WebGL Realistic Earth with Carl Sagan quote

Lovely! Very touching...

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 14.04 in 64-bit Chrome 42.0.2311.90.

No JS errors in console either when clicking "begin".

Nice work, I've been putting together something like this as well in my spare time, been trying to nail down the right shaders to handle the atmospheric glow as well as morphing cloud layers as they move. Trying to see how possible it is to come close to this effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybh11kcDhfM

This quote is great, but the visual ruins the context of a pale blue dot. From [0], the reference was to the Voyager probe taking an image of the Earth from near the edge of the solar system and the Earth appears as a dot less than a pixel in size.

From that perspective, seeing majestic images of the Earth larger than life and in your face is contrary to what Sagan was saying. With the outstanding visuals in this demo, one might get the sense of a majestic world full of opportunity, worthy of building armies to conquer and spill blood for each chunk of land; the very antithesis of his point of how tiny and insignificant our world and the people on it are.

The real pale blue dot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot