COSMOS: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Part 4 - 6)

[ikedasusumu1]

わたしはこのドラマを見て物理学に興味をおぼえました。This cosmos drama move me to physics world.

[Eucalyptusxx]

Could anyone tell me the name of the music at 1:55-3:00?

Thanks.

[TheGmodtutorials101]

@Eucalyptusxx Troooooolololo

[FuzzyLogicReality]

@zeushelios its a bird...

[mgofan2]

Did anyone see that thing @ 2.35?

wtf is that?!

[ZeusHelios]

@mgofan2 No what was at 2:35 But I did notice a black hovering object at 9:35

[risier1]

Reading the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan really compliments watching the videos.

[RJL738]

This is just one odyssy of exploration there may be many times more discoveries that we don't know about that happened within the ancient past.

[derekxnl]

Human ingenuity and scientific discovery never gets old. I don't know how anybody could not be absolutely enthralled by science.

[ncmmorris]

@ObservedPrey haha, you just made my day :)

[ncmmorris]

isn't he hot in that turtleneck?!?!

[dprague]

Why become educated when you can read the Bible or the Quaran or have someone take your money and preach at you and tell you how bad the intellectuals are?

[channaidh]

@Brandt761 Yes in principle you are right, because the sun emits the light perpendicular to its own surface. So we only get a problem when the sun is a sphere. But the sun is much larger than the earth and still pretty near to it. So the effect of the angle is so small that it wouldn't be detectable for our eyes. Hope that helps.... If not, try to draw the whole situation.

[Brandt761]

If the earth were flat, wouldn't there still be a shadow in most places, and no shadow only one (directly underneath the sun). For there to be no shadow anywhere, the earth would have to curve around the sun...

[MisterEvasion]

Even with all the quadrillions of suns and stuff, he sure makes the earth seem like an infinitely rare anomaly. Yet he holds out a measure of optimism for other worlds with intelligences like or greater than ours. I can imagine a lot worlds with bugs, because bugs seem to be the hardiest of highly evolved life. Whereas in comparison mammalian life is so much more vulnerable.

[CroiBriste]

You can see the camera man's finger for a moment at 4:07, just as Sagan is climbing the stairs. It's in the top left.

[Alienmad462]

he kinda reminds me of spock in this clip

[kingofthephonies]

If everyone watched and understood even this first episode...

[Zachdudeio2]

I am utterly amazed by the Library of Alexandria. I wish it was still around.

[elenyvon]

Can anyone answer me how they communicated those days to messure the lenth of the shadows at the same time in 2 different places? thaks

[markw1]

@elenyvon The man in the story read a book or scroll that documented the shadows disappearing on June 21. He then waited until the next June 21 to see if the same thing happened where he was living.

[dprague]

@elenyvon Cell phones ...don't you know????

[emikochan13]

@elenyvon noon is always noon, it's just where the sun is highest on a given day of the year.

[benjamengreen]

they caught a rod at 2.36

[dprague]

Why didn't Jesus know the Earth is round?

[PrincessUnicorn69]

@dprague I'm pretty sure he knew. The idiots at church didn't.

[matatan69]

@dprague How do you know for certain he didn't? is there a passage in the bible where jesus discusses if the earth is flat or round?

[ZeusHelios]

@dprague When God was talking to job God stated that the earth was a sphere But I dont know who was first Job or Eratosthenes.

[TheMower666]

@ZeusHelios job wasn't real, Eratosthenes was

[ZeusHelios]

@TheMower666 OK maybe he was not real But it still does not answer the question. I will rephrase the question.Who was first the mythical Job or Eratosthenes. Who ever wrote about a man called Job either knew the earth was round before eratosthernes or he got his info from eratosthernes

[ZeusHelios]

@ajm5007 Thanks for that. I guess Pythagoras started the spherical Earth. Even though it took a while to be accepted. Guess that could explains Job in the bible. On how the person who wrote that part of the bible know about a spherical Earth.

[InnocentCivilians]

Lol @ 4:09 in the left hand corner of the screen.

[nucfeuer]

magnifique encyclopedie

[TheBlingblingbros]

I never actually knew how we discovered our planet is round, and the circumference. That's amazing

[ClamCrunchy]

I didn't hate on Christianity, just stating a fact.

[ClamCrunchy]

The Library of Alexandra contained about one million books, was several stories high, and was burned down by Christians.

[fPhut]

you speak as though christians were the only group that has done something like that.

i'm not religious, but i'm really tired of people (especially white people) who hate on christianity just because of the actions of a few radicals. we don't and should not judge all of islam based on the actions of the terrorists, so why the double standard?

[rogermwilcox]

The Library at Alexandria was burned down twice. The second time, Arabs were responsible.

