I find this intriguing. Excellent points. How much blood shed has there been to claim a fraction of time for glory? How vain are we to believe that we shall make some impact in the world...world sounds huge until you compare it to the vast openness of the sky.
those are some very strong words indeed. makes us feel like an inconvenience to the rest of the galaxy. thumbs up i you think there are other civilisations out there in the same boat as us.
how lovely, our little dot in the universe, our home..should be filled with Love not power...LOVE!!! so special is earth and we are honoured to roam it, as such we should respectfully honour our earth back....
This is quite eye opening. It shows just how insignifigent we all are. We are one of over 7 billion people on a planet, which is one of 8 in our solar system, which is one of billions in our galaxy, which is one of hundreds of billions in the universe that we know of. All the fighting over land and what not, is entirely pointless. it is just becomeing the momentary masters of a fraction, of a fraction, of a fraction and so forth of the universe. we think we are so special, but we aren't.....
@SilverOwl13 just don't let it depress you. we get into too many petty fights, yes, but that doesn't quite mean we should lock ourselves up our planet and be alone forever. another thing sagan advocated in being part of NASA is the search for life on other planets. that we may not be alone in this universe, that we may find friends on other worlds, is an exciting possibility.
@ThePhantomZero0 From my perspective, we are apes with sticks killing each other over flawed ideologies such as Religion and Government. These are monstrous entities that only teach murder, slavery and theft. Morality in leadership does not exist, you own your life, nobody else does. War still exists, the peaceful people outnumber the violent so why? Without heirachical structures war cannot exist. I'd guess I'm an anarchists because the first movie I can remember watching is Spartacus. :)
This videos makes me cry. Watching this video is always very humbling, and it should teach us all to cherish the incredible gift that we have been given, a short stay on the pale blue dot.
@Mrtheunnameable If you look at the top of the Earth and then move down to the first dark part of the clouds that would be his hair. The eyes and nose area (sort of cuts off at the mouth with the shadow) are below, before (obviously) the shadow.
@Mrtheunnameable Yeah, essentially. Though I see it more as the dark area intruding upon the clouds. Either way, if you see it you do - if not, no biggy.
@Mrtheunnameable Yeah, essentially. Though I see it more as the dark area intruding upon the clouds. Either way, if you see it you do - if not, no biggy. I frequently see faces in things. In the same frame I see another face (bigger) on the left side in the clouds. Funnily enough it looks a bit like "Jesus" on the Shroud of Turin.
This video makes us realize how incredibly insignificant we actually are. Yet, at the end, I feel so proud and so lucky to have been a human living on our tiny speck of sand
I like this one better than the one wth Mogwai music by itself. Furthermore, I recently purchases the Cosmos DVDs from Sagan's website and they are most legit.
For those who really understand the essence of what is being said here there can be no argument or ideology , it is the whole truth !! if you feel the need to discredit it then you JUST DONT GET IT !!!!!!!
@mrcaspiansea Humanity dislikes being told that we are "small", yet we are... But, although we are "small" does not mean we don't owe the universe our best efforts. We either wake ourselves up... Or, we all go down together. Wish the governments of the world would suck it up and realize that simple fact...
We don't owe the universe anything, much like how it doesn't owe us anything. We act as we do out of our own will, and although we have the capacity for cruelty, Carl himself would have surely said that it is vastly overshadowed by our curiosity and capacity for kindness to one another. When you see the scale of the universe, the interconnectedness of not just us human monkeys, but all life on earth, limiting yourself to a country or people becomes simply impossible.
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
My final comment to you. Say that to the families of the 1986 disaster of challenger or the 2003 disaster of Columbia. Or just look up and when the ISS fly's over refute that truth as well. You make me laugh, really and I could care less if you think Hubble is made up. Now I will not be replying to anything else you say. your a conspiracy theorist, and now I say take care. I will believe as I choose and you are free to believe or deny what ever you want.
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It's disgusting to me that there is really a religious argument in the comments of this video. This isn't about God, or lack thereof. This is about humanity. Appreciate the beauty and near perfection of this speech.
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." Carl Sagan.
@12345dubi12345 Agnostics are even more annoying than any religion or atheist, they sit down and hide behind neutrality while others actually say things that make sense, you are not clever for being an agnostic, you're just a tool.
@12345dubi12345 We can't ask too much from them, from us, don't worry, we are still growing, have some faith, it might be hard for you to see it, but we are not all the same, we are not all trying to be better than the next guy, we aren't....dont hate them, dont hate us, dont hate yourself, lets do our part making this planet better, best way to teach someone is showing them, giving an example :)
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience."
Consider this:
All of the stuff you see around you. All of the elements (besides hydrogen) that make up the world we inhabit, the tools we use, the air we breath, the food we eat, even our own bodies... all of the mater around us and in us was made from hydrogen fusing inside the cores of stars that eventually exploded in spectacular supernovae.
If you are reading this comment, you are the product of billions of years of evolution. Smile, be kind to everyone you meet and enjoy your short time on this pale blue dot <3
we are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.
we are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.
we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!
RELIGION: Yuck! I left home at 16 and retired financially secure at 48. I've slept in the streets in East L.A., Las Vegas, St. Louis and Detroit. I learned real quick that it's the people who talk the dogma that you have to watch and the Department of Corrections will back me up. Only 1.5% of prisoners say they're Atheist. All the others love Jesus. In Congress the percentage drops to 0.9%. "In God We Trust" on our money and buildings is blasphemy. Our deeds don't match-up with our claims.
