The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

{Water is the most abundant compound in the universe} You should have read my reply to DanesFargone, prior to posting the above statement Saying that there exists very much water, is a statement that is relative to our human experience. Simply the Pacific Ocean contains very much water...not to mention the total amount of water within the universe. However, when you say that water is abundant within the universe, you must consider the quantity of water, relative to the size of the universe

Within that context, even the maximum potential quantity of water within the universe cannot exceed extremely scarce. Hydrogen accounts for approx 74% of all matter within the universe. Helium accounts for approx. 26%. The remaining less than 1% is divided among the many remaining elements, including Oxygen. Thus, even if all the universe's Oxygen was compounded with Hydrogen to make H2O, still, that would be an extremely insignificant quantity of water in relation to the size of the universe

Now, when you consider that even the maximum potential quantity of water within the universe, can be only extremely insignificant. Combined with the fact that its required for H2O to be in liquid form to sustain life & the only extraterrestrial water that is known to man in certain terms, is frozen. Also, that since the size of Earth is universally extremely insignificant & the planet's surface is over 70% liquid water (not to mention subterranean water)

Means that, regarding water, Earth is extremely, incredibly guilty of brutally violating U.S. monopoly laws Precisely as is your electrical power provider

"Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away. " NASA

Hmm, that's interesting because Europa has more liquid water than the earth. "With a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans, the global ocean on Europa holds out a tantalizing destination in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system." (From the May 24 2012 Astronomy Picture of the Day). It's strange how abundant water is, just within our own solar system, huh?

Thank you for posting this, every couple of weeks I come back to this extended pale blue dot video. You have enriched my life.

uranus, giggles

This made me weep. It's so good.

I know, the guy I responded to was suggesting that Earth was in fact the ONLY blue dot.

He forgot that every bitch and bullshitter, every high school slag that makes people's life miserable, every lie ever told, ever frown or smile ever given..

It's not full of water. There's some H2O out there, but liquid H2O is pretty hard to find. In that sense, there is some significance to our world… if only because the universe as a whole is so inhospitable, and the earth is so hospitable. All the more reason to be good stewards of our limited resources.

cosmic poetry and still we argue the point...

That "DOT" - the Divine ~ the Omnipresence ~ the Truth ... as we are embraced by its light...

24 Religious trolls clicked dislike! You are Pathetic trolls!

"Perhaps he never noticed that there doesn't exist any other BLUE dot" Care to actually show any evidence that we are the only planet in the universe that looks blue?

If you had read my comment carefully, you would have noticed I wrote that Earth possesses a "monopoly on water". Thus, I wasn't saying only that planet Earth is blue, but that its blue due to being covered almost entirely by water I can't prove something that's non-existent. You prove a liquid water, blue planet, aside from Earth

he is here

not trolls, just retards

I cry every time I listen to this speech. It's so sad and hopeless, and yet it is what humanity as a whole needs to comprehend before we can ever hope to do any good.

I cried....again.

Everyone on this planet needs to see this. Carl Sagan had a very unique way of putting our existence into perspective. So emotional, so heartwrenching, so profounding.

Carl lives on in mine

I think you missed the point

The most powerful words I have heard. I salute you Mr Carl Sagan

Mere assertions are easy to put forth. The part that counts is the explanation of the basis for your assertion Your comment is completely devoid of substance. Thus, of no value

In a new paper, astronomers explore the properties Kelper 62e and 62f, which are part of the five-planet system orbiting the star Kepler-62, suggesting that both planets are water worlds and the first viable candidates for a habitable zone water planet.

Analysis of new and archived observations of a well-studied star known as Gliese 667C have revealed a system with at least six planets, including a record-breaking three super-Earths orbiting in the star's "habitable zone" where liquid water could exist on the planets. This is the first planetary system found to have a fully packed habitable zone.

Water is a critical molecule for human life, and, because it is abundant in space, it also plays an important role in the life of molecular clouds and the stars and planets that form in them. In 1998, a NASA team led by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomers launched a mission to study water in space–the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite. SWAS found water nearly everywhere it looked.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope have found that an aging star is spewing narrow, rotating streams of water molecules into space, like a jerking garden hose that has escaped its owner's grasp.

And so on, my friend...

This insightful masterpiece always makes me tingle.

I am self, I become oneself. Be myself. The various thoughts surge like a torrent. Display one’s skill. Show one’s real ability.
私自身、自身になる。自己自身であれ。奔流のように様々な思いが押し寄せる。本領発揮す。
I reify one’s dream, regulate one’s career, regurgitate one’s record, rehabilitate self, regiment the one’s total own all selves. Be the most regnal regnant regimental self. Self-amnesty! Self-turnover! Self-reification! Self-regulation! Self-registration!
人の夢を具象化す、人の経歴を規制す、自己記録逆流反復させる、自己を修復す、総合自己全体自身組織化す。最治世王国君臨支配連隊自身であれ。自己恩赦！自己回転始動！自己具象具体化！自己規制！自己登録！

i love this video so much thanks again for the upload!

Carl, your book Cosmos set me on a path of atheism. You were my first teacher in this sense and you will always be an important part of my time on Earth.

I get emotional... almost tear out when ever I see this....

I was so glad they included this in tonight's Cosmos finale.  Carl is so right that in the grand scheme of things no outside force is going to come down from space and save us.  We need to save ourselves and the pale blue dot we live on.

I have watched this about 5 times now and its still amazing.

"Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph, they can become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
"Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel, on the scarcely distinguishable habitants of some other corner. How frequent, their misunderstandings. How eager they are, to kill one another. How fervent, their hatreds.
"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light."

Watched this I don't know how many times.  Still either bawl or tear up every time.  Only thought that comes to mind is, as Carl said in another publication, "We humans are capable of greatness."

Today?  Tomorrow?  A century?  A millennium from now?  We'll get there.  We humans are CAPABLE of greatness.

The world so desperately needs to embrace the message of this video. So beautifully humbling.

What a load of crap, NASA has fooled the masses.

i'm in 2020. it sucks right now, but how's 2026?

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Pale Blue Dot. That us here. That home. That us.

I must credit Carl Sagan with my intellectual awakening. Being emotionally & physically abused as a child, I was directionless, a feather blowing in the wind. Then in the 10th grade, I was given the assignment to watch Cosmos each week and to pen a report on my understandings. From that point until now, I have cherished the scientific method and was forever bathed in the wisdom of science. While I respect each person's right to their point of view, why would 44 people watch this video if they were disinclined to have an open mind e.g. True Believers in Christianity. I don't watch Christian videos to dislike them...

I completely love this

This video is fake. The earth in the original image was literally a blue dot. There is no way Voyager 1’s camera which took this picture could resolve the Earth as a sphere from Saturn. Shame on this channel for ruining the whole point of the picture.