CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
if only carl sagan could have ruled the earth or atleast a big country, for a short period of time. things would be far different than what we can see today
If god is real, then he must surely be proud of Carl Sagan and has given him eternal happiness. I also doubt this god would be like the monster Yaweh. Only cruel primitive men can make up a god so evil like the one in the bible.
@fourteatwo Your very first sentence was wrong. "According to their logic Christian do not believe in God but refuse to believe there is none" No. According to logic, Christians assume there IS a God. Atheists do not. That should be obvious.
You apparently don't know anything about atheism. Your suggested logic of "I don't know of any God, therefore none exists" is not atheist logic at all. It's no wonder you think it illogical - you came up with it yourself.
Atheist logic is: "I have no belief in something for which there is no evidence." Not "there is no God," but "I refuse to ASSUME there is one."
According to atheists logic is relative. According to their logic Christian do not believe in God but refuse to assume there is none.
Now whilst some Atheists claim they do not hate God because they do not assume that he exists., they tend to hate those who believe in God instead, as they feel that those impose control over their life, similar to religious fundamentalists, just reverse polarity.
Can you imagine that there are grown up adult people who think wisdom and guidance of this magnitude should be kept out of schools, and replaced with nonsense (im speaking on evolution as well). I love listening to Carl Sagan explain things, he is so precise and articulate, even to down to ever fastidious degree.
This is for the people who are anti spiritual and 'only jesus is the correct path'
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." (Albert Einstein)
i always think that the galaxy would not have 100 billion galaxies, but less or more, why the fuck is the even number. how the hell did they caculate them.
@warrior4just "100 billion" is just an estimate. When scientists or Carl Sagan say this, they don't mean that there are exactly 100 billion. There may be 100,234,345,345 or 100,323,243,344, etc. It is just an ESTIMATE of the true of number.
Carl Sagan's early death aged just 62 was one of the greatest losses imaginable to the human race. Few men in history have ever said so clearly why we should put aside our petty. childish and self centered passions and work together, not like the Borg but as a free, united collective of individuals all pulling in the same direction. Politics, religion and ethnic division keep us in chains and anchored in all the follies of our primitive past.
The Universe is made up of self sustaining multi tasking systems such as orbiting planets & suns & even our Global Eco'System all working for thousands even billions of years without an operator, refueling or maintenance ~ all of the machinery of the Universe is evidence for a Supreme Intelligence having designed & created it so he could be free of it all to create more, while man invents a car to replace the horse but it doesn't reproduce itself. God is your Creator. Don't deny the evidence!
@MegaSage007 what devil? i know of no such creature except the fictional one, for witch i don't care very much thank you. Atheism is by definition logical my friend, you know "not believing something without concrete evidence" and all that. And I will have to decline your offer on the "forums" part, it's not my job to educate people, i will leave that to the professionals, i just get offended when people demean humanity and nature by saying 'goddidit'.
@DefiantAlex Yes I know the language of atheists very well and the arrogancy. You know of no devil, therefore no devil exists. = Illogical. You know of no evidence for the existence of God. = Illogical.
ATHEISM IS THE MOST ILLOGICAL BELIEF IN THE UNIVERSE.
@MegaSage007 what devil? i know of no such creature except the fictional one, for witch i don't care very much thank you. Atheism is by definition logical my friend, you know "not believing something without concrete evidence" and all that. And I will have to decline your offer on the "forums" part, it's not my job to educate people, i will leave that to the professionals, i just get offended (because of my point of view) when people demean humanity and nature by saying 'goddidit'.
I think it may also prove helpful to some of the viewers here to try to evaluate many of the more strident claims of the anti-theist critique ("brights") from a ideological/ metaphysics perspective. Check out the recent article by Jackson Lears in the May 16, 2011 issue of the The Nation entitled "Same Old New Atheism" .The article offers a compelling analysis of Sam Harris' works. Consideration is given to general atheistic social perspectives
If there are 100 billion galaxies out there, each of which contain 100 billion stars, that means there are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. I am going to rip the throat out of anyone who says there isn't any other form of life in the universe.
@ScrapBrainZone 1) You need an open-source of energy (not to difficult to find)
2) You need to be in the "goldilocks" zone. (Very difficult.)
3) You need near-perfect rotation around your source of energy. (Very difficult because of, perhaps, binary stars, other vast gravitational pulls, etc.)
4) You need the precise condition in-which enough specific elements are available.
5) You need the precise condition in-which these elements contribute to the creation of amino acids and then RNA and then
@OverLoad619 You've completely missed my point. Regardless of the how many stars and proto-planets there are; it doesn't make it easier on life. The existence of stars and planets is easy - life itself is unfathomably more difficult to discover. Life itself is perplexingly rare. You've just wrote down the amount of plants in existence but disregarded the goldilocks zone, energy, gravity, time, elements, sources of energy and many other attributes that I have failed to encompass.
@OverLoad619 Merely assuming that life can arrise on a planet makes it obvious that you haven't incorporated "how life can arise". So you must first have a complete diagram of how life can begin with purely natural/innate processing since its inception.
@ScrapBrainZone 6) You then need extremely fruitful environments for very primitive life to arise.
7) You then this life to thrive and thrive fo hundreds and hundreds of millions of years (maybe billions).
Yes, it very, very, very, very rare. Unfathomably rare and we'll most likely find no intelligent life in our generation, or the next, or the next, or the next...
Don't be sad that Carl Sagan died. Be glad that he lived. Everyone dies, that's life. He lived his life to the fullest and left us an amazing legacy. For that I am grateful.
