Happy 15th Anniversary of Dr. Sagan's death. Does anyone think he would consider mankind any better off on Dec 20, 2011 than on the date of his death? I think as the person he was that he'd see positives, but overall be disappointed in our progress. RIP Dr. Sagan.
Sagan wanted peace. Amongst the comments of his videos, I see people of various backgrounds, especially Christians and atheists. But are they getting along? Are they making peace? No. Come on, guys, let's just get along: for Sagan, for humanity.
@FallofDarkness55 You're insane. You view yourself to be the ideal denizen of a perfect world, when the truth is that you have the basic instinct that's just as "primitive" as religion: blaming something you don't like. Religion itself isn't the problem: it's man. No religion gives the OK for killing people, despite what history has said. Perhaps if you researched religion you would understand this.
Carl Sagan - "Our collective free time needs to shift as much as possible to education. Whether you're a young student or finished school long ago, get out to the library whenever you can and work hard to learn everything you can about this world. Each individual and society will benefit from being able to solve more problems and make better decisions. Education is an amazing discovery process that repays you endlessly."
I have come to the conclusion that I am anti war unless it is defending these morals Sagan has taught us, and when it is time to go to war I would not grab a gun, hell no, I would debate it out come to an agreement avoiding the negative emotions that promote the cruelties said in this video.
That picture was prob one of the things that stopped a full Nuclear exchange during the 80's imo. I wish he was now somewhere where he could be told all the info on the Cosmos, he is now part of the life cycle, something im sure he would not grudge, Carl Sagan will never be forgotten, one of nicest, most humble amazingly brilliant human beings to ever grace our Pale Blue Dot, R.I.P. Carl Sagan x.
I really like this video.... from time to time i have to watch it again
I've already read not good things about it and i suppose it means some people just can't understand what it is. So, to me the meaning of it is the message at the end:
"It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known: the pale blue dot"
A speech like that is more important than any gospel ever written. It's a far more evolved way of looking at reality, and brilliantly it never implies that itself is dogmatic way to look at thing. The very perspective contains the idea that ideas are not perfect and we should question everything to find the truth, and the truth also contains this method.
Man i wish my brain was big enough to get my head round this, to fully understand the collossal scale of space. I mean too many questions run through my head when i watch this video that i wish could be answered and i wish everyone in the world felt the way i do about this, Its just completely mind blowing. And all this talk about other life forms elsewhere, come on there is bound to be, imagen the sheer size of space.
@hahaurmno Just wanted to say your comment really meant a lot to me. "i wish everyone in the world felt the way i do about this". That sentence explains my LIFE. I am SO fascinated by ALL of "this", yet if I EVER try to talk to other people about it, they seem completely uninterested and don't get why I'd want to waste my time contemplating these things. I honestly just cannot help it.
That's what I love about Youtube- I can spend hours listening to videos with scientists and other smart people talking about this stuff. Sagan's probably my favorite (and this video in particular), but there are many others I've stumbled on.
Don't dispair, we'll get there someday. It'll take time though. More people like you would speed the process, so don't quit thinking and talking about it.
race is a scam, make belief fairytale control device BULLSHIT, there no such thing as race, it's just in our heads, we made it up because we were too stupid to understand variance in population
any man and woman can fuck on earth and make a baby, we're all one species
Carl Sagan is my hero and ultimate figure, for my everyday life and action.
Let's spread this message, each day, as long as we're still breathing, in ANY kind of effort and endeavor each of us is doing.
Then perhaps, humanity and this world would be so much exponentially better than the current point,..and to truly make significant meaningful progress as well, as citizen of our beloved Earth!
@themanonthestair Thanks. Have you heard of Charles Haanel, (also based in IL in the early 20th century!)? One of his less read works is Mental Chemistry, which may be similar to William Walker Atkinson's Mental Alchemy. Haanel's works were consequential to my discovering the underlying law of nature. It could be that what I uncovered in 2003 as the underlying law of nature has been discovered in some or many respects throughout the ages. Very, very cool. Your thoughts? 'Best, –TP
@TedDGPoulos I'm not familiar with with Charles Haanel, but I'll definitely check that out.. thanks for the tip. I've been studying the kybalion which explains the laws of creation. I've read it 5 times now and each time I read it, I learn a little more. Small book, huge lessons. Nice to meet somebody else on the same road.
The others I have seen have either contained footage from movies, or still photos only. I agree that there could be more content from other parts of the world. I guess that it seems the most powerful to me because I am an American and have stronger subconscious connections to it. But I still think WTC footage is good because it is extremely dramatic, and the inability of the U.S. to understand the motivations that caused the attack is a perfect example of what Sagan was saying.
For fuck's sake we NEED to get this aired in the next Superbowl. I don't really care that I can get a Taco for 79 cents or best buy is selling amazing laptops. I'm not a dumb ass, if I want a taco or new computer I know where to fucking go.
