Traveller's Tales [Carl Sagan Tribute Series, S01E16]

[devourerofbabies]

I have a hard time imagining anything finding the voyager craft. It would be like finding a single grain of dust in the Pacific ocean. It would be ultra cool if aliens found it, but I think it's virtually impossible.

[Mirrodin82]

We miss you, Carl... ;(

[cyberneticbadger]

lol @ the pillar of autumn. come on man you should have at least used a covanent ship

[skyblazer7]

Don't underestimate sentimentality...we do our best to preserve many ancient monuments and artefacts now. I think we will become advanced enough to preserve them and the 'classic' Earth effectively forever.

[po0pdawg]

Don't mind it though, just...everyone could recognize it :P

[po0pdawg]

Seriously? The Pillar Of Autumn?

[rubbermuck]

i love you i love you i love you

[warvibe24]

That...was... beautiful.

[3rkid2]

It's so sad... But that's why we need more probes leaving the solar system. Currently we have 5, Pioneer 1, Pioneer 2, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.

Keeping sending those fuckers up, one of them is bound to be found by someone far in the future.

[Tsujanryo]

Eidetically... Kryptonian at the end.

[StealthB6]

Voyager 1 is actually about to leave the heliosphere in the next months or so. Dr. Sagan would be proud.

Thank you for this wonderful videos Callum!

[bmxrider43]

Fantastic vid !!! Top 5 fav vids of Carl Sagan. Your memory lives on Carl and you are missed... :(

[MrSupercat9]

This is definately one of my favorites of the tributes

[moocows111111]

You know what's awesome? In this video Carl said that neither voyager spacecraft has left our solar system. But awhile ago, one of them did! Its amazing how technology that was made 30 odd years ago got that far. With our exponential growth of technology image how far we can get with another space craft.

[cirusMEDIA]

Food for thought:

"Are atoms affected by gravity??

If yes; who is to say that the same laws of physics may apply to another galaxy with different gravitational input???"

Would someone with knowledge in this field please educate me!

[NobDickBalls]

Fucking hell! whos idea was it to record heartbeats and fucking whale sounds?!goddamn loony tune thats for sure! whos heartbeat was it?! that satan childs or some other twat?! makes me want to vomit either way!!!!! like aliens are really going to give a fucking fuck about babies crys,heartbeats,whale sounds blah blah! WHAT?! hello?! should have said burn in hell you evil satan shit!!!!!! no demon will find this crap,because it never left eath in the first place! nothing but lies!

[rsexplorer20]

@NobDickBalls .......

Ignorant son of a bitch.

The Voyager spacecrafts are the greatest thing ever made by humans.

Science will destroy all failing religions.

Superstition will die with you.

[NobDickBalls]

@rsexplorer20 Correction the shittest thing humans ever built! fucking americans think they're so important they make bullshit! like the moon landing,seti,space shuttle and those vile telescopes! lies,bullshit and camel bollocks! Americans consider only them as humans they are arrogant evil sinners! i would'nt be suprised if demons worked at Nasa....fucking bullshit human space exploration will never happen! though i'm guessing americans will lie they put a man on Uranus......arseholes

[rsexplorer20]

@NobDickBalls You do know I am not an American right...

America's space program is the only thing I admire from the US

[Kaeralho]

@NobDickBalls you are so stupid I wonder if u ain't the last homo habilis. get out of the internet, you retard redneck, people like you really fuck the world up. could you please die?

[Kaeralho]

@NobDickBalls at least I'm over 10 years old. and how about you? loser

[NobDickBalls]

@Kaeralho Congratulations dickhead you're over 10! if thats something to be proud of shitcunt then you are the loser! pissing myself with laughter with you Carl Sagan cock fuckers!

[sagar246246]

really beautiful

[MrSupercat9]

WOW I had no idea it would take THAT long to get to the Oort cloud. To me, voyager isn't out of the solar system untill it gets past the Oort cloud.

[marasu66]

Voyagers will be pummeled by the Oort Cloud :(

[Rary113]

I can't help but imagine an alien tapping whatever comes closest to a foot as they listen to Johnny B. Goode now. 

[ohGODitsANTONIO]

This is better than porn.

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

@ohGODitsANTONIO It really is!

