Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot – Final Speech

Thanks for posting this! Its so wonderful to look at!

Yea absolutely amazing! Carl Sagan was outstanding! Incredible personality…

Pale-Blue-Dot Astronomers:

Although Ptolemy thought the Sun revolved around the Earth, he also concluded that the Earth should be treated as a mathematical point in the Universe. Now, since a mathematical point is infinitely smaller than a “pale blue dot,” do we concluded that Ptolemy must be humbler, wiser, and “cooler” than modern astronomers. Well, maybe I’m being nasty and objective, when I should be misty-eyed and subjective. I might be a candidate for sensitivity training.

Unlike Pale-Blue-Dot astronomers, I don’t try to feel-the-pain of the robbed (nor do I try to feel-the-pleasure of the robbers). To pretend to know the pain of others is to belittle the pain of others.

From a comfortable armchair or a speaker’s podium, all human trials (pains, pleasures, joys, loves, etc.) can only be reduced to a “pale blue dot” by exceptional Pride – not insightful thinking. Trying to synthesize people with their planet is called Pantheism – not Astronomy.

Best Regards,

Frank Hatch
Initial Mass Displacements