We are small. We are insignificant. As for now, anyway. As humans have in the past we shall move forward, continuing our conquest of everything that can be conquered. Are life thus far is short. Our species is young and small now, but it shall grow, and pioneers will settle across the universe. Are we important? Of course not. But we will be in time. In time we may be the masters of our universe and everything.
i cannot understand why such a perfect as in literal perfect speech of our Mr. Sagan were disliked by 16 mammals who knew how to use modern technology.
The very comments on this page demonstrate that humanity has a long way to go before it overcomes the obstacles Carl Sagan warns us about in this very short reading. Humans have not learned to see beyond their own noses.
I find it strange that almost everyone here, as well as Sagan in this video, are perfectly comfortable equating cosmic significance with cosmic size/mass. Anyone else think this is a fallacy?
@JonathanSharman I don't believe that he literally implied that size determines significance. He's merely using it as an example to humble us saying that the only thing that the complete entirety of the human race (the only sentient species as far as we know) has affected nothing more than this extremely small fraction of a fraction that is known space and yet we place ourselves on such a massive pedestal.
@Colluctor Implying that it is silly to view ourselves as elevated on the basis that we have only physically influenced a small fraction of the universe *is* in effect equating size to significance. I believe humanity is significant over a hundred thousand dead stars or a billion billion cubic light years of empty space on the grounds that we are ontologically important, being self-aware, rational, and emotive beings rather than the mere dust that occupies the vast majority of our universe.
@JonathanSharman I understand what you're saying and agree, but this video attempts to give you a different perspective so I'm merely playing the Devil's advocate. So what does being the only sentient being really count for then? Who would be there to record our glorious self-awarness and all we've done on this planet? And, as far as we know, there could be a vastly superior society across the galaxy.I never said it was silly, but we should be hesitant to be so quick to declare our greatness.
@Colluctor It's not humans in particular that I think are important, but self-aware beings in general, which humans are an example of. All intelligent and, to a lesser degree unintelligent, lifeforms are of interest and importance, in my opinion. But Carl Sagan said nothing of these. He spoke merely of the vastness of space as an indicator that our self-perception is overinflated.
(As a side-note, "sentient" merely means able to sense things, so we are not the only known sentient beings.)
@Colluctor That's the funny thing about SELF-awareness though. We don't need an external source to evaluate us. We are capable of doing that ourselves. Doubtless there have been/will be more complex species in the universe than Homo sapiens. But that doesn't diminish our significance in comparison to rocks and gas.
Tried to get my Christian friends to look at this video so they can understand how I feel about life without god and stuff, but they just blew me off. Sigh.
Only the internet could take something awesome and pure like this video and turn it into an angry discussion between religious nutjobs and atheist nutjobs. Lets chill out everyone and take a moment to enjoy the universe and life without jumping at each other's throats.
The only possible way to dislike this video is to truly be, as Sagan describes, wrapped up in your own imagined self importance. How much blood has been shed, how many lives set in ruin, how many hopes and dreams no matter how innocent or corrupt, all to become the master of a fraction of a second in the cosmic timeline. How many empires and civilizations erected in glory and shattered in agony, only to be lost to time, and rarely, if ever at all, glimpsed upon today.
Carl Sagan's early death aged just 62 was one of the greatest losses imaginable to the human race. Few men in history have ever said so clearly why we should put aside our petty. childish and self centered passions and work together, not like the Borg but as a free, united collective of individuals all pulling in the same direction. Politics, religion and ethnic division keep us in chains and anchored in all the follies of our primitive past.
We must remember that in this day and age that corruption is running rampant. As it always has. That's how humanity is. People who want power or money etc. We must remeber however to live and work for the greater good of humanity. For the betterment of our race. love, live, and learn
THE EXTRAORDINARY DESIGN OF THE SELF SUSTAINING UNIVERSE REQUIRES AN EXTRAORDINARY SELF SUSTAINING DESIGNER. That is evidence that will hold up against any scientist or non scientist in heaven's court of moral and spiritual accountability. Are you ready for that?
@Zecastronomo - Any supposed designer that created the universe must have been created by another designer. If god created the universe, what created god?
@tractility This concept is not unique to religion. Science is faced with questions similar that are also unanswerable. As a scientist, I subscribe to the big bang theory, which begs the question, which action caused that reaction, and continuing which action caused that reaction. It is a common theme in all attempts to explain the infinity of creation and is not a flaw in religious logic. Rather, it is a flaw in humanities ability to comprehend.
Way to force your beliefs on everyone. I'm going to launch a very small campaign that'll let people know to mark you as SPAM so you stop ruining these enlightening videos with the human waste that are your words.
@FoxifiedNutjob I am a Christian......., I love Carl! I wouldnt go around assuming every Christian is ignorant of cosmic truth. Too bad that you wont get to tour the cosmos after your death. The reward for faith and goodness is an infinite spiritual journey.
