The original adaptation of Pale Blue Dot:A
Vision of the Human Future in Space,written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and published by Ballantine Books in 1994.
Available on Amazon in both paperback and audio book version.
This video uploaded originally in February 2007 was featured on the front page of YouTube in June 2007, and was a finalist at the Portobello Film festival in London, and the Concorto Film festival in Italy 2007.
Used with kind permission of Cosmos Studios.
Dr Sagan first presented this perspecti
ve to the world in 1991, when he revealed the parting image of Earth taken by Voyager from a distance of 4 billion miles.
Some good Sagan related links:
http://www.carlsagan.com
http://www.celebratingsagan.com
Quotes:
To bake a cake, you must first invent the universe !- Carl Sagan.
Why attack Go
d? He may be as miserable as we are. -Erik Satie
Atheists aren't that bad. - Zackie Chan
There are many videos of Carl Sagans Pale Blue Dot now on youtube which employ spoken samples of Dr Sagans audio book, most notably by Darknlooking and Palebluefilms [ links below]
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=p86BPM1GV8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw
You can't keep a good Atheist down!
Music and film by Ice Core Scientist.
The song Ghostdancers is available from
iTunes.
All images courtesy of Nasa / Esa / Prelinger Archive /Public domain,but
unless otherwise stated,remain the exclusi
ve property of their respective copyright holders.
Laughing Slim by Vern Evans
Used with kind permission.
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Solarfy the deserts?
1; to offset CO2
2; to offset Opec
3; to offset negative albedo (to make up for melting glaciers by use of billions of mirrors)
4; to partially cool the deserts such that we can grow crops (and retain more CO2 by use of soil).
5; To create many jobs.
6; Help other countries do the same
And 7; So, as seen from space, the deserts would glisten, proving that humanity can prevent self fulfilling doomsday prophecies caused by fossil fuel(ed) depletion!