This is the Truth. We are not so special that we have the right to bring Earth to her knees, destroying this planet and soon, extinguishing human life. We are our own predator and will usher in the of all life on the blue palace called Earth.
It slays me still that more young people know who Speidi is than Carl Sagan. This man demonstrates, even posthumously, his outstanding compassion for all life and his keen ability for clear and sensible reasoning. He was and continues to be a gift to humanity. Perhaps one day, when mankind catches up to where he was, the majority of us will finally be grateful for his existence.
you tube should have this video permanently promoted, his speech needs to be put in the school curriculum as mandatory listening/reading, and if anyone tries to start a fight, make them listen to carl sagan pale blue dot on repeat for 1 hour, not that is a punishment to listen to carl sagn, but maybe no more fighting after that
@thefutureboom I don't know, it might make some people suicidal. I've seen this what, a dozen times now, and it still kinda gets to me (in the bad way, though it also has the same powerful positive message).
I realy like the irony of the words "...so all those generals and emperors could become a momentary masters of the fraction of the dot". It is comforting that no mater how "big" some people think they are in reality you are simply inconsequential.
@scienceandreasoniluv yes and maybe politics, economic crises, and religion would come to an end!!!!!!!!! survival of the fittest is more important and that is where we get our morality.
As of August 28, 2009, Voyager 1 was about 110.94 AU (16.596 billion km, or 10.312 billion miles) from the Sun, and has passed the termination shock, entering the heliosheath, with the current goal of reaching and studying the heliopause, which is the known boundary of the solar system.
It takes something like 14 hours for messages from earth to reach it. . .
what I mean is that if you hear what the Voyager had recorded until now you will realize about the immensity of the universe. It is juts overwhelming! I know that the satellite does not feel, do not be silly!
this makes me sad, and happy, it makes me feel like nothing, but yet every thing, we dont understand how much we are privileged to have a simple but yet complicated "life"
Must have watched this seven times already and it is still just as powerful as it was the first time. RIP Carl Sagan...the world needs more individuals like him!
Saying that unimaginable beauty and marvel and the roiling, raw power of the universe is a result of a primitive earthly desert god going "I'm bored" is an insult upon wonders of the universe. I mean, listen to yourself! You're saying that a god that says "thou shalt not eat shellfish" is the god whose hand shapes the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula? You're saying the god who says "kill all gays" is the god whose wondrous genius is seen in the wondrous clockwork of the universe?
We are created by God to bring him glory? If God existed and he did care about such things, that he created the universe so that it would glorify him, does that not seem disgusting to you? How is that different from any of hundreds of dictators and monarchs that want glory. Most religious people claim morality is absolute. If so, isnt this a double standard? You denounce human dictators, but worship "god" when both want the same thing. Power and glory.
I find this to be the most powerful Pale Blue Dot video, with a huge amount of that coming from the 9/11 footage. And it isnt just the act of terrorism. Far more, it is that we as a people, as a world had an opportunity to unite as a common humanity, but tragically our leaders, and a large majority of my fellow Americans saw it as an opportunity to hurt, to kill, to fight back. People say fighting is part of our nature. It is not. If we just say NO, I will not fight back, we can find peace.
Sorry, but when you're so "open-minded" that your brain drops out, you don't get to advertise yourself as somehow able to "see things" that others can't. If you yourself admit that it takes a leap of faith, then how does that make it ANY different to any of the other nonsense that's ever been peddled and that also requires a leap of faith?
Think of it. To see Earth from space. One couldn't do it from Saturn without help from computers but still, seeing Earth in it's whole must be a very humbling experience. To see the very world where every single thing in human history has happened on.
To see the rock -the most important rock we know- we sit on in the cosmos would be my last wish to look upon...aside from our good ol' sun.
I don't understand why this your post received so many thumbs down. I completely agree with you. As far as we know, we are the only thing in the entire universe capable of even conceiving of the concept of significance. In general, we think each other are significant, and I think that makes us significant.
No, Elreypachuco makes a good point. It makes us insignificant only if we think that significance requires a magnitude of space and time on the order of the cosmos. Our existence is not absurd because we are so finite, but only if we put all of our value in the infinite.
However, if we are to accept the folly of human conceits, then why is it that love and kindness are not just as foolish as hatred and evil? All of our works are still bigger than us; we decide their importance, not the void.
@CosChrono when you consider how much of a miracle it is that life came about, and that through science and a positive attitude we can learn about the world around us and progress as a race, then all of a sudden the path becomes clear. the wars for profit, the violence simply for our differences, religion for comfort, and everything else that gives the false illusion of power becomes worthless.
