I like the carp noctem on your main page, I can't wait to get a good telescope. Can any one here answer me these questions? People use uranium to boil water in their reactors to make electricity from steam yet the radiation is some sort of energy so could it be collected directly instead of converting it to steam? also is there a way to transmit radiation through a route such as a wire or some other way, (capillary like vacuum tubes maybe), as we do with electricity? if so how, if not why not?
Carl Sagan is a hero. He warned that the 21st Century would show the rising threat of New Age superstition, and with everything from the re-emergence of homeopathy to the anti-vaccination lobbiers to the 2012 conspiracists coming about since, I say with grief that he was correct :(
You know... I've heard it said that the Earth is about 5 Billions years old.
I've also heard it said that the Sun has about 5 billions years left before it reaches a state that makes the Earth uninhabitable.
...That means... from those objects mentioned in this video to be 10 (or more) billion light years away... light that set out when the earth first formed will only reach this planet when there is no life left to see it.
can u help me put this in to perspective; how do we know the "true" shape of the structures in our universe, if where we map a star's/galaxy's location is multiple orders of magnitude different in time. these object will have since moved on at widely differing rates according to its speed, and mostly distance from us. this being said i find it a bitch to understand how we can even begin to map gravitational effects over a universal distance.
It's a shame he's gone now - he died before I even heard of him. But I have seen his Cosmos series on YouTube. Even after all this years it's still an awsome series to watch. (And it has aged surprisingly well too...)
@morganbath there was no global flood is over the result is the most discriminated against group of people including myself and need to read the bible whre it states the government cannot force a religion based largely upon carbon dating not on known people and generations carbon dating is unreliable
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I saw a Star Trek episode where they flew past Mars and it showed a giant plaque with Carl Sagan's name on it, on the surface of Mars. I thought... What a great Idea for when we colonize that planet. A giant tribute to Carl Sagan.
After doing research just now apparently Nick Sagan (Carl's son) wrote some episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise and wrote the same one I watched lol.
@SagaWrath There's a crater on Mars named after him. It's in the Ares Vallis region where Pathfinder landed (the mission launched just 16 days before Sagan died.)
It seems to be a pretty good place to look for evidence of life too!
I saw a Star Trek episode where they flew past Mars and it showed a giant plaque with Carl Sagan's name on it, on the surface of Mars. I thought... What a great Idea for when we colonize that planet. A giant tribute to Carl Sagan.
Sagan was the heart and soul of cosmology worn on the sleeve outwards for all to see and hear for anyone who wanted to. This man brought emotion to something happening that cannot be observed directly, or at least hasn't happened yet. A scientist with a poetic heart, living, loving, learning and teaching. I don't think souls exist......but I love the idea of Sagan being able to explore the cosmos in a metaphysical manner. Sagan's words effect more in my heart then any leader of religion could
@NotDuncan What a coincidence! I was born in a Buddhist country.
As you probably know Buddhism has variety of traditions, beliefs and practices.
Sry for not clarifying it clearly, it was my fault, by the word "theist" i mean someone who actually believe in ghosts, spirits, deities or whatever supernatural exist.
Unfortunately I probably don't count you unless you believe in ghosts, gods etc.
@colloredbrothers the difference is he wasn't making any PREDICTIONS as any prophet would do, he was merely DESCRIBING what science had estimated at the time, as you can see science can be adjusted and improved, a prophecy cannot.
and yes we are FREE to like him or dislike him as much as we wan't, without offending any deities
@colloredbrothers the difference is he wasn't making any PREDICTIONS as any prophet would do, he was merely DESCRIBING what science had estimated at the time, as you can see science can be adjusted and improved, a prophecy cannot.
and yes we are FREE to like him or dislike him as much as we wan't, without offending any deities
Why are the distances that Carl Sagans quotes wrong? What information was he working with that gave him those distances and why do we know that his information is wrong?
Comos should be shown in all schools. I still remember the first show when it came out. The local PBS station was airing it and I was there watching. Powerful stuff indeed.
I love Sagan's voice. I could listen to him talk about the universe until the sun burned out. Hell, he could just read a phone book and make it sound terribly interesting and fascinating.
I think it's the first time i have seen a video have 1K + ratings and not one single negative rating... Carl Sagan is what every human should be... Thinking.
