{"id":112960,"date":"2025-09-02T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112960\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:41:10","slug":"carl-sagans-profound-pale-blue-dot-speech-set-to-a-beautifully-calming-classical-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112960\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan’s Profound ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Speech Set to a Beautifully Calming Classical Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Become Human<\/a> took the audio from the iconic \u201cPale Blue Dot\u201d<\/a> speech by renowned astronomer Carl Sagan<\/a>, removed some of the noise, and then set it to a beautifully calming classical soundtrack<\/a> that aligned perfectly with Sagan\u2019s profound words.<\/p>\n

\u201cPale blue dot\u201d \u2013 Carl Sagan..high quality, cleaned audio, improved version synchronized with \u201cSpiegel im Spiegel\u201d \u2013 Arvo P\u00e4rt, 1978. \u2026This is my way of commemorating Carl Sagan, he who the most has inspired me to become human.<\/p>\n

Sagan\u2019s speech was an excerpt from his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space<\/a>, which he wrote after NASA<\/a> released a photograph from 6.4 billion kilometers\u00a0(3.7 billion miles) away in 1990 that made the Earth appear as a pale blue dot.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 spacecraft took an image of our home planet from 6.4 billion kilometers away. \u2026Our co-founder Carl Sagan eloquently described what that image meant for humanity.<\/p>\n

Sagan\u2019s heartfelt words for humanity were quite prescient to the world we live in today.<\/p>\n

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it\u2019s different. Consider again that dot. That\u2019s here. That\u2019s home. That\u2019s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \u201csuperstar\u201d, every \u201csupreme leader\u201d, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there \u2013 on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<\/p>\n

Carl Sagan Unveils the Pale Blue Dot Image in 1990<\/p>\n

Carl Sagan\u2019s Official \u2018Pale Blue Dot\u2019 Speech<\/p>\n

Other \u2018Pale Blue Dot\u2019 Interpretations<\/p>\n

Thanks\u00a0Chip Beale<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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