Pale Blue Dot (edit title)

Altipire M. edited the table of contents of Pale Blue Dot 11 days ago.

• Wanderers: An Introduction

  1. You are Here
  2. Aberrations of Light
  3. The Great Demotions
  4. A Universe Not Made for Us
  5. Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
  6. The Triumph of Voyager
  7. Among the Moons of Saturn
  8. The First New Planet
  9. An American Ship at the Frontiers of the Solar System
  10. Sacred Black
  11. Evening and Morning Star
  12. The Ground Melts

Shelfari edited the description of Pale Blue Dot Saturday, August 1 2009.

• "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

Shelfari edited the contributors of Pale Blue Dot Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Carl Sagan: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Pale Blue Dot Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The spacecraft was a long way from home, beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic plane-which is an imaginary flat surface that we can think of as something like a racetrack in which the orbits of the planets are mainly confined.