0:52 this is how children in school should be, stunned silence toward an amazing teacher saying amazing things all of which are true and not subject to political or religious doctrine. What I wouldn't do for Carl Sagan to have been my physics teacher!
Carl, I think you forgot to remind the kids there that for every human on Earth, there are over 1.4 trillion stars in the universe - for every child in that classroom, more than 1 400 000 000 000 inconceivably giant stars, spread out over an incomprehensibly vast area, each shining incredibly bright, for an unimaginable length of time - its light we see in the sky just a whisper of its epic life cycle.
I love how Sagan's timeless, thoughtful expression is the epitome of discovery and wonder.
Your entire life, job, social status, your successes and failures aren't what makes you who you are. We are all on this trip called life, a beautiful and awe inspiring experience that is a gift. Remember that no human being or thing is better than another. We are all one in the infinite, here this moment, together, forever.
if the sun was the size of an 1inch round pebble, the nearest star would be 600miles away, and light would take 3 1/2 years to get there. put that in our size. light would be traveling at 0.5 miles per hour. now you can really see how slow is the speed of light compared to the gigantic universe.. light is slower than a turtle in slow motion.
@ThingsBetweenTimes I'd tell you what I believe is sickening, but it's quite clear by this time that you have no concern for logic or rationalism. Stick to your fairy-tale explanations if they make you feel better, but please don't be so childish as to show up on scientific videos and try to make those who seek REAL physical and metaphysical knowledge look silly and tell us that WE are wrong.
Maybe we're both wrong, but only one of us is trying.
@FuckFacts I'v tried to beleive in god religion and fairy-tails but i couldnt, i respect people who learn and try hard even if they are wrong, its better than beleiving in the Virgin birth and the talking snake.
After all all we have in this life is our planet, and we keep deviding each other by these disgusting ideas and religions.
@babygirl3s That's the greatest thing you can do--look at both sides of the argument before deciding. If you simply believe the first thing you hear, whether you end up being right or wrong, you are still just an ignorant sheep. Science is a culmination of observable fact and theory. Without logical theories(Einstein's relativity, for example) the entire foundation of science falls apart. What this means is that science is a completely revisional, ever-evolving entity. Progress is everything.
@FuckFacts Trust me, my parents are really religous, i'v read some of the Bible and the Quran and i debated Religous people, but still i never see any physcal Evidence, and how does religon improve, it doesnt you just keep repeating yourself over and ovver again.
And btw Not everything in science is Theory, and a Theory is not something that has no evidence, There are Laws in science and others.
@babygirl3s =) I believe you've misinterpreted my message. My point was that science is progressive and religion is not, making science--in my opinion--far superior. Because quite clearly, the way humanity is right now is not satisfactory. 16, 000 children starve to death every day while Christian charities spend 90% of proceeds building churches and giving starving people bibles instead of food... Science is revisional, if a problem is found, every effort is made to right it, unlike religion.
@FuckFacts Yes sorry then i am with you, People spend money on building mosques and churches while people die from starvation, TRUE.
I understand what you say and i think that its true, and by the way, i think that religion causes more war and devides people, i experienced that myself.
@babygirl3s Undoubtedly. Religion has caused some of the worst wars and massacres in human history. I love Sagan's quote "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
But, religion does have the power to positively affect the unbalanced lives of thousands. In a free, equal society however, religion is not needed whatsoever. It just so happens no such society has, to this point, ever existed =P
Tyrants are cool! Kenyan Obama supports eugenics, as brutally applied by Margaret Sanger to the Negroes of her day. Goats, sheep, horses, cows & people are indistinguishable as far as eugenicists are concerned. Livestock must be pathologically monitored so as desirable traits can be encouraged & fostered through Mendelian genetics {Mendelism}.
“Atheistic”/animalic tendencies/leanings/predispositions possess great social ramifications that require additional penitentiaries to enjail those who propagate hedonism, because: even if plagiarist Charles Darwin's latent homosexuality were proven, photographically and mathematically, the world would still be burdened with the eugenics that his pitiable monkeyshines have wrought.
@ThingsBetweenTimes Homosexual or not, Darwin contributed much more to our species than any Theistic/superstitious/spiteful/pseudo-scientific author or scientist I've ever read of. A form of hedonism is the most meaningful life possible, for being happy, and making other people happy, is the only thing really worth doing. I'd much rather devote my life to others than to some omniscient being that may or may not exist and is not even compelled to logically convince me of it's existence.
@ThingsBetweenTimes Wait... aren't you religious? One of our philosophies is logical, the other is mystical. So which is far-fetched and 'monkeyed'--logic? or mysticism that can do nothing but disagree with everything scientific study proves beyond doubt? "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
@FuckFacts : To have faith that Man's meager perceptions are supreme is contingent upon denying metaphysics. Modern Man can't explain, nor replicate, the Great Pyramid at Giza, nor survive the magnetospheric & cosmic radiation without 4-feet of lead shielding that interplanetary journeys require.
@ThingsBetweenTimes I don't see how anything you just said ties into this conversation. Assuming you are correct on all of those points... so what? So God gave us crappy senses, made a magical pyramid in Egypt and made lead a must for space travel? I'm not inclined to convert on that sort of 'evidence', I'm sure you'll understand.
