<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/7269/the-pale-blue-dot/ Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:43:30 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/65503/#p65503 Thought I'd just add this to this thread:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news … e-ngspace/

I thought it ironic that the name 'Laniakea' means 'immeasurable heaven', yet the team had to measure it to discover and name it tongue

]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:43:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/65503/#p65503 <![CDATA[Re: The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/62729/#p62729 Yes Serin - he was truly an inspirational person in so many aspects of science and technology with an amazing ability to articulate it all.

The world needs more Carl Sagans... especially today...

And IronMan: My pleasure...

]]> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:42:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/62729/#p62729 <![CDATA[Re: The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/62711/#p62711 adrian wrote:

Just wanted to share a video I stumbled across that captures Carl Sagan's reflections on the famous Voyager photo from 1990 .

https://www.youtube.com/v/923jxZY2NPI

'Nuff said.

Outstanding!  Many thanks for that!

]]> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:44:04 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/62711/#p62711 <![CDATA[Re: The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/62709/#p62709 Ahhh good old Sagan... No words can express my love and admiration for what that man taught me.
I so wish more knew of the cosmic perspective he showed me, and you.
I imagine the world would be a very different place.

Oh, amazing fact about Voyager: She carries a record that has on it amongst others a recording of Sagan's wife's brain activity in audio form... the scan was made only a few days after he proposed to her.
So, the spacecraft, the first thing we've ever sent beyond our star system carries the sounds of a woman in love.
I think beyond everything else that speaks to the ideals they held dear.

This, plus my love of Star Trek made me an incurable idealist... Not so good given the state of Humanity right now tongue

]]> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:20:38 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/62709/#p62709 <![CDATA[The Pale Blue Dot]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/62706/#p62706 Just wanted to share a video I stumbled across that captures Carl Sagan's reflections on the famous Voyager photo from 1990 .

https://www.youtube.com/v/923jxZY2NPI

'Nuff said.

]]> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 11:57:59 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/62706/#p62706