Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 4 part1

[RJL738]

The thing that is amazing and it amy be not compltly proven but it so turns out that that Venus is just within the habitable zone of the Solar System but the outer edge is maybe more than 3 AU from the Sun, Mars is only 1.5 or so, that encompasses a large fraction of the asteroid belt even a dwarf planet. A system just over 20 lightyears from here has as much as 3 habitable zone planets not including several or even a dozen in this zone that would not be detectable yet anyway.

[valeo626]

lol and they really "chopped and screwed" stravinsky's rite of spring. makes me wonder what was left of spring after this happened?

[valeo626]

Your answer doesn't have anything to do with what i was asking!! And I never said Carl Sagan WASN'T a brilliant man who we can learn a great deal from! Tell me, what is your definition of a goober? If carl sagan is a goober, i can identify with his gooberness. I am probably a goober, as i define the term. But please, let's not argue semantics! Like walt disney and adolf hitler, carl sagan was anti-semantic!

[ShaunParish]

This man is one of the biggest goobers to ever exist. Smart. But a complete Goober.

[TairyGreen89]

@ShaunParish What the hell do you mean by goober?

[valeo626]

@TairyGreen89 It's hard to precisely define a goober; you know one when you see one.

[TairyGreen89]

@valeo626 Ok but I don't think many people would say Carl Sagan was a goober.

[valeo626]

@TairyGreen89 "many people" thought the world was flat. "many people" burned heretics at the stake for making rational inquiry. If "many people" jumped off a cliff, would you follow them?

[TairyGreen89]

@valeo626 What are you talking about? Carl Sagan was a brilliant man who we can learn a great deal from. Your question doesn't have anything to do with what I said.

[x3huesos]

@valeo626 agreed man its the seemingly crazy ones that move humanity forward, the ones that go against the current and challenge current knowledge. We are all born original, we do not have to die a copy.

[TheREALDanontheMoon]

@ShaunParish No, Rick Perry is a goober.

[tsartodd]

"an event that is improbable in 100 years may be inevitable in 100 million years" ... is that how long the Jets or the Eagles will have to wait before they get to the Super Bowl?!?

(no disrespect meant to Dr. Sagan)

[JohnF30Music]

i've seen a meteor fall in Greece. it was shocking. the whole sky turned green from black.

[LuvLennonMcCartney]

Funny; the album which the theme song for this series is taken out of is called "Heaven and Hell". By a composer called Vangelis. The name of this episode is also called "Heaven and Hell". Merely a casual coincidence or was it Sagans appreciation for a brilliant musician? Anyhow, a useless tidbit of information for everyone.

[JohnF30Music]

@LuvLennonMcCartney maybe it's because vangelis wrote the songs FOR the show? just saying. all soundtracks on all episodes are composed by vangelis.

[WrestlingHeretic]

@JohnF30Music

A lot of the music appearing in Cosmos is comprised of previously existing pieces having nothing to do with Vangelis. Much of the music of this segment is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (incoherently edited if you know the piece well). A fitting choice, both for its savagery and for its depiction of Russian folklore. It was written within five years of the comet strike.

[Krandolph17]

8:22 to 8:26 man would it be fun to flame thrower a giftmas tree!?

[dalcon555]

i truly believe carl sagans work will be catalogued and used as a religious movement

[LaserBeam002]

Since this was broadcast evidence has been found that it was indeed a piece of a comet. Sagan was right.

[karkovice10]

I don't think anybody's truly discovered what the Tunguska disaster really was. I've heard about the comet theory, but also about how it could've been a meteorite, or an atom bomb. I don't think anybody really knows.

[MSK120]

@karkovice10 An atomic bomb would leave telltale signs of radiation at the site, and they weren't even invented yet, lol. The evidence is most consistent with a comet or asteroid that exploded just before it hit the ground.