@TheElephantOpera I dont believe in hell. I dont see god like other christians do. God is a loving entity. I think my comment was misread/miswrote. I wasnt inferring that Carl would be in hell< I am not a sicko like you are painting me to be.Good kind people like Carl are undoubtedly experiencing the cosmos as he deserves. My comment was aimed at the mean spirited athiest commentor. For fuck sake lighten up.
what is reality??? trusting a knight of malta to speak the truth about the universe???...Humans are anive to think Earth was created for them..that does not mean the whole universe was not created by somthing..Big bang and creationism have many holes..none of which you can answer or anyone else..Sagan was just speculating here...The hubble is a fraud and thinking we can somehow take pictures of our galaxy let alone billions of others is ridiculous..the universe cannot be proven
I think "15 people don't live on Earth" is snarky commentary about the 15 negative votes for this clip. It's actually quite good as far as comments go.
Sagan is sooo cool, helps put our life, our planet and our puny 'beliefs' into perspective. Something created this vast infinite universe, and we will never put our puny minds around it, no matter how much we try to make others think or believe any of us ever hold or held all the answers.
@ReneODeay It's good to see that there are people out there who 'get it'. Unfortunately, those that don't run this place and influence others. Truly sad.
@2Phaktor So sad that you feel that way. there really is a GOD, but like I said not anything we can put our puny minds around. because something created the universe and all its splendors, something that makes us live and breathe. It didn't just all appear from some unknown small thing that just blew up in a big bang.
@decaalv I'd disagree with your last sentence. Just because one can interpret some similarities into the two messages they are not the same, let alone exactly the same. To say that they have the exact same message is a bit insulting towards carl sagan.
@05031959 it;s a Vangelis track that is used in Cosmos quite a lot. There is a cosmos soundtrack out there on the torrents and to buy, it'll be on there. Also watch Cosmos!
I could have been born 20000 years from now, or twenty thousand years ago, but no. I'm lucky enough to be born in a time that knows of and has access to the recordings of The Rolling Stones. And for this, I am grateful.
...I do not know that yet, but at the and what i do know and understand is that, we are both God and Men conected. And for me that is always been enough to feel love and hate and all the rest of my feelings. (sorry my english is not too good)
Like Carl said,Universe looks more like a great thought than a great machine.I believe that instead of speakin' of God,we should try to understand what is God" and how we could know about him? the same way we could know about an artist, by his art. I think that God doesn't know him self like we don even know our self,and tryin to understand him is trying to understand us,like we are a great cosmic mirror for GOD to know him self.We are the dream of God or perhaps God is the dream of men....
This is not an atheist point. This is very spiritual. Not religuous. Not vane. Not simple.
There is beauty, there is wisdom. Read a few lines of biblical terms w/out the season of human depravation: "Love one another, love everyone else as you love your self..." There is a God. I was flying and I saw the clouds all placed in the right areas to give the right amount of shade. Our existence by all scientific knowledge is a MIRACLE. Just love, just rest thinking we aren't so simple. We are love.
@Crowstudio Trying to sound smart alert. It's from a human perspective, dude.
There is no "God", dude. Think about it. All of the atrocities that occur every day world wide. Ya believe that there is a Heaven and Hell. No. Total brain death, prior to the 5 minutes or so experience of DMT being released in to the bloodstream, then your life is over. Do ya really think that all people who died old and miserable, filled with pain in every body part, are kicking it up in Heaven. Agnostic here!
@jarradcoombsroxxors God did not make the world like this. We did. God is not a ghost. It is absolute beauty. Absolute love, absolute challenge, and even in this speech you find love and recognition of our greed and downfall due to our arrogance in thinking we know it all. I am not discovering God, I am feeling it. Not a God created by our own weakness, but one leads me to true hope. Far beyond the stars. I don't know anything. Perhaps, my feelings are far wise than my own logic.
I'm sitting here trying to find words to express what I feel when I watch this... but I can't... I just don't have the linguistic skills to sum up how I feel. So I guess I'm just going to throw out a sting of nouns that describe this video:
Magnificent, humbling, philosophical, wondrous, amazing, impressive, shocking, calming, exciting, pleasing, terrifying, thought provoking, grounding, uplifting, cheering, considered and special.
@remmirtable every time I hear this, I feel that for some mysterious reason a magical portal opens, and we are all connected. It's a form of meditation.
I find this intriguing. Excellent points. How much blood shed has there been to claim a fraction of time for glory? How vain are we to believe that we shall make some impact in the world...world sounds huge until you compare it to the vast openness of the sky.
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SuperStrik9 1 week ago
CHERISH THE PALE BLUE DOT
jmpicturefly 2 weeks ago 6
This is the first video I've liked in years. Carl Sagan rocks!!
btfu62 3 weeks ago
20 Christians.
superwowie111 3 weeks ago 3
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ActiveInfidel 3 weeks ago
We sure are pesky Destructive morons in this beautifull Universe..SMH.....
spac3cadet 4 weeks ago
who the fuck dislikes this??
fucking nationalists...
siiixten 4 weeks ago 4
@siiixten yeah, pretty much.
jjobie 3 weeks ago
those are some very strong words indeed. makes us feel like an inconvenience to the rest of the galaxy. thumbs up i you think there are other civilisations out there in the same boat as us.
MrDiddydodd 1 month ago 4
how lovely, our little dot in the universe, our home..should be filled with Love not power...LOVE!!! so special is earth and we are honoured to roam it, as such we should respectfully honour our earth back....
