Elon Musk: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond

00:00:00.000 | The universe appears to be 13.8 billion years old.

00:00:07.000 | Earth is like 4.5 billion years old.

00:00:12.000 | In another half billion years or so, the sun will expand and probably evaporate the oceans

00:00:19.000 | and make life impossible on Earth,

00:00:22.000 | which means that if it had taken consciousness 10% longer to evolve, it would never have evolved at all.

00:00:28.000 | Just 10% longer.

00:00:32.000 | And I wonder how many dead, one-planet civilizations there are out there in the cosmos

00:00:39.000 | that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors.

00:00:46.000 | Probably a few.

00:00:49.000 | Channeling Carl Sagan.

00:00:52.000 | Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.

00:00:58.000 | On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of,

00:01:03.000 | every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

00:01:07.000 | The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,

00:01:13.000 | every hunter and forger, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization,

00:01:18.000 | every king and peasant, every young couple in love,

00:01:22.000 | every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer,

00:01:28.000 | every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader,

00:01:37.000 | every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a moat of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

00:01:44.000 | Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

00:01:49.000 | In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

00:01:56.000 | The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.

00:01:59.000 | There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.

00:02:04.000 | This is not true.

00:02:07.000 | This is false. Mars.

00:02:10.000 | I think Carl Sagan would agree with that. He couldn't even imagine it at that time.

00:02:14.000 | So, thank you for making the world dream.

00:02:17.000 | And thank you for talking today. I really appreciate it.

00:02:20.000 | Thank you.

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