@ThingsBetweenTimes xD I think you have us confused, guy. Science is the art of saying "I don't know" when the answer is not apparent, and then working tirelessly to uncover that answer. It is religion that pretends to know things which at this time in human history are completely unknowable. Look at the progress made by science in the last 2000 years--stellar, in a word. The progress made by religion is basically non-existent. Atleast people aren't usually hung for 'sinning' anymore, eh? =D
SCIENCE is from the Latin verb SCIRE : TO KNOW, and is NOT reliant upon: postulation, supposition, proposition, theory, conjecture, speculation, assumption, hunch, intuition...
@ThingsBetweenTimes What is more far-fetched, the idea that the whole universe was built for US, that we are the center of a universe that contains more galaxies(which each contain more stars, which combined have thousands of times as many plants) as there are humans on the Earth? Or that, we're just a chemical chance, possibly among thousands or millions of other similar cases, none of which have any meaningful impact on the universe?
@ThingsBetweenTimes I admit, it seems reassuring to convince yourself that the creator of the universe has a special plan in mind for you. But, if you are emotionally stable enough not to require such mystical reassurances, I believe you can have a much greater impact on the human race without it
It seems evident that Carl Sagan was a brilliant man, although I do not personally know of his work and publications, but he definitely has a gift in communicating his passion and wonder for the universe through his elegance in speech. This is exactly what we need to encourage the continual development and interest in sciences.
It's enough to make you sick to think that he died and Idiots Creationists and other snake oil psuedo scientists live on Purveying their drivel to the people, When carl freed so many minds
@kobebeef415 if you learn something from him, if each word coming out of his mouth is in your mind and if he inspired you to know and learn more about the universe... then he's alive... he always will be as long as you admire his great work
Such a genius, together with Clarke and Hawking. And he can explain it beautifully, adressing questions of wich people often say: "Finally! That's what I was thinking".
Imagine how advanced Alien civilizations that are 10 Billion years ahead of us! They probably have extremely fast internet and can download 1Tb in a second. They also MOST likely have FullHD for their mobile phones and have cars that go from 0-100 in less than 2 seconds..
@Asiats1 No i'm sure they know we exist like others they might want to see what we can achieve first i.e how smart we are how willing or they might be waiting for us to truly accept other life out there and to break free from religion or they might want us to make our own paths and not turn into a god
@Asiats1 I'm not sure but for certain i know we will find a way past it just like everything i believe everything has a opposite there are just things we haven't discovered.
For example top level encryption from the 90's and early 2000's can be cracked in seconds with new tech so i can't wait to see what we have by the time i am in my 60's
lol @xjaskix they have to find out sometime...i would rather Carl Sagan tell me this when i was little so i wouldnt have to waste time going to church and all that shit. religious people GTFO of this thread of comments, unless ofcource your open to science xD
this is horrifying and blaspemous to teach YOUNG CHILDREN such liberal atheist propaganda, this foolish man is saying there's nothing special about our existence?? to children??? seriously disgusting. and btw there are no other galaxies according to real scientists thosee things some people think are galaxies are ACTUALLY just groups of stars inside our only created galaxy
@xjaskix Are you crazy? There is scientific proof that there are billions of galaxies. I cannot believe that you think the Milky Way is the only galaxy that exists. Science proves many things my friend.
I did read somewhere else that the Neighborhood is not in the edge of the galaxy, but halfway to the center. Was it misled geocentrism what I did read, or is it a recent discovery?
@LesPaul2006 It is a recent discovery, until recently we though that we are were on the edge because we couldn't see any other solar systems from the "other" side, but recently we found out that it's just a big gap and the rest of the galaxy continues, so we are just in the middle...
i have a "silly" but very importante for me question?the milkyway galaxy/ours that he shows on the map,there in another one on top on the left side.seems smaller..does anyone know wich one that is? m trying to locate a galaxy or a planet/less probably,that makes a triangle with earth,earth being on the right "down" side of the triangle.i m trying to locate the "top" thank you very much.Ariel
@castravet Well all i know is that the closest galaxy to ours is Andromeda and that we will get collide in zillions of years with it, if the one you were looking was the closest with Milky way, so probably you mean Andromeda, i hope i helped
Sorry to disappoint all of the members of the Carly Sag'n cult that are clearly evidenced to exist by all of the comments up & down these pages. I know how much the cult members like to worship Carly Sag'n but he was indeed "WRONG"!
He even shoots himself in the foot. His noting that our solar system is located in a very insignificant, outer region of the galaxy, is actually one of the things that shows our privileged position within this universe. The very things that he speaks about that
exist beyond our atmosphere, are known only because of our location in the galaxy. The significant center that he speaks about, is too concentrated with debris which would obscure our vision into the universe. The location of our solar system within our galaxy, enables man to view the universe because the other locations don't enable visibility.
This "man-god", as my brother called him, is the reason why I am aspiring to become a physicist. I am truly appalled whenever I stare into the night sky on a clear evening. When I hear this man's voice I get shivers up an down my back, when I see the milky way, I smile and stand completely un-aware of what else is around me. I am only fifteen, but I hope I have the same passion for astronomy when I am 90.
Awww c'mon!!! How come Carl Sagan never came to my school????? I would have loved that!!!
metaldave08096 1 month ago
At least he is with the stars now.
jetli80 1 month ago
I have the biggest posthumous crush on him.
mckenawoowoo 1 month ago
compare how carl sagan teaches kids to jesus camp
fall3ntimb3rs 1 month ago 2
I'll drink to that!
kingcarcas1349 1 month ago
@kingcarcas1349 Blijven drinken dan he ?
TheFlyingEagel 1 week ago
soundtrack?
