Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 3 part4

[RJL738]

It's so wonderful to know science has been paved even in the recent past by passionate yet weird minds, minds that had very little to loose and just wanted to know the truth. Such a mind when rocognised with any strong certainty should be nutured in the highest sence of the word, imagine if every willing mind was given all the material it need even running over so that they would never really stop be amazed by the world.

[SirNewt]

@RJL738 I think the powerful thing about science is that if it is pursued with rigor even a "weird" mind cannot sabotage it completely. I think Darwin is a very good example of that. While on the Beagle, Darwin maintained his creationist tendencies. But his nuanced observations, strict recordings, and willingness to submit himself to specialists like John Gould eventually paid off.

[SirNewt]

@RJL738 Even more impressive is a situation like that of Tycho Brahe. Tycho himself did not have accurate enough measurements to free himself of Geocentrism, despite having, probably, the most accurate recordings of celestial bodies to that point in history. But using his rigorous recordings Kepler was able to formulate his 3 laws of planetary motion.

[macmacma]

SAGANS ARE BETTER

and yes, he sounds exactly like agent smith

[homsany12]

@macmacma you mean agent smith sounds like Sagan!

[Zee96969696]

after watching carl sagans documentary for so long, i start to speak like carl sagan. this is scary, people are going to laugh at me, call me agent smith....

which documentaries are better carl sagans or stephen hawkings?

[nvidea8400gs]

Fascinating, I appear to suffer from the same inextricable, subconscious urge to speak in a Sagan-esque tongue as you do. Problem is, I'm a theoretical astrophysicist, so i tend speak like sagan ALL of the time (even at lectures, hence i'm often referred to as the Agent smith with a campy british accent). Anyway, I suggest you buy a "carl sagan is my homeboy" t-shirt, then people will understand fully your aforementioned convictions entirely.

[Zee96969696]

Are you really a theoretical astrophysicist? it is difficult for me to believe, but cool if it true.... yeah, buying a carl sagan shirt is a good idea, then im going to laugh with people not just them lauging at me.... maybe in the future all people will have the carl sagan syndrome, only those people will survive, something called natural selection

[nvidea8400gs]

Well ,i'm not exactly an Astrophysicist yet, but I am a post-grad student studying theoretical physics, astronomy and mathematics, so I could be one if I wanted to. Anyway, having Carl Sagan syndrome could provide an evolutionary advantage, in that we wont kill ourselves during nuclear warfare; and we'll all graze in the fields, smoking hemp, and staring at the sky, going on imaginary sabbaticals in our dandelion seed spacecraft (from the "Cosmos" series episode 1)

[Zee96969696]

well good luck with the job, whats the point of doing anything though if when we die then we lose everything and turn into dust and stop caring about everything.... people only care while living, why? because our dna has made us this way, theres no future for any of us, and in the real world - nothing really matters... that is if we do not have souls which it seems like we don't. you know what i'm saying? science has opened peoples eyes to realize that we are nothing but floating moving dust

[2CSST2]

@Zee96969696 There is much more to us and to the universe itself than that. When we die the story goes on for others, and I think it is our duty to help thw wolrd progress during our lifetime. The universe is not static, it is continually changing and through its history we see the tendency for some parts of it to become more and more complex. We humans, our society and technology, are for what we know the most complex, I hope we will become much more yet, with the help of science and time

[darksaiyan2006]

Both are cool, but Carl Sagan has a more storybook voice.

[DarkTemp0]

as long as you don't start talking like the pope there's no need to worry, you're on the right track :P

[ThomasHaberkorn]

@Zee96969696 of course carl sagan's...

[goreziad]

jebus christ what is that? something people still cant forget after 2000 years of delusioned self importance?

[stevehunniford]

Jesus Christ

[SirNewt]

I'm listening. ;)

[stewieforking]

Hey do you have the special edition of cosmos?

[SirNewt]

As a matter of fact I do.

[stewieforking]

Cant find it on youtube...care to upload it? :)

[rokzroom]

@SirNewt where can we have it?? :)

[pyoa2004]

Its Great...I'm Waiting For More Too! Thanks

[wolverine4545454545]

where's part5?

[SirNewt]

Since I've broken my creed of one a week lately here's another.

[wolverine4545454545]

thank-you so much for uploading these but I was wondering if you could let us all know when parts 5 & 6 will be uploaded cheers

[SirNewt]

Hehe, yeah. . . don't I feel sheepish. I promised part 5 and then I had some trouble uploading it.