The Pale Blue Dot - A Tribute to Carl Sagan

I'd originally posted this video using a new narrator, but after receiving dozens of requests for Carl Sagan's original voice-over, I revised the edit. To their credit, the critics were correct; Sagan is still the best choice.

As I rejected religion for the first time in my late 30s, I only recently discovered the power and poetry of Carl Sagan's work, and as I was no longer bound by the constraints of religious thinking, I couldn't help but experience a feeling of profound gratitude that, even after his death, he could help me feel awe and wonder at the universe.

Mine is just one of many visual translations of his words. But with it, I hope that a new audience will be introduced to Carl Sagan and can experience this amazing look at the cosmos through his eyes. -Seth

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[iliatilev]

At least in this magnificent video i don't want to see some religious fanatics!

[Steven Hendrickson]

quite possibly the BEST version of the PBD i'v ever seen.



[vdizhoor]

Nice tribute!

Suggested nit-picking correction: Carl was a planetary astronomer rather than a cosmologist (which is how you've labled him in the openning of the clip).

He is regarded as a popularizer of science in the US - as a writer of both science and fictional literature. The label of cosmologist is typically reserved for the likes of Guth, Freedman, Penrose, etc., who study and publish theories about the origins and evolution of the Universe - not just those who write about it.

[elcanijo84]

tear  :....)

[Rogério Fonseca]

I loved it! I would like to narrate it in Portuguese. Could you send the music without Sagan’s voice to me? My e-mail is fonseca_usp@hotmail.com. Thanks!

[Spaced Munky]

And one of the most powerful messages ever uttered from that pale blue dot.

[haagatha]

They should have sent a poet....

[PicturaSonus]

I may be overshooting it, but I will go out on a limb and say that Carl Sagan was the greatest man who ever walked the surface of this earth. I wish more people were like him.

[Julz Yang]

Truly powerful... such wise words.