h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The reading is from his book Pale Blue Dot. I don't know when it was recorded or whether the audio and video were originally together.

aha ....so it is not a part of a larger work?

if not... david attenborough's group who did Blue Planet and Planet Earth... if and when they do a Planet's Space... should include it

The text is part of a larger work -- Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot. I don't know if the video is part of a longer film.


Let me look for a minute . . .

. . . the audio is part of a commencement address he gave in 1996, so, no, it doesn't seem to be part of a larger film.

I just took a look back at my copy of Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot, which was published before the above-mentioned commencement address. The words Sagan speaks in the video are the concluding paragraphs of Chapter 1.

oooooo thank you!!
i see now... post mortem video then? someone else put the pix together? very nice.

i just ordered Pale Blue Dot, Cosmos and Cosmos the DVD from my library...

'someone else put the pix together? '


as far as I've been able to discover.

k... one final thingy here

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=voyager%20pictures%20of%20earth&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

google image plugin for "voyager pictures of earth"

That 'pale blue dot' video is one of my favourites.



Always brings a tear to my rampant atheistic eye

just found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVITgDEpe8
turned down sound and am playing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: L'Estate (presto) instead... full blast!!

I just noticed that this is a more complete version of Sagan's speech, with different video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw&feature=related

Earth Day '08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1XTcFokKOk

Save Planet Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W74aPF5cH6U

Thinking about greenhouse gasses I was going to post this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs

but chose to post this instead,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwOuaJ_fSw&feature=related

PP

I'm not going through the backlog, but this tickled my fancy -

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=29398

What does "berrer" mean?

I came across this ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukAhlxl4hmM .
Be warned there is a lot of swearing !

best fishes..tod

I t is with some trepidation that I post this link. There's a whole debate to be had about whether it is appropriate or not.

Oh! Sod it it's funny.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDlf6hA6TY

And there are a whole bunch of others in the series too.

PP

So glad I found this at 8:59!