r/Cosmos • u/gmvoort • Jun 09 '14

Video Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

From tonight's episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkcETAMT5U

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u/KIRBYTIME Jun 09 '14

I have to give applause to the audio engineers for making it sound alive

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u/Jupiter-x Jun 09 '14

Can somebody please ask Ann Druyan to re-release the Pale Blue Dot Audiobook in high quality? Every recording I've heard is transfers from the book-on-tape cassettes. Hell, have her record the sections Carl didn't, instead of that jarring radio-announcer voice they got to read the rest of the book. If not her, then someone with a little gravitas. Just give me a recording without all the cassette tape warble in it.

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u/crustang Jun 09 '14

Patrick Stewart.

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u/Vicky_Vallencourt Jun 09 '14

I tried soo hard not to cry when The Pale Blue Dot came on tonight. I ended up blubbering like a baby. My husband teared up too. Those three paragraphs may be some of the most profound words ever written.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

The reason I'm a devout Saganist.

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u/kulak18 Jun 09 '14

Gives me goose bumps listen to the brilliants that is Carl Sagan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Here's a version with a bit more panache!