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 and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. 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. 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. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.
The Blue is a central market place in Bermondsey an area in London. The market is open Monday to Saturday from 9am until 5pm and has about 10 stall holders, selling food and clothes. The area has been known as The Blue for more than two hundred and thirty years and is probably named after the original Blue Anchor public house that gave its name to Blue Anchor Lane. The market has capacity for 24 stalls.
Immediately north of Blue Anchor Lane on an arched viaduct are the multiple railway tracks of the Brighton and South East Main Lines. The Blue Anchor Lane joins St. James's Road where the viaduct arches to the immediate north west contain the remnants of the disused Spa Road railway station which was the original terminus of London's first railway.
In 2005 a Metropolitan Police report described the area as a crime hotspot for "race crime and youth disorder". In 2009 during the funeral procession of Jade Goody a white dove was released at The Blue, where her family once had a stall.
Sea of Tranquility described the album as a continuation of the sound experiment on Materia with the addition of a heavier approach, especially in the vocal department.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;Spanish:[ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-CubistLes Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
The Blue Period is the debut studio album by Israeli rapper Sagol 59, released in 2000, by now defunct label, Face Records. It is known as the first Israeli hip hop album by a single artist. Song #4 is in its original version. The album also includes a song by Sagol's rock band, Papa Jack.
The Blue Period (Spanish:Período Azul) is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain and painted in Barcelona and Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time.
This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901 or in Paris in the second half of the year. In choosing austere color and sometimes doleful subject matter—prostitutes, beggars and drunks are frequent subjects—Picasso was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend; Carlos Casagemas took his life at the L’Hippodrome Café in Paris, France by shooting himself in the right temple on February 17, 1901. Although Picasso himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death", art historian Hélène Seckel has written: "While we might be right to retain this psychologizing justification, we ought not lose sight of the chronology of events: Picasso was not there when Casagemas committed suicide in Paris ... When Picasso returned to Paris in May, he stayed in the studio of his departed friend, where he worked for several more weeks to prepare his exhibition for Vollard". The works Picasso painted for his show at Ambroise Vollard's gallery that summer were generally characterized by a "dazzling palette and exuberant subject matter". Picasso's psychological state worsened as 1901 continued.
Carl Sagan Christmas Lecture 1 - The Earth as a Planet
In his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System.
Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Using images and models of the planets in our Solar System, Carl reveals how the heliocentric model of our universe, in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun, came to replace the earlier Aristotelian idea that our planet was at the centre and everything orbited around it.
As the complexity of observational tools has developed from simple telescopes to complex spacecraft, so too has our understanding of the world we inhabit. Looking back on the evolution in space scie...
published: 06 Apr 2022
Carl Sagan: Why Humanity Must Rely on Science and Not Faith
Discover Sagan's unique blend of scientific curiosity and philosophical introspection, as he seamlessly navigates the realms of cosmology and the human condition.
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1. BBC Desert Island Disc (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPoS2ZuBqNU&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=8&t=391s
2. Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2CBSvZzw2Y&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=5
3. Carl Sagan's Lecture: The...
published: 08 Jun 2023
Carl Sagan's Breathtaking Speech To The World
Today we'll react to the awe-inspiring "Pale Blue Dot" speech by the renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In this timeless monologue, Sagan beautifully reflects on the significance of Earth in the vastness of the cosmos and offers a humbling perspective on the fragility and unity of our planet. Let's explore together the profound wisdom and poetic vision of this iconic speech that continues to resonate with us today.
#reaction #carlsagan
published: 26 Jul 2023
Carl Sagan: The Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan reading the "You Are Here" chapter from his book 'The Pale Blue Dot' just before he died in 1996
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Carl-Sagan-1998-02-02/dp/B01K3KMKNG
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452
published: 29 May 2018
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
Original source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
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published: 19 Aug 2021
Carl Sagan: The Pale Blue Dot: Did We We Forget?
Carl Sagan was one of the most forward thinking humans of all time. His sober voice brought us both truth and logic. When he spoke those famous words about the pale blue dot that we call home, all the world that could hear him took pause to listen. We need a sane leader like Carl Sagan in this day and time. In his absence, it is going to be left up to us to take up the slack. That is what he would have wanted. ZLet us not let him down.
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published: 12 Aug 2017
Carl Sagan - Surrounded by Blackness
In our day-to-day lives, we often forget that we are floating alone on a rocky spaceship in the middle of a vast cosmic ocean. We are surrounded by overwhelming darkness in every direction. We must preserve our Earth because for the time being, we have nowhere else to go.
