CARL SAGAN- PALE BLUE DOT

	Duration: 04:31 minutes Upload Time: 2007-04-29 20:33:51 User: TRUEADONIS :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: ... Look again at 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.
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TheNativeTwo ::: Favorites You know, it really highlights how petty we all are, fighting, arguing, and killing one another. How many times have we caused suffering to each other for some small gain of our own on this tiny spec of dust in the cosmos? It really puts our lives in perspective. 07-10-26 17:06:01 __________________________________________________
byronruano ::: Favorites i alawys thought that the leaders of the world should be chosen among the ones that belonged to the world of science, psychology. they seem to view the planet more respectfully. carl was an example of that. imagine if our presidents were those who really cared enough about life as carl sagan did. we could hear what a wonderful world coming from the stars...... 07-10-05 11:39:28 __________________________________________________
creematthew ::: Favorites Profound words... 07-09-15 21:30:28 __________________________________________________
goodfingerz ::: Favorites He was a beautiful man, glad he was with us to share 07-08-24 09:26:40 __________________________________________________
icp101982 ::: Favorites Too be honest I think without the music be kinda dull lol.. And the music sets the mood like music surposed to do. 07-08-20 00:03:31 __________________________________________________
Kaurotu ::: Favorites I miss Carl. 07-08-19 01:22:51 __________________________________________________
PatOBrien ::: Favorites that was irie!.. jah bless 07-08-05 03:05:42 __________________________________________________
bethpage89 ::: Favorites Yes. Lose the music. 07-07-08 11:18:53 __________________________________________________
barcode1000101 ::: Favorites Actually, I would say it does the exact opposite. To believe that of all the universe, a supreme being has singled out this tiny pale blue dot for some supreme purpose, is the height of arrogance. 07-07-02 10:00:50 __________________________________________________
StrikerV ::: Favorites beautiful... soo true of how much we dont look at the vastness of our universe and how small we are in it. if this doesnt prove God then woe is existence. 07-06-28 12:57:59 __________________________________________________