This video is both humbling and triumphant. Yes it shows just how small and unimportant we are, but at that same time, the very fact that we, as insignifgant as we are, are capable of producing this Pale Blue Dot photo, and understanding as much of the universe as we do, is as impossible and unlikely as a colony of bacteria sending out a camera and taking a snapshot of the human it si giving a nasty ear infection to...
To be human is to lie on the cusp between insignifigance and greatness.
We're insignificant because we're specks of dust on a speck of dust. Our existence to this date is barely an instant compared to the age of the Earth, let alone the universe.
This video is only depressing if you think what we've done so far is worthy of note to anyone but us. We can't even take time away from killing each other to explore our own star system. We treat selfishness as a virtue, decadence as an ideal.
Frankly, in our current state we're little more than apes in business suits.
This passage from Sagan's book (and audio book) is one of the most sublime in the English language.
The video editing to the audio book is good, but I dearly wish the creator didn't impose his musical taste on it. I like the music, but it doesn't belong beside, and obscuring, this universal statement. Rescore this with something like Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" and this would be perfect.
this video is the most precious lesson i 've had...what lucky we are to be here...at the same time how stupid we have been to each other and to ourselves
Carl Sagan mastered the art of reaching out to everyone who heard him. Even now his words move and inspire us. He was almost as profound as the sobering truths he told. May every generation know him.
For the life of me i cannot understand why people are giving negative scores to your comments here.
This is a very important video from the l8 gr8 carl sagan and it puts our existance into persepective..how very small and insignifigant we really are. And how we waste so much energy on things that we dont seem to see as pointless living in your eggshell here. Very very important..remember this , in your daily life.
With our egos put to rest, what else is there? When all we do is insignificant, what is there to do?
Well, if we put aside all our ambitions, stop scrabbling over the backs of our fellow humans...I think we will find love to be the only thing left. Love of the others who have, by some odd convergence of physics, come to acquire the same conscience we possess. None of it matters- this is why I live in peace with my brother. No reason to hate. Love is all.
i feel a number of emotions watching this, wonder, humility, anger, and above all humbled. The thing carl will me most remembered for is this, and i feel this video does him justice, the only thing i wish carl could have been around to see is the discovery of life in some form, somewhere away from earth
If it's any consolation, when Carl died in '96, there was much optimism about those alleged micro "fossils" in that Mars meteorite. In the end, the evidence was thought to be very shakey, but Carl died before that really settled out. So he died with the status of life out there being about as good as it had ever been. I'm glad he went out when things were looking up.
In my opinion one of the most valueable movies I`ve ever seen.Perhaps there`s no better demonstration of the great wisdom and modesty that Carl Sagan represented troughout his whole scientific career.We`ll keep him in our mind forever.Thanks for putting this film here Torbad!
"On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential - a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal."
This is an excellent statement! I wish more people understood this, as the delusional thought that that people should be slaughtered for some great religious belief is absolutely ludicrous.
Help is on the way Carl.
Copicotto 1 week ago
A true humanistic message..................Fascinating and wonderful!
TheMuskokaman 1 week ago
I keep coming back to this again and again...
willgw 1 week ago 2
Happy 15th Anniversary of Dr. Sagan's death. Does anyone think he would consider mankind any better off on Dec 20, 2011 than on the date of his death? I think as the person he was that he'd see positives, but overall be disappointed in our progress. RIP Dr. Sagan.
deejaymalta 1 month ago 3
Carls words dont need background music, they are powerful enough on their own.
RacingAxe 1 month ago
What a BAMF.
And he smoked weed
CarebearRapist 1 month ago
The single most powerful and insightful words ever spoken in all our history on this planet.
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@NeoShark89 You'd be surprised at what people have said through t their history..
pikl2r 3 weeks ago
MUSIC FUCKING RUINS IT WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO GODDAMN LOUD YOU DUMB FUCK
xveddermanx 1 month ago
@xveddermanx I somehow think you're missing the point.
willgw 1 week ago
<3 carl sagan
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gangsta0lemon 2 months ago
Sagan wanted peace. Amongst the comments of his videos, I see people of various backgrounds, especially Christians and atheists. But are they getting along? Are they making peace? No. Come on, guys, let's just get along: for Sagan, for humanity.
gangsta0lemon 2 months ago 8
@FallofDarkness55 You're insane. You view yourself to be the ideal denizen of a perfect world, when the truth is that you have the basic instinct that's just as "primitive" as religion: blaming something you don't like. Religion itself isn't the problem: it's man. No religion gives the OK for killing people, despite what history has said. Perhaps if you researched religion you would understand this.
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Carl Sagan - "Our collective free time needs to shift as much as possible to education. Whether you're a young student or finished school long ago, get out to the library whenever you can and work hard to learn everything you can about this world. Each individual and society will benefit from being able to solve more problems and make better decisions. Education is an amazing discovery process that repays you endlessly."
