Carl Sagan's Cosmos: Episode 7-The Backbone of Night

[AgApE010]

It is so indescribable to think of how many galaxies there are in the universe and how many stars are in our galaxy and how many of those stars have planets and how many of those planets may have life. What would this exotic life look like? Could there be intelligent beings looking back at our end of the galaxy and wondering the same thing? Has God come in contact with them? (Yes, I'm a theist, Christian specifically).

As if this isn't awe-inspiring enough, there may even be other universes...

[foda23]

Those kids minds were probably blown.

[krapptacular]

I really love this one. It shows how we know things. :) I know someone that is into the greeks.

[thejennytree]

Sagan eating roasted nuts at the pier, pondering the mysteries of the universe like a boss.. amazing.

[NOsyruponmywaffels]

Man id love to be in that class.

[jackiedegracia]

I wonder what Carl Sagan's smoke out room looked like. I could see a black light with some stars and planet decals all over the ceiling...

[tbomgwtf]

I like how he just parks 10 ft from the curb then doesn't pay the parking meter lol what a boss

[jackiedegracia]

@tbomgwtf

Carl runs this bitch.

[gerard1875]

@tbomgwtf Just shows you how he was respected as a man, that he dos not need to pay these things

[elcarsto]

Hmm..If I had the experience to be lectured by Carl Sagan.

Those kids are so lucky..

[jackiedegracia]

@elcarsto

The people in the comments section are saying what I wanted to say, and you're one of them. I was just going to say that. Whoever got to witness his lectures are some of the luckiest people ever. It's like being in the presence of any of the great, legendary historical figures, like being in the entourage of Galileo, Einstein or Tesla.

[LittleMsFantasy]

The world would be so much more advanced and such a better place without religion...

[BorrieBeats]

where brooklyn at

[BorrieBeats]

@LittleMsFantasy

sorry twas me being gangsta

/watch?v=ZniFNh0oIe4

aint i funny....

[jackiedegracia]

@LittleMsFantasy

Nu uh. Ohio.

[jackiedegracia]

Signing off from Los Angeles, Nebraska...

[admiraltolokus]

Sagan was a true visionary, thank you for uploading the video.

[MrBrendanRizzo]

Well, he turned out to be right about the existence of extrasolar planets. Too bad he didn't live to find out about that.

[Numboss]

@MrBrendanRizzo I was thinking the same. If Carl was still alive today he would be 78 this year and probably overflowing with contagious enthusiasm and fascinating speculation about all the new planets.

[nothGhost]

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

[cdeccles]

thank you! this is wonderful!

[Shuttlekilla]

I found out where my favorite gif came from!!!

[calito44]

at 27:24 love the childish smile he has...In this little fraction you can understand why his series was so successfull: He was always a child in eternal wonder of things and somehow this sense of being amazed and in awe was transmitted to everyone of us.

[INMATE2468]

RWTU ( rest with the universe)

[Hasmashti]

Rip Carl Sagan, u will forever be in our hearts,

[xXyourmomsballsXx]

COLLECTORS EDITION FUCK YEA

[SuperBadBaylor1]

oh how i wish i could of been in that 6th grade class..

[SeekThePowerSteel]

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answer

[rodzimanos]

@SeekThePowerSteel This is so true. I think we must not enjoy the the Cosmos but become a courage contributor in exploring this cosmos!

[SpaceChronologyCom]

Carl Sagan was right on, although we are using more methods, especially the transit method, to detect exoplanets, but today is 30 years later and we know of 53 extrasolar planetary system with at least 2 planets each! I wish he could be here to enjoy the latest remarkable discoveries.

[SamHughes998]

I find carl sagan impressive I mean some of the old popular culture in his day seems like the beatles and rollin stones, the documentaries of the universe just seem more awe inspiring than brian cox

[aerithemy11]

i love this thank yu for this

[fett2k]

so fuckin beautiful.

[MadMAn12gauge]

OR!!! it could be possible that at the galactic core is where new suns spit out and everything thats on the far rim gets spit out of the galaxy and the star dies :O...Not a very promising prospect if that is true, but it would make sense in that possiblity as well

[oker59]

I explain the Island of Samos tunnel and talk about the place of the Greeks in my jacob bronowski "scientific humanism" blog. I can't put that url on youtube; it doesn't allow it;

[MisterEvasion]

Recent evidence shows that we are more likely on the outskirts of a barred spiral galaxy.

[MadMAn12gauge]

@MisterEvasion yeah ...they call it Orions Arm...and if it is true(which it is), we are probubly further away from intelligent life than we might imagine, like a deserted island left for dead to the galactic community by being impossibly too far away to contact or even know we exist...unless the barred arms contract closer together in a tight spiral, it would at least shorten the gap a bit :P...but i am just assuming that the arms logically would pull together in a tight spiral over time

[lobosolo2]

Thank you for uploading. It's a shame we don't have people like Sagan as politicians.

[ieguy3]

One of the greatest gifts Sagan gave me (and others I know) is to reignite the sense of wonder that I had a child.

[Honch79]

Shamefully low amount of views considering what the average cat falling off a chair video gets...

[grengd]

@Honch79 Not really, most human beings are stupid.

[jackiedegracia]

@Honch79

Awe come on, cats are cute...

I bet Carl had a cat. :p

[Ioannisthegreat7]

imagine this video had the number of views justin bieber had, and justin bieber had the number of views this had. Imagine what the world would be like.

[atheism102]

@Ioannisthegreat7

The world would undoubtedly be a better place. Great comment.

[BlueBoyX4]

@Ioannisthegreat7

We would probably have terraformed Mars already, hahahaha.

But seriously, it's so heart breaking that people are so ignorant, and rather waste their time with silly, and useless stuff, instead, of watching something, like Cosmos.

[guaranic]

@Ioannisthegreat7 we would be exploring the universe

[jackiedegracia]

@Ioannisthegreat7

Seeing as how Carl Sagan and Bill Watterson were my biggest influences growing up I think I can safely say...at war. I'm skeptical, opinionated and disagreeable...the kind of guy you'd just like to smack. The unpleasant truth of the matter is this, a war of simple people is bad but a war of thinkers is worse, as thinkers build the weapons that can kill far more people. WW2 is a classic example of this. German & Jewish scientists.Hell we're lucky to be here.

[madboy101]

Thanks for the upload.

[Magellan1002]

Most beutiful television show slash documentary ever! Thank you very much for this upload.

[jfaoyx]

Thanks man.