I was just contacted by a musician named icecorescientist. He alerted me to a little music video on YouTube that he created and wants to share with you all. Here’s what he has to say about it.
We still have time to change before we turn our garden of eden in to another venus.
Inspired by the words of Carl Sagan in 1991, as he presented to the world, the most distant image yet taken of ourselves. A parting gift from Voyager from 4 billion miles. That image and all it invokes should be our only religion.
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Why cherish this pale blue dot given the whole point of the piece is that we are so insignificant?
@ Skyclad
Because it’s the only inhabitable dot that we’ve ever known? While it may be insignificant in the magnitude of the universe, I’d say it’s vastly significant to every species on the Earth.
Unity, being the point of the video; for all who nodded through this.
Alright so it’s a slow news day for me ;) I’ve got lots of stuff to do at work :(
Now if someone would like to pay me a nice salary I guarantee you’ll get lots more news ;)
gasmonso
@ Flapjack
Just because it’s the only inhabitable dot that we’ve ever known doesn’t make it significant :)
Now if someone would like to pay me a nice salary I guarantee you’ll get lots more news ;)
See now if you had sold out and become a minister you would be raking in 10% from each of us by now.
Well OK, not from us, but from the gullible and vulnerable people you would pray upon instead.
Pun intended.
Skyclad: Are you just being funny or are you having a problem with the concept of relativity?
You know, to his dying day, Carl Sagan believed that religion and science, theists and atheists, could easily forge an alliance to solve the problems that faced our planet, and worked hard towards that. He touched on it in “The Demon-Haunted World”, wrote a lot about it in his last book, “Billions and Billions”.
It occurs to me that pointing out how infinitesimally small we are when compared against the vastness of the universe will not be the clarion call to end all religion – religion was created and enforced as a means of easing fears about the unknown and the unexplained. So to be reminded of our galactic insignificance would only in my view make the religious cling to their dogma all the harder to ease their troubled minds.
Michael: I’m not sure what relativity has to do with this particular clip, though it is obviously related to size and structure of the universe :)
I’m simply pointing out the baseless relationship that is drawn between the size of the universe and our insignificance in it, and the idea that we should take care of our planet. They are completely distinct points.
Dave
Dave: There’s a difference between relativity and the Theory of Relativity. The word came from somewhere, you know ;) Perhaps I could try explaining the link between the points.
The universe is big – unimaginably so. Even from the edge of our solar system, our Earth is a tiny, barely visible dot. And the universe is far, far bigger than that.
So yes, if you want to look at it that way, we really don’t matter. You, me, everyone we know and love, all the material possessions we gather, the civilisations we build – it’ll all be dust in a billion years. A few billion years after that and this whole planet will be gone. We live for the briefest moment of time, in an incredibly tiny fraction of the universe.
All we have in this life is ourselves and this world we live on. And it may be almost nothing. But it’s all we’ve got. If nothing really matters, surely all we can hope for is to be happy, and to make the world a better place, for ourselves and the people around us? Because, in the truest sense of the words, everything else really is a waste of our time.
My point is simply that *just because the universe is big* doesnt mean *we have to make the world a better place*. Both can be true with no relationship to each other…
Dave
Hi,
I believe that WE as human beings have no obligation to make the world better, or even to be ‘human’ for that matter.There is no ‘Mandate from Heaven’, neither has Nature provided us with set goals. We can choose to make the world better or not, and that is what sets us apart from so many other creatures, not only that we can choose, but we also have the power to act on a scale unimagined by animals.
Khalil
(PS I wondered if anyone knew the name of the song.I tried searching for the lyrics as I listened to the song, but was unsuccessful)
@ Khalil “Pale Blue Dot”
http://www.palebluedotmusic.com/
@Khalil:
http://myspace.com/icecorescientist
Whilst this pale blue dot may not be particullarly significant as far as the rest of the universe is concerned I have to say that it is fairly significant to me. I daresay that it is probably fairly significant to all those who are lucky enough to grace this particular “spot” in the universe.
I would also like to point out that the universe would hold absoloutly no significance to me if this pale blue dot did not exist. In this case it all comes down to perspective. Without seeing the broader picture no one element can be taken out and judged on just how significant it is. In this case everything is relative to the perspective on whoever is doing the judging.
Cheers
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