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
I have come to the conclusion that I am anti war unless it is defending these morals Sagan has taught us, and when it is time to go to war I would not grab a gun, hell no, I would debate it out come to an agreement avoiding the negative emotions that promote the cruelties said in this video.
DJSchousen 4 months ago in playlist Carl Sagan Videos
Never fails to move me to tears ... damn, I miss Carl Sagan
distantangelcouk 4 months ago
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gangsta0lemon 4 months ago
you loose the voice of carl because of the ass theme music in it
what kind of asshole would do that
azimebrahimi60616 5 months ago
That picture was prob one of the things that stopped a full Nuclear exchange during the 80's imo. I wish he was now somewhere where he could be told all the info on the Cosmos, he is now part of the life cycle, something im sure he would not grudge, Carl Sagan will never be forgotten, one of nicest, most humble amazingly brilliant human beings to ever grace our Pale Blue Dot, R.I.P. Carl Sagan x.
N4SONIC 6 months ago
WORLD PEACE = A WORLD OF COOPERATIVE HUMANS I.E. NO RELIGION! NO POLITICS! NO ECONOMIC CRISES! NO WARS! ETC.
FallofDarkness55 6 months ago
jai guru deva. om
Glarium1 6 months ago
You should re-master the video lowering the volume of the music. Then it will be a 10/10.
echelecopao 6 months ago
I really like this video.... from time to time i have to watch it again
I've already read not good things about it and i suppose it means some people just can't understand what it is. So, to me the meaning of it is the message at the end:
"It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known: the pale blue dot"
clovisallan 6 months ago
shit man, i'm an adult man, why can't i watch just one of these videos without crying like a bitch
loosekarrott 6 months ago
i miss him so much
azimebrahimi60616 7 months ago 4
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acpetrillo1 8 months ago
A speech like that is more important than any gospel ever written. It's a far more evolved way of looking at reality, and brilliantly it never implies that itself is dogmatic way to look at thing. The very perspective contains the idea that ideas are not perfect and we should question everything to find the truth, and the truth also contains this method.
Daver14X 9 months ago 5
We must love one another or die.
druegsegger500 9 months ago
Man i wish my brain was big enough to get my head round this, to fully understand the collossal scale of space. I mean too many questions run through my head when i watch this video that i wish could be answered and i wish everyone in the world felt the way i do about this, Its just completely mind blowing. And all this talk about other life forms elsewhere, come on there is bound to be, imagen the sheer size of space.
hahaurmno 9 months ago 2
@hahaurmno Just wanted to say your comment really meant a lot to me. "i wish everyone in the world felt the way i do about this". That sentence explains my LIFE. I am SO fascinated by ALL of "this", yet if I EVER try to talk to other people about it, they seem completely uninterested and don't get why I'd want to waste my time contemplating these things. I honestly just cannot help it.
charlotte07071 8 months ago 3
@charlotte07071 yup
cmonutube 8 months ago
@hahaurmno Ditto, dude.
That's what I love about Youtube- I can spend hours listening to videos with scientists and other smart people talking about this stuff. Sagan's probably my favorite (and this video in particular), but there are many others I've stumbled on.
Don't dispair, we'll get there someday. It'll take time though. More people like you would speed the process, so don't quit thinking and talking about it.
3point14rat 6 months ago
Attention other pale blue dots: We haven't found you yet...but dammit, we just get this feeling you are out there too.
mae5eric 9 months ago 2
Why can I not keep clicking Like forever?
Zupecki27 10 months ago 3
The irony of the song being used called "Stop Coming To My House".
sciences8 1 year ago
*behind....
rossisonscreen 1 year ago
These words, the message behing it, capture the essence of peace on earth better than anything else.
rossisonscreen 1 year ago
Dare I say, amen.
thylacine1930 1 year ago
@thylacine1930 amen
utharvey 10 months ago
this is the philisophically greatest, and most emotionally moving statement I've ever heard.
geetarjohn 1 year ago 7
Wow.. we really are insignificant huh?
FantasticTuna 1 year ago
Youtube really messed up this video. He put a dislike button on it. Regrettable.
dididudu72 1 year ago
The world is a more dangerous place since you died Carl.
GlentoranMark 1 year ago 9
No matter what mood I'm in, this makes me feel better.
If I had only one thing to listen to, and watch, it would be this.
"Everyone in the world should watch this video"
scienceandreasoniluv 1 year ago
So true.
rossisonscreen 1 year ago
Wow! Everyone should watch this and think about what he is saying
TheEukaryote 1 year ago
@TheEukaryote I'm in the ninth grade, and still touching the subject of racism, I think this, is far more important. :)
commentableuser 1 year ago 6
@commentableuser
race is a scam, make belief fairytale control device BULLSHIT, there no such thing as race, it's just in our heads, we made it up because we were too stupid to understand variance in population
any man and woman can fuck on earth and make a baby, we're all one species
ltt989 10 months ago 3
@ltt989 You know what race I am a part of? The Human Race.
