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28. Silver Apples – Misty Mountain

…almost there mit dem Hubble Extreme Deep Field.

„…and did you count the miles?“

Vielen Dank für diese großartige Reise, Friederike! Auch für die wunderschön aufgemachten und mühevoll detaillierten Stationen. Ganz großes Kino!

29. Kendra Smith – Space Unadorned

…und dieses Foto unserer Erde ist Voyager 1s Abschiedgeschenk:

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every „superstar,“ every „supreme leader,“ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

–Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Danke Friederike, für eine sensationelle Sendung! Faszinierende Musik, die in einen wissenschaftlichen Kontext gebracht wurde, präsentiert durch Zitate, die anschaulich und informativ waren, Fotos aus dem All, Daten, die unfassbar sind.

Mehr noch als die reine Wissenschaftlichkeit hat mich der emotionale Gehalt der gesamten Sendung begeistert.

Ich ziehe meinen (nicht vorhandenen) Hut vor den verarbeiteten Fakten und der musikalischen Umsetzung des Themas.

Das war ganz großes Kino! Danke, Friederike!

Allen eine gute Nacht!

delia-hardy Diese Sendung hat mich in der Vorbereitung sehr viele Nerven gekostet, aber mehr noch hat sie mir großen, großen Spaß bereitet!

Dass die Kreation der Sendung viel Arbeit war, anstrengend, das kann ich mir vorstellen. Aber inwieweit Nerven gekostet? Das klingt nach Stress.

Danke auch für den zweiten Teil, Friederike.
Die letzten zehn Minuten fehlten mir, weil ich n0chmal  das Haus verlassen und nicht bis zu Ende hören konnte.