TheEL337dude 3 months ago
@TheEL337dude Vangelis. He's probably best known for the soundtracks to Blade Runner, and Chariots of Fire.
Issicra 2 months ago
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CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
if only carl sagan could have ruled the earth or atleast a big country, for a short period of time. things would be far different than what we can see today
UjioSatashi 4 months ago
@UjioSatashi I'm glad he wasn't, I'm sure he wasn't either. He would have no time to look at the stars.
KarazhanIsCake 3 months ago
He's the Mr. Escalante of science.
faiIog 4 months ago
I LOVE THIS VIDEO
tdav1991 4 months ago
Carl Sagan you live on! in our minds :)
faab007 5 months ago 2
ask kent hovind billions of stars.. have you seen them sure thats his answer
princerexor 5 months ago
those lucky sumbitches....
BeanShip 6 months ago
5:16... he says pompous prick! (well it looks that way)
jammapcb 6 months ago
If god is real, then he must surely be proud of Carl Sagan and has given him eternal happiness. I also doubt this god would be like the monster Yaweh. Only cruel primitive men can make up a god so evil like the one in the bible.
ArmanCortez1 6 months ago 14
educate the children!
bigqx 6 months ago 3
Ignore atheist,still with your believe.They can't hurt you.
koerie13 6 months ago
@koerie13 Learn to make coherent sentences you religious freak.
bushiyo2 6 months ago 2
@fourteatwo Your very first sentence was wrong. "According to their logic Christian do not believe in God but refuse to believe there is none" No. According to logic, Christians assume there IS a God. Atheists do not. That should be obvious.
taicleis 6 months ago
@MegaSage007
You apparently don't know anything about atheism. Your suggested logic of "I don't know of any God, therefore none exists" is not atheist logic at all. It's no wonder you think it illogical - you came up with it yourself.
Atheist logic is: "I have no belief in something for which there is no evidence." Not "there is no God," but "I refuse to ASSUME there is one."
taicleis 7 months ago
@taicleis
According to atheists logic is relative. According to their logic Christian do not believe in God but refuse to assume there is none.
Now whilst some Atheists claim they do not hate God because they do not assume that he exists., they tend to hate those who believe in God instead, as they feel that those impose control over their life, similar to religious fundamentalists, just reverse polarity.
fourteatwo 6 months ago
Can you imagine that there are grown up adult people who think wisdom and guidance of this magnitude should be kept out of schools, and replaced with nonsense (im speaking on evolution as well). I love listening to Carl Sagan explain things, he is so precise and articulate, even to down to ever fastidious degree.
UtopiaMinor666 7 months ago
This is for the people who are anti spiritual and 'only jesus is the correct path'
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." (Albert Einstein)
fallenmercury 7 months ago
i always think that the galaxy would not have 100 billion galaxies, but less or more, why the fuck is the even number. how the hell did they caculate them.
warrior4just 7 months ago
@warrior4just "100 billion" is just an estimate. When scientists or Carl Sagan say this, they don't mean that there are exactly 100 billion. There may be 100,234,345,345 or 100,323,243,344, etc. It is just an ESTIMATE of the true of number.
Patterson24 7 months ago
These lucky kids.
BrokeTheInterweb 7 months ago
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE BRING UP RELIGION ON CARL SAGAN VIDEOS
rsexplorer20 7 months ago
I would give anything to have been taught by this guy
rockaholick37 7 months ago
If there is a God I hope he's like Carl Sagan
aslanredjoker 8 months ago 3
What a wonderful man he was. Carl Sagan has been a personal hero of mine for more than 30 years... ever since Cosmos was first broadcast in 1980.
Tessmage 8 months ago
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Let's work for the motherland comrades, not for personal gain! Lest we be judged by the great comrade in the sky! To Communism's triumph lead us on!
RadicalJeb 8 months ago
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Carl Sagan's early death aged just 62 was one of the greatest losses imaginable to the human race. Few men in history have ever said so clearly why we should put aside our petty. childish and self centered passions and work together, not like the Borg but as a free, united collective of individuals all pulling in the same direction. Politics, religion and ethnic division keep us in chains and anchored in all the follies of our primitive past.
hmscollingwood 8 months ago
O M G this is so crazy but so amazing... my GOD
fRoMtHeY4K 8 months ago
i would pay just to be a student in his class
Haukenslush 8 months ago 42
@Haukenslush duhhh thats what people do ahhaha
conorisawsome 4 months ago in playlist Carl Sagan & Science
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@Haukenslush you get free education?
gameill 3 months ago in playlist Carl Sagan & Science
@Haukenslush ... Like college.
mckenawoowoo 1 month ago
BILLLions
pokedrew22themaster 8 months ago
Pity we're stuck in low earth orbit these days.
KevBoy3D 9 months ago
mountain dew is the best soda ever made
Th3GreenMan5611 9 months ago
The Universe is made up of self sustaining multi tasking systems such as orbiting planets & suns & even our Global Eco'System all working for thousands even billions of years without an operator, refueling or maintenance ~ all of the machinery of the Universe is evidence for a Supreme Intelligence having designed & created it so he could be free of it all to create more, while man invents a car to replace the horse but it doesn't reproduce itself. God is your Creator. Don't deny the evidence!
MegaSage007 9 months ago
@MegaSage007
im pretty sure your wrong. the jews run everything
mini1gerbel 9 months ago
@mini1gerbel The Universe is the creation of a Jew by the name of Jesus. Didn't you know He is your Creator?