When race is on surveys, I always write 'Human' in the 'other' field. =P
Reconcilia7ion 7 months ago 5
@ltt989 ramen brother (;
ManBearPigsApprentis 6 months ago
this gave me the goosebumps
rnata86 1 year ago
The music is a little too loud.. Other than that, this is the best video on youtube... 7 billion thumbs up.
vdubs4life1964 1 year ago
7 idiots disliked this video
dethcx22 1 year ago
One of the best ones, and one of the few unedited...but the music toward then starts to drown out Sagan...
sd19791 1 year ago
Carl Sagan is my hero and ultimate figure, for my everyday life and action.
Let's spread this message, each day, as long as we're still breathing, in ANY kind of effort and endeavor each of us is doing.
Then perhaps, humanity and this world would be so much exponentially better than the current point,..and to truly make significant meaningful progress as well, as citizen of our beloved Earth!
nikiwonoto 1 year ago
This speech should be the Earth's hymn.
pretenten 1 year ago 16
who were the 6 that disliked this? probably the Christians
yourmajezty 1 year ago 9
@yourmajezty
hahaha that's funny you should mention that because as of the time of posting this comment the number of likes is 666, lol, the irony!
thefutureboom 1 year ago
@yourmajezty no..probably people who jump to conclusions like yourself.
RomaZeal 1 year ago 2
Carl Sagan is truly an icon. Thumbs up & favorite.
MrWajax 1 year ago
@TedDGPoulos Read the Kybalion
themanonthestair 1 year ago
@themanonthestair Thanks. Have you heard of Charles Haanel, (also based in IL in the early 20th century!)? One of his less read works is Mental Chemistry, which may be similar to William Walker Atkinson's Mental Alchemy. Haanel's works were consequential to my discovering the underlying law of nature. It could be that what I uncovered in 2003 as the underlying law of nature has been discovered in some or many respects throughout the ages. Very, very cool. Your thoughts? 'Best, –TP
TedDGPoulos 1 year ago
@TedDGPoulos I'm not familiar with with Charles Haanel, but I'll definitely check that out.. thanks for the tip. I've been studying the kybalion which explains the laws of creation. I've read it 5 times now and each time I read it, I learn a little more. Small book, huge lessons. Nice to meet somebody else on the same road.
themanonthestair 1 year ago
MINDFCKED.....HARD CORE MAN .....LIFE SUCKS
canadiansk8 1 year ago 5
@thefutureboom
The others I have seen have either contained footage from movies, or still photos only. I agree that there could be more content from other parts of the world. I guess that it seems the most powerful to me because I am an American and have stronger subconscious connections to it. But I still think WTC footage is good because it is extremely dramatic, and the inability of the U.S. to understand the motivations that caused the attack is a perfect example of what Sagan was saying.
jdankzick 1 year ago
@jdankzick
hmm, understood.
thefutureboom 1 year ago
best video ever saw
yourmajezty 1 year ago
This video needs to be shown on every tv in the world 6 times a day every. Much respect Carl (RIP)
Species369 1 year ago 7
For fuck's sake we NEED to get this aired in the next Superbowl. I don't really care that I can get a Taco for 79 cents or best buy is selling amazing laptops. I'm not a dumb ass, if I want a taco or new computer I know where to fucking go.
thefutureboom 1 year ago 26
@thefutureboom Wouldn't the world be such a better place if an awesome educational mini short was ran instead of commercials?
lotrfreak2010 2 months ago
This is the Truth. We are not so special that we have the right to bring Earth to her knees, destroying this planet and soon, extinguishing human life. We are our own predator and will usher in the of all life on the blue palace called Earth.
elizabethgold 1 year ago
its ok
jcolexx 1 year ago
I find this the most powerful of the Pale Blue Dot videos. It has the best selection of footage.
jdankzick 1 year ago 5
I am humbled.
nipperdog7777 1 year ago
Brilliant. I'm speechless.
leicamaster 1 year ago 3
Powerfull stuff, I think everyone should watch this at least once.
gpdl00355 1 year ago 3
amazing words.. really puts things into perspective.
Spense626 1 year ago 3
This is beautiful. Its so emotional and moving and I believe that every human on Earth should watch this.
"All we are saying is give peace a chance"
rip Carl Sagan.
starred622 1 year ago 7
good video but the music drowns out his voice.
fyckthissht 2 years ago
It slays me still that more young people know who Speidi is than Carl Sagan. This man demonstrates, even posthumously, his outstanding compassion for all life and his keen ability for clear and sensible reasoning. He was and continues to be a gift to humanity. Perhaps one day, when mankind catches up to where he was, the majority of us will finally be grateful for his existence.
MST3KLives 2 years ago 19
I had to google Speidi...