I remember when quasars were first discovered. They were trying to theorize what they thought they were until we learned that they were early galaxies with enormous black holes spewing out enormous amounts of energy.
he isn't trying to prove anyone wrong or tell anyonen "this is the only right way!!" he's just saying, "this is what we know right now." and lets you take in the information.
Oh, srsly? So, despite being of Middle Eastern decent, Christ looked like a white caucasian male? You could almost justify the case for Christ as being the case for WHITE POWER!
@Boy192 Look I realize that's not what the so called christ would have looked like I'm just talking about the stupid paintings that you always see at these churches. Don't have cow. I'm not for White power. I think all races need to be thought of as equals. and sexes also. As far as I'm conserned the man never existed. I know some idiots gonna say he did because the bible said so. To those idiots they can take yaway and shove him up their religious asses.
@Boy192 remember I mentioned how Carl looks like a god looking down upon the earth. I just so happened to say how another athiest happened to look like the pictures they use to portrey their christ. Your the one that brought it into a white power thing.
I inhaled a deep lungful of potent smoke and poofed it out into the land-stared twilight, above me orion began to emerge from the turquoise murk and I thought of Carl.
One of the things I liked about your playing of this section of Cosmos is the annotations, the fact that our knowledge of even the little bit the universe talked about in this video has expanded.
That we can correct mistaken previously held beliefs about the universe and can accept that if even if someone we all respect like Sagan held those beliefs, if the evidence shows otherwise, we accept the evidence.
@dominictemple That's a great point. With religion, someone we respect living 2,000+ years ago needs to be 100% correct about everything. Any extra knowledge has to be either eschewed completely or shoehorned to fit in with what was said millennia ago. With science, someone we respect living in the 1980s can have imperfect information but we're happy because they used their brains and did the best they could with the information they had for the time they lived in.
So there is an "Andromeda Constellation" which is, I assume, different from the "Andromeda Galaxy", both of which are different from YT channel "Andromeda's Wake". Then there is my 4th Grade teacher, Mr. Andy Romeda.
Oh, I'm soooo confused.... Which 3 stars are Orion's Belt again?
its funny when people read first contact, the go like "this was made by very religius man" and when they get to know that it was rote by an atheist they go like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!"
@gooddarkjedi: Religious? Sort of. Deist, if anything, and not neccessarily by a Deity. Read the epilogue and the part about finding a message burried trillions of digits deep in calculations for the number PI. The Cosmic Engineer he alluded to might have been from the far end of time. Also google the term "Computronium" and "The Holographic Universe". Think truly cosmic scale Holodeck...
Haha. I didnt know it was his day and i actually watched Cosmos yesterday and this exact episode :D Coincidence? I dont think so, more like supernatural forces at work, maybe Carls ghost? Good one bro, you got me, wait till i'll get to haunt... AndromedasWake, any chance you could do my horoscope and tell me when ill die? >:D
RadarKat73080: Would have been more embarrassing if Carl Sagan's words were considered dogma, and we therefore would have had to accept the distances he mentions, in spite of updated evidence. ;)
I love the idea. Then we could all wait until Pope Dawkins tells us he's had a private revelation that the new data are in fact correct, and we are permitted to believe them instead.
@JohnDoeSchmoe I'll bet Carl would be delighted that his colleagues (and students!) have made better estimates of these distances. Why, he might even celebrate by changing his lovely butternut-yellow blazer!
@AndromedasWake Happy CS Day. Too bad he's not here to celebrate with us. I will dedicate my first beer to him today. Although I'm a day late I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
Ok so what I got from that was, firstly, that you are named after a girl, and secondly that science is wrong a lot and so of course can't be trusted. What we need is something that never changes to tell us how everything is, maybe some kind of book or something :-P
Seriously though, Carl Sagan is teh Awesomenessist.
Watching this made me a little sad, knowing that it's maybe impossible for us to ever explore the universe in its entirely. What wonderful discoveries we'll never know just because the universe is too damn big...
The light from Carl Sagan is not only headed away from us at an incredible clip but, through his continuing gift of conveying wonder, shines on us still.
This is a great thought,and I thank you for posting. I can listen to Mr Sagan talk for hours on end. I think I speak for us all when I say... We miss you Carl !!!
