Copying this to my journal, dude. I forgot how awesome it was.

I'll still never forget when I first discovered, quite by accident, the works of Carl Sagan. It was in my high school library, when I was just looking for random stuff on astronomy to hold my interest and kill some time.

I ended up purchasing many of those same books that I'd already read time and again from borrowing them over and over from that library (Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot certainly the most significant among them).

When I think of people who I consider my heroes, I usually have to stop and think for a bit to come up with a list, but the one name that comes to mind immediately is always Carl Sagan.

Yep, that right there is one great piece of work. I wonder how many people really do understand just how small we all are in the grand scheme of things. Or just how much there is out there.

Combine this short (as well as various other Cosmos clips) with the series Life After People, for a truly humbling experience.

In the grand scheme of things, we ain't nothing, and even our puny little planet would quite happily revert to being fallow with us gone.

Humbling, isn't it.

But inspiring.

Yes.