Monday, July 14, 2008

The Pale Blue Dot

Well, first post of 2008. In July. I am so good at keeping this thing updated.


Anyways, my thoughts have of late have been crowded with our obscurity and miniscule existent in this huge vast cosmos that the Earth and Milky Way galaxy are a part of. Much of this thinking has been fueled by Carl Sagan's (my favorite astronomer) thoughts he wrote inspired by a picture named "The Pale Blue Dot". "The Pale Blue Dot" is a photograph taken by Voyager I when it went off course to take a picture of the earth from a record 4 billion + miles away.
Anyways, if you would like to hear him reading from a portion of that book, you can find it here, on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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