As the Messenger spacecraft left its home planet in August of 2005, this is what it saw. The REAL time-lapse video was made by stitching 358 frames taken over a 24-hour period as the spacecraft ventured to Mercury. The Earth was so bright that it washed out the background stars.
Video Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington
published: 30 Dec 2013
Carl Sagan - The Moon
An excerpt from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
published: 29 Apr 2018
The Pale Blue Eye | Official Trailer | Netflix
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix, January 6.
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In his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in...
In his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System.
Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Using images and models of the planets in our Solar System, Carl reveals how the heliocentric model of our universe, in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun, came to replace the earlier Aristotelian idea that our planet was at the centre and everything orbited around it.
As the complexity of observational tools has developed from simple telescopes to complex spacecraft, so too has our understanding of the world we inhabit. Looking back on the evolution in space science in the years since Carl Sagan's Lectures we have made huge advances in our understanding of our planet’s environment, climate, weather, geology and biology – as well as our relative place in the universe.
Source: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/planets-earth-planet-1977
About the 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
What exists beyond Earth? Over six Lectures presented in 1977, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores the vast expanse of space that surrounds the third planet from the Sun.
Life on Earth
Where at first we could only discern the size of our planet and some knowledge of its atmosphere and configuration, the evolution of planetary exploration has revealed not only intricate details of Earth’s climate and geology, but a multitude of stars and planets besides our own.
Beginning with a closer look at the world we inhabit, Carl explores of the diversity of life on our own planet and the building blocks behind it, before questioning whether the same organic chemistry is occurring on planets in the outer solar system.
The Red Planet
In Lecture three onwards, Carl takes a closer look at our neighbouring planet, Mars. From early interpretations of terrestrial life on its surface to the surprising discoveries made by NASA’s Viking Program, the Red Planet has become the focus of efforts to discern whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
When Carl delivered his Lectures in the late 1970s, NASA had only just begun its Voyager program to the furthest planets in our solar system and no extra-solar planets were known to exist. Now, over three decades later, astronomers are looking at planets that lie beyond our solar system to ask the very same question we pondered over Mars: is there life out there?
In his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System.
Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Using images and models of the planets in our Solar System, Carl reveals how the heliocentric model of our universe, in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun, came to replace the earlier Aristotelian idea that our planet was at the centre and everything orbited around it.
As the complexity of observational tools has developed from simple telescopes to complex spacecraft, so too has our understanding of the world we inhabit. Looking back on the evolution in space science in the years since Carl Sagan's Lectures we have made huge advances in our understanding of our planet’s environment, climate, weather, geology and biology – as well as our relative place in the universe.
Source: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/planets-earth-planet-1977
About the 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
What exists beyond Earth? Over six Lectures presented in 1977, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores the vast expanse of space that surrounds the third planet from the Sun.
Life on Earth
Where at first we could only discern the size of our planet and some knowledge of its atmosphere and configuration, the evolution of planetary exploration has revealed not only intricate details of Earth’s climate and geology, but a multitude of stars and planets besides our own.
Beginning with a closer look at the world we inhabit, Carl explores of the diversity of life on our own planet and the building blocks behind it, before questioning whether the same organic chemistry is occurring on planets in the outer solar system.
The Red Planet
In Lecture three onwards, Carl takes a closer look at our neighbouring planet, Mars. From early interpretations of terrestrial life on its surface to the surprising discoveries made by NASA’s Viking Program, the Red Planet has become the focus of efforts to discern whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
When Carl delivered his Lectures in the late 1970s, NASA had only just begun its Voyager program to the furthest planets in our solar system and no extra-solar planets were known to exist. Now, over three decades later, astronomers are looking at planets that lie beyond our solar system to ask the very same question we pondered over Mars: is there life out there?
Discover Sagan's unique blend of scientific curiosity and philosophical introspection, as he seamlessly navigates the realms of cosmology and the human conditio...
Discover Sagan's unique blend of scientific curiosity and philosophical introspection, as he seamlessly navigates the realms of cosmology and the human condition.
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Sources:
1. BBC Desert Island Disc (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPoS2ZuBqNU&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=8&t=391s
2. Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2CBSvZzw2Y&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=5
3. Carl Sagan's Lecture: The Age of Exploration (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=2&t=4231s
4. Carl Sagan Saturn Interview, abcNEWS (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4dA_IK1guk&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=15&t=118s
5. Radio Interview with Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0Q1nUNgyw&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=13&t=13s
6. Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMoIB6JZ88&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=9&t=1s
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KB
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Discover Sagan's unique blend of scientific curiosity and philosophical introspection, as he seamlessly navigates the realms of cosmology and the human condition.
