Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot: Radiohead Remix

Sagan reading from his book Pale Blue Dot set against an instrumental version of Radiohead's "All I Need."

Yes, I am aware that this is not the actual image taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990 that inspired Sagan's words.
The music track and vocal track volume were set to my personal preferences. Thanks for watching.

Text: "From this distant vantage point the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us its different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe:, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pale Blue Dot
• Radiohead
• All I Need
• Carl Sagan
• Space Travel
• Earth
• Cosmos
• Remix
• marvel
• nasa
• ovni
• ufo
• ufos

[Macharion]

The only possible way I could love this more is if the image was of the actual photo Sagan is talking about.

[deshkl]

this is amazing.. i'm also big admirer of science, especialy astronomy and astrophysics.

you did great job with this mash up.

take care, vuk.

[elliotnicklin]

Midi crash fail.

[arulguna]

yes, photo is not the pale blue dot. But the music and the speech works. But then again, I guess any melancholy music would work with this epic speech.

[madhammy09]

...Favourited.