An introduction to Carl Sagan (from Wikipedia):
"Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and 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. One of the last books he wrote was Pale Blue Dot.
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, secular humanism, and the scientific method."
The following film short, produced by David Fu is a combination of imagery of our world through the eyes of the media, as read by Carl Sagan about the space mission in his audiobook Pale Blue Dot. This inspirational video sparked my personal desire to re-learn the wonders of the universe and the depths of space, our final frontier, and in doing so became captivated in the uniqueness of planet Earth in the big cycle of things.
"Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and 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. One of the last books he wrote was Pale Blue Dot.
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, secular humanism, and the scientific method."
The following film short, produced by David Fu is a combination of imagery of our world through the eyes of the media, as read by Carl Sagan about the space mission in his audiobook Pale Blue Dot. This inspirational video sparked my personal desire to re-learn the wonders of the universe and the depths of space, our final frontier, and in doing so became captivated in the uniqueness of planet Earth in the big cycle of things.
I was first introduced to this film short at Bournemouth University when a fellow classmate gave a speech about the future of advertising in uncertain times such as these. It is a credit to the producer who incorporated fantastic imagery (excuse the resolution of the images), the perfect choice of music by Mogwai (Song: Stop Coming To My House from the Album: Happy Songs For Happy People), to the soothing voice of Carl Sagan. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did as it really puts things into perspective.
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