Carl Sagans Cosmos - Episode 5 - Blues for a Red Planet

[MrSwedenik]

The music at the beginning is perfect. That's exactly how I feel when I look up at the night sky. I feel a sense of awe, but at the same time sadness, because all of it is right there for us to see, but we will never (or at least I will never) be able to actually go there, to actually see it with my own eyes, no telescope.

[8023liz]

i love this program. tanks to my uncle when i was little he make me see those shows . when i was a little girl a dream that i go to this planets one day my relatives will live there

[HeliosPhoenix]

I get chills when he talks about the rover. What he discusses has already happened. 4 times.

[HeliosPhoenix]

I love the music that plays starting at about the 25:00 mark. Panning over the emptiness that is Mars. Such a sad tune. Truly Blues for a Red Planet.

[andres6868]

@HeliosPhoenix In case you wonder, that piece is called "Entends-tu Les Chiens Aboyer?" and it is by Vangelis

[dec0y8]

Anyone know the music playing from 13:00 to 13:30??? I swear ive heard it in a movie somewhere... anyone know?

[KimKhan]

@dec0y8 Mars The God of War. It's part of an orchestral score. Google that name and you'll find it sooner or later.

[episcophagus]

@dec0y8 Gustav Holst, "Mars, the Bringer of War" from "The Planets" Op 32. A variation of it was used in the TV-series War of the Worlds according to Wikipedia, but no films are mentioned.

[LordOfNothingreally]

0:28:32 - the Great Nipple of Mars!

[phantasmagoria0no]

♥ Carl Sagan is kind of engaging

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[TheMotherEagle]

ROFL: When the Viking lander puts out a finger. Giving the bird to the red planet.

[HeatherMeadow]

He died before he could prove the tenacity of life

How ironic...

[Galentw]

Nevermind i foun out the song from 25:30 is called "Tu les Chiens Aboyer" by Vangelis.

[Brianelston]

The world leaders should watch cosmos. Then maybe they would drop their guns and focus on the space program. I wonder where 2 Trillion Dollars would take us.

[TheMotherEagle]

@Brianelston I agree world leaders could learn a thing or two from Sagan. However, can we please address human suffering, poverty and economic slavery before we reach out to outer space?

[tkdrspm111]

@TheMotherEagle Those issues are so exclusive to the human condition that if we get caught up in helping everyone to such a deep extent then we'll never move forward. Space exploration is crucial to inspire higher education and curiosity in scores of disciplines and moving humanity forward in time. Focusing our efforts on the well-being of seven plus billion people is just not realistic or possible. IMO

[RebelManCam]

WHY ARE WE NOT ON MARS? DO WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER COLD WAR TO SPARK ANOTHER RACE?

[mvanroy]

You mean Martians are watching me masturbate?

[Galentw]

What is the song around 25:30 - 28:30 called?

[mvanroy]

@Galentw I think it's the Martian National Anthem.

[15Gracieface]

The prospector part made me crack up for some reason :p

[gregchance324]

"the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

amazing words

[dronecaster]

One wonders what Sagan would think of the Mars Pathfinder missions of recent years. I'm sure he would have wet his pants. It is so sad that he is no longer with us, his vision is sorely missed, and who knows what he would have been able to contribute if he were still with us.

[FireEmblemDemon]

0:53:49 this is the last time i were loafers to mars again

[FireEmblemDemon]

i lold when he mixed all the stuff together to make a person and mad scientist music came on

[thedebateroom]

Mars Direct...absolutely no need for fancy expensive orbital assembly, no need to "learn more" about long duration space flight as we can avoid the problem of no gravity with simply rotating the vessel and can shield the astronauts from radiation with the provisions they are taking with them anyway. fuel for the return trip can also be made on mars. just thought i'd mention that. look up Dr. Robert Zubrin or Mars Direct for more info :)

[LuciferLBelial]

@ 45 min, a human randomly appears next to Carl, lol.

[martinbondesson]

There's no other person on this earth I've ever had more respect for than Carl Sagan. Every word he speaks is pure poetry and gives me goosebumps.

Safe winds, wherever you are, good sir...

[jwkeith]

Sync problem between video and audio.

[GrayShark09]

57:25 When someone says something about spending billions and billions of dollars in space explorations I would remind them about the fact that humanity is spending trillions and trillions of dollars here on earth on weapons and military programs that are truley harmfull for our civilisation , it had become something so usual that nobody even noticed those obscene military budgets.

[JohnF30Music]

it's amazing how fast technology and science evolved in the 20th century. it's the most amazing thing

[Shadizar666]

chuckles

"...the only question is, which side of the telescope the intelligence was on..."

[JTlovesDexter]

LMAO @ no intelligent life can be seen in Washington DC - priceless!

[kingkong8974]

@JTlovesDexter Well, he didn't say that life didn't exist, surely there is life in D.C. but they are definitely not smart.

[TheMotherEagle]

@JTlovesDexter He said a similar quip about finding intelligence on TV in the last episode.. I laughed and I laughed.

[Desertphile]

Awesome. Just awesome.