SONMARIE1 1 month ago
As a much wiser person than I said once, If nothing we do MATTERS, than all that matters is WHAT WE DO.
Being good to each other is the best thing we can do. And that's all that matters.
Stevarious 1 month ago
This is quite eye opening. It shows just how insignifigent we all are. We are one of over 7 billion people on a planet, which is one of 8 in our solar system, which is one of billions in our galaxy, which is one of hundreds of billions in the universe that we know of. All the fighting over land and what not, is entirely pointless. it is just becomeing the momentary masters of a fraction, of a fraction, of a fraction and so forth of the universe. we think we are so special, but we aren't.....
SilverOwl13 1 month ago
@SilverOwl13 just don't let it depress you. we get into too many petty fights, yes, but that doesn't quite mean we should lock ourselves up our planet and be alone forever. another thing sagan advocated in being part of NASA is the search for life on other planets. that we may not be alone in this universe, that we may find friends on other worlds, is an exciting possibility.
Vinco 1 month ago
The momentary masters of the fraction of a dot. Why does war still exist? Because Governments and religion still exist.
frostyuk2007 1 month ago 3
@frostyuk2007 Unfortunatley, with out government or Religion, We would be Apes with Sticks killing each other over a Blueberry...
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frostyuk2007 1 month ago
@ThePhantomZero0 From my perspective, we are apes with sticks killing each other over flawed ideologies such as Religion and Government. These are monstrous entities that only teach murder, slavery and theft. Morality in leadership does not exist, you own your life, nobody else does. War still exists, the peaceful people outnumber the violent so why? Without heirachical structures war cannot exist. I'd guess I'm an anarchists because the first movie I can remember watching is Spartacus. :)
frostyuk2007 1 month ago
@frostyuk2007 Pffft, Watching Sparticus isn't that bad. Anyway, you are quite right on that.
ThePhantomZero0 1 month ago
This videos makes me cry. Watching this video is always very humbling, and it should teach us all to cherish the incredible gift that we have been given, a short stay on the pale blue dot.
heathey1 1 month ago
1 word legend.
WhyNotLetItFly114 2 months ago
I grew up with Sagan on my TV, Thank whatever. Sagan is literraly my hero.
OM3N1R 2 months ago
At the 3:12 mark. Is that Sagan visible in the top 3/4 of the sky?
buckminster83 2 months ago
@buckminster83 No?
Mrtheunnameable 1 month ago
@Mrtheunnameable If you look at the top of the Earth and then move down to the first dark part of the clouds that would be his hair. The eyes and nose area (sort of cuts off at the mouth with the shadow) are below, before (obviously) the shadow.
buckminster83 1 month ago
@buckminster83 Do you mean the shadowy shape that the clouds make?
Mrtheunnameable 1 month ago
@Mrtheunnameable Yeah, essentially. Though I see it more as the dark area intruding upon the clouds. Either way, if you see it you do - if not, no biggy.
buckminster83 1 month ago
@Mrtheunnameable Yeah, essentially. Though I see it more as the dark area intruding upon the clouds. Either way, if you see it you do - if not, no biggy. I frequently see faces in things. In the same frame I see another face (bigger) on the left side in the clouds. Funnily enough it looks a bit like "Jesus" on the Shroud of Turin.
buckminster83 1 month ago
What a beast. Carl Sagan you are missed.
jusblaze3o5 2 months ago 4
This video makes us realize how incredibly insignificant we actually are. Yet, at the end, I feel so proud and so lucky to have been a human living on our tiny speck of sand
MrSwedenik 2 months ago 4
It bring tears to my eyes, espicially with the background music.
darkmattermarshall02 3 months ago 3
I like this one better than the one wth Mogwai music by itself. Furthermore, I recently purchases the Cosmos DVDs from Sagan's website and they are most legit.
dekobian 3 months ago
To all you pathetic excuses of human beings, Why would you dislike this? Are you living in such denial?
deeppurple28 3 months ago
For those who really understand the essence of what is being said here there can be no argument or ideology , it is the whole truth !! if you feel the need to discredit it then you JUST DONT GET IT !!!!!!!
mrcaspiansea 3 months ago 59
@mrcaspiansea - I agree 110%.
Zecastronomo 3 months ago 18
@mrcaspiansea Exactly. Well said.
jjobie 3 weeks ago
@mrcaspiansea Humanity dislikes being told that we are "small", yet we are... But, although we are "small" does not mean we don't owe the universe our best efforts. We either wake ourselves up... Or, we all go down together. Wish the governments of the world would suck it up and realize that simple fact...
nardigan 3 weeks ago
@nardigan
We don't owe the universe anything, much like how it doesn't owe us anything. We act as we do out of our own will, and although we have the capacity for cruelty, Carl himself would have surely said that it is vastly overshadowed by our curiosity and capacity for kindness to one another. When you see the scale of the universe, the interconnectedness of not just us human monkeys, but all life on earth, limiting yourself to a country or people becomes simply impossible.
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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
19 Christian fundamentalists still can't Accept Reality!
deeppurple28 3 months ago
Im so sick of seeing these religious ass holes puking up their crap in these channels. fucking take it to the street corner. damn!
dillinger9999 4 months ago 4
My final comment to you. Say that to the families of the 1986 disaster of challenger or the 2003 disaster of Columbia. Or just look up and when the ISS fly's over refute that truth as well. You make me laugh, really and I could care less if you think Hubble is made up. Now I will not be replying to anything else you say. your a conspiracy theorist, and now I say take care. I will believe as I choose and you are free to believe or deny what ever you want.
