Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. "Cosmos" (1980)
On The Turning Away: Pale Blue Dot
The Music of Cosmos
電影
Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe (April/2008)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Ted Turner interviews Carl Sagan (Recorded in 1989)
God, the Universe, & Everything Else
(Part1) Interview 1/5/94 Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"
(Part2) Interview 1/5/94 Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"
Pale Blue Dot - The Moon
Pale Blue Dot - Galileo
書籍
Intelligent Life in the Universe
(1966)
Planets
(1966)
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrail Perspective
(1973)
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
(1977)
Broca's Brain: The Romance of Science
(1979)
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilization
(1980)
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
(1983)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
(1992)
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
(1994)
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (1997)
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, humanism, and the scientific method.
[[[Here is how he introduced his 1980 public television series "Cosmos.]]]
CARL SAGAN: ("Cosmos" 1980) The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth. For the first time we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young and curious and brave. It shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made almost astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the cosmos and our place within it. I believe our future depends powerfully on well we understand this cosmos in which we float like a mode of dust in the morning sky.
We're about to begin a journey through the cosmos. We'll encounter galaxies and suns and planets, life and consciousness coming into being, evolving, and perishing, worlds of ice and stars of diamond, atoms as massive as suns and universes smaller than atoms. But it's also a story of our own planet, and the plants and animals that share it with us, and it's a story about us, how we achieved our present understanding of the cosmos, how the cosmos has shaped our evolution and our culture and what our fate may be. We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads, but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite inter-relationships, of the awesome machinery of nature.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can't, because the cosmos is also within us. We're "made" of star stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself. The journey for each of us begins here. We're going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies. It can take us anywhere in space and time. Perfect as a snowflake, organic as a dandelion seed, it will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts. Come with me.
This man was a huge influence on my thinking and perception of this planet and the people that live on it. My imagination caught fire and soared when I read Carl's books. I cried when i heard about his death , it did not seem possible that such a vital and vibrant life could have ended.
Islam supports domestic violence, The Qu'ran instructs it and many muslim men follow those instructions , and yet when disbelievers apostates ect bring up this point as one of the many reasons we refuse to bow in submission to this brutal religion, Islam defenders the world over have a fit about it and swear we only got that from western media which is a total crock of dung, Because apostates get it directly from islam its self and that is part of the many reasons they leave the barbaric religion of islam! Teach women to fight back to hell with bowing down! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8g8S6F3do&feature=related
For those interested in animal rights/welfare fiction, please have a look to my novel “The Demon’s Trial”. The process of writing it is what made me a vegan, by the way.
Many thanks for the add. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human trafficking...understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ... what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...
it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...
what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...
please reach deeply into your heart and soul and join a movement that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
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