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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. A globe, blank notebook and blank television beside an imagined starry window; not Sagan’s room, a program frame, a calibrated map or the Pale Blue Dot photograph.
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The following original text is preserved, including its selection/vote claims. Preservation is not independent verification of every assertion.
Why: Carl Sagan's "pale blue dot" and cosmic perspective.
What to preserve: Episodes
Year and origin: 1980 · United States
Vote: 6/9 (historian 2 · future kid 2 · curator 2)
Learn more: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
Library of Congress archive descriptions identify Cosmos as a thirteen-part series first broadcast in 1980, with writing by Sagan, Druyan and Soter. The series is a cultural artifact of public science communication: storytelling, visual explanation and a host’s voice shape how knowledge is encountered. Preserving original episodes alongside dated corrections would allow future viewers to distinguish its historical scientific account from later discoveries.
Creator/community: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Steven Soter and the series production team Place/era: United States; original television series 1980
Context and limits
The original reference to ‘pale blue dot’ conflates related parts of Sagan’s legacy: NASA dates the famous Voyager 1 photograph to February 14, 1990, a decade after the original series. The LOC item and finding-aid pages returned 403; indexed descriptions were used, not inaccessible documents. The illustrated stars and globe are invented, not a scientific map or NASA image.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
- https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000052/
- https://findingaids.loc.gov/repositories/19/resources/5583
Apiary library | Original Culture Ark article
Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0303
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