Carl Sagan did more to inspire young minds with science than any other of his generation. I can remember hanging onto his every word when he came on TV. I am glad that people like Michio Kaku have taken up his calling. Now if we can just get TK to do the same on his Sirius Stargazing channel. Hint, hint.
I was never a big Sagan fan. Like Leaky, he was more rock star than scientist. He ventured too freely into the field of social comment, and offered little enough when doing so. I did enjoy Cosmos, but then again, I was only a teen at the time.
Carl Sagan's role was vital. He brought science to the people. He helped erode the public image of scientists as egg-heads and boffins who are distant and unapproachable. He helped us understand complex ideas by using everyday language and he did this without any condescension. He made us feel that the science belonged to us all.
Carl Sagan is one person I would have wished to have been able to send to another planet or star. A part of me wish for their to be a soul only so Carl Sagan's soul could reach out and visit the stars. That is only one of the rare few reason I would want there to be some life after death.
The man had a beauty to him which was as beautiful as the universe itself.
@Tlincali True. But I still wish his intelligent or essences could have had a chance to experience event of visiting another world. Our progress just has move to slow letting the flame that was Carl Sagan burn out.
I know that the atoms, that was him, will at some point will be blown out into space but some how that just doesn't feel the same.
Carl Mother-Fucking Sagan! Most badass and wonderful science educator the world has ever seen, in my opinion. The way he talks just has this quality of knock-you-on-your-ass resplendence that cannot be resisted by mere mortals.
for all we know every star (not inculeding the sun) might have been destoyed ages ago!
MrGaddafikiller 2 months ago
Happy birthday Carl! RIP
ult1m4t30wn4g3 4 months ago
Next Carl Sagan day is next saturday!
JackeShanTwo 4 months ago
I love Carl Sagan so much! I'm deeply disappointed in Netflix for removing Cosmos as a playable feature.
LordRakton 9 months ago
m31 is a fairly unromantic name for our cosmic sister, maybe that's why we call it andromeda these days
drkraid 10 months ago
are you ever going to make another video?
simsimaz2 1 year ago
I like the carp noctem on your main page, I can't wait to get a good telescope. Can any one here answer me these questions? People use uranium to boil water in their reactors to make electricity from steam yet the radiation is some sort of energy so could it be collected directly instead of converting it to steam? also is there a way to transmit radiation through a route such as a wire or some other way, (capillary like vacuum tubes maybe), as we do with electricity? if so how, if not why not?
Sadochrist 1 year ago
Carl Sagan is a hero. He warned that the 21st Century would show the rising threat of New Age superstition, and with everything from the re-emergence of homeopathy to the anti-vaccination lobbiers to the 2012 conspiracists coming about since, I say with grief that he was correct :(
Darkdude929 1 year ago 5
The universe bless and spread Carl around we need his insite more than ever.
CecilDark 1 year ago
Holy crap I took my SAT on Carl sagan day?!!? I knew I was feeling extra sensitive to intelligence that day!
cukasi 1 year ago 2
@cukasi if only holidays actually had an effect on intelligence. sagan would punch me for saying that :P
petrino 1 year ago
After finishing with the Demon-Haunted World, I just ordered Little Blue Dot. Can't wait!
Happy Sagan Day, everybody!
gagaplex 1 year ago
Albeit very belated. :-(
gagaplex 1 year ago
You know... I've heard it said that the Earth is about 5 Billions years old.
I've also heard it said that the Sun has about 5 billions years left before it reaches a state that makes the Earth uninhabitable.
...That means... from those objects mentioned in this video to be 10 (or more) billion light years away... light that set out when the earth first formed will only reach this planet when there is no life left to see it.
...Thats just impossible to even imagine.
DemonLordTyrus 1 year ago 3
can u help me put this in to perspective; how do we know the "true" shape of the structures in our universe, if where we map a star's/galaxy's location is multiple orders of magnitude different in time. these object will have since moved on at widely differing rates according to its speed, and mostly distance from us. this being said i find it a bitch to understand how we can even begin to map gravitational effects over a universal distance.
marcarmstrong88 1 year ago
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marcarmstrong88 1 year ago
Let's be honest, Carl Sagan, smart as he may have been, had no business narrating things.
thedeadcatinthebox 1 year ago
what a total legend...wish he was still with us
reasonnotgod 1 year ago
It's a shame he's gone now - he died before I even heard of him. But I have seen his Cosmos series on YouTube. Even after all this years it's still an awsome series to watch. (And it has aged surprisingly well too...)
