Something special resonated with us while watching Facebook’s short video The Things That Connect Us, more casually known as “the extended Facebook-as-chairs metaphor.” The only problem was, the audio didn’t seem quite right — so The Verge video team decided to change just one thing about it. What follows is the uncut video, now with audio selections from Carl Sagan’s “The Pale Blue Dot”.
Watch this: ‘The Pale Blue Facebook,’ a remix narrated by Carl Sagan
“On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”
“On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”
Update: Video removed at the request of The Pale Blue Dot’s intellectual property owner.
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