Tomorrow is my last lecture for both my astro courses. I always end my astronomy classes with The Pale Blue Dot speech, and I'll be pretty impressed with myself if I manage to get through it without crying tomorrow. It seems to get even harder every year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8
"There is no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image...it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the Pale Blue Dot."
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@sundogplanets He was a visionary. But I doubt his vision was enough for this shit we are in and going full speed deeper.
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@sundogplanets I do this as well, with a similar reaction...
Another version that I find particularly effective:
Pale Blue Dot - Animation
AdamW, Sheridan College, Senior Thesis project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwdRE8MKQg
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@silicatefondue Wow thank you for sharing this!! I love this version!! I might use this in my classes tomorrow
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Verfy fine version. Thanky ou for sharing !
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@sundogplanets May I ask do you give the speech yourself or do you show the video? I could think of good arguments for both and am curious what you‘re doing.
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@DerMolly I'm going to play a recording of him reading it. Mostly because I'm definitely going to cry if I do it.
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@sundogplanets This is a fantastic end! Goosebumps every time!
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@sundogplanets Today was the last lecture for my Honors Evolution course. I ended with the last sentence from On the Origin of Species - “There is grandeur in this view of life…from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” Managed not to cry but only just! So I know the feeling.
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@LyndaDelph Lovely!! Thank you
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@sundogplanets Listen to Sagan's speech, and experience the feeling of true humility.
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@sundogplanets I can relate. What is it about Sagan? A couple weeks ago I had some chores to do cleaning my garage. I put on “A Glorious Dawn.” The election results were still raw in my mind and his unflinching joy in science and humble optimism just hit me in feels. I was crying listening to it. To love science and to see the infinite possibilities unlocked by knowledge, and then to think about the barbarians at the gate burning books and ushering in a new age of stupidity and falseness. It was too much. I think I understand why you struggle to finish it without tearing up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
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society seems to have this hangup that science should be serious and dispassionate. feh!
i wish all scientists could still have the same unbridled joy kids have when they learn something, figure it out, see a glimpse of just how amazing the universe is.
carl sagan is one of those rare individuals that manages to have gravitas and credibility, yet hasn't lost that youthful joy and enthusiasm.
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Maybe that is a problem in society, not scientists.
Most scientist I've met, read, or heard seem to be pretty disappointed if you are not as excited as they are about the first image of a photon.
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@sundogplanets I tried to read it to my kid and wife about a year ago and could barely get through it. Close as it comes to religion for me.
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@sundogplanets
“In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
[#]PaleBlueDot
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@sundogplanets Thank you so much for this!
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A life-long hero of mine. I met him briefly and got his autograph after a talk about Mars exploration at a local college (UAH) when I was 19.
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@sundogplanets That is a very good one. Thanks for sharing.
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@sundogplanets Great way to end a course. I love The Pale Blue Dot so much; I’ve always been enamoured by it
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Astronaut Russell Schweikart summed it up well:
https://www.wolfnowl.com/stories/he-says-she-says/he-says-earth-day/ 🌎
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