MangaFanGuy 1 year ago
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the cosmos is gay
goodsirknight 1 year ago
I love Carl Sagan. Though youtube has many flaws, I am glad I can easily share some of Carl with my kids as they grow. Thanks for posting
veggiescrub 1 year ago
Here is an irony for you: If not for religious idiots I would not even know this mans name :) See, creationists do have their uses .... kind of.
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@morganbath there was no global flood is over the result is the most discriminated against group of people including myself and need to read the bible whre it states the government cannot force a religion based largely upon carbon dating not on known people and generations carbon dating is unreliable
stephenacts2220 1 year ago
Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan. We miss you!
Melexion 1 year ago
In 3 mounth's it will be Darwin Day!!!!! Yeah Science!!!
pbrskater26 1 year ago
I celebrated Carl Sagan day by showing my movie, "Zooming in on the Beauty of science" to my science class. My teacher was impressed.
TheNamelessCharacter 1 year ago
R.I.P Carl .__. its always so sad to see such a bright mind becoming a part of galaxy again but leaving us behind.
DeaXi69 1 year ago
I miss Carl Sagan.
RIPZatren 1 year ago
I love the updated info tags you added to this. I'd love to see a list of all the things we've learned since Cosmos aired.
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Fazoodios 1 year ago
I saw a Star Trek episode where they flew past Mars and it showed a giant plaque with Carl Sagan's name on it, on the surface of Mars. I thought... What a great Idea for when we colonize that planet. A giant tribute to Carl Sagan.
After doing research just now apparently Nick Sagan (Carl's son) wrote some episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise and wrote the same one I watched lol.
SagaWrath 1 year ago 11
@SagaWrath There's a crater on Mars named after him. It's in the Ares Vallis region where Pathfinder landed (the mission launched just 16 days before Sagan died.)
It seems to be a pretty good place to look for evidence of life too!
AndromedasWake 1 year ago 10
I saw a Star Trek episode where they flew past Mars and it showed a giant plaque with Carl Sagan's name on it, on the surface of Mars. I thought... What a great Idea for when we colonize that planet. A giant tribute to Carl Sagan.
SagaWrath 1 year ago
Sagan was the heart and soul of cosmology worn on the sleeve outwards for all to see and hear for anyone who wanted to. This man brought emotion to something happening that cannot be observed directly, or at least hasn't happened yet. A scientist with a poetic heart, living, loving, learning and teaching. I don't think souls exist......but I love the idea of Sagan being able to explore the cosmos in a metaphysical manner. Sagan's words effect more in my heart then any leader of religion could
Thulgore 1 year ago 2
I can't believe Stephen Hawking has outlived Sagan
TheHomelessCripple 1 year ago
Hey AndromedasWake, I've been thinking about reading one of Sagan's books. Do you have a recommendation? Thanks.
AmishRakeFight85 1 year ago
this guy sagan i tells ya! is gonna be big! hehehe RIP Dr. Sagan! truly an amazing fellow!
mmmodafoca 1 year ago
Gotta love that old-timey radio voice he has. What cool motherfucker. RIP.
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are there any theist celebrating Carl Sagan day? i mean, science in general. If there is then i'd be happy to know that.
Th0usandMaster 1 year ago
are there any theist celebrating Carl Sagan day? i mean, science in general. If there is then i'd be happy to know that.
Th0usandMaster 1 year ago
@Th0usandMaster I'm a Buddist that holds Carl Sagan and science in general in the same esteem I do my philosophical ideals. Does that count?
NotDuncan 1 year ago
@NotDuncan What a coincidence! I was born in a Buddhist country.
As you probably know Buddhism has variety of traditions, beliefs and practices.
Sry for not clarifying it clearly, it was my fault, by the word "theist" i mean someone who actually believe in ghosts, spirits, deities or whatever supernatural exist.
Unfortunately I probably don't count you unless you believe in ghosts, gods etc.
thanks for your time TC
Th0usandMaster 1 year ago
When I was kid I slaved on my paper round to get the cash together to buy a copy of "Cosmos".
As I key this comment if I turn to the bookcase on my left, there it is. A treasure.
