The Pale Blue Dot

My view on the pale blue dot changed a lot by each iteration. The text itself was very thought provoking and moving. I am a huge fan of Carl Sagan and have read this article before. Carl Sagan is a master with words and expressing them in a thought provoking manor and well as driving home a point. The text iteration really shows that. The listening iteration is even more emotional. Carl Sagan’s has a great narrators voice to begin with. He emphasis words that I normally would not emphasis reading to myself. He also changes his pitch at the end of some sentences that are not questions necessarily but are thought provoking statements that he himself ponders and ultimately gets read as a question. When it came to the video it was way to fast for Carl Sagan’s voice. Pictures where flashing of things he was mentioning and you were more focused on trying to figure the past pictures rather then listening to the words. I think the video took away from Carl Sagan’s great article and hindered it of its main point. I believe the video could have been made in a way that it would have helped. If the pictures were slowed down and not just pictures but a free flowing video and less of a power point.  If anyone interested this is a much better version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYtXoUZbUCQ&list=FL8H81D-3c7AaOUknIo9TQxA&index=5&feature=plpp_video