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roughneckghost 4 months ago 4
It's disgusting to me that there is really a religious argument in the comments of this video. This isn't about God, or lack thereof. This is about humanity. Appreciate the beauty and near perfection of this speech.
MikeSpuches 4 months ago
We miss you Carl Sagan.
Br4veDave 4 months ago 3
Hail to the Earth.
yinweichen 4 months ago
So Say We All.!
bsg75husker 4 months ago
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." Carl Sagan.
cha0sleader 5 months ago 3
wtf i thought this was by carl sagan, all i heard was god speaking.
plaskut 5 months ago 5
i hate everyone in this damn world. agnosticism is the only true faith, bunch of proud motherfucking ignorant fools. bow down
12345dubi12345 5 months ago
@12345dubi12345 Agnostics are even more annoying than any religion or atheist, they sit down and hide behind neutrality while others actually say things that make sense, you are not clever for being an agnostic, you're just a tool.
yomejustacandy 4 months ago
@12345dubi12345 We can't ask too much from them, from us, don't worry, we are still growing, have some faith, it might be hard for you to see it, but we are not all the same, we are not all trying to be better than the next guy, we aren't....dont hate them, dont hate us, dont hate yourself, lets do our part making this planet better, best way to teach someone is showing them, giving an example :)
horamerda2 3 months ago
Carl sagan is truly amazing, dosn't get anywhere near the recognition he deserves. Amazing man..
mcca99 5 months ago 2
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience."
Consider this:
All of the stuff you see around you. All of the elements (besides hydrogen) that make up the world we inhabit, the tools we use, the air we breath, the food we eat, even our own bodies... all of the mater around us and in us was made from hydrogen fusing inside the cores of stars that eventually exploded in spectacular supernovae.
You are made of stardust.
Just thought you should know. :)
Falcrist 5 months ago
@Falcrist
big bang cannot be proven.....neither can creation...it's ALL speculation..nobody was there...
ambush77 4 months ago
@ambush77 True enough, but either way my statement stands. ^^
Falcrist 4 months ago
@daddyrabbit35 no- it's perfect as it is
krissmith1986 5 months ago
Such a great mind
Trund27 5 months ago 3
If you are reading this comment, you are the product of billions of years of evolution. Smile, be kind to everyone you meet and enjoy your short time on this pale blue dot <3
TheVisualMagic 5 months ago 44
Eath is so beautiful, i just can't believe that some really believe that it's just a accident it's that beautiful and unique...
Long before this vid or "knowledge" we already know what's the earth's condition..
Job 26:7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; He suspends the earth over nothing.
noelcenalopez 5 months ago
Very uplifting video. I always come back to this to watch this and compare it to my problems in life, which are otherwise insignificant.
2DSatisfaction 5 months ago 4
we are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.
we are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.
we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!
whatis-theplan(dot)org
M0n0liths 6 months ago
RELIGION: Yuck! I left home at 16 and retired financially secure at 48. I've slept in the streets in East L.A., Las Vegas, St. Louis and Detroit. I learned real quick that it's the people who talk the dogma that you have to watch and the Department of Corrections will back me up. Only 1.5% of prisoners say they're Atheist. All the others love Jesus. In Congress the percentage drops to 0.9%. "In God We Trust" on our money and buildings is blasphemy. Our deeds don't match-up with our claims.
BobbyWarrenMiller 6 months ago 2
We are small. We are insignificant. As for now, anyway. As humans have in the past we shall move forward, continuing our conquest of everything that can be conquered. Are life thus far is short. Our species is young and small now, but it shall grow, and pioneers will settle across the universe. Are we important? Of course not. But we will be in time. In time we may be the masters of our universe and everything.
hiimhank 6 months ago 2
think about the universe and our place in it
IntoStorms 6 months ago
i cannot understand why such a perfect as in literal perfect speech of our Mr. Sagan were disliked by 16 mammals who knew how to use modern technology.
Ochiruhaneul 6 months ago
Amazing speech.... Makes you understand and rethink ideologies and awareness.
dextc 6 months ago
love
lollerich 6 months ago
every douchebag arrogant person who thinks the universe revolves around them should be made to watch this
mattyrayuk 6 months ago 6
The very comments on this page demonstrate that humanity has a long way to go before it overcomes the obstacles Carl Sagan warns us about in this very short reading. Humans have not learned to see beyond their own noses.
chicagomike88 6 months ago
Amazing .... Absoluty amazing.
DNFmcX 6 months ago
I find it strange that almost everyone here, as well as Sagan in this video, are perfectly comfortable equating cosmic significance with cosmic size/mass. Anyone else think this is a fallacy?
Otherwise, good speech and nice sentiments.
JonathanSharman 6 months ago
@JonathanSharman I don't believe that he literally implied that size determines significance. He's merely using it as an example to humble us saying that the only thing that the complete entirety of the human race (the only sentient species as far as we know) has affected nothing more than this extremely small fraction of a fraction that is known space and yet we place ourselves on such a massive pedestal.