YinLord7845 2 years ago
Every person on Earth should see this.
xplodinstuf 2 years ago 6
RIP Carl Sagan
auriciangelescu 2 years ago 4
The most beautiful, and breathtaking words ever spoken.
mokduk 2 years ago 5
you tube should have this video permanently promoted, his speech needs to be put in the school curriculum as mandatory listening/reading, and if anyone tries to start a fight, make them listen to carl sagan pale blue dot on repeat for 1 hour, not that is a punishment to listen to carl sagn, but maybe no more fighting after that
thefutureboom 2 years ago 13
@thefutureboom I don't know, it might make some people suicidal. I've seen this what, a dozen times now, and it still kinda gets to me (in the bad way, though it also has the same powerful positive message).
hornylink 2 years ago
Breathtaking
JustinmacD 2 years ago 2
The most powerful words ever spoken by any man.
athosfonseca 2 years ago 208
@athosfonseca true
mroijen 1 year ago
I've seen many videos since this. It is STILL the best video on Youtube, every human being should be well acquainted with the name 'Carl Sagan'
...and Mogwai ;-)
billhicks8 2 years ago 5
In this passage Carl Sagan shows himself to be one of the finest philosophers of the twentieth century.
welshboi1649 2 years ago 10
If this is to be the only message left behind by humanity, I'd be content.
prinnydood 2 years ago 11
I realy like the irony of the words "...so all those generals and emperors could become a momentary masters of the fraction of the dot". It is comforting that no mater how "big" some people think they are in reality you are simply inconsequential.
Armuotas 2 years ago 2
Somehow, this is comforting to me...
LoLuHHC 2 years ago 6
Me too, yet you'd think it would be the other way around.
totallymaybe 2 years ago 2
every time i watch this i cry
Braininabody 2 years ago 11
Everyone in the world should watch this video.
scienceandreasoniluv 2 years ago 154
@scienceandreasoniluv yes and maybe politics, economic crises, and religion would come to an end!!!!!!!!! survival of the fittest is more important and that is where we get our morality.
FallofDarkness55 6 months ago
wow... left me speechless...
logitek256 2 years ago 5
I wonder where Voyager is today...
June28July 2 years ago 6
Do the math
robbinsr39 2 years ago
As of August 28, 2009, Voyager 1 was about 110.94 AU (16.596 billion km, or 10.312 billion miles) from the Sun, and has passed the termination shock, entering the heliosheath, with the current goal of reaching and studying the heliopause, which is the known boundary of the solar system.
It takes something like 14 hours for messages from earth to reach it. . .
That's just incredible.
X9SamFisher 2 years ago 5
check the NASA web page, you will find information and pictures... the Voayager seems so lonely..
analfabeta44 2 years ago
@analfabeta44 : The Earth is lonelier. The Earth can feel, the satellite doesn't have emotions.
June28July 2 years ago
what I mean is that if you hear what the Voyager had recorded until now you will realize about the immensity of the universe. It is juts overwhelming! I know that the satellite does not feel, do not be silly!
analfabeta44 2 years ago
LOL! I know! :)
June28July 2 years ago
this makes me sad, and happy, it makes me feel like nothing, but yet every thing, we dont understand how much we are privileged to have a simple but yet complicated "life"
zlessly 2 years ago 7
This video deserves views equal to the Earth's population!
June28July 2 years ago 10
This is amazing. Never thought I would be so deflated by such an inspirational video! Thanks for this! :D RIP Sagan!
June28July 2 years ago 5
I fucking love this.
MegaJellyWhale 2 years ago 3
Great version.
I like the video editing. I think the audio could have been mixed a bit lower, especially towards the middle of the video.
lydianecho 2 years ago 3
mogwai is NOT "horrible music"
anyways, very moving video. thought provoking and oh so true.
suthrnbass 2 years ago 2
Post a version without that horrible music in the background and it'll be perfect.
Grak70 2 years ago
profound, thought provoking, poweful and ultimately humbling.
Carl Sagan. 1934 - 1996
morval99 2 years ago 7
Must have watched this seven times already and it is still just as powerful as it was the first time. RIP Carl Sagan...the world needs more individuals like him!
Terolynn16 2 years ago 5
It ends with a fucking earthrise.
BEAUTIFUL.
icannotfly 2 years ago 7
;-;
I'm horribly torn between a terrible sense of pathetic smallness and compassion for my fellow man.
notxactlyluki 2 years ago 10
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SexyBuilder1888 2 years ago
that's the point.
This made me feel so goddamn insignificant, but let me relate to everyone in a sort of bizarre way, as they too, were very small, just like me.
CaustoVirale 2 years ago
it truly is a beautiful video
SexyBuilder1888 2 years ago 2
Amen.