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Sources:
1. BBC Desert Island Disc (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPoS2ZuBqNU&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=8&t=391s
2. Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2CBSvZzw2Y&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=5
3. Carl Sagan's Lecture: The Age of Exploration (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=2&t=4231s
4. Carl Sagan Saturn Interview, abcNEWS (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4dA_IK1guk&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=15&t=118s
5. Radio Interview with Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0Q1nUNgyw&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=13&t=13s
6. Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMoIB6JZ88&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=9&t=1s
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Today we'll react to the awe-inspiring "Pale Blue Dot" speech by the renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In this timeless monologue, Sagan beautifully reflects ...
Today we'll react to the awe-inspiring "Pale Blue Dot" speech by the renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In this timeless monologue, Sagan beautifully reflects on the significance of Earth in the vastness of the cosmos and offers a humbling perspective on the fragility and unity of our planet. Let's explore together the profound wisdom and poetic vision of this iconic speech that continues to resonate with us today.
#reaction #carlsagan
Today we'll react to the awe-inspiring "Pale Blue Dot" speech by the renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In this timeless monologue, Sagan beautifully reflects on the significance of Earth in the vastness of the cosmos and offers a humbling perspective on the fragility and unity of our planet. Let's explore together the profound wisdom and poetic vision of this iconic speech that continues to resonate with us today.
#reaction #carlsagan
Carl Sagan reading the "You Are Here" chapter from his book 'The Pale Blue Dot' just before he died in 1996
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Carl-Saga...
Carl Sagan reading the "You Are Here" chapter from his book 'The Pale Blue Dot' just before he died in 1996
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Carl-Sagan-1998-02-02/dp/B01K3KMKNG
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452
Carl Sagan reading the "You Are Here" chapter from his book 'The Pale Blue Dot' just before he died in 1996
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Carl-Sagan-1998-02-02/dp/B01K3KMKNG
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452
Original source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the ...
Original source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saganism/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/saganism_?s=21
https://carlsagan.com
Original source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saganism/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/saganism_?s=21
https://carlsagan.com
Carl Sagan was one of the most forward thinking humans of all time. His sober voice brought us both truth and logic. When he spoke those famous words about th...
Carl Sagan was one of the most forward thinking humans of all time. His sober voice brought us both truth and logic. When he spoke those famous words about the pale blue dot that we call home, all the world that could hear him took pause to listen. We need a sane leader like Carl Sagan in this day and time. In his absence, it is going to be left up to us to take up the slack. That is what he would have wanted. ZLet us not let him down.
Come blog with us: https://evm0713.wixsite.com/scique/blog
Visit our website: https://evm0713.wixsite.com/scique
email us anytime for any reason: [email protected]
Carl Sagan was one of the most forward thinking humans of all time. His sober voice brought us both truth and logic. When he spoke those famous words about the pale blue dot that we call home, all the world that could hear him took pause to listen. We need a sane leader like Carl Sagan in this day and time. In his absence, it is going to be left up to us to take up the slack. That is what he would have wanted. ZLet us not let him down.
Come blog with us: https://evm0713.wixsite.com/scique/blog
Visit our website: https://evm0713.wixsite.com/scique
email us anytime for any reason: [email protected]
In our day-to-day lives, we often forget that we are floating alone on a rocky spaceship in the middle of a vast cosmic ocean. We are surrounded by overwhelming...
In our day-to-day lives, we often forget that we are floating alone on a rocky spaceship in the middle of a vast cosmic ocean. We are surrounded by overwhelming darkness in every direction. We must preserve our Earth because for the time being, we have nowhere else to go.
As the Messenger spacecraft left its home planet in August of 2005, this is what it saw. The REAL time-lapse video was made by stitching 358 frames taken over a 24-hour period as the spacecraft ventured to Mercury. The Earth was so bright that it washed out the background stars.
Video Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington
In our day-to-day lives, we often forget that we are floating alone on a rocky spaceship in the middle of a vast cosmic ocean. We are surrounded by overwhelming darkness in every direction. We must preserve our Earth because for the time being, we have nowhere else to go.
As the Messenger spacecraft left its home planet in August of 2005, this is what it saw. The REAL time-lapse video was made by stitching 358 frames taken over a 24-hour period as the spacecraft ventured to Mercury. The Earth was so bright that it washed out the background stars.
Video Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists ...
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix, January 6.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7
About Netflix:
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 223 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, feature films and mobile games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
The Pale Blue Eye | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/@Netflix
A retired detective recruits an astute West Point cadet named Edgar Allan Poe to help him solve a grisly murder mystery at the U.S. Military Academy.
