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It's been a while since I participated, so here is my little contribution. This idea popped into my head on the way home from work.
If you have never heard or read Carl Sagan, I encourage you to at least check out part of his famous speech:
https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
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Excerpts by Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot" 1994.
Copyright © 1994 by Carl Sagan, Copyright © 2006 by Democritus Properties, LLC.
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If you have never heard or read Carl Sagan, I encourage you to at least check out part of his famous speech:
https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
~
Excerpts by Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot" 1994.
Copyright © 1994 by Carl Sagan, Copyright © 2006 by Democritus Properties, LLC.
All rights reserved including the rights of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
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There was a video on YouTube (can't find it; it's likely been taken down) that was a CGI view of the Earth, then pulling back to the edge of the observable universe and back. It was set to Pink Floyd's On the Turning Away and included Sagan's entire Pale Blue Dot speech.
A beautiful piece.
Watching something float in a light beam has always been a bit entrancing, to be fair. And I grew up watching Sagan's Cosmos, in which he said many a similar thing. It is to him that I owe my fascination with science, even if I can barely comprehend it most of the time. He had a philosopher's approach to something very rooted in the "real" and that made it seem far more accessible.
Watching something float in a light beam has always been a bit entrancing, to be fair. And I grew up watching Sagan's Cosmos, in which he said many a similar thing. It is to him that I owe my fascination with science, even if I can barely comprehend it most of the time. He had a philosopher's approach to something very rooted in the "real" and that made it seem far more accessible.
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