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By voltagegate on July 12, 2007.

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

-Carl Sagan

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Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, Remixed

Adam Winnik sent me this animation inspired by Carl Sagan's famous "pale blue dot" monologue. It's true to the serious implications of Sagan's words, yet wry and lighthearted (mostly). A lovely example of remix culture revitalizing a classic of biology.

On the high velocity rotation of interred organic remains

Let us all doff our hats in astonished disbelief at the brazen arrogance of the people who have created the Carl Sagan Institute in Brazil.

You know I'm a sucker for heresy

So you won't be surprised that I really like that Erin Podolak has asked, Can We Stop Talking About Carl Sagan?

Sagan: Framing shared values between science & religion

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