Sadly, the Arab world had exactly the same thing happen to their own libraries in Baghdad when the Mongols invaded.

[sondano]

I hate when modern men romanticize primitive brutal cultures like that of ancient Egypt no matter what was in the library of Alexandria it was a joke compared to what we know now and it was built and maintained in a world where 90% of humans had no rights at all and when humans tortured humans like it was the most natural thing in the world

[FretArchitect]

That's close-minded as fuck. Fuck you for saying that. Even though some humans have no rights, that doesn't take away from any of the scientific discoveries that they made. Classical Greece and antiquity are still copied today, because it was a time of knowledge and discovery. Fuck you again. Kill yourself.

[noyan000]

@FretArchitect whoa chill out there mr internet warrior

[doubleg137]

it would be interesting to know how far we could have been if that knowledge hadn't been destroyed.

[mecher3k]

" library of Alexandria it was a joke compared to what we know now "

And without that library being destroyed along with most of it's knowledge, the human race would 100s of years more advanced, if not a 1000 or more.

So I agree with FA, kill yourself retard.

[kieselsteinchen]

but it were the basics of zivilization. it made possible to develop the knowledge we have today. about the cosmos also.

[ComradeKoolaid]

We are still a brutal culture just like the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans... All brutal and horrible in one way or another.

Just now it's more impersonal. We push buttons and blow up houses rather then cutting open peoples chests to appease our sun God.

I say their both equally brutal and messed up.

[TheEpisteme]

How are we to ever improve the world if we don't marvel and learn from the grand positive discoveries and accomplishments made by so called barbarian cultures? You could say the concepts described in the library of Alexandria pale next to high school text books today but we would still be barbarians if no one had developed those concepts and made those discoveries before us. No one is romanticizing the savagery of antiquity, but paying homage to the positive things accomplished.

[rosewind26]

Ah the lighthouse... one day I will see you, and the library I weep at your loss as we all do.

[kmartmask]

How did Aritosthatenes see the shadows? I'm just curious. I'm not questioning the experiment. Just how.

[MIGS1989]

What do you mean how? He read in a book that on the 21st of June in Siene that a verticle stick cast no shadow and he observed that in Alexanrdia a stick did cast a shadow, therefor the earth was curved.

[ImparatorEugenius]

OMG JUST LOVING THE BEETHOVEN!!

[VideoNoob22]

Mr. Rogers of space.

[MoparDRVR]

LOL So true

[WittTristan]

@VideoNoob22 Dude, Sagan was one of the greatest visionaries to walk the Earth.

Never-The-Less, your "Mr. Rogers of Space" comment was F'ing funny. =P Thanks for the laugh.

[cookiecache2]

Carl should have fired his wardrobe manager. He travels across the world wearing the same thing all the time...

[GeorgesBarras]

If one day I shoul dhave kids, they are going to be made to watch this as a safeguard against ignorance.

[Sk82beast]

@GeorgesBarras I would also invest in their education and push them to achieve high goals.

[Ozarkmadness56]

omg! at 2:35 a rod few across the screen! (I'm kidding btw)

[TopSideUp]

no, your not kidding, thats exactly what that is. thats a rod, and nobody seems to know what the fuck they are!!!, i dont understand why they dont just catch one.

[Ozarkmadness56]

a rod is a moth or an insect flying too fast for the camera to capture in one position at a time. It's the blurred effect of a fast moving object.

[TopSideUp]

Ive re3ad into them and i dont buy that story, i can understand how that may be something that can occur but from the many of videos ive seen that is not what that is, iv e3even tried to make my own videos using a light and recording the moths flying aroudn it and i cant get a rod like those. And the rods in many videos are measured to be moving hundreds of miles per hou. but maybe you are right

[EmanLear]

Any speed measurement you have seen is made up. You need to points of reference or you need to know the size of the object your looking at and its distance from you to judge its speed. No rod video would provide this information. It's the reason we have two eyes, with one you would have no depth perception. As such it would be very hard to catch a ball of unknown size that was thrown at your face. Same idea for rod videos, one camera, unknown object size and distance, can't tell speed.

[amphixious]

I lived in Egypt for about 9 months. It was amazing.

[DrakeMagnum]

I still love this show so much. Thank you for posting these!

[OmarF1]

what's the name of that song!!?

[rt36crazyfists]

idk but you can get the soundtrack of the cosmos on cd

[Serotonin0128]

Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven), it's a long song... but around 3 and 1/2 mins into it that part begins.

[OmarF1]

Thanks mate!

[7anmv]

The Wonderfull Men Of This World Are Always taken Before The Scum Of The Earth.

[sickofpeoplesshit]

so get a crossbow and do something about it.

[terrasidius]

excellent