2019过去了一半,第二季依然没能播出。
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因为偶然的机会被推荐了这部纪录片,自此以奔三的高龄开始对天文 星空 时空 献出迟来的喜爱与推崇
第一遍看完后的震撼不赘述。接着在漫长的一段时光里在跑步机上反复地观看其中的几集,重复却不单调地扰动着神经,伴我跑过很长很久沉重的路。
狭小的空间里奔忙着,却在心里 在脑海中开启了新的视界。
最喜欢其中的 1集 (Standing up in the milky way)
3集 (When knowledge conquer fear)
4集 (A sky full of ghosts)
5集 (Hiding in the light)
8集 (Sisters of the sun)
10集 (The electric boy)
11集 (The immortals)
13集 (Unafraid of the dark)
摘抄了其中很多的句子,
包括最有名的Carl Sagan在Pale Blue Dot中的经典
“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.” 看完后不仅觉得渺小,还会觉得人心需开阔需谦虚需洒脱
主持人,也是物理学家Neil,将之拓展并携以深情
"Carl Sagan was member of Voyager's imaging team,and it was his idea that Voyager take one last picture.A generation before,an anstronaut on the last Apollo flight to the Moon had taken a picture of the whole Earth-the planet as a world without borders.It became an icon of a new consciousness.
Carl realized the next step in this process.
He convinced NASA to turn the Voyager1 camera back towards Earth when the spacecraft went beyond Neptune,for one last look homeward at what he called
the Pale Blue 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.
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. "
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我爱的11集 最后对未来的世界与人性充满希望与信心
By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us. Necessity will have changed us. we are adaptable species.
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby star systems on our interstellar arks. it will be a species very like us. but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more confident, far-seeing, capable and wise.
For all our failings,despite our flaws and limitations, we humans are capable of greatness.
What new wonders, undreamt of in our time, will have accomplished in another generation and another?
How far will our nomadic species have wonder by the end of the next century, and the next millennium ?
Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the solar system and beyond will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by their knowledge that, whatever other life may be ,the only humans in all the universe came from earth.
They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. they will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perious our infancy,how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross, before we found our way .
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每次在这里停步都会眼泪盈眶,想想漫漫回望祖先的我们的后代,真想告诉你们我们走过的路
以及Neil Tyson最后关于世界观的尺度陈词
Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves,what difference does that make?
Well,part of it depends on how big a universe you&#39;re willing to live in.
Some of us like it small.
that&#39; fine,understandable.
But i like it big.
And when i take all of this into my heart and mind,i&#39;m uplifted by it.
And when i have that feeling,i want to know that&#39;s real,that it&#39;s not just something happening inside my own head,because it matters what&#39;s true.
And our imagination is nothing,compared with nature&#39;s awesome reality.
--Neil Tyson
毫不夸张地说这部纪录片传达的不仅是知识,还裹挟着宇宙观世界观的输出。
虽然认真推荐过,但真正看的朋友几乎没有。真是一件略伤感遗憾的事。
曾经给一位刚做父亲的朋友送了一移动硬盘作生日礼物,只装了这部纪录片,大约70G。
愿未来父母和孩子能一同观看,
像Carl Sagan给Neil Tyson的启发一样,像William Herschell对儿子说过的,
137亿年来的信息都像幽灵一般浮在宇宙之内,
告诉他,我们的星空full of ghosts
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