GanonslayerCP 2 years ago
Saying that unimaginable beauty and marvel and the roiling, raw power of the universe is a result of a primitive earthly desert god going "I'm bored" is an insult upon wonders of the universe. I mean, listen to yourself! You're saying that a god that says "thou shalt not eat shellfish" is the god whose hand shapes the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula? You're saying the god who says "kill all gays" is the god whose wondrous genius is seen in the wondrous clockwork of the universe?
gotryhag 2 years ago 10
We are created by God to bring him glory? If God existed and he did care about such things, that he created the universe so that it would glorify him, does that not seem disgusting to you? How is that different from any of hundreds of dictators and monarchs that want glory. Most religious people claim morality is absolute. If so, isnt this a double standard? You denounce human dictators, but worship "god" when both want the same thing. Power and glory.
jdankzick 2 years ago 7
I find this to be the most powerful Pale Blue Dot video, with a huge amount of that coming from the 9/11 footage. And it isnt just the act of terrorism. Far more, it is that we as a people, as a world had an opportunity to unite as a common humanity, but tragically our leaders, and a large majority of my fellow Americans saw it as an opportunity to hurt, to kill, to fight back. People say fighting is part of our nature. It is not. If we just say NO, I will not fight back, we can find peace.
jdankzick 2 years ago 6
WAGE PEACE!!!!
Thirdshiftzombie 2 years ago 6
"I'm not narrow, but rather open-minded".
Sorry, but when you're so "open-minded" that your brain drops out, you don't get to advertise yourself as somehow able to "see things" that others can't. If you yourself admit that it takes a leap of faith, then how does that make it ANY different to any of the other nonsense that's ever been peddled and that also requires a leap of faith?
cayetanoluis 2 years ago 3
"I believe we were created by God to be loved and to bring Him glory, so thus, we are special creations in that sense."
BOR-ING! What an egotistical (or bored) God.
cayetanoluis 2 years ago 2
EXCELLENT.
CARL SAGAN is an inspiration.
mohfoz77 2 years ago 5
this video makes me wanna be a hippie
LuigiStl 2 years ago
This is a good video, you really need to adjust the music track down though, because you can barely hear Carl talking.
EdwardJellico 2 years ago 7
So many people can believe god is real even though there is absolutely no evidence, but people don't believe ghosts or aliens? Really?
BRAWL001 2 years ago 2
Think of it. To see Earth from space. One couldn't do it from Saturn without help from computers but still, seeing Earth in it's whole must be a very humbling experience. To see the very world where every single thing in human history has happened on.
To see the rock -the most important rock we know- we sit on in the cosmos would be my last wish to look upon...aside from our good ol' sun.
seltjorn 2 years ago 2
I don't understand why this your post received so many thumbs down. I completely agree with you. As far as we know, we are the only thing in the entire universe capable of even conceiving of the concept of significance. In general, we think each other are significant, and I think that makes us significant.
xbobtehalienx 2 years ago
youve missed the point completely
ItzEzaii 2 years ago
What a great video. Anybody else get goosebumps, lol?
You will always be missed Sagan.
SGplayer08 2 years ago 14
I have watched this several times and i always get goosebumps. Mr.Sagan Thank you.
ThatFoolishBoy 2 years ago 3
You will always be lost Sagan.
lucasdasilvamaria 2 years ago
very fine !
ruotze 2 years ago
perhaps a world wide broadcast of this video, translated into as many languages as possible, to be played NYE 2009
operationsandstone 2 years ago
No, Elreypachuco makes a good point. It makes us insignificant only if we think that significance requires a magnitude of space and time on the order of the cosmos. Our existence is not absurd because we are so finite, but only if we put all of our value in the infinite.
However, if we are to accept the folly of human conceits, then why is it that love and kindness are not just as foolish as hatred and evil? All of our works are still bigger than us; we decide their importance, not the void.
CosChrono 2 years ago 3
@CosChrono when you consider how much of a miracle it is that life came about, and that through science and a positive attitude we can learn about the world around us and progress as a race, then all of a sudden the path becomes clear. the wars for profit, the violence simply for our differences, religion for comfort, and everything else that gives the false illusion of power becomes worthless.
focista6 1 year ago
This video is both humbling and triumphant. Yes it shows just how small and unimportant we are, but at that same time, the very fact that we, as insignifgant as we are, are capable of producing this Pale Blue Dot photo, and understanding as much of the universe as we do, is as impossible and unlikely as a colony of bacteria sending out a camera and taking a snapshot of the human it si giving a nasty ear infection to...
To be human is to lie on the cusp between insignifigance and greatness.
vesposito27 2 years ago 25
Your idea is a good one vesposito27. Whose ear must we bend to make it happen?
SaganAppreciationSoc 2 years ago
We're insignificant because we're specks of dust on a speck of dust. Our existence to this date is barely an instant compared to the age of the Earth, let alone the universe.