Infidelerious 1 year ago 3
What a legend! Can you imagine what Carl would've done with today's CGI, and new data?
glyderau 1 year ago
the atheists equivalent of a prophet, they love this guy.
colloredbrothers 1 year ago
@colloredbrothers the difference is he wasn't making any PREDICTIONS as any prophet would do, he was merely DESCRIBING what science had estimated at the time, as you can see science can be adjusted and improved, a prophecy cannot.
and yes we are FREE to like him or dislike him as much as we wan't, without offending any deities
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@colloredbrothers the difference is he wasn't making any PREDICTIONS as any prophet would do, he was merely DESCRIBING what science had estimated at the time, as you can see science can be adjusted and improved, a prophecy cannot.
and yes we are FREE to like him or dislike him as much as we wan't, without offending any deities
iurak6868 1 year ago
@colloredbrothers
Get your uninformed stereotypes right: Carl Sagan is our Mr. Rogers.
AndrewTheEternal 1 year ago
I could listen to Carl Sagan till the cows come home. he has a very hypnotic voice
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Borrring. :|
kingkev115 1 year ago
@kingkev115 Fact: Sagan got more pussy than you.
mmmmmarcus 1 year ago
@mmmmmarcus Fact: Some chicks like big brains. Size matters!
juliuschas 1 year ago
Extraordinary claim: Carl Sagan was awesome.
Extraordinary proof: This video!
Skepticktok 1 year ago 46
Why are the distances that Carl Sagans quotes wrong? What information was he working with that gave him those distances and why do we know that his information is wrong?
JaredTheTwitch 1 year ago
I will burn one in honor of Mr. Sagan! :)
dondude69 1 year ago 2
Zero dislikes. WE HAVE FOUND THE PROMISED LAND, THINKERS OF THE WORLD! IT IS WHERE CARL SAGAN HAS GONE TO! SPREAD THE WORD!
Koujinkamu 1 year ago
Yes, and indoctrination is NOT COOL.
Koujinkamu 1 year ago
One of the great minds of recent history. Happy Carl Sagan Day!
philthy122 1 year ago
I miss Carl Sagan. I really do. Wish he was around to comment on our current situation.
malignantpoodle 1 year ago
Comos should be shown in all schools. I still remember the first show when it came out. The local PBS station was airing it and I was there watching. Powerful stuff indeed.
ronaldec7 1 year ago 2
@ronaldec7 One of my favorite all time shows!
dondude69 1 year ago
Just amazing.
Ecite 1 year ago
I love Sagan's voice. I could listen to him talk about the universe until the sun burned out. Hell, he could just read a phone book and make it sound terribly interesting and fascinating.
paulbottomley42 1 year ago 2
@Afs189
Well, I wasn't thinking that, but now...
paulbottomley42 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this :)
Christheatheist1 1 year ago
I think it's the first time i have seen a video have 1K + ratings and not one single negative rating... Carl Sagan is what every human should be... Thinking.
Dryndal 1 year ago
Cosmos.....best science series ever!
157626 1 year ago 3
Thank you Andromedaswake for this clip.
fourtrees44 1 year ago
He has a good knack of making you wonder about the Universe. Great method of explanation with the comparisons to Einstein, etc.
LAnonHubbard 1 year ago
I miss Carl, he was and is a great person!
joetylerdale 1 year ago
I remember when quasars were first discovered. They were trying to theorize what they thought they were until we learned that they were early galaxies with enormous black holes spewing out enormous amounts of energy.
truvelocity 1 year ago
cool
smashbeans 1 year ago
i love Carl Sagan. he makes science so relaxing.
he isn't trying to prove anyone wrong or tell anyonen "this is the only right way!!" he's just saying, "this is what we know right now." and lets you take in the information.
i would have loved to meet him.
alixinthemiddle 1 year ago 2
Great stuff
C0nstellati0ns 1 year ago
Zero people disliked this.
All is well.
Gnug215 1 year ago 3
Have you noticed when Carl is behind earth he looks like God.lol
BgbadWulof 1 year ago 4
@BgbadWulof Oh, is that what God looks like? I had no idea...
Boy192 1 year ago
@Boy192 I find if funny that look at so called pictures of the Christ then look at Thunderfoot you almost have the same guy.
BgbadWulof 1 year ago
@BgbadWulof
Oh, srsly? So, despite being of Middle Eastern decent, Christ looked like a white caucasian male? You could almost justify the case for Christ as being the case for WHITE POWER!
