Cosmos Episode 7: The Backbone of Night Part 1 of 6

[HEEF100]

how cool would it have been to be one of the kids in that classroom? to be able to say you had Carl Sagan visit your class

[TheNewCrankyWorkshop]

1:34 : Front-first parking, wrong side of street, too far from kerb, no seat-belt, window left open, door left unlocked, parking meter ignored. Good work, Carl.

[brod2man]

It's official; Carl Sagan can teach science better than Chuck Norris

[PlRATEBAY]

@brod2man >:O maybe thats true

[jessicappella]

Love his laugh at 6:19... What a wonderfully real person.

[jonlanghoff]

Brilliant... "Sure! YOU're considered a part of the Milky Way galaxy... The Sun is one star, there is a few hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, and around each star, maybe, there's a whole bunch of planets, and on one of those planets is life, and one of the lifeforms on that planet is you... So you're a part of the Milky Way galaxy too..!"

[twosixteen]

"The *right* kind of book."

:)

[sweetpeajunglebean]

sagan=hero.

[torontoBluejays87]

How can a video like this have only 11, 350 views?! Youtube should make any of the cosmos episodes a feature video when you open up the search engine.

[Anaqerida]

I wonder how many of those kids in the classroom were inspired and influenced to become science leaders today

[preposterous3637]

Look at the wonder in that kid's eyes when Carl Sagan told him he is a part of the Milky Way, and so are a hundred billion other stars. This is what we live for.

[Phoenix87x]

With Carl Sagan's initial's being C.S. I'd swear they stood for common sense. The man is so honest and genuine. Its a shame more people cannot share his common sense observation of reality.

[superbeefus]

The scene in the classroom was inspirational. If only we could have that much excitement and curiosity in every classroom...

[Ecite]

We need more people like Sagan. Seriously.

[Guitcad1]

Fifth graders. Bet he got a lot of questions involving the word "Uranus".

[FeynmanMH42]

"What's a Callisto? Where can I get one?" xD

[Sarraahh15]

It's ridiculous how many episodes of Cosmos that have made me teary-eyed.

[MelleB90]

"A very big thought"

Carl Sagan guides me to those every day.

[pkscolax]

In Sagan's groundbreaking book, Dragons of Eden, we're reminded how modern classrooms often discourage the curious spirit, unless you're blessed to have a wise teacher. Most times, you're told off for asking about the nature of things.

Every school teacher should heed the advice of Dr. Sagan. :)

[RavenAmongDoves]

I wish Carl Sagan had come to my class!!!

[laywastethepoet]

"So you're a part of the Milky Way Galaxy too."

[jeevesbond]

The stars, further away than New Jersey? I'll never believe it!

[MrFety]

Rest in peace Mr.Sagan you are shurely being missed :( .

"I am Gundam"

[Sk82beast]

The sky calls to us.. if we do not destroy ourselves..

quoting your own song, Sagan?

Man, I wish he was still alive.

[RJL738]

Yes that is very profound to many people that the Sun is a 'star' like perhaps most in the night sky.

[skarefamena]

Awesome! Louie Armstrong at about 1:15!

[speaktruthiness]

carl sagan is fantastic i love the clip of him in the classroom, i wish i could have met him

[loutufillaro]

Man, I wish Carl Sagan taught my 6th grade science class!!!

[willyschoonover]

we need more people like carl

[AlternativeUses]

86th street hasn't changed much to this very day

[bonzo874]

kinda makes ya wonder what all the grubbing/fighting is all about on this lil world worrying about whether the neighbor has more hedge etc etc

[archon323232]

The school they are at is P.S 101 in Brooklyn. I was one of the fortunate students who had a chance to meet Mr. Sagan. I wish the 11 year old me could have truly fathomed the honor at the time. P.S the peanut vendor was the principal of the school at the time, Mr. Mullaney.

[charliebell01]

you were in the class room? nah really? you gotta be kidding

[archon323232]

I was! Alot of the other students in the 4th and 5th grade got to meet him too. When you see him looking @ the train that is the corner of 24th avenue and 86 th street in Bensonhurst. My father was an astronomy buff and I knew who he was, looking back it was an amazing experience!

[Josh3455]

What became of your fellow students?

[GorterPoss]

the stars were "further away- probably- than New Jersey." Hahaha great dead-pan delivery. Classic egg head delivery of a joke. I've seen many a professor with that kind of delivery.

[spenna123]

I wish Carl Sagan came to my school when I was in the 6th grade, that would have been awesome.

[wado1942]

I wish I had a CLUE who Carl Sagan was other than a strange voice when I was in 6th grade.

[nemesis76689]

RustyCyler . i agree with your comment. Rarely do i shed a tear these days, but did so in happiness at the way he explained to children. his messages were 20/30 yrs ahead of his time

[RustyCyler]

8:19 to 9:00 is great. Sagan just introduced a big, new, deep thought at these young kids and you can see them realize it. I can remember having those same feelings of wonder in my elementary science classes. Its just a really good thing to witness. What a great man.

[0428733]

isn't his lumpy world the death star?

[RustyCyler]

Phobos actually.

[0428733]

have some sense of humor

[RustyCyler]

i didn't say anything about your comment not being funny or witty, so your asuming. In reality I gave your comment a thumbs up. You had 3 thumbs down and I thought to myself, "why would people give him a thumbs down for an obviously harmless joke comment", its ironic that you replied to me under that assumption, and its doubly ironic that you "assume" during a video by a man who preaches never to assume.

I guess I shoulda put a little smiley face :) after my "Phobos actually" comment. :P

[0428733]

the backbone of the night is badass

[elcamell0]

I wish he was with us today...if there were anyone's dreams that should have come true, they were his.

[piip4]

Carl Sagan explained just what was wrong with the world today. He asked for a book about stars, and got handed a book about...celebrities.

For some, that could seem like a petty misunderstanding, but I see it as something more than that.

[tuotierugif]

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Carl Sagan and his work. This show, along with the space-related textbooks my father gave my brother and I for Christmas, was what originally got me interested in the universe and eventually science as a whole. The world lost an amazing person when Sagan passed away.

[mikeyman211]

Im looking forward to the curios questions of my children

[ashland1977]

"They're lights in the sky kid" Man that makes me laugh.

[ashland1977]

Thank you for posting this. Carl Sagan was simply awesome.