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix, January 6.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7
About Netflix:
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 223 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, feature films and mobile games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
The Pale Blue Eye | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/@Netflix
A retired detective recruits an astute West Point cadet named Edgar Allan Poe to help him solve a grisly murder mystery at the U.S. Military Academy.
In his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System.
Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Using images and models of the planets in our Solar System, Carl reveals how the heliocentric model of our universe, in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun, came to replace the earlier Aristotelian idea that our planet was at the centre and everything orbited around it.
As the complexity of observational tools has developed from simple telescopes to complex spacecraft, so too has our understanding of the world we inhabit. Looking back on the evolution in space science in the years since Carl Sagan's Lectures we have made huge advances in our understanding of our planet’s environment, climate, weather, geology and biology – as well as our relative place in the universe.
Source: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/planets-earth-planet-1977
About the 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
What exists beyond Earth? Over six Lectures presented in 1977, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores the vast expanse of space that surrounds the third planet from the Sun.
Life on Earth
Where at first we could only discern the size of our planet and some knowledge of its atmosphere and configuration, the evolution of planetary exploration has revealed not only intricate details of Earth’s climate and geology, but a multitude of stars and planets besides our own.
Beginning with a closer look at the world we inhabit, Carl explores of the diversity of life on our own planet and the building blocks behind it, before questioning whether the same organic chemistry is occurring on planets in the outer solar system.
The Red Planet
In Lecture three onwards, Carl takes a closer look at our neighbouring planet, Mars. From early interpretations of terrestrial life on its surface to the surprising discoveries made by NASA’s Viking Program, the Red Planet has become the focus of efforts to discern whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
When Carl delivered his Lectures in the late 1970s, NASA had only just begun its Voyager program to the furthest planets in our solar system and no extra-solar planets were known to exist. Now, over three decades later, astronomers are looking at planets that lie beyond our solar system to ask the very same question we pondered over Mars: is there life out there?
Discover Sagan's unique blend of scientific curiosity and philosophical introspection, as he seamlessly navigates the realms of cosmology and the human condition.
Subscribe for more!
Follow us on Facebook & Twitter:
https://www.facebook.com/Pl.Curious/
https://twitter.com/TWTAtheist
Email:
[email protected]
If you would like to support my work financially, you can donate here:
https://www.patreon.com/twt_pc
All contributions are greatly appreciated!
Sources:
1. BBC Desert Island Disc (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPoS2ZuBqNU&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=8&t=391s
2. Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2CBSvZzw2Y&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=5
3. Carl Sagan's Lecture: The Age of Exploration (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=2&t=4231s
4. Carl Sagan Saturn Interview, abcNEWS (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4dA_IK1guk&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=15&t=118s
5. Radio Interview with Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0Q1nUNgyw&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=13&t=13s
6. Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMoIB6JZ88&list=PLJB2UBtyztZ0DO9CEv2puzEFlhx8oRr-I&index=9&t=1s
Thank you to my Patreon supporters;
"Big R"
KB
Peggy Giammattei
Brent McWatters
Today we'll react to the awe-inspiring "Pale Blue Dot" speech by the renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In this timeless monologue, Sagan beautifully reflects on the significance of Earth in the vastness of the cosmos and offers a humbling perspective on the fragility and unity of our planet. Let's explore together the profound wisdom and poetic vision of this iconic speech that continues to resonate with us today.
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Carl Sagan reading the "You Are Here" chapter from his book 'The Pale Blue Dot' just before he died in 1996
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DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
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Carl Sagan was one of the most forward thinking humans of all time. His sober voice brought us both truth and logic. When he spoke those famous words about the pale blue dot that we call home, all the world that could hear him took pause to listen. We need a sane leader like Carl Sagan in this day and time. In his absence, it is going to be left up to us to take up the slack. That is what he would have wanted. ZLet us not let him down.
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In our day-to-day lives, we often forget that we are floating alone on a rocky spaceship in the middle of a vast cosmic ocean. We are surrounded by overwhelming darkness in every direction. We must preserve our Earth because for the time being, we have nowhere else to go.
As the Messenger spacecraft left its home planet in August of 2005, this is what it saw. The REAL time-lapse video was made by stitching 358 frames taken over a 24-hour period as the spacecraft ventured to Mercury. The Earth was so bright that it washed out the background stars.
Video Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
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A retired detective recruits an astute West Point cadet named Edgar Allan Poe to help him solve a grisly murder mystery at the U.S. Military Academy.
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 and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. 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. 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. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.
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