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Pale Blue Dot - Ice Core Scientist
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This music video, produced by the band Ice Core Scientist, blends still imagery and surprisingly effective text to be both music video and polemic. By emphasizing both the massive scale and relative smallness of our planet, it's four minutes which leaves you thinking about the rock we all take for granted, and how we might preserve it.
"Pale Blue Dot" draws specific inspiration from the work of Carl Sagan, whose 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space attempted to give man perspective on their literal place in the universe. "There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world," says Sagan -- a concept that Ice Core Scientist animates skillfully.
Based out of Ireland, Ice Core Scientist is an independent band with an environmental focus. According to their website, they are "named after the intrepid scientists who live and work in the arctic circle painstakingly collecting core samples of ice, so that we can learn how our fragile eco system has worked over hundreds of thousands of years. They are quite clearly mad. Which helps."
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A parting gift from Voyager Inspired by the words of Carl Sagan in 1991, as he presented to the world, the most distant image yet taken of ourselves (from 4 billion miles). What ever each of us believes in, this is something we all share, and through sharing, we might some day learn humility. Copyright Carl Sagan. Used with kind permission. Song and film by ice core scientist. Dedicated to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
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