Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
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Pale Blue Dot
A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Author: Carl Sagan

Narrator: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2017

Synopsis

"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 TribuneIntroductory 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.

About Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was the Director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played a leading role in the American space program and was an adviser to NASA since its inception. He briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden. His 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage won the Emmy and Peabody awards. The National Science Foundation declared that his “research transformed planetary science… his gifts to mankind were infinite.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by zuza_zaksiazkowane on February 27, 2025

Dobra książka na początek z literaturą o kosmosie! Zaskakująco przystępna 🥺......more

Goodreads review by Ben on September 30, 2008

I recently came across several references to this book while reading the superb God Delusion. I was intrigued, and since it had been quite a while since I read Cosmos, I decided to give Carl Sagan another go. Besides his beautiful evocative descriptions of moons and worlds in our own Solar system, Sa......more

Goodreads review by Roy on January 25, 2020

Once, in German class, I recommended Carl Sagan’s magnificent Cosmos television series to a classmate. “Wow,” she said. “That’s the first time somebody suggested Carl Sagan to me who wasn’t a pothead.” I wasn’t sure if that was an insult or a compliment; I said “thanks” anyway. Although I’m sure Carl......more

Goodreads review by P.E. on April 16, 2021

Humbling vistas 'Pale Blue Dot', updated version of a photograph of the Earth, 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away, taken by Voyager in 1990, part of the 'Family Portrait of the Solar System' series of photographs Main themes: - A quick overview of the history of mankind, our migrations &......more

Goodreads review by Matt (Fully supports developing sentient AGI) on June 11, 2024

What would Carl Sagan think about SpaceX and Elon Musk? At the time Sagan wrote Pale Blue Dot, he was optimistic about humanity's future of space exploration, but lamented it was a secondary enterprise reliant on the machine of government, always allocated a pittance of national expenditure and inte......more

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