Carl Sagan - Books

[GrenadeCatcher]

Sadly i think books will be gone in the future. Its much easier to store information in small formats on sd, cd or other formats we'll use in the future. The kindle is the first step to phasing out books.

[msfrydae]

@GrenadeCatcher Gotta agree with you on that one:(, oh well at least the optometrists will still be in business.

[chinareds54]

One fireman from Fahrenheit 451 watched this video.

[DeathsWill228]

His captivating voice will resonate through everyone that remembers him forever.

[TheRogueJackass]

One dislike??? Really?? Well I hope you're proud of yourself.

[sad0happy]

What is the song starting at 7.05? If I'm not mistaken it was also used in the movie Mr. Nobody. I've tried searching for it but can't find it. :(

[laesphanie]

one illiterate

[SerielThriller]

he has a very captivating voice

[misinglink15]

Heads up guys, there is a planned sequel to "Cosmos" planned for a 2013 release. It will be produced by Ann dryuan and Seth mcfarlene, and the host will be Neil degrasse tyson.

[freedomland11]

@misinglink15 get outta here? are you serious! where did you here this rumor?

[misinglink15]

@freedomland11 just google "Cosmos sequel" and you'll get all the information you need, production is currently slated for a 2013 release on Fox in prime time. Its being produced by Ann Druyan (Sagan's Widow) and Seth Mcfarlene (Family Guy Creater and huge fan of Sagan.) And the host? Neil Degrasse Tyson!

[leatherman665]

i've learned more by reading books than i ever did in a classroom......

[trnstlntcsnnt301]

@leatherman665 Agreed.

[Azyashi]

Life seems so short measured in books =(

[cnestudy1]

I can find much of my information on the internet. No need for books. the internet is much faster and efficient

[mallu000]

@cnestudy1 I don't really think so. Reading a book is much more comfortable than scrolling through an internet article or just reading book in a pdf form. Also in internet you are really well distracted by ads, banners and basically anything on the same page. I can easily read book for 2-5 hours but sitting the same time with a computer is just impossible at least without gaining back or wrist pains.

[cnestudy1]

@mallu000 yeah and plus radiation, u right. but i do know a lot of people who do it comfortably

[guavaflower1]

I miss Carl Sagan- notbody like him nowadays! 

[dlbattle100]

@guavaflower1 Neil Degrasse Tyson is the closest I've found.

[Ghebatta]

0:50

Makes quite the impression on me.

[sotomizer77]

People who claim superiority over believers of gods for choosing not too are as ignorant and backwards as the people who claim superiority for believing gods.

(I'm an atheist)

[NotDuncan]

@sotomizer77 How so?

[sotomizer77]

@NotDuncan Just like religious fanatic, they make the arrogant assumption that what they think makes them better people.

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[NotDuncan]

@sotomizer77 I'm not sure it's arrogance to put reason above blind faith, that being said I agree that it doesn't make you a better person. Partial because 'better person' is a subjective term. However I will argue that in general atheists tend to be smarter.

[sotomizer77]

@sotomizer77 The reason atheists tend to be smarter is because they tend to not blindly follow a belief; but its a pretty ignorant generalization to consider all religious people blind followers. Don't let the idiotic majority fool, you, there's a good number of religious people that think for themselves and don't deny science because a priest tells them to.

[jonescaleb12]

@samussbm85 PortVienna80 never said it did. Take a chill pill.

[PortVienna80]

1450: The first book printed using movable type was the Bible.

[samusssbm85]

@PortVienna80 Doesn't make it true.

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

“Pale Blue Dot” is the wisest book of them all.

[jerryhello100]

Books are sexy.

[denislemenoir]

Sagan would have liked the iPad then

[nahedh]

I cried watching this. Thinking about how his words are immortalized through audio, and his exuberance through video. I know that for centuries to come, the internet will be seen as another bold leap in preserving knowledge beyond death and connecting the world. Rest in peace Sagan.

[issamkhair]

i love carl sagan

[petersickles]

This is just an observance of mine based on my current Youtube experience. I'm a huge Carl fan... on this current page which offers many different youtube posts of Carl, the top video is a paid/promoted video about some pseudoscience self-help power within BS called

"You Create Your Own Reality"... Carl would be rolling over in his grave...

[GeraldWatercrest]

Thank you for uploading this video. Too often do we forget the amazing opportunities that seem so commonplace.

[karl198]

And now we have the internet, the biggest library of them all. it's knowing which parts to look at :)

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@karl198

Not all bits are of equal value.

