carl Sagan had the idea of turning it around and taking a snapshot.
Fetusmilkshake 5 months ago
While i like this HD "remix", it takes focus away from what he says. I must say i prefer the original video.
Baleur 6 months ago
OH GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER IM CRYING FROM THE MUSIC ITS SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL #bye
sayatakpunyanama 6 months ago
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andresrp17 6 months ago
The sun is too small on that solar system thing.
RegulusPure 6 months ago
The guy who commented under me is so ignorant.... It makes me sad... I could make an argument but he wouldn't understand, it's easier to make a rock cry. I think that it's because of these intolerant, ignorant, uncomprehending people that humanity is t
All messed up.
neotizok 6 months ago
@neotizok I dont think he is so ignorant as you think, I call troll. Just another of those internet attention whores...
HeavyPhoton 6 months ago
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAA!!! NOW SCIENTISTS CHANGED THERE STORY AND NOW SAY "WE FOUND MORE PLANETS LIEK EATRH!!!!!" LOL IDIOTS CAN"T SEE THAT GOD IS REAL SO THEY KEEP CHIANGING THERE STORY!!!!!!?!?!?!?! LOL MEAK UP YOUR MIND SMART SCEINTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
sebc2s 6 months ago
@sebc2s they meak up their minds when you tell them wtf meaking up their minds fucking is dumb shit
azurewrath2224 6 months ago
@azurewrath2224 LMAO WTF THAT MEAKS NO SENES U FUCKING DUMASS!!!!! WAT R U STUPID OR STUPID LIEK THE FUCKING IDIOT SCIENTISTS!!!?!?!?!?!! LMAO... NO LMFAO!!!!!
sebc2s 6 months ago
@sebc2s apparently i was to clever for you learn to fucking spell is what i was saying youtube has a spell check man seriously.
azurewrath2224 6 months ago
Deep thoughs by 86devilheadz. "sometimes I watch video's that have no meaning what so ever, just for the simple fact to waste time, to talk about a vision of a blue dot that I cherish from a distant part of the Galaxy that none of us will ever see unless we're getting paid millions of dollars. I say in all this vastness, I'm going save myself and settle with a different meaningless uploaded video to kill just a little more of my soul."
86devilheadz 6 months ago
My idol.
dragster178 6 months ago
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This will ALWAYS be my favorite video.
turtle5181 6 months ago 3
The only home, we've ever known.
Rattlepiece 6 months ago
Sagan, scientist, philosopher, poet. Beautiful.
DrDeist 6 months ago
128 dislikes = 128 people I feel sorry for.
OnePablo 6 months ago
@OnePablo Yeah, that's 128 who have so little self-worth that they desperately want some imaginary sky god to tell them that they're special.
bjohnson55555 6 months ago
@bjohnson55555 if you watched the video you'd see we are all of little self-worth. Also you don't need God to make you special, money and dominance helps too.
SirGeorge8600 6 months ago
This is so emotional...an yet is telling the truth. Good job!
just1Tanu 7 months ago
I love Carl Sagan's non-invasive and kind manner of explaining our existence. Some of our atheist friends should take some lessons from this humble man, if they are to convert the way of thinking of a theist, be it a Creationist or non-Creationist.
LuiKang043 7 months ago
@LuiKang043 I'm an atheist and I disagree with many of the things he has said. People kill each other for many more reasons than just land and feeling of ego. If we only have one single existence and there's no one to punish you higher than a sovereign (which in this case you can control or be part of) and indeed the world and humanity is a small pixel of insignificance, then why not be selfish and take as much money and resources to enjoy your one and only existence?We're all selfish by nature.
SirGeorge8600 6 months ago
@SirGeorge8600: No your a immoral sociopath and in the nuclear age more then ever before, it is better that persons with your mental illness be snuffed out or imprisoned with haste.
selenadelos 6 months ago
@selenadelos So you believe that most of fat cat oligarchs who run governments and corporations ought to be snuffed out in the same way? Atheism doesn't teach morals, it's a LACK of belief...there's nothing there to attach morals to. I speak realistically...if people who are resource utilitarian, individualistic, and materialistic...then I guess most of society needs to be locked in a mental hospital, much like Stalin did with his politically opposite...then he would snuff then out.
SirGeorge8600 6 months ago
@SirGeorge8600 why would atheism need morals, isnt it enough to know you only get one chance, so its best not to fuck it up, and at least make it enjoyable to yourself and others?
slightlyst0o0pid 6 months ago
@slightlyst0o0pid the word moral is nothing but a word just like the word atheist, it stands for more than what the religious people says it means. Morals is just means be a caring person be kind have fun without screwing up others lives, you get what im saying.
