YouTube – Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot
2009 March 24
YouTube – Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot.
My favorite passage ever from Sagan’s writings — hell, my favorite passage ever in anything written in English. And in the man’s own voice.
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