Great Minds: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot [new HD version]
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http://facebook.com/ScienceReason ... Great Minds, Great Words: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot. A Vision of Human Future in Space.
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth. It was subsequently used by Sagan as the title of his 1994 book of the same name.
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Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. Sagan had pushed for Voyager to take a photo of the Earth when its vantage point reached the edge of the solar system. On February 14, 1990, having completed its primary mission, NASA commanded the spacecraft to turn around to photograph the planets of the Solar System.
Between February 14, 1990 and June 6, 1990, one image Voyager returned was of Earth, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo. Carl Sagan gives the distance as 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometres) in his book.
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Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history.
A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel "Contact", the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki's film of the same name starring Jodie Foster.
During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method.
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meghanlivingstone 3 months ago
This nearly made me cry, just because of how unfathomably perplexing, fascinating and magnificent this universe is. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Phil Hmp 3 months ago
Carl Sagan:
A truly great philosopher, astronomer & scientist. A fine example of what the human species can produce, reveling in his curiosity, inquiry, imagination, tempered with logic, reason, skepticism, humility, compassion and love for his fellow humans. A true global ambassador for our species and a shining light for all.
We miss you.
Lest we forget.
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Matt Kuhlen 2 days ago
It's kinda hard to appreciate how small this planet is from far away when we actually live on it and everything is huge.
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joran khalid 2 days ago
OMG go listen lilwayne this is sooo booring lil wayne is moore deeper and interesting
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ThanksIfYourReadIt 4 days ago
So we are dangerous to the universe like a single vírus to humanity. Great hope the aliens did not hear this or they nuke us and preserve a single "cell" just so they can show off there was this like we preserve viruses in somewhere.
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Ринкевич Саша 1 week ago
Big thanks! It's beatiful
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whitehorseusa 1 week ago
vangelis cosmos
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you`r welcome :)
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MrRedPajamas 1 week ago
Your mom.
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Heinrich Liebniz 1 week ago
You're an especially stupid piece of shit, aren't you?
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Ринкевич Саша 1 week ago
Please guys, tell me. What's the name of background music?
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MrRedPajamas 2 weeks ago
Go play a video game and die...gaymer.
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TomeOfBattle 2 weeks ago
Either a troll wasting his time or a poor soul that's lost hope I'd wager.
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