This video is only depressing if you think what we've done so far is worthy of note to anyone but us. We can't even take time away from killing each other to explore our own star system. We treat selfishness as a virtue, decadence as an ideal.
Frankly, in our current state we're little more than apes in business suits.
hurgle 2 years ago 13
I like the music in this video, it's just a shame it's overpowering Sagan's voice in parts.
Would love to hear a mastered version of this in high quality as it could be potentially one of the best versions.
If anyone has done so, please let me know.
hardsy 2 years ago 7
very nice
IShallNotSubmit 2 years ago
I wish the music was compressed so it would retain a lower volume, so distracting.
davcar23 2 years ago 3
This passage from Sagan's book (and audio book) is one of the most sublime in the English language.
The video editing to the audio book is good, but I dearly wish the creator didn't impose his musical taste on it. I like the music, but it doesn't belong beside, and obscuring, this universal statement. Rescore this with something like Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" and this would be perfect.
darrylsroy 2 years ago
There is a Pale Blue Dot with Brian Eno music. It's also every bit as good a version as this.
watch?v=tJE_Ld-UyCk
SardonicusRexx 2 years ago
I think the music fits finely, albeit a bit too loud. Sometimes it overpowers Sagan's voice.
HeroesFail 2 years ago 3
full-body chills
themostconsumed 2 years ago 3
this video is the most precious lesson i 've had...what lucky we are to be here...at the same time how stupid we have been to each other and to ourselves
likemusicwhat 2 years ago 5
This has to be the most beautiful, amazing, touching, and deep video on all of youtube
mysticking16 2 years ago 7
Thank You for Posting this.. The other one, with movies as backround was great but, has been taken off.
birdofprey51 2 years ago 3
Carl Sagan fills my heart with passion...and reasoning
likemusicwhat 2 years ago 7
I have watched this so many times it isn't even funny!
louishollis 2 years ago 4
Carl Sagan is the reason I'm an Astronomy major. He's my hero and my inspiration. If only there were more Carl Sagans, if only...
OSU6369 2 years ago 13
Carl Sagan mastered the art of reaching out to everyone who heard him. Even now his words move and inspire us. He was almost as profound as the sobering truths he told. May every generation know him.
smaakjeks 2 years ago 5
For the life of me i cannot understand why people are giving negative scores to your comments here.
This is a very important video from the l8 gr8 carl sagan and it puts our existance into persepective..how very small and insignifigant we really are. And how we waste so much energy on things that we dont seem to see as pointless living in your eggshell here. Very very important..remember this , in your daily life.
MilTownManiac 2 years ago 2
With our egos put to rest, what else is there? When all we do is insignificant, what is there to do?
Well, if we put aside all our ambitions, stop scrabbling over the backs of our fellow humans...I think we will find love to be the only thing left. Love of the others who have, by some odd convergence of physics, come to acquire the same conscience we possess. None of it matters- this is why I live in peace with my brother. No reason to hate. Love is all.
JediKenobix 2 years ago 14
I can't get over this, it's too amazing.
laemi 3 years ago 3
I never tire of this.
SaganAppreciationSoc 3 years ago 8
A modern-day prophet.
MyChemicalZeitgeist 3 years ago 3
i feel a number of emotions watching this, wonder, humility, anger, and above all humbled. The thing carl will me most remembered for is this, and i feel this video does him justice, the only thing i wish carl could have been around to see is the discovery of life in some form, somewhere away from earth
warlich666 3 years ago 6
If it's any consolation, when Carl died in '96, there was much optimism about those alleged micro "fossils" in that Mars meteorite. In the end, the evidence was thought to be very shakey, but Carl died before that really settled out. So he died with the status of life out there being about as good as it had ever been. I'm glad he went out when things were looking up.
SaganAppreciationSoc 2 years ago
"moungy" Your so right.... so right...
tygoger2007 3 years ago
If only many more thought like the great Carl Sagan... How different would our world be?
moungy 3 years ago 20
Too many words,too many false ideas and failed conceptions,too much of alot...This video should have 6 billion views...
Mystep 3 years ago 9
billions and billions...of views...
billhicks8 2 years ago 5
Anyone have the spare time to re-awaken mankind?
Need more minds and hands here...
Lets do some things starting 2009...
ascendrian 3 years ago 3
Great video ! It's very important to get in the memory . Thank you for sharing .
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nutier 3 years ago 6
In my opinion one of the most valueable movies I`ve ever seen.Perhaps there`s no better demonstration of the great wisdom and modesty that Carl Sagan represented troughout his whole scientific career.We`ll keep him in our mind forever.Thanks for putting this film here Torbad!
teliozzo 3 years ago 6
"On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential - a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal."
This is an excellent statement! I wish more people understood this, as the delusional thought that that people should be slaughtered for some great religious belief is absolutely ludicrous.
Infynitra 3 years ago 28