Pale Blue Dot: Wanderers
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 can 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 this scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatred. Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in this universe are challenged by this point of pale light.
As the ancient myth makers knew, we're children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenor on this planet, we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage - propensities for aggressions and ritual, submissions to leaders, hostility to outsiders - all of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children, a desire to learn from history and experience, and a great, soaring, passionate intelligence - the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity.
Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of this small planet earth. But up there in the cosmos, an inescapable perspective awaits. National boundaries are not evident when we view the earth from space. Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the vast citadel of the stars.
There is no one that has a more engaging way of narrating.....Carl Sagan is, imo, no question..the very best! If I were to choose someone to act as Earth's Ambassador if we do make 'First Contact' in my lifetime, it would be, hands down, Mr. Carl Sagan. He would probably tell them, "What took you guys so long; we have known you were here since 1948! ;-)
Well made doc pointing out humanities provincialism and the fact there is no planet hospitable to homo sapiens to resettle/escape to in the foreseeable future.
The ones who think moon shot was hoax are afflicted with the same malady which disturbs supremists, jihadists, etc, etc.
A big ego coupled with a sense of low self esteem.
They are full of fear.
Fear of being found to not be the blustering self assured person they pretend to be.
Dishonest, boastful, and feeling small inside, afraid to be found out.
Great flick. It gets to the point.
One of my favorite people of all time!Awesome
Sagan may sound like Kermit the Frog. But, that froggy spoke Epic and was Epic. R.I.P. Carl
Its nice to watch a doc that grounds and reminds me. Mr Sagan was/is truly an inspired human being. My hats off to all those who were involved in this doc.
The way he speaks is like educational poetry very well presented doc.
thank you Carl
next time you have a problem.. take a look at the nights sky and think just how insignificant it really is..
"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 can become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot" long live carl sagan!
brittish accent? carl was born in brooklyn, lol, anyway, inspires me to read the book, or watch cosmos again
he had me at ''we were wonderers''
...gotta love the british accent
A point of light in space an understanding of ourselves as a human race and our place in the infinite cosmos. Timeless works by Carl Sagan A+A+A+...
The music at the beginning creeps me out.
i love when this question is asked
''what year did this film come out''
we are given the title to the documentary
finding the release date is easier than creating a diqus profile
which they have done in order to make a comment
I could watch or listen to Carl Sagan 24/7 . I feel sorry for the people who can't enjoy CS . I can't get enough of him .
CARL SAGAN!! ...what else can we say about this documentary??
every single human being living on earth must see this video!!
beautiful..
the Internet is getting infested by a new kind of bug, troll its the name, and currently there is no defense against it. The only suggested antidote is to get away from the Internet, it is said that this new kind of infection will drag you to his own territory only to defeat you where is more strong. stupidity will always win when plays in its own ground.
What I find most funny about the 'motivation' argument for the hoax, that the USA wanted to beat Russia in the space race is that those videos weren't recorded for 'proof' that anyone landed, but rather, they were recorded simply so we could get a view of the moon's surface with people on it. There are other ways, I suspect, during the actual landings and excursions, that could have stood to 'prove' they were up there, such as comm signals and such. If you look at the engineering, I think you would find that the plans for landing on the moon would be perfect to a T, mathematically speaking. Thus, I doubt they'd fail to through with it.
@Cut-The-BS
You must either be a troll, or the most pathetically ignorant fool ever to post such a spiteful comment about Carl Sagan.
Go troll somewhere else, top-docs has been a pretty clean site thus far, we don't need scum like you polluting the place.
The only way to control a primitive race is to introduce a god to them, and it's all over with from there on. Only the ones at the top will prevail that wrath.
After applying well learned understandable egotistical value, and a focus on evolving humanity. What would you kill someone for or steal if there was no god or no money?
Dark forces work only for themselves with no reguard for any human being. Look again at those in control way above you and see if they have any belief in any god, look deep within the guidlines they inflict upon you, do they really believe in a god? Nope.
When looking at the scene, with a view on earth from mars, i cant help to think that its pretty bright compared to our view on mars from the earth. so does that mean because of all the water and life on earth, we reflect more light from the sun, than the other dead planets with bare rugged surfaces. if so bright small planets = greater probably of life?
Fantastic.