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Pale Blue Dot

A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Pale Blue Dot

Autor: Carl Sagan
Czyta: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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"FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN''S BOOKS." --The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

"TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity''s future in the stars." --Chicago Tribune

Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. and Chappers Music. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.

©1994 Carl Sagan (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Nauka

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The well-known astrophysicist Carl Sagan reports as an insider about the fascinating scientific exploration of our solar system. He combines this with the human search for our role and position in the universe from a scientific-only point of view and a preview of a possible - and mandatory - future spreading of our descendants into space.

The narration of the audiobook was done just wonderfully, and links the scientific facts in a rarely found way with emotions and hopes for the future.

I strongly recommend this audiobook not only to scientific nerds but especially to everyone who is bored by the short-sightedness of our society and politics.

Deeply amazing and moving science report

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Sagan is really passionate and knowledgeable on the topics he is addressing in this book. Human tendencies, psychology, technological advancements, growth and ambition are all analysed together with astrophysics, astronomy and other fields of science and they are all mixed together to draw conclusions about the past but mainly the future of humanity. Our place both here on earth and among the stars is discussed sometimes with passion and well structured argumentation and other times, much more rarely, with an overly simplistic and naive way, the message though is clear and inspiring. Unfortunately the second reader is Sagan's wife, who reads many chapters at a very advanced age with a really sweet grandmother voice, but it takes away in my opinion from the experience as her tone does not really fit the book that well.

Nice message but hit or miss reading

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Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot is often praised as a hymn to science and humility, but for me it reads more like an extended exercise in diminishing humanity. While I admire Sagan’s contributions as a science communicator, here he seems fixated on a “demotion fetish”—expending enormous energy to debunk every possible claim of human significance. The tone feels less like rational awe and more like nihilistic dismissal: a relentless reminder that we are insignificant specks in a meaningless cosmos. Yet this stance is as selective as the religious dogma he critiques. He invokes “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” to discredit metaphysical possibilities, but then pivots to “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” when it suits him. Both cannot be held simultaneously without contradiction. Instead of opening inquiry, Sagan weaponizes rhetoric against his opponents while indulging in the same unproven assumptions he condemns.

What the book misses is that insignificance is not the only possible inference from cosmic scale. If anything, we are unique until proven otherwise—scientifically, we must treat ourselves as the lone known intelligence in the universe, a product of cosmic evolution that makes the universe reflexively aware of itself. By that measure, our position is not irrelevant but profoundly special. Ironically, Sagan’s own cosmological points undercut his thesis: from an observational standpoint, we are at the center of the universe’s observable bubble, encircled by the cosmic background radiation. History shows that scientific “demotions” (Copernicus, Galileo, etc.) were steps in an unfinished journey, not the final word. To assume we’ve reached ultimate knowledge, or that future discoveries could not radically reshape the question of human significance—even perhaps validating God or transcendent intelligence—is itself a kind of hubris. Pale Blue Dot wants to humble humanity, but ends up undermining its own epistemic rigor in the process.

Pale Blue Dot: Cosmic Humility or Demotion Fetish?

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Love the quotes at the beginning of every chapter. The book is diverse and paints a wholesome picture about mankind's journey to space; the past, present and future cultures and trends.

A mesmerizing journey of mankind's ventures

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I simply love Carl Sagan. His enthusiasm for science and the apparent importance ease for communicating it that he always had, shine throughout this book. It may be my favorite of his.
Bear in mind though that most of book is narrated by Ann, only the first chapters are with Carl’s voice.

Sagan’s best

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