Colluctor 6 months ago
@Colluctor Implying that it is silly to view ourselves as elevated on the basis that we have only physically influenced a small fraction of the universe *is* in effect equating size to significance. I believe humanity is significant over a hundred thousand dead stars or a billion billion cubic light years of empty space on the grounds that we are ontologically important, being self-aware, rational, and emotive beings rather than the mere dust that occupies the vast majority of our universe.
JonathanSharman 6 months ago
@JonathanSharman I understand what you're saying and agree, but this video attempts to give you a different perspective so I'm merely playing the Devil's advocate. So what does being the only sentient being really count for then? Who would be there to record our glorious self-awarness and all we've done on this planet? And, as far as we know, there could be a vastly superior society across the galaxy.I never said it was silly, but we should be hesitant to be so quick to declare our greatness.
Colluctor 6 months ago
@Colluctor It's not humans in particular that I think are important, but self-aware beings in general, which humans are an example of. All intelligent and, to a lesser degree unintelligent, lifeforms are of interest and importance, in my opinion. But Carl Sagan said nothing of these. He spoke merely of the vastness of space as an indicator that our self-perception is overinflated.
(As a side-note, "sentient" merely means able to sense things, so we are not the only known sentient beings.)
JonathanSharman 6 months ago
@Colluctor That's the funny thing about SELF-awareness though. We don't need an external source to evaluate us. We are capable of doing that ourselves. Doubtless there have been/will be more complex species in the universe than Homo sapiens. But that doesn't diminish our significance in comparison to rocks and gas.
JonathanSharman 6 months ago
Tried to get my Christian friends to look at this video so they can understand how I feel about life without god and stuff, but they just blew me off. Sigh.
borderlinecelebrity 6 months ago
Who here thinks religion will die out.
Cloyde100 7 months ago 4
Only the internet could take something awesome and pure like this video and turn it into an angry discussion between religious nutjobs and atheist nutjobs. Lets chill out everyone and take a moment to enjoy the universe and life without jumping at each other's throats.
ichkanns1 7 months ago
This is my 'religion'. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam...
herbie1derbie 7 months ago
we're all stuck on this rock. the universe has forgotten about us. we're all beating each other up
goaliedude32 7 months ago
How did I get here? I've never been to Saturn; not in the physical realm.
pbatusa 7 months ago
His voice and narration reminds me of agent Smith form the Matrix.
aerozg 7 months ago 3
@aerozg except he's inspiring humanity, not calling them a disease
IamDayoldHate 7 months ago 2
@IamDayoldHate
lol, right
aerozg 7 months ago
And yet we choose to fight over this piece of dust?How dumb is the human race?
neuindeutschland 7 months ago in playlist Earth & Cosmos
if you think about it, in a grander scheme, we are just a pale blue dot
OutstandingJourney 7 months ago
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Superb Narration! Carl Sagan - what an amazing man.
AmFilms123 8 months ago
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AmFilms123 8 months ago
i never get tired of hearing this. thank you for posting.
dewgy32 8 months ago 15
Wonderful video. It really makes you think. 15 people disliked it? how is that possible? It boggles the mind.
jshultz 8 months ago
With his voice he can read you a dictionary, and you'll still be hanging to his lips.
SjaanK85 8 months ago 4
i'd would have loved to have seen what Carl would've made of The Venus Project movement. -Joe-
grandultra 8 months ago 3
The only possible way to dislike this video is to truly be, as Sagan describes, wrapped up in your own imagined self importance. How much blood has been shed, how many lives set in ruin, how many hopes and dreams no matter how innocent or corrupt, all to become the master of a fraction of a second in the cosmic timeline. How many empires and civilizations erected in glory and shattered in agony, only to be lost to time, and rarely, if ever at all, glimpsed upon today.
KrenikHordeWarriorCG 8 months ago 27
@KrenikHordeWarriorCG then we all die.
ant1ph0n 4 months ago
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Carl Sagan's early death aged just 62 was one of the greatest losses imaginable to the human race. Few men in history have ever said so clearly why we should put aside our petty. childish and self centered passions and work together, not like the Borg but as a free, united collective of individuals all pulling in the same direction. Politics, religion and ethnic division keep us in chains and anchored in all the follies of our primitive past.
hmscollingwood 8 months ago
We must remember that in this day and age that corruption is running rampant. As it always has. That's how humanity is. People who want power or money etc. We must remeber however to live and work for the greater good of humanity. For the betterment of our race. love, live, and learn
kotakotsu 8 months ago 7
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THE EXTRAORDINARY DESIGN OF THE SELF SUSTAINING UNIVERSE REQUIRES AN EXTRAORDINARY SELF SUSTAINING DESIGNER. That is evidence that will hold up against any scientist or non scientist in heaven's court of moral and spiritual accountability. Are you ready for that?
MegaSage007 8 months ago
@MegaSage007 - That is what you think.
Zecastronomo 8 months ago 2
@Zecastronomo - Any supposed designer that created the universe must have been created by another designer. If god created the universe, what created god?
tractility 8 months ago
@tractility This concept is not unique to religion. Science is faced with questions similar that are also unanswerable. As a scientist, I subscribe to the big bang theory, which begs the question, which action caused that reaction, and continuing which action caused that reaction. It is a common theme in all attempts to explain the infinity of creation and is not a flaw in religious logic. Rather, it is a flaw in humanities ability to comprehend.
ichkanns1 7 months ago
@MegaSage007
Way to force your beliefs on everyone. I'm going to launch a very small campaign that'll let people know to mark you as SPAM so you stop ruining these enlightening videos with the human waste that are your words.
