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Pale Blue Dot
Jan. 17th, 2003 10:03 pmI just watched a really, really fascinating documentary P had taped called "Cosmic Journeys" about the Voyagers 1 and 2 space missions. Interwoven with the scientific mission were segments on the making of the record that was sent along board - all the music of the world and the "hello from the children of earth" that gave me goosebumps when I first heard it as a wee lass watching the first run of Cosmos. I didn't realize that Bach's music was so mathematically oriented, which is why a few of his peices are included. It has some haunting music on the recording.
The last image of the documentary is of the tiny speck of light that is earth, taken in the late 80's as one of the Voyagers is heading towards the outer edges of our system. It took about 10 years for Carl Sagan to convince NASA to turn the cameras around for this last picture. They said, "It would be too far away; it wouldn't look like anything." To which Carl insisted that that was the point, let's look at our earth as one comes into the system. A voice over has Sagan's voice talking about the Pale Blue Dot - where all of our families live, our only home, and where rivers of blood have been shed for generals and emporers to have control over a fraction of a dot. Our only home. It really makes you think about life, the universe, and everything, especially in these war mongering times.
I think I'll order Cosmos from the library. I'd like to see that series again. At one time (when it first came out) I was so in love with space and the idea of exploring it. That love faded, but space is still something I look upon with wonder and awe.
The last image of the documentary is of the tiny speck of light that is earth, taken in the late 80's as one of the Voyagers is heading towards the outer edges of our system. It took about 10 years for Carl Sagan to convince NASA to turn the cameras around for this last picture. They said, "It would be too far away; it wouldn't look like anything." To which Carl insisted that that was the point, let's look at our earth as one comes into the system. A voice over has Sagan's voice talking about the Pale Blue Dot - where all of our families live, our only home, and where rivers of blood have been shed for generals and emporers to have control over a fraction of a dot. Our only home. It really makes you think about life, the universe, and everything, especially in these war mongering times.
I think I'll order Cosmos from the library. I'd like to see that series again. At one time (when it first came out) I was so in love with space and the idea of exploring it. That love faded, but space is still something I look upon with wonder and awe.
