An excerpt from the famous ‘Pale Blue Dot’ speech given by the late American cosmologist and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, animated as a tribute by Vishal Varghese. To wit:
Carl Sagan, the astronomer of the people strived to untangle the subtle complexities of modern physics and present them to the everyday audience. He believed that in a world where knowledge was available freely to every person seeking it.
Swedish digital artist and animator Erik Wernquist set to the words of Carl Sagan. sez he:
Wanderers is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens.
(H/T: Noel Ballentyne)
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Two years ago, Michael Marantz edited clips of Carl Sagan reading from his inspirational 1994 book The Pale Blue Dot with a time-lapse sequence filmed in Mexico and Utah.
Now, YouTuber Ian Wallace has done something similar, this time using cut-scenes from Halo: Reach.
Stirring stuff, either way.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePpjCNLCCi0
