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The Sagan Series (Pt 1) - NASA The Frontier Is Everywhere

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    We were hunters and foragers
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    The frontier was everywhere
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    We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky
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    The open road still softly calls
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    Our little terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds
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    We who cannot even put our own planetary home in order
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    Riven with rivalries and hatreds
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    Are we to venture out into space?
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    By the time we're ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems
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    We will have changed
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    The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us
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    Necessity will have changed us
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    We're an adaptable species
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    It will not be we who reach Alpha Centuri and the other nearby stars
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    It will be a species very like us
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    But with more of our strengths
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    And fewer of our weaknesses
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    More confident, far seeing, capable, and prudent
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    For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities
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    We humans are capable of greatness
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    What new wonders, undreamt of in our time,
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    will we have wrought in another generation?
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    And another?
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    How far will our nomadic species have wandered by the end of the next century?
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    And the next millennium?
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    Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds through the solar system..
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    ...and beyond
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    will be unified
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    by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet
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    ..and by the knowledge that whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe
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    come from Earth
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    They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies
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    They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of our potential once was
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    How perilous our infancy
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    How humble our beginnings
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    How many rivers we had to cross
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    before we found our way.
Title:
The Sagan Series (Pt 1) - NASA The Frontier Is Everywhere
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FULL CREDIT goes to Michael Marantz for his brilliant original:
http://vimeo.com/2822787
http://michaelmarantz.com/

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http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelMarantz
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/earth-the-pale-blue-dot-instrumental/id414747613?i=414747637&uo=4
AND OF COURSE to Carl Sagan. I made an entire page of credits and forgot to cite The Pale Blue Dot. Total brain fart on my part. I miss the man dearly.
NASA - http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
BBC The Great Rift - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1597624/
Home - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/
BBC Planet Earth - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/
Baraka - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
"G20 Protest the Battle of Toronto" http://youtu.be/nOjGdvju-po
BBC Life - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1533395/
"NYC - Mindrelic Timelapse" http://vimeo.com/18554749
"Eye Macro" http://vimeo.com/14199249
"Gulf Oil Spill Effects On Wildlife" http://youtu.be/8Uax5FRWnvs
"Biggest Full Moon HD Video" http://youtu.be/JBOA1uK9cNM
"Gemini Observatory" http://youtu.be/7H3EQGfY9KY
Used with permission wherever possible.

I got frustrated with NASA and made this video. NASA is the most fascinating, adventurous, epic institution ever devised by human beings, and their media sucks. Seriously. None of their brilliant scientists appear to know how to connect with the social media crowd, which is now more important than ever. In fact, NASA is an institution whose funding directly depends on how the public views them.

In NASA's defense, they have embraced social media. I guess my point is that they don't fully understand how to best use it. In all of their brilliance, NASA seems to have forgotten to share their hopes and dreams in a way the public can relate to, leaving one of humanity's grandest projects with terrible PR and massive funding cuts.

Edit: Another video I put together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkuo1yihjs

Another edit: If you like media that celebrates the beauty and wonder of science, go check it out and listen to their podcast. Winner of best educational podcast of the year AND best science podcast of the year!
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
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English
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03:12

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