Carl Sagan, 1996

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[Trailrider1951]

1. If you don't recognize the quote

it's from Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World". He was a very smart man.

[Disaffected]

2. The Demon Haunted World

should be required high-school reading IMO - one of the best ever.

[Uncle Joe]

3. The Pale Blue Dot

Thanks for the thread pbmus.

[Deuxcents]

4. And he was ahead of his time

As they say. I loved his Cosmos series on PBS. His Pale Blue Dot is perfectly matched with Pink Floyd’s On The Turning Away. Wish I knew how to post it here but it’s on You Tube.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. To 'post' a YT video

Just go to the video, click the 'Share' button on the second line, under the title, click 'copy' in the popup there, then come to DU and 'paste' what you just copied ...

It'll paste like this, but without the extra space https://youtu. be/xEMy34qhQe4

Here's that same link without the space. DU just knows YT and presents a link from there as a video

PS I saw both post-Roger PF tours, Momentary Lapse and Division Bell. And also Radio KAOS tour

[Deuxcents]

9. Ty

I’ll try to post from YT .. and the video.. one of my all time favorites

[Deuxcents]

5. Thanks for the video!

[elevator]

6. If only our world was led by people with same qualities as this man.

Alas, it is not to be.

[Yavin4]

8. This is to be expected in a capitalist country

It doesn't serve the interests of the capitalists class for the citizenry to be critical thinkers. Capitalists want AM radio stations and Fox News to confirm biases and prejudices.

[BSdetect]

10. The good news is that we probably can't dumb down any lower? Spoke too soon?