On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Mix Tape

Penny Lane was fascinated by the journey of the Voyager probes, as they carried inside of them gold records full of binary-coded human culture to the farthest reaches of our solar system, and beyond. It occurred to her that those gold records represented a love story - not of mankind, but of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, who met and fell in love while assembling these time capsules of our species.

Penny made this short film as a love note to her husband on their wedding day, using the journey of these spacecraft and the love story of Carl and Ann as a way to express her joy and wonder on that day:

“Thousands of millions of years from now, long after our Sun burns the Earth into nothing, the Voyagers will still be out there, rushing at incredible speeds, into an incredible unknown, seeking. The Voyagers were only built to last two years, but they surprised everyone.

They are fearless.”

(via The Atlantic)

Source: The Atlantic

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    years from now, long after...Earth into nothing,...Voyagers...
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    This is so moving, on so many levels, I wept through a great deal of it. Surely I cannot be the only one?…
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    I cried… through the whole fucking video. This is everything I have ever thought of.
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    Without a doubt the most beautiful video that has ever been on my blog.
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