Boy192 1 year ago
@Boy192 Look I realize that's not what the so called christ would have looked like I'm just talking about the stupid paintings that you always see at these churches. Don't have cow. I'm not for White power. I think all races need to be thought of as equals. and sexes also. As far as I'm conserned the man never existed. I know some idiots gonna say he did because the bible said so. To those idiots they can take yaway and shove him up their religious asses.
BgbadWulof 1 year ago
@BgbadWulof
I'm not having a cow, I'm having a calf. Do you prefer to take your jokes in pill or pretzel form? Don't see what this has to do with Carl Sagan.
Boy192 1 year ago
@Boy192 remember I mentioned how Carl looks like a god looking down upon the earth. I just so happened to say how another athiest happened to look like the pictures they use to portrey their christ. Your the one that brought it into a white power thing.
BgbadWulof 1 year ago
@BgbadWulof Yeah, yeah; chill, chill. Your secret's safe with me (white power!).
Boy192 1 year ago
Smoke weed everyday.
BuBBaGump014 1 year ago
carl sagan.... IS ALSO ON WHEELS.
grameron 1 year ago
There's a Carl Sagan Day?!? And I missed it?!
I shall have to repent by getting drunk and watching 'Cosmos'.
L00NGB00W 1 year ago
Oops! hasn't happened yet <_<... Oh well... Still gonna get drunk and watch 'Cosmos'.
L00NGB00W 1 year ago
XOXO Carl Sagan XOXO
CO2Junkie 1 year ago
God Bless Carl Sagan, Bitches !
wellsbranchdude 1 year ago
I register my disappointment with the google ad for horoscopes on this lovely video
radicalbacon 1 year ago 4
@radicalbacon
lucky you got the horoscope ad I keep getting an ad about Jesus being the difference.
666nonbeliever 1 year ago
@666nonbeliever I'm getting the God Who Wasn't There. Seems accurate.
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
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radicalbacon 1 year ago
Holy Crap! You're a chick Andro o_O
Surathan 1 year ago
Carl Sagan is so inspiring. He always manages to wow you.
Rationalific 1 year ago
sooo.... where the fuck have YOU been?
Stead3111 1 year ago
Loved seeing the annotation on the correct distances, science is constantly updating it's intel.
VapidZero 1 year ago
I inhaled a deep lungful of potent smoke and poofed it out into the land-stared twilight, above me orion began to emerge from the turquoise murk and I thought of Carl.
farnium 1 year ago
One of the things I liked about your playing of this section of Cosmos is the annotations, the fact that our knowledge of even the little bit the universe talked about in this video has expanded.
That we can correct mistaken previously held beliefs about the universe and can accept that if even if someone we all respect like Sagan held those beliefs, if the evidence shows otherwise, we accept the evidence.
dominictemple 1 year ago
@dominictemple That's a great point. With religion, someone we respect living 2,000+ years ago needs to be 100% correct about everything. Any extra knowledge has to be either eschewed completely or shoehorned to fit in with what was said millennia ago. With science, someone we respect living in the 1980s can have imperfect information but we're happy because they used their brains and did the best they could with the information they had for the time they lived in.
Rationalific 1 year ago 2
Bbillion!
Anghellik9 1 year ago
@Anghellik9
sireduardo420 1 year ago
So there is an "Andromeda Constellation" which is, I assume, different from the "Andromeda Galaxy", both of which are different from YT channel "Andromeda's Wake". Then there is my 4th Grade teacher, Mr. Andy Romeda.
Oh, I'm soooo confused.... Which 3 stars are Orion's Belt again?
AncientAtheist 1 year ago
its funny when people read first contact, the go like "this was made by very religius man" and when they get to know that it was rote by an atheist they go like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!"
gooddarkjedi 1 year ago
@gooddarkjedi: Religious? Sort of. Deist, if anything, and not neccessarily by a Deity. Read the epilogue and the part about finding a message burried trillions of digits deep in calculations for the number PI. The Cosmic Engineer he alluded to might have been from the far end of time. Also google the term "Computronium" and "The Holographic Universe". Think truly cosmic scale Holodeck...
RyuDarragh 1 year ago
I love 'im!
aiyic 1 year ago
The Andromeda galaxy is on wheels!
neil73 1 year ago 13
@neil73 It is moving about in our general direction.
