Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 3 part1

[SeaboardMariner]

Thanks for uploading. Waiting for someone to upload the original versions of this classic series. Not the revamped, re-edited, changed soundtracks, politically correct versions. YUCK!

[kyphoscoliosis]

The 1 dislike must have been from the Pope

[Baltahfeek]

When did this show first go on air? late 70's? early 80's? anyone know?

[SirNewt]

@Baltahfeek

wikipedia says 1980

[28october19731]

@SirNewt sure miss 1980 COMPARED TO 2011!!! What a fucking joke the world is now and has become since probably like about 1986...wow, what the fuck happened???!!! Can you guess what happened? I can...

[28october19731]

@Baltahfeek It was great back then...when were you born?

[28october19731]

I love how Sagan makes fun of astrology but in a nice way...what had happened last time that say Venus was rising in the constellation of the goat...

[Baltahfeek]

@28october19731 I was born in '68 but was absolutely into star trek and other sci-fi movies in my youth that I missed on the real thing from Sagan. Later I strayed into religion and it changed my view on things albeit for a short while, but I am glad to say I am back where I started having figured out that religion's full of man-made nonsense injected into it so as to make it totally unreliable. Sagan was a great scientist, he will be missed. His style is unique and compassionate!

[RJL738]

The only real way real science could be on speaking terms with atrology is as if the motions of the planets shifted some subconcious algorithm in key cephalic regions. Sometimes it has spawned real developments but it has virtually no utility. Amazingly there are far more stars in the known universe than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world and it is just possible based on some calculations it is eloted that planets may outnumber stars by several hundred or so times.

[Luis568369]

dame nature you scary

[bingofingers]

Yeah it is interesting. It says a lot about human irrationality, or rather our inability to think rationally. Bit like superstitions or new age therapies. I mean have you seen the ads for Quantum Jumping?? Things like this and Scientology show that if you abolish established religions some new mumbo jumbo would take its place. Rationality is a specialised evolutionary trait.

[DarkZholt]

I like to study astrology and religion, the symbology and metaphors are facinating and sometimes even inspring. Not that I take it seriously, it's just made up things, but recognizing it doesn't make it less interesting, they reflect our nature because we created them. They help to understand how our minds work, and to avoid the traps that our own minds create.

[Idioluck]

the beatles are back!

[TheBobathon]

Not sure about the bizarre treatment of Janáček...

[JohnF30Music]

astrology and religion go together. they're for the weak minded idiots.

[Embraer091]

Astronomy = Good Sense, wonder and deep search..

Astrology = No Sense, Mindless, stupid thought, sucks

[ZAAL58]

Check out the hot woman in the red shirt at 3:38!

Sagan was a great teacher.

[snipeefox]

I love the fact you've posted this series. These videos have WAY too little views. Quite an embarrassing fact of "intelligent' life on earth.

[sweetpeajunglebean]

greatest show ever.

[hiddenorchard]

How can you explain when astrology does work and foretells or describes correctly?

Sagan has too much faith in science.

He is a little narrow minded.

[regularmatt]

@hiddenorchard so you must belive in bat man and spider man then right?

[hiddenorchard]

@regularmatt what does astrology have to do with comic book characters?

[Gazzar]

@hiddenorchard About as much as it has to do with reality, i. e. f*** all.

[JCB187]

@hiddenorchard ur what is wrong with the world.

[shrikechan]

Just because ancient humans chose existing qualities to describe their made up gods doesn`t mean the Gods are real. Of course humans have to use qualities they already know about to describe things, because that is all they know. You can`t describe something using vocabulary you`ve never heard before, you can`t imagine a color you`ve never seen before. That is why early Gods are based on animals, the sun, moon, earth, water, etc because these were things they knew about and thought important.

[LaserParody]

SirNewt (I do hope you get better, I hear one man got better from being turned into a newt),

Your posting of this is fantastic. I watched Cosmos intently as a kid - it solidified an intense passion for science- actually derailing me from the astrophys. and pushing me (Ep 2) into bio. chem for some time. Which pushed me to Med., > to polymerics, ultimately to art, film (FX science nerd), and now finds me back at physics and propulsion while at FX . Joy.

Thank you! (hail the Gerbil!)

Rufus

[fao4shka]

Sorry for my last reply there kid:P

[SanGuevara]

OK, assuming that astrology is complete bollocks, you still have to admit that we got some cool stuff out of it (Silent Hill, H.P. Lovecraft, Grant Morrison, etc).

[hossamrida]

How amazing is Carl Sagan's knowledge and wisdom.... This guy is AWESOME!!

[macmacma]

can anyone tell me where i can find the soundtrack for the whole series

[najmundrzejszy]

Well, bravo. Now I have to stop halfway through the video and go listen to Age of Aquarius.