Minute158 8 months ago
Now, not only do we have to watch out for corrupt politicians, but also corrupt scientist who are not as nice as Sagan.
anythingnew 8 months ago
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MegaSage007 8 months ago
@MegaSage007 - Are you shure?
Zecastronomo 8 months ago 5
@MegaSage007 PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS TROLL. (MegaSage007)
gera1262 8 months ago 2
15 Christians can't accept reality...
FoxifiedNutjob 9 months ago 50
@FoxifiedNutjob All comments like that do is increase the animosity between Christians and atheists, and other groups as well. Shame on you.
JonathanSharman 6 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob strike that- 16 of them are too small-minded to cope with this. Sad, huh.
gamerk1d51 6 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob
Wtf kind of ignorant comment is that.
skyro805 6 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trund27 5 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob I am a Christian......., I love Carl! I wouldnt go around assuming every Christian is ignorant of cosmic truth. Too bad that you wont get to tour the cosmos after your death. The reward for faith and goodness is an infinite spiritual journey.
romnsch13 5 months ago
@romnsch13 Wow. So he goes to hell because his/her parents didn't raise him/her Christian.
TheElephantOpera 5 months ago
@TheElephantOpera I dont believe in hell. I dont see god like other christians do. God is a loving entity. I think my comment was misread/miswrote. I wasnt inferring that Carl would be in hell< I am not a sicko like you are painting me to be.Good kind people like Carl are undoubtedly experiencing the cosmos as he deserves. My comment was aimed at the mean spirited athiest commentor. For fuck sake lighten up.
romnsch13 5 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob thats just... a really dumb thing to say.
first off sagan was agnostic, second there's loads of christians including one of the most famous, C.S. Lewis, who believe in an old earth.
IcyScythe 5 months ago
@IcyScythe Yea and Noah had 2 of EVERY animal on his ark. Christians are retarded, face it.
Phuckyooo 5 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob
what is reality??? trusting a knight of malta to speak the truth about the universe???...Humans are anive to think Earth was created for them..that does not mean the whole universe was not created by somthing..Big bang and creationism have many holes..none of which you can answer or anyone else..Sagan was just speculating here...The hubble is a fraud and thinking we can somehow take pictures of our galaxy let alone billions of others is ridiculous..the universe cannot be proven
ambush77 4 months ago
@FoxifiedNutjob I'm Christian and I have a deep interest in the world of Physics... fuck you
546046 4 months ago
@546046
haha, you believe in, and fear a fairy tale. Modern day mythology.
Fuck YOU!
pleasuretokill 4 months ago
@546046 Are Christians allowed to say Fuck You ? Does'nt sound Christian to me. Turn the other cheek etc etc !
grengd 4 months ago
@grengd well tbh I didn't sincerely mean it,
but I just wanted to point out that you can be Christian and "accept reality."
you know like 80% of the country is Christian, that's insulting a lot of people.
546046 4 months ago
@546046 Hey Dont worry about it. Blasphemy is a victimless crime anyway.
grengd 4 months ago
I think "15 people don't live on Earth" is snarky commentary about the 15 negative votes for this clip. It's actually quite good as far as comments go.
neruda29 9 months ago
I find it insulting that a video with this magnitude of intelligence has a top comment of "15 people don't live on earth"
- Seriously people, can you not be more original with your comments?
XxXxSeasonxXxX 9 months ago
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MrSkateholic 9 months ago
So in essence thats all we are , just a drop in a huge pool.
cartmanofsp 9 months ago
@cartmanofsp The earth is like an H20 molecule in the ocean when compared to the universe.
ADHR26 9 months ago 2
@ADHR26 Well, no Shit, Einstein!!
eastardown 9 months ago
@ADHR26 Well, test
eastardown 9 months ago
@eastardown We'll Test?
ADHR26 9 months ago
So beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes.
MajinVegeto89 9 months ago 71
Sagan is sooo cool, helps put our life, our planet and our puny 'beliefs' into perspective. Something created this vast infinite universe, and we will never put our puny minds around it, no matter how much we try to make others think or believe any of us ever hold or held all the answers.
We are all part of it if we live and breathe.
ReneODeay 9 months ago 2
@ReneODeay It's good to see that there are people out there who 'get it'. Unfortunately, those that don't run this place and influence others. Truly sad.
2Phaktor 9 months ago 3
@2Phaktor So sad that you feel that way. there really is a GOD, but like I said not anything we can put our puny minds around. because something created the universe and all its splendors, something that makes us live and breathe. It didn't just all appear from some unknown small thing that just blew up in a big bang.
ReneODeay 9 months ago
the notion of a god is so pathetic
KnowTheAnswers 9 months ago
@KnowTheAnswers you give atheists and agnostics a bad name
69blair69 9 months ago 3
@KnowTheAnswers not pathetic just outdated
TheKiwiactivist101 9 months ago
@KnowTheAnswers the notion of an atheist or agnostic that is a moron is pathetic
callelo5 9 months ago
سبحان الله
jojoalmrjojh 9 months ago
@jojoalmrjojh متى أنت ستعلم?
