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The Pale Blue Dot: A Cosmic Perspective

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Please subscribe to the original uploader's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Fibbs1701?feature=watch Description: While I generally strive to create films of uplift, there are times when a dirge is appropriate. Inspired by the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon, I was seeking a way to show the futility of human barbarism in the context of the plumbless cosmos in which we live. I chose to employ the method used in the film "Contact," in which, as we pull away from Earth and race across millions of light years, we witness, in reverse chronological order, those events to which humanity has subjected itself. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, and given the video's length, I have already removed several incidents--from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Six Day War, to the Israeli bifurcation of Gaza and the Columbine school shooting. Included only are examples of man's inhumanity to man, and not unintended tragedies or natural disasters. (This pullback and its events are meant to be symbolic rather than literal; I am aware no broadcasts of, for instance, World War I, were originally broadcast into space.) We end with a familiar admonition from Carl Sagan--a plea that we recognize the cosmic perspective given the insignificance of our "pale blue dot." NOTE: Due to its subject matter, this video contains graphic imagery; viewer discretion is advised. The following events are represented: Boston Marathon bombing North Korea flexes its muscle Newtown school shooting Syrian Revolution Mexican drug cartel violence Arab Spring revolts UK terrorist attack Madrid terrorist attack Iraq War War in Afghanistan 9/11 Oklahoma City Bombing Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack Rwandan genocide Bosnian War Gulf War Tiananmen Square protests Pan Am Flight 103 bombing Bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut Iranian hostage crisis Killing fields of Cambodia MLK assassination RFK assassination Vietnam War Civil Rights Movement JFK assassination Berlin Wall goes up Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War World War II Nanking massacre Armenian Genocide World War I FOOTAGE SOURCES: "Contact" "Hubble 3D" CNN ABC News NBC News CBS News ITN News Al Jazera News BBC News PBS The Boston Globe The London Telegraph AXSTV's "Dan Rather Reports" British Pathe Buyout Footage Romano Archives Funker530 military footage "Fahrenheit 911" "Modern Warfare: Korean War 1950 to 1953" "The Voice of God: Propaganda and the Rwandan Genocide" "Vietnam in HD" "Triumph of the Will" "World War I in Color" AUDIO FEATURED: Tabula Rasa - Part II: Silentium Senza moto by Arvo Pärt The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All copyrighted materials contained herein belong to their respective copyright holders, I do not claim ownership over any of these materials. I realize no profit, monetary or otherwise, from the exhibition of these videos.