Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot

[Rjhere]

I saw a youtube video with Carl Sagan's famous little speech "The Pale Blue Dot", and it litteraly made me cry (brought tears to my eyes)! I was inspired to do something similair, so I spent 30+ minutes writing this in bed before I went to sleep.

All I want is you guy's opinion on this, it'll be much obliged (I think that's the correct word)

So here's my little text to "The Pale Blue Dot":

Starry Sky

White blinking points of light are spread across the skies, so far away it’s almost incomprehensible. Small dots, some bigger some bigger, some smaller. We know they are there. We look up in sheer awe, moments later, the awe is gone, and we continue on with our lives as if nothing ever happened. I can’t do that.

When I look up in the cloud free starlit nightsky, I am captivated in a way few else are. I feel so… overwhelmed. I see the pure beauty of it all. When I look up I see everything. Everything from the mechanics that makes it all, to the reactions that annihilates it again. I see that which is common knowledge, and I see the unknown, what we yet have to study and understand. Everything from the smallest particle in the universe, to the largest structure that we have discovered is all within my field of view.

There are a lot of photographs out there of the beautiful deep red, blue and green nebulae’s and galaxies out there. But of all those, there is one in particular that when I saw, it made me cry when I heard astronomer Carl Sagan’s little speech, the Pale Blue Dot.

Here is my little tribute:

“When I look at this photograph of Earth through the camera lense of the Cassini/Huygens space probe orbiting Saturn, I see but a dot of light. But my knowledge tells me otherwise.

I know that very dot of light is what we are. That dot of light is the light reflected from the planet we hold so dearly. That small dot of light is the place you were born, raised and the place you die. That is the place were your family lives, and will live on after you perish away into what we know nothing about. That single point in the distance is what keeps us alive, protects us from the insustainable dangers of the cosmos and still we destroy out only source of life. We ruin it, we mistreat it, yet we don’t care. On that dot we call home, is everything from the past, all that is right now and everything that will be. On that Pale Blue Dot is our home.â€Â

The Pale Blue Dot:

Also, Nassault's video that contains this (made me cry... I'm a sensitive person alright!)

Thanks!

[Galacticruler]

Thank you for bringing us this video...

its just so...beautiful.

[RocketTurtle]

Thank you for bringing us this video...

its just so...beautiful.

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[Helix935]

i agree this is amazing and i salute nassault ;.;7 for this amazing video and to you for bringing this to us ;.;7

[NASAFanboy]

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You can. I can't.

I've been boycotting google products ever since the Google+ intergration.

Oh, and also, I find the current lack of progress in spaceflight to be disturbing and sad. To this day, I still force myself into thinking that we still routinely land people on the moon, despite the evidence otherwise, and when I was six, I wanted to go to the center of the galaxy and thought we had already mastered interstellar travel. I watch video's like "Pale Blue Dot", I cry, I read comments about stuff like NASA and Inspiration Mars (What angers me is the amount of hatred people seem to have for Inspiration Mars on the news site commentary. I don't care if the first Mars-bound traveller is a billionaire, all I care is that he/she is human, and comes from a free democratic country (Such as something in the EU and .etc). It's just depressing to me that such things such as budget cuts will happen to NASA.

I once recall a conversation I had with my five year old sister. She was learning about the space race, and asked if we still sent men to the moon. I said yes, because I didn't want to let her down. After she found out, she was really depressed and wishes that we went back to this day. Hell, even those in isolated, poor, primitive villages in Africa and Indonesia still want us to return to the moon and keep explorinh, and are like "Wow, we actually went to the moon. Can we go back?"

Seriously, once third-world villagers have a better attitude toward space exploration than most of my generation, that's the type of thing that makes me just want to nuke the world. I mean, I really hope I'm part of this "Generation Mars" that Buzz keeps talking about, maybe even "Generation Living In First Generation Space Colonies in Late Adulthood". I even choose Mars as the place where I want to be laid to rest once I die. But I don't see Mars my future graveyard....I see it almost as my civic and moral duty.

And that's the way I hope the rest of my generation sees it.

Oh, and in KSP, I see the Kerbals as the Dev's version of a "model" for the human race, plus safety and minus death.

Edited November 22, 2013 by NASAFanboy

[Duxwing]

You can. I can't.

I've been boycotting google products ever since the Google+ intergration.

Oh, and also, I find the current lack of progress in spaceflight to be disturbing and sad. To this day, I still force myself into thinking that we still routinely land people on the moon, despite the evidence otherwise, and when I was six, I wanted to go to the center of the galaxy and thought we had already mastered interstellar travel. I watch video's like "Pale Blue Dot", I cry, I read comments about stuff like NASA and Inspiration Mars (What angers me is the amount of hatred people seem to have for Inspiration Mars on the news site commentary. I don't care if the first Mars-bound traveller is a billionaire, all I care is that he/she is human, and comes from a free democratic country (Such as something in the EU and .etc). It's just depressing to me that such things such as budget cuts will happen to NASA.

I once recall a conversation I had with my five year old sister. She was learning about the space race, and asked if we still sent men to the moon. I said yes, because I didn't want to let her down. After she found out, she was really depressed and wishes that we went back to this day. Hell, even those in isolated, poor, primitive villages in Africa and Indonesia still want us to return to the moon and keep explorinh, and are like "Wow, we actually went to the moon. Can we go back?"

Seriously, once third-world villagers have a better attitude toward space exploration than most of my generation, that's the type of thing that makes me just want to nuke the world. I mean, I really hope I'm part of this "Generation Mars" that Buzz keeps talking about, maybe even "Generation Living In First Generation Space Colonies in Late Adulthood". I even choose Mars as the place where I want to be laid to rest once I die. But I don't see Mars my future graveyard....I see it almost as my civic and moral duty.

And that's the way I hope the rest of my generation sees it.

Dude, you sound motivated: we need people like you. Join NASA or SpaceX or even your local government and push!

-Duxwing

[Rjhere]

I love how everyone begin to discuss the Pale Blue Dot, and there are no comments to what I wrote... Guys?

[Rjhere]

I really would like someone's opinion on the text I wrote!