[Zee96969696]

I think the biggest problem is that people are dumb. If you are curious, you will become smarter. If you are doing things that make you smarter, your curiosity increases. But if you are dumb, not only will you become a threat to yourself but you will stay dumb, seek only pleasure and I wish people like that would become extinct, but i don't think that will happen. But anybody can change, it is just incredibly difficult... bla bla bla bla .... Prepare for the end of the world or a crisis

[Boxrag]

People are not dumb per say, people are lazy. People feel they don't have the time to learn about these magnificent facts of the universe. Being lazy produces ignorance.

[KID433321]

Also that Saturn's rings are at about the same distance than the Moon is from the Earth...cool hey

[KID433321]

Yes, that was big wrong.

[DarthServo]

Its not all by chance. Its by the laws of nature. Planets are spherical because of the laws of gravity.

And evolution has nothing to do with metamorphosis that you describe.

There are other options besides divine guidance and completely random.

[baalChrist]

Maybe alot of the problem is because humans think mostly in images, and as such, data from the world is translated into images and interactive stories. Also without labour saving devices (tractors etc) people never had such leisure to objectivly think about the universe (now we choose not to). We are an amazingly subjective lot.

[HORNHost]

@baalChrist There's a basic flaw in your theory. Tractors, etc. didn't create leisure time, they diminish it. Hunter/Gathers had manifestly more leisure time than industrialized humans do. Many posit that art first came from the leisure time available to hunter/gatherers.

[JohnnyZenith]

How can someone watch all of this and then state that they think it's still ok to keep an open mind on astrology. You clearly learnt nothing.

[morgandude2]

Astrology is bollocks...human muppet bollocks!

[KID433321]

I eye captain!

[Cotdail]

Oops, i thumbs-downed morgandude2 & JohnnyZennith. Sorry, i meant thumbs up. I agree with you both!!

[fao4shka]

@morgandude2

sorry if i sound stupid but do you mean all that "im a scorpio so i'm better at blablabla" thing?

if so *thumbs up:D

[milodoochie08]

Carl Sagan is awesome and cosmos is the show every single person in the world should see

Thanx for posting it

[feifeishuangyu]

Personally I think it's ok to keep an open mind about astrology.

[feifeishuangyu]

The discovery of Sumer civilization is very mysterious. I wonder where did advanced ancient civilizations go.

[jbartz]

"The Beatles are Back!"

[saiochi]

How could Christ make gravity and quantum mechanics? These things existed long before Christ, they just weren't recognized.

[RJL738]

Christ existed from the begining of creation, he just wasn't the form of God that became human and lived a human life. You say they are only now discoveing these thing when their could be other forces that we havn't discovered. For all you know God could just be a very high force we cannot even begin to understand.

[epicgrooves]

If Christ existed from the beginning, how did it take him 18 years of his life to come to terms with being the Son of God? It sounds kinda blasphemous to believe that Jesus had a brainfart...

[RJL738]

No he just openly and officialy realised, he knew it deep down, it's just when the time came, he knew he really needed to get in gear. He was fully human (in addition to being fully God) and whent through the same problems, even worse than what the average person did. He was just taken aback about the fact that he was going to be tortured in the worst way imaginable (the human side of him) but he knew it had to be done.

[jojo78965]

LOL, ok.

[RJL738]

Horrorscopes and astrology are dogma. Christ uses the laws of physics gravity and quantum mechanics ( that he made ) to move the astronomical bodies. Horrorscopes are one of the greatests deceptions and are a threat to science and the truth.

[epicgrooves]

RLJ: I think you mean to say that God made these things, which is called the Clockwork Universe theory, which was proposed by none other than Isaac Newton. Whether it's true or not is impossible to determine, and thus will remain as purely a religious idea until God (if he exists) pokes his head from the clouds and says "good morning" in a John Cleese voice. Until then, I say we stop trying to explain everything in terms of religion and stick to what's really there.

[RJL738]

If you think God is some grandfather in the clouds then you have absolutly no idea of the concept of the God I worship. And I think he/it is very active and did not just make things and leave them be. Granted you are not jumping down my through like most atheists but you still have a very faded veiw of even any God let alone my God.

[epicgrooves]

That bit was a humorous generalization, although I'm sure we could both agree that not only would God poking his head down from the clouds saying "Good Morning" in a John Cleese voice prove he exists, but also prove he has a sense of humor. Still, the belief in an incorporeal being controlling everything is just as scientific as believing that I am Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnate. There's simply no evidence beyond complex logic. There is nothing we can observe.

[RJL738]

Well it's not like I have done anything wrong if nothing else I have given people hope that they may see their loved ones again some day and the fact that when they die, they do not just rot. I'm not useing this as a cruch or to be carless about this world, I'm just providing a sence of hope that I have witnessed deep down in my heart. Are you sure that everyone who has claimed to witness god is insame or something like it, talk about a mas unrelated hellucination. That seems unlikely.

