... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan

My all time favorite sift:

http://www.videosift.com/video/We-Are-Here-The-Pale-Blue-Dot

hello, friend. yes, you. for if you can read this, then you are that. do you like music?
wanna' be me, for the next 5 minutes? open this, in a window or tab, at 1/3 volume:

http://www.videosift.com/video/TATU-Cosmos-Outer-Space

...and then, in another, open this at full volume:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Carl-Sagan-Cosmos-Intro

and hit play on both. and know that i am in awe of us all, and none more so than TEDsters, Mensa, and most of the people i've met at this site. yes, even shroom. i don't want him banned either. i want him to grow the fuck up and start listening, and trying to understand, as much as the rest of us are.
and what happened, was not because of anything i did. or dag did. it was because of what shroom's been doing, most of the time, since long before i got here, and everyone here can agree on that much, at least, i'm positive.

that's why i just upvote or pass. you're all way too smart, too observant, and trying too hard, to ever be downvoted, in my humble opinion.
i'm home. and i'm getting a charter. asap. whaddya' think, for nametextcol...
blue? or black?

- opie
(owen paul)
rochester, ny, usa
pale blue dot
unfashionable western spiral arm, milky way

The Ultimate Pale Blue Dot Collection
http://www.videosift.com/tag/Pale+Blue+Dot

Pale Blue Dot Lyrics - By Ice Core Scientist

Well I dreamed I saw an old man
Weighed down by his years
Facing out to the oceanward
Counting out his fears
I asked him many questions
He held me in his gaze
He said.. age has brought me wisdom boy
But faith has brought me tears

Failing that boy
You'll find your own way home

Painting Virgin Marys
They all look much the same
Baked in thirty seconds flat
They've turned out much the same
Packed off to the grotto
They better not move their heads
We'll be praying for falling angels
Floating two feet over our beds

Failing that girl
You'll find your own way home

GJ mlx!

Of many, many good ones:

http://www.videosift.com/video/1947-Guide-to-Popularity (her first)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Simpsons-Live (a classic)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Swedish-Mullet-Aid (hilarious)
http://my.videosift.com/video/Carl-Sagan-4-Billion-Years-of-Evolution-in-8-Minutes
http://my.videosift.com/video/The-Pale-Blue-Dot-read-by-Carl-Sagan (I'm a sucker for Sagan)

In keeping with many of the Sift member's love of Carl Sagan, it could be named the "Pale Blue Dot" Collective.

my head ..
here's the link
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

hi ntb
newbie girl to the sift.
this is my only published so far
andrea.x
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

loved his voice.
the pale blue dot thing must be catching !!

Duck and cover film.scary and true.
voted and faved.
this is my best sift of the week.!!
andrea.x
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

loved yellow submarine.
voted and faved.
the whole movie !! great.
this is my current best sift
andrea.x
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

may the sift be with you.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

Hey, I'm game. You're the first person to work the sift in this manner. Very nice, typical YT mass comments. Sure if it works.
(BTW, you screwed up on my form message and pasted the YT link, not the VS link) ooops

In reply to your comment:
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47EBLD-ISyc
hey joe
newbie girl.
loved eddire izzard deathstar skit.
saw him live once.
sending you my very first sift
called pale blue dot
hope u like it.
andrea.
x”

http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot
hey ren
loved bush vid.
voted!
this is my current ..well first sift.enjoy.
andrea.x