Ideas We Love :: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

Mike & I were talking about the “Pale Blue Dot” and Carl Sagan’s powerful message, its relevance & perspective. If you’ve never heard this 1996 commencement speech before, please take a few minutes to watch the video below and share it with some friends. You won’t be disappointed!  – Moni Pineda

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  1. Big Isn't Big After You've Seen BIG - Page 4 says:
    December 21, 2011 at 4:39 PM

    [...] Re: Big Isn't Big After You've Seen BIG There's always the famous pale blue dot to put things in perspective. That's our home, that is! Ideas We Love :: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot – Friends We Love [...]

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  2. Graham Knott says:
    March 11, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    Hi – I know whether what I am about to request is highly unlikely to happen. However, here goes: can anyone tell me the origins of the mediaeval-style image that is being used above to serve as the introductory image to your video clip concerning Carl Sagan’s famous remarks viz the ‘pale blue dot’? I must have spent some twenty-five years trying to track down that image. Rather surprisingly, it’s not in my 1980 edition of ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan. I don’t know if the image is truly mediaeval, for instance, or whether it’s in the style of a mediaeval image. Unhappily, trying to track down pictorial images on the internet is a lot harder than, say, textual images. So if anyone can help me, I’d appreciate it mightily. Regards, Gray

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  3. JN says:
    March 10, 2011 at 2:49 PM

    “it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. i put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. i didn’t feel like a giant. i felt very, very small.”

    –neil armstrong.

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