Carl Sagan: We Humans are Capable of Greatness

[BiggestFanOfAnubis]

And now,... I need a hug from my boyfriend !

♥

[theblind1s]

I CRY EVERY TIME!!!!!

[searats20]

This makes me want to hug the nearest person for a very long time...I guess because I love our human race dearly, especially knowing how many obstacles we have overcome and how much we have developed in such little time....that in itself proves that we ARE capable of greatness...Mr Sagan knew so much...

But now it is time to overcome another obstacle, which is ourselves, and for us to make the future brighter and better for our species. It is again time to prove our capability of greatness.

[Aresftfun]

@searats20 He's just guessing. Thankfully, it's educated.

Everyone is just guessing, after all.

[Qniversal]

@Aresftfun sorry if i misunderstood, but if you are talking about carls speech, then i just want to say that he is not guessing...

[Aresftfun]

@Qniversal Don't worry about it. I guess you misunderstand, but this is sort of foggy water we're in, don't you think?

[Qniversal]

@Aresftfun yes, foggy indeed. the fog NEEDS to be cleared asap.

[empyblessing]

It's like science and poetry.

[Aresftfun]

@empyblessing Scoetry

[Peppsi101]

@Aresftfun PIEnce. love it :)

[jandans]

@empyblessing Sagans every word is like poetry to me! :)

[Shift4chizzle]

he's an alien haha, ET

[thepenguin911]

The only Humans in all the Universe come from Earth.

[Aresftfun]

@thepenguin911 Yes, or another Universe on another planet that can sustain life with the same genetic make-up.

[SpazzK]

@Aresftfun are you referring to the multi-verse theory?

Because I highly doubt that any other 'humans' exist in any other part of the universe. There's no way they could have evolved exactly like us lol

[Aresftfun]

@SpazzK Yes. 

[SpazzK]

@Aresftfun then I'm sure in one of those universes Carl Sagan lives to be 300 :)

[Shift4chizzle]

@SpazzK actually not only is it possible, it is likely

[searats20]

Tears instantly fill my eyes when I hear this...Mr Sagan was so optimistic, inspirational, and so knowledgable....the human race lost an incredible man when he passed away...he will never be replaced, but it is warming to know his work is living on..."to live in the hearts of those we leave behind, is to never die." ....You will never die Mr Sagan.

[jackp22]

wow

[dreamanimal]

You should share a mp3 of the audio from this. I'd love to listen to this on the way to work. I might not feel everything is so hopeless. : )

[HybridD91]

We humans are capable.........oh yeah, causing mass chaos and we're getting far more creative at it. I wish I had Carl's optimism.

[Aresftfun]

@HybridD91 Humans are hypocritical and stupid many times.

They are also surprisingly important.

We are not the only idiotic species, also.

Then again, sadly, Mr. Sagan was wrong. We will not evolve. We will simply mix.

[OneUhBuv]

@Aresftfun We will not evolve in the biological sense; our ideas and views of the natural world will continue to evolve.

[searats20]

@Aresftfun Mr Sagan is never wrong...it may take many milleniums or more, but I truly believe we will evolve, and treat eachother more kindly...but I believe that will be a time after the human species has eliminated at least 1/2 of themselves from some war or conflict....how long it will take and at what cost we will ahve to sustain in order for our species to evolve though, is the greatest mystery....but Mr Sagan is right. We humans are capable of greatness.

[asabovesobelow90]

@Aresftfun forgive me if i sound ignorant but what you mean by "we will simply mix" ?

[Aresftfun]

@asabovesobelow90 Spoilers. 

[Snakebloke]

I nearly cried. No lie.

[atter0]

WOW....This video makes me proud...not to be american It makes me proud to be able to say,Yes... Yes i am a human...

[RussiansArePerfect]

I'm guessing 4 people are not capable of greatness.

[Ryalnotch]

Carl sagan was a man who unlike many others deserved the future. He should be our inspiration when we forge our future out of unknown times.

[di4815162342e]

I hope none of those four people who disliked this video ever breed. They are precisely the weaknesses Carl is speaking of and have no place in our gene pool. I hope that the fact that there are only four in a hundred that did is indicative of how close we are to weeding out the depravity of our species.

[Aresftfun]

@di4815162342e Meh, we're still a very hypocritical species. Such as many other species. We can only try to improve, you know? They probably just didn't like the idea of some things. I'm sure they're nice individuals. Not completely sure, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt. I see where you're coming from, however.

[natentreyable]

wonderful

[TheFederation99]

what music is this?? please answer ive tried so hard to find out

[Aresftfun]

@TheFederation99 I'm sorry. I have no idea, and I searched google and stuff! sad faaaace.

If you want me to give you a song I like that is sort of like this.

Epic Techno/piano: watch?v=YfPhm-f4EXo

Epic Piano: watch?v=7oMfo1NiOEc

[weemanaz]

@TheFederation99 @Aresftfun @ironmanluvr - and anyone else interested

The song is called "Earth: Pale Blue Dot (Instrumental)" composed by Michael Marantz . . . who is also the original creator of the film.

it can be found here . . .

itunes.apple.com/us/album/eart­h-the-pale-blue-dot-instrument­al/id414747613?i=414747637&ign­-mpt=uo%3D4

Costs 99c where I'm from . . . but I can think of few better songs worth the spare change.

