Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

by Carl Sagan

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some fantastic content.. I mean really amazingly good. But also some seriously detailed stuff I tuned out a bit. (

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Even though I don't always agree with some of Carl Sagan's viewpoints, I do like how he makes scientifically inaccessible information accessible. (

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1994

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Earth

Mars

Milky Way Galaxy

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New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 1995)

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For Sam, another wanderer. May your generation see wonders undreamt.

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We were wanderers from the beginning.

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"FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."
--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

"TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity's future in the stars."
--Chicago Tribune

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400)

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