MegaSage007 9 months ago
@MegaSage007 thank you for demeaning the wonders and beauty of the universe by saying "goddidit"
DefiantAlex 9 months ago
@DefiantAlex You are welcome to come over to my forums and present your evidence for your doctrine of the devil.
IS ATHEISM LOGICAL?
MegaSage007 9 months ago
@MegaSage007 what devil? i know of no such creature except the fictional one, for witch i don't care very much thank you. Atheism is by definition logical my friend, you know "not believing something without concrete evidence" and all that. And I will have to decline your offer on the "forums" part, it's not my job to educate people, i will leave that to the professionals, i just get offended when people demean humanity and nature by saying 'goddidit'.
DefiantAlex 9 months ago
@DefiantAlex Yes I know the language of atheists very well and the arrogancy. You know of no devil, therefore no devil exists. = Illogical. You know of no evidence for the existence of God. = Illogical.
ATHEISM IS THE MOST ILLOGICAL BELIEF IN THE UNIVERSE.
MegaSage007 9 months ago
@MegaSage007 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You religious creationists will be the death of humanity.
SKATEOUTTACOMPTON 8 months ago
@MegaSage007 what devil? i know of no such creature except the fictional one, for witch i don't care very much thank you. Atheism is by definition logical my friend, you know "not believing something without concrete evidence" and all that. And I will have to decline your offer on the "forums" part, it's not my job to educate people, i will leave that to the professionals, i just get offended (because of my point of view) when people demean humanity and nature by saying 'goddidit'.
DefiantAlex 9 months ago
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I think it may also prove helpful to some of the viewers here to try to evaluate many of the more strident claims of the anti-theist critique ("brights") from a ideological/ metaphysics perspective. Check out the recent article by Jackson Lears in the May 16, 2011 issue of the The Nation entitled "Same Old New Atheism" .The article offers a compelling analysis of Sam Harris' works. Consideration is given to general atheistic social perspectives
shieldsff 8 months ago
According to the police: our inalienable rights are at the mercy of a German shepherd's olfactories.
ThingsBetweenTimes 9 months ago
lucky kids..
mischkabunny 9 months ago
If there are 100 billion galaxies out there, each of which contain 100 billion stars, that means there are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. I am going to rip the throat out of anyone who says there isn't any other form of life in the universe.
ScrapBrainZone 10 months ago
@ScrapBrainZone 1) You need an open-source of energy (not to difficult to find)
2) You need to be in the "goldilocks" zone. (Very difficult.)
3) You need near-perfect rotation around your source of energy. (Very difficult because of, perhaps, binary stars, other vast gravitational pulls, etc.)
4) You need the precise condition in-which enough specific elements are available.
5) You need the precise condition in-which these elements contribute to the creation of amino acids and then RNA and then
inswoon 9 months ago
@inswoon
With 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars
There must be at least 10,000,000,000,000 other planets.
So even if the chances are 0.000000000001 that still leaves a fuck load chance.
OverLoad619 9 months ago
@OverLoad619 You've completely missed my point. Regardless of the how many stars and proto-planets there are; it doesn't make it easier on life. The existence of stars and planets is easy - life itself is unfathomably more difficult to discover. Life itself is perplexingly rare. You've just wrote down the amount of plants in existence but disregarded the goldilocks zone, energy, gravity, time, elements, sources of energy and many other attributes that I have failed to encompass.
inswoon 9 months ago
@OverLoad619 Merely assuming that life can arrise on a planet makes it obvious that you haven't incorporated "how life can arise". So you must first have a complete diagram of how life can begin with purely natural/innate processing since its inception.
inswoon 9 months ago
@ScrapBrainZone later, DNA, etc.
inswoon 9 months ago
@ScrapBrainZone 6) You then need extremely fruitful environments for very primitive life to arise.
7) You then this life to thrive and thrive fo hundreds and hundreds of millions of years (maybe billions).
Yes, it very, very, very, very rare. Unfathomably rare and we'll most likely find no intelligent life in our generation, or the next, or the next, or the next...
inswoon 9 months ago
I would trade everyone with a religion for an immortal sagan.
ubermonkey120 10 months ago
Don't be sad that Carl Sagan died. Be glad that he lived. Everyone dies, that's life. He lived his life to the fullest and left us an amazing legacy. For that I am grateful.
gherinquad 10 months ago 2
@gherinquad Totally agree. We should be happen that his legacy continues through something like YouTube.
CRISNCHIPS12398 10 months ago
@gherinquad *happy.
CRISNCHIPS12398 10 months ago
0:52 this is how children in school should be, stunned silence toward an amazing teacher saying amazing things all of which are true and not subject to political or religious doctrine. What I wouldn't do for Carl Sagan to have been my physics teacher!
squeezycheeseypeas 10 months ago
It would be kinda crazy, imagine if we actully had teachers like this, School would be beyond awesome :O
Amazing how some people have the ability and passion to make stuff simple and understable and very very so exciting
RMJ1984 10 months ago
I wish Carl Sagan was my science teacher.
Gordaton 10 months ago 2
If Carl Sagan could see this /watch?v=PaI6BkDkgvs
He would be so happy.
esiosan 11 months ago
I would realy like to be one of those childs..
poliser0 11 months ago 2
Carl, I think you forgot to remind the kids there that for every human on Earth, there are over 1.4 trillion stars in the universe - for every child in that classroom, more than 1 400 000 000 000 inconceivably giant stars, spread out over an incomprehensibly vast area, each shining incredibly bright, for an unimaginable length of time - its light we see in the sky just a whisper of its epic life cycle.