[karkovice10]

@MSK120 Possibly. But I say "atom bomb" as being one not necessarily created by man. I've heard of the possibility that an alien race may have sent an atom bomb to earth as a warning to mankind of how destructive it can be. Looks like nobody really got the message. :/

[TheBrunoBraga]

@karkovice10 Isn't that like saying you shot someone as a warning to how destructive a gun can be?

[karkovice10]

@TheBrunoBraga If you wanna look at it that way, then "yes". But I think that the more plausible theory is that it was the piece of a comet that exploded just before it crashed into the earth. You may ask "how can an atom bomb have been launched in Siberia decades before it was ever invented?" For the record, there is the theory that it was launched by an alien race to warn us, but I think that theory just doesn't hold water.

[anonimystro12345]

@karkovice10 To warn us from what?

A warning doesn't really help if we don't understand it.

Imagine that I send you a message containing the words "stop mashing the potatoes", which secretly is a warning to stop trying to create fusion reactors or something. How would you understand that?

This theory couldn't hold any water if it had two thousand buckets and instructions.

[caafa]

I've been spending the night watching Cosmos from the first episode because of a toothache, and what i see and learn makes the pain go away.

[lukeism2]

@caafa so it wasn't the vicodin?

[cryotimber]

@caafa It's actually not the knowledge, it's Carl's amazing and soothing voice. XD

[Shavarnarak]

The Tunguska impact always kind of scares me.

Imagine what history would have been like if that thing had hit a major population center instead!

[FinalFrontier0]

Thanks for the upload, brilliant stuff!

[dsfsdafdsafsdaf]

Audio is out of sync.

[eddievhfan1984]

I un-spammed certain comments on here, because if the information is BS, it should not be flatly supressed... we'll just let the opinions of the viewers decide...

[OneWorldHistory]

@eddievhfan1984 Agreed. I also unspammed the comments.

The curious thing is, Velikovsky was a good psychiatrist, but his religious zeal led him towards very wierd conclusions. (nothing new about that!) I've read Worlds in Collision and it's a bizarre collection of jumbled history. Carl Sagan and the mass of scientists that opposed this simply 'bad' science were correct in doing so.

[acs328i]

Yes thank you SO Much! I am beginning to read his book "Cosmos" and this is a great supplement!

[ImagineMyChagrin]

Just want to say thanks again for posting these - seeing this series has made my week so far

[tokyoamducias]

thank you for posting this series.

hours and hours of education, imagination and entertainment.

and sagan is an hero.

[SirNewt]

Are you kidding?

[TummyTush]

Stupid conspiracy theorist. Show your evidence or shut the fuck up.

[MvNPTI]

Thats a good phrase. You can alternate "conspiracy theorist" with theist and you'd get a better one.

[RebelVoDKa]

Pagan may well rhyme with the name Sagan, but he wasn't one in any sense of the world, so your insult is rather silly.

[acs328i]

Its funny, how someone who most likely has contributed very little to science can make such claims. Sagan WAS and IS a free thinker and his works continue to inspire a new generation!

[eddievhfan1984]

Especially because (and he wrote a book on this) he was also a pot smoker. And even got arrested while protesting the rejection of a moratorium on nuclear testing in Nevada. And some religious people claim that science is out to do nothing more than incinerate our planet and send us all to Hell... :P

[feifeishuangyu]

Great work of all scientists. Thank you Carl Sagan.

[Ryuzzakii]

It's ashame he's no longer alive.

[itsnotfreedom]

@Ryuzzakii Let's look at it from another point of view: How lucky we are that he lived!

[Maphysto]

@Ryuzzakii Carl Sagan, George Carlin, and Mark Twain. If those three men were brought back and put in positions of power, they could have the world fixed in a few years.

[gr4ndhustle]

@Ryuzzakii how can it be a shame he is no longer alive? it's not his fault haha... i think the word you are looking for is pity.. take care mate

[Ti4200]

Keep it up. Great quality for youtube too.

[Blackliam]

I appreciate this