Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Greener, Less Anthropocentric Envisioning

A less species-specific envisioning of Dr.Sagan's stirring passage from his book "The Pale Blue Dot". Please Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. This version was created by Joshua Sellers, AKA jokerkiwi http://www.youtube.com/user/jokerkiwi for showing at the Utica-Rome Green Expo in Clinton NY. It also won raves at the Albany Veg Expo Speakers' Dinner that same weekend.

This is considered the semi-official PBD for the Sagan Appreciation Society. The central image of the Earth as a Pale Blue Dot was shot on Valentine's Day in 1990.

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Day 1:


#69 - Most Discussed (Today) - Pets & Animals
#77 - Most Viewed (Today) - Pets & Animals - Australia
#87 - Most Viewed (Today) - Pets & Animals - Canada
#65 - Most Viewed (Today) - Pets & Animals - United Kingdom
#61 - Most Viewed (Today) - Pets & Animals
#92 - Most Viewed (Today) - Pets & Animals - Taiwan
#5 - Top Favorites (Today) - Pets & Animals
#4 - Top Rated (Today) - Pets & Animals
#34 - Top Rated (This Week) - Pets & Animals


#85 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Pets & Animals
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#23 - Top Favorited (This Week) - Pets & Animals
#15 - Top Rated (This Week) - Pets & Animals

#95 - Top Favorited (This Month) - Nonprofits & Activism

About that beam of light: the abberation likely comes from the optics themselves: "The Narrow-Angle camera optics is a 1500mm f/8.5 all-spherical, catadioptric cassegrain telescope (a modified MVM 1973 design) consisting of five elements plus an additional dust lens located between the shutter and the vidicon"

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[2010KDiego]

We are dust in the wind...

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@2010KDiego

Or stardust in the stellar winds.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@8887588

We were attacked by some GOP bots. They were angry about the Bush images.

[pastorofdisaster60]

This is the only video on youtube that I have shed a tear.

[enigma19833]

I think putting Bush on this video was a big mistake. Don't get me wrong, he absolutely IS a corrupt politician and I despise him, but putting his image on here is doing a huge disservice to Sagan's words.

You are bringing politics into a work of art that absolutely transcends it. And because of that, most of the comments are just full of the usual, stale, boring-as-fuck political bullshit and inane arguments that you see everywhere else.

This video should NOT be a political soapbox.

[benw567]

Greed, fear, hate, corruption, and exploitation hold us back as a species. Curiosity and love push us forward.

[brennuvargr]

Beautiful words... Carl Sagan was a legend.

Anyone know the track ID at all?

[LKxDESIGN]

This video is amazing. Thanks

[thekleenex123]

Best video I have ever seen.

[jimbo913]

I agree with funv1ds. I love this passage and video but Bush pics make it too political. I'm not a Bush fan btw.

[megakitkatkitty]

Touching....very touching.

[tenzwarszawy]

Ok,

This video has subtitles different to sound. I think it should be stated!

[ZoltanKH]

@Junio14111990 It's a man protesting the police in a peace riot against the Vietnam war

[blkcpdconure]

@MagicBoterham light does not create shadows. objects create shadows. when you are outside on a sunny day and see your shadow would it be there if you were not there?