SUPPORT THE ARTIST!!!

Clearly, the dude's got tallent.

[Aresftfun]

@weemanaz Ah why thank you very much.

[weemanaz]

@Aresftfun your most welcome mate. . . thankyou for the upload :) . . . take care

[Yallniggasbetrollin]

@TheFederation99

Earth - Michael Marantz

[TheCod6freak]

this video makes me realize our future is in our hands and how far we have come and will go we are a specie and i embrace change we need more great minds tho for great change to happen!

[ironmanluvr]

WHAT MUSIC IS THIS

[Aresftfun]

@ironmanluvr I'll tell you how to find out.

You stand up in the middle of a crowd on a cardboard box and yell "Does anyone know how to use Google!"

[sunshineflag]

gran

[TacticusPrime]

They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way. - You keep telling them Carl. RIP

[meshuggahismylife]

This makes me yearn for change in our species. After I listen to this I get returned to reality, and I realise how much of a failure we are. It's a slap in the face to us all if we don't change. I want to change the way we think, so that we can inquire and not try to make up excuses such as religion as to why things are. I wish all of humanity thought the way Carl did. If we did, we'd already be sprouting into the cosmos, planting our feet on distant worlds far different from ours. I wish.

[Aresftfun]

@meshuggahismylife One can only dream in a time whence dreaming is not yet reality.

[70k3r74m35]

@meshuggahismylife

Hey man, i think your comment was a good one and certaintly touches on some fascinating issues. I would perhaps tweak the part about us being a failure though - and i'm sure you wouldn't disagree. Surely if we were a failure we would be dead. It is the very fact that we can and do change that we aren't failures. I hope i have't over critiqued your comment =(

[meshuggahismylife]

@70k3r74m35 Oh no, friend. I welcome criticism. But, my position still stands. I say this because about 70% of all human adults are illiterate. Our space program is extremely underfunded and what it doesn't get goes to military advancement, which we don't need. We're buying diamonds and rubies before we can pay the bills. Good day, friend.

[70k3r74m35]

@meshuggahismylife But, just because 70% of people are illiterate doesn't mean that those people 1) don't want to learn or 2) can't learn - it's just the conditions are not ripe for them to do so. You'd have a good point if you said, and maybe this is what you mean, that the current global state of things is not conducive to fostering an attitutude like that of Mr Sagan. But to me, the fact that such an attitude is possible, makes us a success. Do you not agree?

[meshuggahismylife]

@70k3r74m35 Oh yes, I agree. I just don't think most people are ready to learn, or don't want to learn. I see most of society as idiots, but they're happy idiots. Ignorance is bliss, right? But all people have an extreme want to learn. Just not all people know how to learn. I agree with you one hundred percent.

[70k3r74m35]

@meshuggahismylife Good points. It seems to me like there's almost like a world-wide pedagogy of ignorance. That is, through things like those silly television programmes (the pedagogy) people are not only not learning, but they are getting dumber while watching them.

[xjimdim]

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

[KevoBlues88]

This guy was so brilliant.

[Aresftfun]

@KevoBlues88 He is probably the biggest inspiration to me for studying the cosmos.

It's incredible.

[meshuggahismylife]

@Aresftfun Hey, me too. He really jumpstarted my burning passion for the universe. My dad descirbed him as a scientific poet once, and I agreed.

[Aresftfun]

@meshuggahismylife I just listened to this again and I got teary-eyed.

[mjh012363]

"This is not a voice of a man, but of a God!" Acts 12:22

[Aresftfun]

@mjh012363 A god of science.

[michaelbollanduk]

they will gaze up and fail to find the blue dot in the sky

[Aresftfun]

@michaelbollanduk We must be enlightened by the universe. Enlightened by reality-to change anything. :)

[mobius1234]

Love it.

[Aresftfun]

@mobius1234 It makes me want to cry for our achievements and failings as a human race.

[8fl0z]

Had to watch this about 10 times....it really makes you want to make a change.

[Aresftfun]

@8fl0z Yeah. It's poetic and sight-changing.

[Whatthejizzman]

i fell asleep =(

[Aresftfun]

@Whatthejizzman lawl

[Whatthejizzman]

@Aresftfun hah

[Aresftfun]

@Whatthejizzman It seriously speaks to me. This guy was a genius.

[TheSouthparkrulz]

amazing video

[Aresftfun]

@TheSouthparkrulz i know. I just had to share it. This man was a true genius, who saw through humans and perhaps the future.

[Techsketch]

@Aresftfun

I've been listening to a LOT of this guy recently. He must be one of the greatest thinkers who ever lived. If only everybody could see life in the way he saw it.

[Aresftfun]

@Techsketch woah! We wouldnt have war!

[Samuraionthewall]

@Aresftfun We would have colonized other planets already. :/

[Aresftfun]

@Samuraionthewall We probably would have if so many things hadnt held science back. Throughout history religions have stopped it, but now we are going forward.

[Techsketch]

Some of the greatest words ever spoken. I have never heard words of true intelligence until now.

[Aresftfun]

@Techsketch I watch a lot of documentaries like this. It's great. :D