I love how Sagan's timeless, thoughtful expression is the epitome of discovery and wonder.
Psychonaut1992 1 year ago 2
Your entire life, job, social status, your successes and failures aren't what makes you who you are. We are all on this trip called life, a beautiful and awe inspiring experience that is a gift. Remember that no human being or thing is better than another. We are all one in the infinite, here this moment, together, forever.
GoonSquadFTB 1 year ago 2
Children have a natural predisposition to wonder.
So do we.
We just have a hard time remembering after our life experience..
OM3N1R 1 year ago
Having Carl Sagan as a science teacher would be the greatest thing ever.
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He is
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He is
rubberbanddude 1 year ago
@MeXXiPiNo916 It would be GODLY. I would never leave.
DHTSciFiArtist 7 months ago
Wow! Children actually sitting, listening, comprehending, learning. Oh, the lost good ol' days...
zenpaganwarrior 1 year ago
I love you Carl.
zptramel 1 year ago
if the sun was the size of an 1inch round pebble, the nearest star would be 600miles away, and light would take 3 1/2 years to get there. put that in our size. light would be traveling at 0.5 miles per hour. now you can really see how slow is the speed of light compared to the gigantic universe.. light is slower than a turtle in slow motion.
1800levso 1 year ago
@1800levso Light would be traveling much slower than 0.5 MPH to take 3 1/2 years to go 600 miles - if that's what you're saying.
evoman1776 11 months ago
I wish they'd retelevise cosmos series and put it on in place of X factor / big brother/ any 'reality' tv >_<
karl198 1 year ago
@karl198 Right, I'm starting to wonder if we're not de-evoluting...
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hauiakks 1 year ago
Our star is not that Humdrum according to new research.
Septimius25 1 year ago
@Septimius25 What new research are you talking about?
BenG549 1 year ago
i wish every teacher was like him. i'm teary-eyed as i'm typing this down,
LoganManila 1 year ago
@LoganManila : Sickening...
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes I'd tell you what I believe is sickening, but it's quite clear by this time that you have no concern for logic or rationalism. Stick to your fairy-tale explanations if they make you feel better, but please don't be so childish as to show up on scientific videos and try to make those who seek REAL physical and metaphysical knowledge look silly and tell us that WE are wrong.
Maybe we're both wrong, but only one of us is trying.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts : Don't turn this venue into one focusing on your personal problems.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@FuckFacts I'v tried to beleive in god religion and fairy-tails but i couldnt, i respect people who learn and try hard even if they are wrong, its better than beleiving in the Virgin birth and the talking snake.
After all all we have in this life is our planet, and we keep deviding each other by these disgusting ideas and religions.
babygirl3s 1 year ago
@babygirl3s That's the greatest thing you can do--look at both sides of the argument before deciding. If you simply believe the first thing you hear, whether you end up being right or wrong, you are still just an ignorant sheep. Science is a culmination of observable fact and theory. Without logical theories(Einstein's relativity, for example) the entire foundation of science falls apart. What this means is that science is a completely revisional, ever-evolving entity. Progress is everything.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts Trust me, my parents are really religous, i'v read some of the Bible and the Quran and i debated Religous people, but still i never see any physcal Evidence, and how does religon improve, it doesnt you just keep repeating yourself over and ovver again.
And btw Not everything in science is Theory, and a Theory is not something that has no evidence, There are Laws in science and others.
babygirl3s 1 year ago
@babygirl3s =) I believe you've misinterpreted my message. My point was that science is progressive and religion is not, making science--in my opinion--far superior. Because quite clearly, the way humanity is right now is not satisfactory. 16, 000 children starve to death every day while Christian charities spend 90% of proceeds building churches and giving starving people bibles instead of food... Science is revisional, if a problem is found, every effort is made to right it, unlike religion.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts Yes sorry then i am with you, People spend money on building mosques and churches while people die from starvation, TRUE.
I understand what you say and i think that its true, and by the way, i think that religion causes more war and devides people, i experienced that myself.
babygirl3s 1 year ago
@babygirl3s Undoubtedly. Religion has caused some of the worst wars and massacres in human history. I love Sagan's quote "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
But, religion does have the power to positively affect the unbalanced lives of thousands. In a free, equal society however, religion is not needed whatsoever. It just so happens no such society has, to this point, ever existed =P
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ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
This just blows me away, I can't believe it.
someonecalledlaura 1 year ago
I definitely would've gone to school more if i had Sagan as my teacher! good education is hard to find these days...
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alexashlei1 1 year ago
Sagan's way of words and passion for teaching about the Cosmos, will always be remembered.
Septimius25 1 year ago
“Atheistic”/animalic tendencies/leanings/predispositions possess great social ramifications that require additional penitentiaries to enjail those who propagate hedonism, because: even if plagiarist Charles Darwin's latent homosexuality were proven, photographically and mathematically, the world would still be burdened with the eugenics that his pitiable monkeyshines have wrought.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes Homosexual or not, Darwin contributed much more to our species than any Theistic/superstitious/spiteful/pseudo-scientific author or scientist I've ever read of. A form of hedonism is the most meaningful life possible, for being happy, and making other people happy, is the only thing really worth doing. I'd much rather devote my life to others than to some omniscient being that may or may not exist and is not even compelled to logically convince me of it's existence.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts :
Live as an individual and not as a congregant to a far-fetched, monkeyed philosophy.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes Wait... aren't you religious? One of our philosophies is logical, the other is mystical. So which is far-fetched and 'monkeyed'--logic? or mysticism that can do nothing but disagree with everything scientific study proves beyond doubt? "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts : To have faith that Man's meager perceptions are supreme is contingent upon denying metaphysics. Modern Man can't explain, nor replicate, the Great Pyramid at Giza, nor survive the magnetospheric & cosmic radiation without 4-feet of lead shielding that interplanetary journeys require.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes
We can't replicate the great pyramid at Giza? Is that a joke? That'd be ridiculously easy to do with modern technology.