[JAD3889]

@karl198 most of the internet is garbage I agree and you can get more information from one book on any given subject than you can get from all the websites about it. the problem is that websites generally give overviews about something and very rarely dive as deep in the subject as a 300-400 page book will...

[SpinachInquisition]

Carl Sagan is such an inspiration to me. I love books and literature, but just seeing them the way he puts it makes me value them so much more. =)

As for the ebooks discussion, I'm kind of in favor of them, they make books so much more widely available to everyone! Sometimes the problem is not the price, but the availability, and the internet just makes sharing knowledge so much easier. I know, I know, it's just not the same as reading a real book, but hey, you gotta work with what you got.

[NoSz4]

Honeslty, I find it much easier to read them on the computer anyways.. no flipping pages just a simple scroll, you can zoom in or out to your prefered font size, and you dont take up any room.

Im in agreeance I love ebooks!

[AspiringPotato]

@SpinachInquisition

I'm sure that some manner of "flippable ebook" is on the way. Still not the same, but it will get closer. Although it is a bit sad that the charm of rare books, or sentimentally valuable books, will be lost to technology.

[TDTerix]

Hi.. in my opinion, an e.book can be two diferent things, 1.- A capitalist trick to spend money in tecnology like your Pc or 2.- A solution to avoid forrestal devastation. If you can conserve some good printed books do it. Or just buy an old pc to read e.book, nobody needs a xeon quad core, opteron six core to read a simple file like an e.book. Thanks Carl for you legacy. And im sorry for the english, but is not my native idiom.

[thejugglenaut91]

of the things that we waste paper on, books should be the absolute last thing to be replaced.

[silversobe]

Some great books...

*Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee*

Any books by J Krishnaumurti

Any books by Terence Mckenna

Fulfill your potential!

[NoSz4]

@silversobe - terence mckenna is a nutjob

[johnottr]

Hey cristoretornebiblia. So your favorite book is the Holy Word of God. So youre into fantasy I take it!

[cristoretornebiblia]

No I like Factual books only

[SithRage]

@johnottr and/or Horror.

[MixedSoul100]

I love the smell of old books and reading them the more so.

I'm deeply saddened whenever I hear news of libraries turning to E-books. E-books will never be good enough compared to actual books, In my opinion.

[cristoretornebiblia]

I love to be surrounded by Literature. My favourite book is the Holy Word of God and I like to read on Aincent Empires

[msole06]

yea... i like to read on AINCENT empires as well....... yep lol.

[EndCredulity]

"saddened whenever I hear news of libraries turning to E-books"

Same here. I visited my alma mater's library and was horrified. They were dumping all the stacks and CLAIMING they were replacing them with on-line books.

But in truth, it was not a one-for-one replacement. Old, well-written, serious books written BY adults FOR adults were being replaced by substandard "modern" e-books written BY jerks FOR kids.

Old books there that I was familiar with had no e-book equivalent.

Forever lost.

[thejugglenaut91]

will never "read" an E-book till the day I die!

[Tapecutter59]

Sagan would have loved the internet.like any great library it's 95% crap but the other 5% includes stuff like this clip.

But more importantly it's the next logical step after Guttenburg.

Guttenburg gave the "common man" cheap and ubiquitous access to information.

The internet has given the "common man" ubiquitous and cheap access to publishing as well as consuming information.

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

[grovestreet8]

if only there are public libraries in our area.

[Kamatzu]

Great clip!

Kind of irrelevant, but the camera is on top of the World Trade Center at 7:56. It just kind of hit me, after Sagan's message, how vulnerable we all are and how we should use our time wisely...

[ynotyouto]

In my library on sunday morning; where I go to learn more then any church could pretend to teach. A quick search and I find this video where I run across Carl S quote on libraries(@~6min.). "A library connects us with the insights and knowledge of the greatest minds and the best teachers, drawn from the whole planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contributions to the collective knowledge of the human species"

Thx for doing your part!

[bioflame]

Thank you so much!

[SardonicusRexx]

Great post, and thanks for posting the info about Carl returning to the Science Channel. Sadly, not many people have the Discovery Science Channel. We need to thank Discovery but ask them to run Cosmos on the more-basic Discovery channel instead of their Science channel. More people can see it that way.

[DeepAbsentia]

@SardonicusRexx sweet illusion.. oh i wish...

[eeirkgeing]

They're bringing 'Cosmos' back! Starting January 8 on the Science Channel! Spread the word!

[spaceagebachelor]

Great post!