[epicgrooves]

It's unlikely that it's mass hallucination. It's entirely possible that only a few people hallucinated this idea (hallucinogens were certainly available to people worldwide in ancients times) and told it to others. Once an idea is planted in the brain, it can thus be imagined. A lot of people say that God speaks to them in dreams: the time that the imagination is most powerful. There's no proof that actually happened, and so it's just as likely as an incorporeal being controlling everything.

[RJL738]

Interesting theory but I still doubt that the entire enterprises over the course of hystory are the result of a few people hallucinating. And that's another thing, you say once an idea was planeted in the brain it can be imagined. Try and come up with something that completly does not exist, a concept, it is impossible. So even the idea of the supernatural of God wich ever god is still based on a root idea, the concept. Pretty much all ideas come from a preexisting concept.

[epicgrooves]

Although I don't agree that it's impossible to come up with an idea that doesn't have a root, I must say that Christianity, and even Judaism have preexisting concepts they could have easily worked off of. Egyptian, Minoan, and Zoroastrian mythologies were certainly known to the people of Israel prior to the writing of the Torah. It's no great leap in logic to condense many gods into a single one. It is important to note that early Jews weren't monotheistic: yhwh was merely their NATIONAL god.

[RJL738]

I know one or many gods, but the egyptains had to come up with their god's from somewhere. When I said come up with something that doesn't exist hear is an example : a pink elephant does not exist but pink and elephants do exit. Even of you think about any spiratual beings, have many or just one God I belive the entire concept of anything resalbeing a God of any kind came from a pre-existing concept, choss any religion you want or even make up almost any fairy tale or star trek concept.

[epicgrooves]

Well there are a few different theories about the Egyptians. The first is that the Egyptians, as well as other ancient cultures, had some sort of extraterrestrial contact and misinterpreted it as divine contact. This would be similar to the initial Aztec portrayal of Cortez's army as gods. Another possibility could be that they had things they couldn't explain (lighting, wind, death) and imagined they were being controlled by another being, much as they would control a boat.

[RJL738]

That could possibly be responsible for some of it.

[epicgrooves]

I'd say that it really could cover all of it. Early polytheistic religions (Hinduism, Hellenism, other pagans) generally all have very similar ideas and could possibly have been constructed by similar means independently, the same way that writing was invented 4 separate times independently.

[SirNewt]

And using your own logic I can come up with a god. Lightning strikes killing my friend beside me. At the same moment a gerbil runs by. All hail Gerbil the god of lightning. Now, Gerbils exist and people exist. Maybe the Gerbil God is actually a Gerbil/Person/God. Now you have the interim step of human religious development, animistic deities. They'd become various kings and queens among the stars and eventually a One God.

[RJL738]

1. You just totally screwed up in so many ways. 2. I dare you to say the to the face of the world, why do you even care, I have moved on.

[gordongate]

try looking at theosophy's point of view, all religeons/philosophy have a part of the key but its not visible from inside the narrow viewpoint of a single religeon, to see the message you have to overlay all the beliefs of man on each other to see the simplicity of the message. thats why gnosticism was strangled out of acceptance by catholicism.

knowledge is power, it said that in scripture but it was expunged from the "official" bible at the council of nicea.

[shrikechan]

@RJL738 ...What the fuck?

[prayfertrey]

Wow, Carl is really kind. People want to feel connected to the univers? Ermm, I'm gonna say Astrology flourishes because people are dumb. People like Carl spend all their time sequestered in University halls and never see life on the ground, never see the "facts on the ground". People who live in hallowed halls entertain romantic notions about why people are the way they are - because of racism, because of lack of economic opportunity, because of lack of funds...

[godlessbob]

Carl on at least one occasion has commented on the human condition and it's insanity. This video is from the 70's, and not too dated, but I really believe Carl had a sympathetic view towards all human suffering. I think he was a humanist.

I am a Saganite....we're all starstuff!

[epicgrooves]

Godlessbob: Sagan was in fact a secular humanist and wrote a few books about it. They're all good reads, I suggest them!

[xenotypo]

Carl Sagan FTW.

[DrZenith]

I'd like to add my thanks to the rest - this is really a great series about life, the universe, and everything; including the wonder of science. Also,a nice put-down of the brainless pseudoscience called astrology. This series should be required viewing in all highschools.

[SirNewt]

Funny, but my science teacher actually showed some episodes in high school and everyone including myself didn't really appreciate the show.

[shrikechan]

@SirNewt I watched this series in High school too and I loved it right away.

[beatboxpeej]

@SirNewt You are too young in highschool to appreciate those things. I now love physics and science in general.

[BraaapMan2000]

Thanks for posting this awesome series. For a science or nature show to hold up this well after 30 or so years is remarkable.

[tonylin987]

thanks man these vids r awesoe keep posting :)

[jetmanisme]

Finally! I was waiting for this.  Thank you!

[SirNewt]

No problem. I'll actual try and discipline myself into posting one each weekend.

[1OitarNedlog]

Cool deal! (ô¿ô)