The legacy of Carl Sagan can be felt profoundly in tonights final episode of Cosmos, which centers on the mystery of dark energy, NASAs Voyager missions, and takes a look back at the shows Heroes of Knowledge. In an especially poignant sequence, we hear Sagans voice recounting his famous Pale Blue Dot quote as the camera zooms out from Earth, traverses across space until it recreates the iconic Voyager 1 photo of Earth from 4 billion miles away. Look again at that dot, Sagan says. Thats here. Thats home. Thats us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, From space/
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 16:23:56 +0000
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