Manuscript/Mixed Material Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : second draft
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Image 1 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Víáx K6l 47c i Z 2 22093 CONFIDENTIAL Draft copy Please do not quote or copy C A PALE BLUE DOT by Carl Sagan Copyright 1993 by Carl Sagan- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1993-02-20
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Image 2 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 31693 A Pale Blue Dot Assume approx 15 pp MSchapter approx 1012 pp printchapter Length of 38 chapters yields 380456 pp pix Length of 45 chapters yields 4 50540 pp 2 bks…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1993-02-20
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Image 3 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 2A 22093 A Pale Blue Dot Tentative Table of Contents Introduction A Pale Blue Dot The Earth faom Lhe FiünLlma ef the Colar System A Universe Not Made for Us SpaceFindmcOat Is…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 4 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … I 4393atp Lets call the Introduction Wanderers and here is an introductory paragraph We were wanderers from the beginning We followed the herds in their annual migrations When there was a drought…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 5 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 4393atp climate changes there will be vast numbers of environmental refugees Better conditions will always beckon and people will ebb and flow around the world But the lure of new places unknown…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 6 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 2B 22093 Introduction My grandfather was a beast of burdenj and I have been to Moptune iGort ofij Early in this century Leib Gruber lived in a small town in the vast…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 7 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … fl983_ foreword to The Planets pli Un ViJiirr Hinnmrnrnrl haf orory ppg rf 1hgffl 1g Mfrd Mot is closely similar tu Llie EaiLhWehavefeud__ tiTmnn_ fvhhnr pinnahe and înnnnr hhrinanrlQ nf aslprniHc agj___…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 8 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Introduction 2B 22093 2 lofty skyscrapers and endless hubbub of his new land We know nothing of his crossing but have found the record of the voyage made a few years later…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 9 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Introduction 2B 22093 Every one of these worlds is lovely and instructive But so far as we know they are also desolate and lifeless During the Viking mission to Mars beginning in…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 10 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Introduction 2B 22093 indeed to whom they were closely related In my time weve crossed the Solar System and sent four ships to the stars Neptune lies a million times farther from…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 11 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Introduction 2B 22093 agriculture contraception advances in transportation and communications devastating new weapons of war inadvertent side effects of industry and disquieting challenges to longheld world views science and technology have dramatically…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 12 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … Introduction 2B 22093 because we can think We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth not just for…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 13 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 2B 22093 A Pale Blue Dot The spacecraft was a long way from home beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic an imaginary plane which we can…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 14 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 different trajectory within the ecliptic plane and so she was able to perform her celebrated explorations of Uranus and Neptune The two Voyager robots have explored…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 15 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 large globe While almost everyone understands that the Earth is a sphere all of us somehow glued to it by gravity the reality of this circumstance…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 16 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 further awakening ourselves to our true circumstances Many in NASAs Voyager Project were supportive But did we want to take a picture so close to the…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 17 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 of the motion of the spacecraft these planets are so dim that to record their presence required long exposures This Is what the planets would look…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 18 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 certain Neptune for instance is blue but for a wholly different reason From this distant vantage point the Earth might not even to a very advanced…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 19 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Pale Blue Dot 2B 22093 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…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 20 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … ksAhèsî A Universe Not Made for Us lUiyeeíoíáiafbsíBs Epigraph from beginning of Dover Beach It almost never feels like prejudice Rather it seems fitting and just the idea that because of an…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 21 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2Bf 22093 dishearteningly many cases that we are not Our ancestors lived outofdoors They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 22 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … HA Universe Not Made for üs 2B 22093 This satisfying demonstration of our selfimportance buttressed by daily observations of the heavens made the geocentrist conceit a transcultural truth taught in the schools…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 23 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 4 observations and what we secretly hoped would be true We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 24 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 Aw Tm krindf ftemmaü Once most scientists were convinced informed public opinion swiftly changed 14if Mm iririia who earlier had threatenedthe agedgaTiieowitn rortureif he…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 25 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 Well it was then widely held even if the Earth isnt at the center of the Universe the Sun is The Sun is our…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 26 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 other stars has planets Because planets are small and dont shine by their own light theyre hard to find even around the nearest star…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 27 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 220931 8 the great classical physicists believed that the velocity of the Earth in space constituted a privileged frame of reference Thats actually what it…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 28 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 In each age the chauvinist predispositions are challenged in yet another arena of scientific debate in this century for example in attempts to understand…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 29 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for UsM 2B 22093 10 long sequence of failed chauvinisms I would guess that the Universe is filled with beings far more intelligent far more advanced than we…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 30 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 11 Rootatc In this way although in a more sophisticated form the ancient doctrine that the Universe was made for us is resuscitated To…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 31 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 4 c thoroughly incompatible with the proposition that the huifiarH v species is at cosmic center stage Instead the debates have been settled decisively…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 32 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 32393atl An insert into A Pale Blue Dot 4FootnoteH The International Astronomical Union has recommended that the definite article be excised in all names of celestial bodies thus Sun Earth and Moon…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 33 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 32393atl Insert C for A Pale Blue Dot chapter also for the Gifford Lectures To its credit although rather belatedly the Roman Catholic Church has invalidated its 1633 condemnation of Galileo for…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 34 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 13 Earth It may very well be then that more than four and a half centuries after Copernicus most people on Earth still think…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 35 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 14 its okay to slaughter them Nonhuman intelligence both on Earth and elsewhere is another battlegroundon which th anthropocentric conceit is being tested These…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 36 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 15 know that Whatever twists and turns along the way it will all work out Theres a Deus ex machina waiting in the wings…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 37 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 16 feelings are not entirely under our own control There may be much smarter and very different beings elsewhere And on top of all…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 38 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for UsM 2B 22093 17 Most of these debates were entered into with no thought for their practical implications Passionate and curious humans wish to understand their actual…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 39 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … 32393atl Aninseit into A Paie BlueDot Every time it is suggested that humans nave a biological propensity for certain behavior dominance ethnocentrism xenophobia rape the objection is heard that this is a…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Image 40 of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : … A Universe Not Made for Us 2B 22093 18 thanks each day to God that they were not born women one race characterizing another as apes or devils nations making fun of…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
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Title
- Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space : second draft
Names
- Sagan, Carl (Author)
Headings
- - Sagan, Carl
- - Outer space--Exploration
- - Planets
- - Space colonies
- - Astronautics--Human factors
- - Asteroids
- - Manuscripts
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- Manuscripts
Notes
- - The second of twenty full drafts of Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space, published in 1994. Sagan discusses the history of astronomy and considers the future of humanity in space, arguing that it is necessary for humanity's survival to explore and ultimately terraform and create human settlements on planets and asteroids. The draft is made up of interleaved notes. These notes were transcribed from audio recordings dictated by Carl Sagan. The resulting assembled document was then extensively marked up and revised by Sagan. In cases where Sagan wrote notes on the back of printed pages those pages were digitized.
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- Dimensions in inches: 11 x 8 1/2
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- The Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive
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