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"The open road still softly calls..."
http://www.penny4nasa.org/
In 1994, the great communicator Carl Sagan published his most important work: Pale Blue Dot. In it, he puts the human species in perspective on the grand scale of our Cosmos. This video is meant to recapture Sagan's significant message and provide it to the public.
I owe a massive part of this video, including various video clips, inspiration and the like to both Reid Gower and his "Sagan Series" http://www.youtube.com/user/damewse and Evan Schurr and his "We Stopped Dreaming" http://www.youtube.com/user/Scrunchthethird ...both of which have inspired me to make videos of my own. If you like this video, please check out each of their brilliant channels.
Thank You so much for watching,
MK
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Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. His contributions were central to the discovery of the high surface temperatures of Venus. However, he is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages that were sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
He published more than 600 scientific papers[2] and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan is known for many of his popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries.[3] The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
Sagan always advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Dragons of Eden, and, regarding Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award and the Hugo Award. He married three times and had five children. After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62 on December 20, 1996.
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CREDITS
Narration -- Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot (1994) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Music -- Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX15agZ3-0
Contact - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
Home (FR) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNGDj9IeAuI
"Planet Earth: Amazing Nature" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM
Alone in the Wilderness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP-3N_00TOk
"NYC Mindrelic Timelapse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9in-BscH5M
NASA - http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
BBC Life - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1533395/
Baraka - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
Gratitude: Louie Schwartzberg, TEDxSF - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ
"Same Love" by Macklemore/Ryan Lewis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter Array - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn8Udphi6JA
"When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/
"Roving Mars" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436595/
5.6k Saturn Cassini Animation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9iIqIAUT4
BBC Natural World -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eMOE9nO_c
"The Dish - Parkes Radio Telescope" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZqI5SeD0ZI
"STS-129 HD Launch" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJpUCWfyPE
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