MrSkateholic 9 months ago
@MrSkateholic اعلم ماذا
jojoalmrjojh 9 months ago
Talk about putting the worldly bullshit in perspective...
neroneous 9 months ago
For all his scientific erudition, Sagan was a poet at heart, too. His light is missed on this pale blue dot.
xyntrk 9 months ago 8
15 people had a stroke and missed the like button.....
CanadaCob 9 months ago
@CanadaCob
You are not funny in the slightest.
ZachCraft 9 months ago
@decaalv I'd disagree with your last sentence. Just because one can interpret some similarities into the two messages they are not the same, let alone exactly the same. To say that they have the exact same message is a bit insulting towards carl sagan.
Samurailord 10 months ago
We miss you Carl
Medigato 10 months ago 3
As a Charles Robert Darwin would say, there is grandeur in this view of life.
Kalevala87 10 months ago 3
i don't want to live here anymore
MrBluntmasterflex420 10 months ago
@MrBluntmasterflex420 goodbye then
Mrducky78 10 months ago
@Mrducky78
MrBluntmasterflex420 9 months ago
What a man Carl Sagan was.
heathey2 10 months ago 2
When I find myself sweating the small stuff, I listen to Carl Sagan, and it grounds me.
05031959 10 months ago 4
Does anybody know this song in he background?
05031959 10 months ago
@05031959 Hey Mate,
The background music is called "Heaven and Hell" by Vangelis
HumanTargetAus 10 months ago
@05031959 it;s a Vangelis track that is used in Cosmos quite a lot. There is a cosmos soundtrack out there on the torrents and to buy, it'll be on there. Also watch Cosmos!
radlord 10 months ago
@05031959 Part of Cosmos OST by Vangelis
Medigato 10 months ago
I could have been born 20000 years from now, or twenty thousand years ago, but no. I'm lucky enough to be born in a time that knows of and has access to the recordings of The Rolling Stones. And for this, I am grateful.
mummyjohn 10 months ago
...I do not know that yet, but at the and what i do know and understand is that, we are both God and Men conected. And for me that is always been enough to feel love and hate and all the rest of my feelings. (sorry my english is not too good)
JRDmun2 10 months ago 2
Like Carl said,Universe looks more like a great thought than a great machine.I believe that instead of speakin' of God,we should try to understand what is God" and how we could know about him? the same way we could know about an artist, by his art. I think that God doesn't know him self like we don even know our self,and tryin to understand him is trying to understand us,like we are a great cosmic mirror for GOD to know him self.We are the dream of God or perhaps God is the dream of men....
JRDmun2 10 months ago 3
@JRDmun2 i couldent agree more
TsukiyomiZakuro 10 months ago
This is not an atheist point. This is very spiritual. Not religuous. Not vane. Not simple.
There is beauty, there is wisdom. Read a few lines of biblical terms w/out the season of human depravation: "Love one another, love everyone else as you love your self..." There is a God. I was flying and I saw the clouds all placed in the right areas to give the right amount of shade. Our existence by all scientific knowledge is a MIRACLE. Just love, just rest thinking we aren't so simple. We are love.
Crowstudio 11 months ago
@Crowstudio Trying to sound smart alert. It's from a human perspective, dude.
There is no "God", dude. Think about it. All of the atrocities that occur every day world wide. Ya believe that there is a Heaven and Hell. No. Total brain death, prior to the 5 minutes or so experience of DMT being released in to the bloodstream, then your life is over. Do ya really think that all people who died old and miserable, filled with pain in every body part, are kicking it up in Heaven. Agnostic here!
jarradcoombsroxxors 11 months ago
@jarradcoombsroxxors God did not make the world like this. We did. God is not a ghost. It is absolute beauty. Absolute love, absolute challenge, and even in this speech you find love and recognition of our greed and downfall due to our arrogance in thinking we know it all. I am not discovering God, I am feeling it. Not a God created by our own weakness, but one leads me to true hope. Far beyond the stars. I don't know anything. Perhaps, my feelings are far wise than my own logic.
Crowstudio 11 months ago
@Crowstudio Do whatcha got to do to maintain...:)
jarradcoombsroxxors 11 months ago
@Crowstudio Extraordinary claim require extraordinary evidence
HumanTargetAus 10 months ago
I'm sitting here trying to find words to express what I feel when I watch this... but I can't... I just don't have the linguistic skills to sum up how I feel. So I guess I'm just going to throw out a sting of nouns that describe this video:
Magnificent, humbling, philosophical, wondrous, amazing, impressive, shocking, calming, exciting, pleasing, terrifying, thought provoking, grounding, uplifting, cheering, considered and special.
The world is a darker place without Sagan. RIP.
tsimon1234 11 months ago
Carl Sagan just put all of us in our insignificant place in The Universe...
Let´s think about that and be less vain, proud, greedy, etc...
tehuan1 11 months ago
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tehuan1 11 months ago
I return to this every once in a while, and it brings me back to a very temporary peace. It's beautifully humbling.
remmirtable 11 months ago 3
@remmirtable That's exactly how I think of it.. beautifully humbling. For just a few moments I feel like I have a cosmic perspective on things.
GregGirardin 11 months ago
@remmirtable every time I hear this, I feel that for some mysterious reason a magical portal opens, and we are all connected. It's a form of meditation.
A remarkable man.
kriptonis 11 months ago 2
SOMEONE PLE