[Osumsoss]

@ohGODitsANTONIO I actually stopped watching porn for this, so I can validate such a bold claim.

[evzt3]

This series is exceptionally well done; thank you for the time and effort you have put into making it, and for making it free for all.

[MillenniumRequiem]

Oh he worked very hard with that too. He wasn't lazy at all. I hope everyone knows that, I'm just stating the obvious however.....

[MillenniumRequiem]

Really. If somone has these thoughts all while smoking pot, i think everyone should. Controlled amounts of course. Carl sagan used it, and said thats where most of his ideas came from. It doesn't make him less of a genius. He just had a different way of acheiving genius.

[nuitaridark]

just one word "wow"

[jfalls88]

I really love all of these videos. Thanks for putting them together. They are really inspiring.

[iiGriim]

Liked for the use of the Pillar of Autumn :)

[FullAccessAgent]

WOW!! You've done it again. Great editing on this one.

[Andr3w1018]

Kudos for the Pillar of Autumn.

[BtrRkigniz]

Did I just see the Pillar of Autumn?

[amrasmord]

Carl Sagan is fucking amazing. What an awesome example of a true human being.

[moothyknight]

these are so great and inspiring, keep em coming!

[clayton7m]

It makes me happy knowing no matter what happens to us there will still be a piece of humanity floating in space forever.

[hanspanzer]

What a sad day will it be, the day our sun dies and we'll have to say "good bye" to mother earth?!

[dnallred]

Was that the Pillar of Autumn? Nice!

[kovyiscool]

this made my day.

[LilDrummerBoy74]

Earth may die, but I truly hope our species, at least what becomes of it, will live on throughout the cosmos.

[jthompson02]

Really liked this one. I never thought about the fact that we will be gone while our ships still fly.

[katiedanielprue]

Hooray, the Pillar of Autumn will find our satellite

[rsexplorer20]

Automatic like and favorite every time i see it

Cheer me up after watching the space shuttle launch and only Carl Sagan can do that :)

[chuckhous]

Absolute Masterpiece. Congratulations to callumCGLP for bringing a contemporary view of Sagan's spectacular prescience and wisdom to a wide audience. Sagan is a philosopher of the first rate. Although counter-intuitive, Sagan argues forcefully that the best way to bring us all together (aka world peace) is for us to reach out to the stars. I think he's right.

[creede55]

this is beyond the word epic... i had to watch this 5 times in a row before writing this comment

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

I'm pretty sure that both Voyager space crafts will one day be picked up by a space faring civilization: us.

[shackupyourstruly]

I expect we'd be attending to more important matters than to track down our ancient interstellar emissaries.

[Akirameerkat]

this is very humbling to think about, carl sagan was one of the greatest of humans who ever lived on this earth. it was sad to know that today was the last shuttle launch, but I hope that while its the end of one era, it will be the beginning of a new era that will bring us closer to one day becoming an interplanetary species.

[MillenniumRequiem]

I hope that wont be our only legacy. I wish that when a species finds it, we could be there to greet them. Or close enough. We should end our legacy at all, but rise to become much greater than we can imagine, although it wont be us, but our children, or grand children etc. Let's work to let them have the chance to become great.

[ethankegley]

wonderful

[nuckable]

Thank you so much for all these videos of this absolutely incredible human being.

Carl Sagan truly is inspiring and really should be an example of what humans should strive to be... <3

[jherr328]

That's a great picture of Carl and Ann at 3:24

did you just find that on google?

[GeauxTiger]

I've always wondered...did we include something to play the record on on the Voyagers or was the assumption that if something one day found them they could both figure out what the discs were and could whip up a turntable on which to play them?

As usual, great video...from where are you pulling all of this wonderful Sagan audio? I recognize the parts in your videos that come from Cosmos, but I've yet to run across a Sagan audio book myself. Thanks.

[callumCGLP]

@GeauxTiger I believe everything is included so that the records could be played. In any case, such an advanced civilization is not likely to have trouble figuring it out. The instructions on the jacket are written in binary code, the code for which is established by the diagram of the hyperfine transition of hydrogen, which is then used to establish the proper time for each rotation of the record. Check out the Wikipedia article for “Voyager Golden Record”.