GodTheHypothesis 1 year ago
@GodTheHypothesis : Modern hydraulics is incapable of lifting 1,000-ton monoliths, as were utilized in the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes I don't see how anything you just said ties into this conversation. Assuming you are correct on all of those points... so what? So God gave us crappy senses, made a magical pyramid in Egypt and made lead a must for space travel? I'm not inclined to convert on that sort of 'evidence', I'm sure you'll understand.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@FuckFacts : Virtually the entire Universe is a mystery to Man. Fortunately, people like you "know" things.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes xD I think you have us confused, guy. Science is the art of saying "I don't know" when the answer is not apparent, and then working tirelessly to uncover that answer. It is religion that pretends to know things which at this time in human history are completely unknowable. Look at the progress made by science in the last 2000 years--stellar, in a word. The progress made by religion is basically non-existent. Atleast people aren't usually hung for 'sinning' anymore, eh? =D
FuckFacts 1 year ago
SCIENCE is from the Latin verb SCIRE : TO KNOW, and is NOT reliant upon: postulation, supposition, proposition, theory, conjecture, speculation, assumption, hunch, intuition...
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes Not knowing the answer to something does not automatically make the answer "God did it." Not in my mind, anyway.
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes What is more far-fetched, the idea that the whole universe was built for US, that we are the center of a universe that contains more galaxies(which each contain more stars, which combined have thousands of times as many plants) as there are humans on the Earth? Or that, we're just a chemical chance, possibly among thousands or millions of other similar cases, none of which have any meaningful impact on the universe?
FuckFacts 1 year ago
@ThingsBetweenTimes I admit, it seems reassuring to convince yourself that the creator of the universe has a special plan in mind for you. But, if you are emotionally stable enough not to require such mystical reassurances, I believe you can have a much greater impact on the human race without it
FuckFacts 1 year ago
I am now a physics lecturer. Yup its mainly down to Sagan, Feynman, Rees, Patrick Moore, Bernard Lovell and Arthur C.
mik99D 1 year ago
It seems evident that Carl Sagan was a brilliant man, although I do not personally know of his work and publications, but he definitely has a gift in communicating his passion and wonder for the universe through his elegance in speech. This is exactly what we need to encourage the continual development and interest in sciences.
catsu11111 1 year ago
@catsu11111 : His brilliance failed him as he succumbed to a vitamin-deficiency disease.
ThingsBetweenTimes 1 year ago
Hes the Mr. Rogers of science!!
espoouttaNY 1 year ago
It's enough to make you sick to think that he died and Idiots Creationists and other snake oil psuedo scientists live on Purveying their drivel to the people, When carl freed so many minds
MinisterKGB 1 year ago 11
is carl sagan alive or dead?
kobebeef415 1 year ago
@kobebeef415 He died in 1996
regularmatt 1 year ago
@kobebeef415 if you learn something from him, if each word coming out of his mouth is in your mind and if he inspired you to know and learn more about the universe... then he's alive... he always will be as long as you admire his great work
katongougakyunojutsu 1 year ago
This is what primary schools should be teaching!
KJS72 1 year ago 70
@KJS72 They are.
atac57 9 months ago
@KJS72
They do...
Its just your from The United States of America.
OverLoad619 9 months ago
Such a genius, together with Clarke and Hawking. And he can explain it beautifully, adressing questions of wich people often say: "Finally! That's what I was thinking".
Gezoes 1 year ago
Imagine how advanced Alien civilizations that are 10 Billion years ahead of us! They probably have extremely fast internet and can download 1Tb in a second. They also MOST likely have FullHD for their mobile phones and have cars that go from 0-100 in less than 2 seconds..
Asiats1 1 year ago
@Asiats1
Don't underestimate others like that. we're only about 20 years away from that!
MuskratandRatman 1 year ago
@Asiats1 No i'm sure they know we exist like others they might want to see what we can achieve first i.e how smart we are how willing or they might be waiting for us to truly accept other life out there and to break free from religion or they might want us to make our own paths and not turn into a god
scarface71795 1 year ago
@scarface71795 I agree. do u think Type V civilizations can crack AES 256 encryption? If so how would they do it?
Asiats1 1 year ago
@Asiats1 I'm not sure but for certain i know we will find a way past it just like everything i believe everything has a opposite there are just things we haven't discovered.
For example top level encryption from the 90's and early 2000's can be cracked in seconds with new tech so i can't wait to see what we have by the time i am in my 60's
scarface71795 1 year ago
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xXTiberiusXx 1 year ago
Lest we should never forget that Carl's surname of SAGAN reversed sounds like NAG ASS.
YTubeArraignment 1 year ago
Why aren't we teaching our kids to be as inquisitive as this man?
Irishflyboy255 1 year ago
lol @xjaskix they have to find out sometime...i would rather Carl Sagan tell me this when i was little so i wouldnt have to waste time going to church and all that shit. religious people GTFO of this thread of comments, unless ofcource your open to science xD
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@minolidumide you spam a dating website on carl sagan? epic fail
downwithjedward 1 year ago
I would trade a million Snookies, Glen Becks, and Michael Moores for just one Carl Sagan...
