"THAT TINY BLUE DOT" (Carl Sagan)

"THAT TINY BLUE DOT" (Carl Sagan)
See that dot? That tiny, blue spec in the top band? That´s Earth.

That is our planet from 4 billion miles away. Look again at that dot. Thats here. Thats home. Thats 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 weve ever known...

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[2010SMACKA]

LOVE IT.

[CASTINGhollywood]

Hola, gracias fantastico video

[caraculo897]

@caraculo897 Y ADORO éste vídeo y estoy totalmente de acuerdo en que sus palabras son toda una paliza de humildad para la especie humana y para cada uno de nosotros como individuos, porque tiene la capacidad de ponernos en perspectiva.

Sólo te reprocho lo que ya te he comentado. Nada más. Y comparto tu admiración por Carl Sagan.

[caraculo897]

@stelcor No seas demagogo. No me molesta para nada tu punto de vista, y no es tu opinión lo que he criticado. Lo que me molesta, y lo que he criticado, es que para apoyar tu punto de vista, o para manifestar tu amor por la grandeza de dios (que me parece muy respetable), utilices un mensaje de otra persona, agnóstica, que quería transmitir una cosa bastante diferente con él cuando escribió "Pale Blue Dot". Más que nada porque a ésta persona en concreto no le haría mucha gracia.

[caraculo897]

@caraculo897

Las religiones, incluida la cristiana, pretenden que un dios o dioses han asignado al hombre el papel central en el devenir del Universo.

Uno de las luchas de Sagan fue, precisamente, mostrar que el espacio que ocupamos es una simple mota de polvo y que por NADIE NOS HA DADO ningún papel trascendental en el Cosmos.

Me parece aberrante que utilices las conmovedoras palabras de éste genio para transmitir un mensaje distinto del suyo, con el que él no estaba de acuerdo.

[jasmintk]

BELLO !! MAS QUE BELLO

[rezeffxd]

es precioso y sinceramente en verdad creo una cosa ke dice la presuncion y la estupidez humana no conoce limites ... y parecce mentira ke aun asi despues de saver todo esto cada dia vayamos a peor y cada dia nuestra prepotencia sea mas grande ... iwalmente gracias por estevideo realmente muy bonito me emociono de veras ^^ lo puse en favoritos sin duda un diez xD

[graciela2554]

Maravilloso, te felicito por el video, es muy aleccionador.

Graciela.