I saw this a long time ago, but I recently saw it linked from somewhere else. Someone remixed Carl Sagan into one of the greatest youtube videos of all time. It makes me feel good about humanity. If only it had 5 million views, it would beat the weekly viewership of the Jersey Shore. Seriously, this video has less views than the Jersey Shore. That hurts. A lot.

I can't get enough of it. But I really wanted to point out the line: "If you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." I love it. As a developer, that statement comes up all the time, create from scratch. "The framework is really slow, lets create one from scratch." "This module doesn't do what we want, lets create a new one from scratch." "I know we don't want to reinvent the wheel, but we have to create it from scratch." Sometimes starting from scratch can be a good thing, but very often, the people saying "start from scratch" don't realize the whole scope of what they are saying. Starting from scratch on something is time consuming and requires a lot of engineering, architecting and coding. So for the "start from scratch"ers out there, remember, you must first invent the universe.