KarlBast 1 year ago 159
@KarlBast i would sacrifice them
katongougakyunojutsu 1 year ago
@KarlBast Reallt? I would trade billions and billions of Snookies, Glen Becks, and Michael Moores for just one more Carl Sagan...
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@KarlBast Really? I would trade billions and billions of Snookies, Glen Becks, and Michael Moores for just one more Carl Sagan...
clyde2003 1 year ago
@KarlBast
I would trade billions and billions
Hirouzamaki 1 year ago 2
@KarlBast a million snookies is worthless it's like having a million rabbit turds
potheadj 1 year ago
@KarlBast hahaha...I still see that as an unfair trade for Carl Sagan.
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@KarlBast "I would trade a million Glen Becks, and Michael Moores for just one Carl Sagan... "
I would trade them for a bag of potato chips. Carl Sagan brought us science in a way the average person could understand easily. He was a great man.
orangemod 11 months ago
@KarlBast I think Carl Sagan is worth more than that.
hydroponicfilms 11 months ago
@KarlBast Please, I still want Michael Moore. I love him.
magichristo 10 months ago
@KarlBast Same :(
JayDee98765 9 months ago
this is horrifying and blaspemous to teach YOUNG CHILDREN such liberal atheist propaganda, this foolish man is saying there's nothing special about our existence?? to children??? seriously disgusting. and btw there are no other galaxies according to real scientists thosee things some people think are galaxies are ACTUALLY just groups of stars inside our only created galaxy
xjaskix 1 year ago
@xjaskix Just out of curiosity, what "real scientists" are you talking about? Care to share your sources?
KarlBast 1 year ago
@xjaskix Are you crazy? There is scientific proof that there are billions of galaxies. I cannot believe that you think the Milky Way is the only galaxy that exists. Science proves many things my friend.
MrElculver2424 1 year ago
@xjaskix Bahahaha wow. Just wow
religionismanmade 1 year ago
@xjaskix I facepalm at your level of intelligence and educational standards. And your belief in 'liberal atheist propaganda'
vinsong 1 year ago
@xjaskix....IQ------->0
dima9917 1 year ago
@xjaskix lol wut?
katongougakyunojutsu 1 year ago
carl sagan was truly one of a kind. his words humbles your mind in a universe which there are far more galaxies than people.
wsoflare03 1 year ago
I did read somewhere else that the Neighborhood is not in the edge of the galaxy, but halfway to the center. Was it misled geocentrism what I did read, or is it a recent discovery?
LesPaul2006 1 year ago
@LesPaul2006 It is a recent discovery, until recently we though that we are were on the edge because we couldn't see any other solar systems from the "other" side, but recently we found out that it's just a big gap and the rest of the galaxy continues, so we are just in the middle...
Pappyroys 1 year ago
i have a "silly" but very importante for me question?the milkyway galaxy/ours that he shows on the map,there in another one on top on the left side.seems smaller..does anyone know wich one that is? m trying to locate a galaxy or a planet/less probably,that makes a triangle with earth,earth being on the right "down" side of the triangle.i m trying to locate the "top" thank you very much.Ariel
castravet 1 year ago
@castravet Well all i know is that the closest galaxy to ours is Andromeda and that we will get collide in zillions of years with it, if the one you were looking was the closest with Milky way, so probably you mean Andromeda, i hope i helped
Pappyroys 1 year ago
@Pappyroys but as a location..is it "on the upper side"?i know it depends from what point one looks..thx for you help Ariel
castravet 1 year ago
Thanks to Carl I now believe in a God! Thank you so much.
imntacrook 1 year ago
Thanks to Carl I now believe in a God! Thank you so much.
imntacrook 1 year ago
'no'' ''country side''
XD carl i love you
Alienmad462 1 year ago
Who doesnt love Sagan?
Brezable 1 year ago
If that man was my teacher i would like too twice to school just to listen to him.
resistanceunion 1 year ago 2
Sorry to disappoint all of the members of the Carly Sag'n cult that are clearly evidenced to exist by all of the comments up & down these pages. I know how much the cult members like to worship Carly Sag'n but he was indeed "WRONG"!
He even shoots himself in the foot. His noting that our solar system is located in a very insignificant, outer region of the galaxy, is actually one of the things that shows our privileged position within this universe. The very things that he speaks about that
Chuichupachichi 1 year ago
@Chuichupachichi its from 80s. And he said that we are in the suburbs of the galaxy, wich is right.
bengacris 1 year ago
exist beyond our atmosphere, are known only because of our location in the galaxy. The significant center that he speaks about, is too concentrated with debris which would obscure our vision into the universe. The location of our solar system within our galaxy, enables man to view the universe because the other locations don't enable visibility.
Chuichupachichi 1 year ago
How we need more Carl Sagans to lead our nations and temper our extremists - what a truly great man.
andymcrowe 1 year ago
He was able to understand things more deeply, simply
and wonderfully than anyone I've ever known.
mitrospecto 1 year ago
damn, i wish Sagan visited my school
fartx211 1 year ago
This "man-god", as my brother called him, is the reason why I am aspiring to become a physicist. I am truly appalled whenever I stare into the night sky on a clear evening. When I hear this man's voice I get shivers up an down my back, when I see the milky way, I smile and stand completely un-aware of what else is around me. I am only fifteen, but I hope I have the same passion for astronomy when I am 90.
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