[callumCGLP]

@GeauxTiger The audio in this episode, and that of episodes 1-4, 7-10 and 15 come from the Pale Blue Dot audiobook, a substantial portion of which Carl narrates himself. See the video description for more details.

[AdioEmerica]

I have watched and rewatched all of the videos in this series and shared them with everyone who can appreciate their message. Watching the final space shuttle launch today brought me back to watch them again. I am so utterly tired of my generation(90s) thinking so trivially about the world, and I really wish today's generation had a Carl Sagan to get people thinking again.

[d3st88]

@AdioEmerica

I think that's bullshit. I think our generation is the best so far. We are the smartest, the best informed, most curious generation ever yet. The advent of the internet and the digital age also brought us easy ways to quench our curiosity and thirst for knowledge or to express ourselves, communicate and do art. We are much better than our parents in every way.

[AdioEmerica]

@d3st88 i live in tennessee

[d3st88]

@AdioEmerica

Poor thing ;D

I do have a few smart online friends from TN, though. Union City. They do whine a lot about people around them being dumb as fuck.

[veitch0]

Apparently one of the Voyager Spacecraft will be picked up by the UNSC Pillar of Autumn

halo(dot)wikia(dot)com/wiki/Ha­lcyon-class_cruiser

[callumCGLP]

@veitch0 Nice catch ;)

[SonOfTerra92]

The end really hit me hard ... tot hink that it is part of the Laws of physics that some day in the future Earth will be swallowed by the Sun makes me reconsider all of the conceits of Today, as well as our misconception on our own self proclaimed importance ....

[d3st88]

@SonOfTerra92

Not only that, but the stars are further and further away from each other with each day..

Not only that, but one day the stars will run out of fuel and stop breathing life into the darkness..

But to get there we must first take care of our more pressing matters.. like.. raping the planet, tribalisms, religions, needless hatred and any kind of suspension of critical thinking and empathy.

[SonOfTerra92]

@d3st88 its times like this you wonder whether our civilization will make it out alive, whether we will even get to alpha centauri in the first place. There has been no evidence of advance extraterrestrial life else where in the galaxy therefore we have not yet seen any templates on whether any other civilization will escape technological adolescence ... perhaps it is the nature of intelligent beings to wipe themselves out (Fermi Paradox)

all I know is as of now, we r writing our own destiny ..

[clayton7m]

This man is an icon and a legend and should be saint.

[d3st88]

@clayton7m

As in a religious saint? That's rather offensive to his greatness and intellect.

[clayton7m]

@d3st88 Not in the sense I meant. If he was a religious saint his god would be science.

[MrPosty1992]

Another Great Video!! never get bored of listening to these over and over again

[rafaelwaa]

One of the most beautiful videos that i have ever seen. Congratulations for the initiative of rerecord the Carl wonderful speeches. We all need to hear these word in order to fell how humble we should be

Thanks and keep the good work !

[kleb100]

More please, more. Words cant express the level of brilliance of these series.

[badblueman]

A manly tear was shed.

[crownsedge]

That was so beautiful, it's beyond words.

[kajakpaddler92]

I cant even remember how many time I've been waiting for that! tnx a lot! :)

[dennistolhoek]

WOW! This one sent chills down my spine. The Voyagers will be a legacy of the human race even if we never reach horizons further then today.

Thanks Callum and Sagan. This is now my new favourite in this tribute series

[Horathgar42]

He is definitely one of my favorite speakers on science. He makes it poetic, as it should be. And even better, enlightening and poetic.....now THAT is rare.

I love the Cosmos series a LOT. Definitely made me become enamored with science all over again, also eased me right out of the myths and into reality without me even noticing.

[shaedies]

Sweet, there's still a part 17!

[tomahawkpl]

Awesome, one of my favourites

[marc81495]

This is incredibly moving. The future of humanity is not the aggressive and superstitious species that has dominated our history, but the small fraction of our population like Carl Sagan, who dedicate their lives to the search for knowledge.

[Seethus]

Awesome mate. Just awesome

[silversobe]

The outer stars and galaxies are no doubt our next frontier. It is our destiny to explore this universe and discover what awaits us. The great distance separating the stars is like a failsafe that only mature civilizations can cross, protecting the development of earlier civilizations.

This series has been epic bro. Looking forward to the next one.

[asdsdsdsadsadsadasds]

Great clip, Callum