FutureScience2012 6 months ago
@FutureScience2012 and i would completely agree with you.
slightlyst0o0pid 6 months ago
@selenadelos but you are right, eugenics and heavy discrimination against the mentally ill is necessary. They are of no use to society and eat shit loads of resources for doing nothing in a mental hospital. There's absolutely no rational or empirical reason as to why society ought to be burdened by them...just let them be on their own and natural selection shall take over more or less.
SirGeorge8600 6 months ago
@SirGeorge8600:: Well I am not a Atheist nor a Christian more of a animist you could say, I was speaking more of sociopaths then those with simple mental illness whom are not any danger to the rest of humanity. Anyone that can not get beyond their own greed or desires and feels it their right to do as they please to meet these goals no matter whom they may whom be harmed when identified should by all rights face the wrath of humankind that also has interest in stability.
selenadelos 6 months ago
To be secure in person and possession is a age old interest of humankind, I do respect your opinion though I think your missing the big picture here. Yes I think all people whom seek control and power over other humans be they in government corporate or in private life, should be held to a strict moral code and killed without pity or remorse if they step out of line regardless of their positions. This is in every ones interest to be so not just in the select few, and if it was your
selenadelos 6 months ago
life and or freedom at stake you would feel the same be honest. No human is self sustaining and a island unto themselves, interactions and trade require a moral code of conduct to work tho it may not be written in some sad little black book it is still needed indeed.
selenadelos 6 months ago
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them.
selenadelos 6 months ago
You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both bad and evil: bad people do not know about either.
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brongarago 6 months ago
@SirGeorge8600 Maybe your question was a rhetoric, but I'll answer it in the case that it wasn't: Because those selfish acts that we may employ would still leave a gap within ourselves, a social vaccum as such, as the selfish life you may lead would guarantee you a life with no deep social relationships; eventually (some are quite skilled at the "art" of this deception...)
We are a social species, after all. Our intelligence is rooted in this trait we possess.
LuiKang043 6 months ago
Well said! I miss Carl Sagan and his contributions to making the human race sane.
menthol5 7 months ago
Stop arguing, assholes! we're all fucking insignificant!
vortexy1 7 months ago
127 people doesn't like the earth.
Fapsamup 7 months ago
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@RationalAtheism The universe's constants exist within extremely small ranges, otherwise, we would not exist. The total mass of the universe, the uniformity of matter in the universe and the universe's size, determine our existence. If they were not exactly what they are, we could not and would not exist. It's interesting that what makes us insignificant (e.g. the size of the universe, etc) in your view actually allows for our existence. Why is it ludicrous to contemplate?
HopesRedeemer 7 months ago
Really sad that these wise words are proven so poignantly true by someone calling another person gay (and meaning it as an insult). Thank you, @HopesRedeemer. Way to live up to your name.
untrackedvariable 7 months ago
@untrackedvariable You're gay too.
controllerbrain 7 months ago
that message at 30 seconds destroys it
controllerbrain 7 months ago
HOW BEAUTIFUL! THANK YOU...
richardcurrier 7 months ago
Carl Sagan was mistaken, the universe does not show our insignificance but rather the eternal power of God. The book of Romans in the Holy Bible says, "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
HopesRedeemer 7 months ago
@HopesRedeemer It depresses that you can write something like this after watching such a powerful vid. You have clearly not listened to a word he said.
Believe what you want, just don't let yourself be exploited by the church.
RationalAtheism 7 months ago
@RationalAtheism I once, like you, had a problem with the notion of God's existence and the belief that our lives are significant. However, science is showing that our previous materialistic ideas are inadequate to explain our existence. For example, see Frank Wheeler's (Professor of Physics and UTA) book, The Cosmological Anthropic Principle. Here is an excerpt from the Forward of the book, "What is man that the universe should be mindful of him?
HopesRedeemer 7 months ago
@RationalAtheism Telescopes bring light from distant quasi-stellar sources that lived billions of years before life on Earth, before there even was an Earth. Creation's still warm ashes we call ‘natural radioactivity'. A thermometer and the relative abundance of the lighter elements today tell us the correlation between temperature and density in the first three minutes of the universe. Conditions still earlier and still more extreme we read out of particle physics.
HopesRedeemer 7 months ago
@RationalAtheism In the perspective of these violences of matter and field, of these ranges of heat and pressure, of these reaches of space and time, is not man an unimportant bit of dust on an unimportant planet in an unimportant galaxy in an unimportant region somewhere in the vastness of space?
No! The philosopher of old was right! Meaning is important, is even central. It is not only that man is adapted to the universe. The universe is adapted to man.
HopesRedeemer 7 months ago