AndromedasWake 1 year ago 7
@AndromedasWake lol! And towards us, or so I read a while ago...
neil73 1 year ago
@AndromedasWake
Thx for upload! :)
Geertpieter 1 year ago
@neil73 Vroom vroom!!
cryotimber 1 year ago
Haha. I didnt know it was his day and i actually watched Cosmos yesterday and this exact episode :D Coincidence? I dont think so, more like supernatural forces at work, maybe Carls ghost? Good one bro, you got me, wait till i'll get to haunt... AndromedasWake, any chance you could do my horoscope and tell me when ill die? >:D
Keitaro333 1 year ago
RadarKat73080: Would have been more embarrassing if Carl Sagan's words were considered dogma, and we therefore would have had to accept the distances he mentions, in spite of updated evidence. ;)
JohnDoeSchmoe 1 year ago 26
@JohnDoeSchmoe
I love the idea. Then we could all wait until Pope Dawkins tells us he's had a private revelation that the new data are in fact correct, and we are permitted to believe them instead.
paulbottomley42 1 year ago
@JohnDoeSchmoe I'll bet Carl would be delighted that his colleagues (and students!) have made better estimates of these distances. Why, he might even celebrate by changing his lovely butternut-yellow blazer!
juliuschas 1 year ago
@juliuschas I love his pumpkin rain shell!
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FenTel 1 year ago
@AndromedasWake Happy CS Day. Too bad he's not here to celebrate with us. I will dedicate my first beer to him today. Although I'm a day late I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
peace, lardo.
lardo444 1 year ago
I have never seen a video with 728 likes and no dislikes, this says everything about this great man.
zudthespud 1 year ago
Ok so what I got from that was, firstly, that you are named after a girl, and secondly that science is wrong a lot and so of course can't be trusted. What we need is something that never changes to tell us how everything is, maybe some kind of book or something :-P
Seriously though, Carl Sagan is teh Awesomenessist.
rabbitpirate 1 year ago
Little embearassing that Dr. Sagan keeps misspeaking the distance from Beta to the Earth.
RadarKat73080 1 year ago
I have the Cosmos DVD set on the bed stand next to me, always ready to make me feel inspired!
TheDawnBearer 1 year ago 6
Thumbs up, if you think kids should recite his thoughts on the pale blue dot instead of the pledge of allegiance.
smarthandsomeguy 1 year ago 230
@smarthandsomeguy
or revise to "... one nation, under Carl"
pigu0606 1 year ago
@smarthandsomeguy
I wish I could thumb this up 35 billion times!
lordtalon69 1 year ago
@smarthandsomeguy that would make it indoctrination!
stardust005 1 year ago
@smarthandsomeguy I completely disagree, but pale blue dot is a beautiful book, and the quote you are talking about is extremely powerful.
friendlyfire53 1 year ago
what a great guy
Steadno 1 year ago
Watching this made me a little sad, knowing that it's maybe impossible for us to ever explore the universe in its entirely. What wonderful discoveries we'll never know just because the universe is too damn big...
jonbob0008 1 year ago 6
He really does remind me of Brian Cox. He certainly has some of Sagan's mannerisms.
OckamsLaser 1 year ago
A still more glorious dawn awaits...
AnonymousDiv0 1 year ago 2
I was wondering if the universe is expanding That much lol
beckyboomerang 1 year ago
I find it odd when i talk about carl sagan to friends my age and they have no idea who he is.
ghostsnakedeadpool 1 year ago
The light from Carl Sagan is not only headed away from us at an incredible clip but, through his continuing gift of conveying wonder, shines on us still.
554466551 1 year ago
Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman - my greatest inspirations <3 <3 beautiful!!!
datuna 1 year ago
AW - interesting how well the show has held up considering it was aired several years before you were born!
AlanCFA 1 year ago
Im reading his book Cosmos right now, some areas are a bit dated but a fascinating reas nonetheless.
Thanks for posting this clip.
iTrycon 1 year ago
I really miss his programs. Not to many monkeys have replaced him.
GhostDog65 1 year ago
This is a great thought,and I thank you for posting. I can listen to Mr Sagan talk for hours on end. I think I speak for us all when I say... We miss you Carl !!!
zofoblues 1 year ago 3
Hail Science!
TheWhiteRabbit1990 1 year ago 4
Carl Sagan did more to inspire young minds with science than any other of his generation. I can remember hanging onto his every word when he came on TV. I am glad that people like Michio Kaku have taken up his calling. Now if we can just get TK to do the same on his Sirius Stargazing channel. Hint, hint.
qhack 1 year ago
Why don't I remember this in Cosmos?
ChronicallyConfused 1 year ago
I was never a big Sagan fan. Like Leaky, he was more rock star than scientist. He ventured too freely into the field of social comment, and offered little enough when doing so. I did enjoy Cosmos, but then again, I was only a teen at the time.
pumkinpi2 1 year ago
Carl Sagan is a legend. He died much too soon.
jus10ls 1 year ago 2
Happy, correct Carl Sagan day.
MarxIzalias 1 year ago
LOOK HOW MUCH SCIENCE WAS WRONG! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
NoeLPZC 1 year ago
I couldn't follow that at all. Do you have the version edited for Rednecks?
TheRatsmith 1 year ago
Ha i didnt even know...and i just bought "The Demon Haunted World" it must be fate! lol
IvoryChalice 1 year ago
Carl Sagan's role was vital. He brought science to the people. He helped erode the public image of scientists as egg-heads and boffins who are distant and unapproachable. He helped us understand complex ideas by using everyday language and he did this without any condescension. He made us feel that the science belonged to us all.
Textra1 1 year ago 5
Carl Sagan is one person I would have wished to have been able to send to another planet or star. A part of me wish for their to be a soul only so Carl Sagan's soul could reach out and visit the stars. That is only one of the rare few reason I would want there to be some life after death.
The man had a beauty to him which was as beautiful as the universe itself.
opaldragon75 1 year ago 4
@opaldragon75 You are forgetting that we are already all made out of star stuff to begin with. :)
Tlincali 1 year ago
@Tlincali True. But I still wish his intelligent or essences could have had a chance to experience event of visiting another world. Our progress just has move to slow letting the flame that was Carl Sagan burn out.
I know that the atoms, that was him, will at some point will be blown out into space but some how that just doesn't feel the same.
But thank you for cheer me up!
opaldragon75 1 year ago
AAAAhhh I see what you did there...
pcbutler1971 1 year ago
today's my birthday O.o i guess carl seagan <3's me
ZogJhones 1 year ago
Was M31 not known as Andromeda back then?
thebigJ1er 1 year ago
Happy Carl Sagan day to you! Happy Carl Sagan day to you! Happy Carl Sagan day dear Andromadas Wake! Happy Carl Sagan day to you!"
mjh012363 1 year ago
Wow, not a single thumbs down! Well deserved Mr. Sagan
vegasOasis 1 year ago
If only everyone could see the universe as Sagan did, this world would be a much grander place.
UniversalCipher 1 year ago
idk if it is me, but carl sagan appears to have had a big one
allison8914 1 year ago
I always liked how he talked.
Jamez773 1 year ago
Man, I hate that stupid ad coming up for Mid-America Christian U coming up all time. As if I would suggest anyone get their education there. lol
Cool stuff, this Cosmology.
saxmanchiro 1 year ago 2
Carl Sagan is so awesome :D
jamesgaspard 1 year ago 2
At risk of sounding un-science-y & stuff, his departure created a void that is not easily filled. :(
kirke420 1 year ago 2
AW. More videos please. I think you are the only astronomer atheist on here. Your videos make my day.
mrfinn99 1 year ago
Carl Mother-Fucking Sagan! Most badass and wonderful science educator the world has ever seen, in my opinion. The way he talks just has this quality of knock-you-on-your-ass resplendence that cannot be resisted by mere mortals.
AleximusMaximus 1 year ago 12
Sagan STILL inspires me... Thank you for this video! :)
jssherrard 1 year ago 3
why is it that Carl Sagan Day is on November 6 & not on November 9 (his actual bday)? is it because of the obvious, a weekend?
MorningThief83 1 year ago 5
@MorningThief83 I think CFI just chose the nearest Saturday. I'm not sure, but as far as I'm concerned the party continues until the 10th!
AndromedasWake 1 year ago 33
@AndromedasWake
fantastic
any excuse for a 4 day party will do :)
MorningThief83 1 year ago
@AndromedasWake
my B-day is the 10th.... I'll keep CS in mind when I blow out the candles... if I have any.