Carl Sagan Cosmic Calendar

[rriverstone1]

We are in a world of hurt right now. Post this everywhere people feel defeated and discouraged. Remind them of the awe, joy and hope of our unique and fragile existence!

[slinkyskunk]

It's exceptionally humbling to consider how infinitesimally small our species is in the grand scale of things, let alone our individual lives.

[darkpheonix262]

i watch the series front to back once a year

[napoleonFRA]

MOLTO MA MOLTO MA MOLTO INTERESSANTE xD By ZiGolo&Lence

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

CARL SAGAN was the wise man of the 20th century.

We miss him dearly.

[b6gm6n]

He's not dead... he lives on in the universe, in his teachings in our minds... wow Carl... i F*cking miss you man :)

[babissat]

Interesting analogy -- shows how are extremely tiny in comparision to all that has preceded us. And we think we rule the world!

[michaelwitbeck]

Great video by a true legend but I don't think we are a 'blip' in the history of the universe. True, in our current state we have only occupied mere minutes in the cosmic calender but we did not just appear on the scene; we evolved from the earliest formation of atoms until now. How can anyone who sees this not believe in an upcoming singularity? As Kurzweil likes to call it the 'law of accelerating returns'. Our evolution began at big bang and has been exponentially been speeding up since.

[JoFiliPinoi]

That 'blip' you're talking about, the 10 seconds he mentions in the video, is referring to our written history. Like how the apes sprung up around 10:30PM of the 31st, that is part of our development, but not written history.

[JohnnysFlock]

We're not so special. Don't be so silly as to think the whole universe perks up its ears because some slime on earth learned how to make the internetz.

[michaelwitbeck]

Where did I say we are special? What are you talking about?

[jakejakewhat]

puts things in prospective

[Sogwa]

I want a cosmic calendar for my room!! Such an amazing explanation of time & space/astronomy for the layman!!

[Rakin2008]

The Music at the end is so great..*tear*

I love this part of the show with the cosmic Calendar.

Carl Sagan was a very, very, very smart man. R.I.P.

[1rendezvous]

I would not like to live in space when we can't even take care of Earth! This planet made us; we'd be like parasites to another which would not even be habitable to us anyways like Earth is! I'm more concerned of fireball destroying us like the dinosaurs! Of course, we'd think it were a nuke and all hell would break loose surely leading to our extinction! Who would save us then? We should concentrate on Earth's health but of course with eyes at the stars!

[Nerusai]

A very harmonic view.

I'm sure the dinosaurs were in harmony with their surroundings too.

[RebbyPDX]

what a fitting tribute to carl to add this video 10 years to the month after his death. i remember when i heard he died in december 1996. i cried my eyes out. he used to brief apollo astronauts before they left the earth. he was highly involved in the voyager projects. he helped end the cold war. and i think he was more brilliant than albert einstein. and when he left the earth - nobody could fill his shoes like he did.

cosmos is still showed on tv - a testament to its accuracy!

[professorgreibowitz]

What can you say? Sagan rocked. This vid really puts it in perspective. Human life is so recent that maybe other life is just now evolving too and that is why we see no other signals of intelligence. Perhaps we were the first to emerge.

[IanParedes]

But, an all too likely escalated nuclear war could have human civilization bombed back to the stone age, thus destroying our chance as a race to advance in quality of life and the likelihood of space colonization. So, it's still a threat worth acknowledging and preventing up to this day, over 10 years after the man telling us this has already died.

[Clausfarre]

Having lived his life in the era of the cold war he always talked about humans destroying themselves. I don't buy into that theory all the way. We may be enslaved in 1,000 years of religious darkness with islam on the rise or we may live to avoid that. But all humans killed and the earth destroyed? I don't think so.

[mnkwazi]

The human species could be destroyed in nuclear war

[kdehead]

Actually Sagan played a big part in ending the Cold War with his "nuclear winter" theory. It was very influential on Gorbachev's thinking.

[SardonicusRexx]

Indeed. And on the the Pentagon's joint Chiefs as well.

[UhLyssUh42]

i believe it...do you really think that things stay the same forever? i'm not saying doomsday is approaching, but i wouldn't say we're following sagan's advice either. and his is telling us a valuable lesson...we only have one earth.

[primecheese]

His elegant use of words seems to inspire hope in humanity in a way that i only thought possible with young children who have not yet seen the darker aspects of the world. R.I.P. Carl Sagan.

[notanon666]

@primecheese I totally agree. This show no doubt made me feel proud of the human species.

[legendaryjediman]

Cosmos is such amazing stuff. even decades later anyone who watches it will be informed and enlightened.

[lightmage007]

Has a great philosophy

[SilverVulpine]

If more people followed Dr. Sagan's example, World peace may actualy be feasible.

[BlytheG]

I totally agree. His entire perception of life is deeper than anything I've ever seen.

[tylerramsey]

Carl Sagan > Religion/Superstition

They need to make a political party based on his ideas.

[SardonicusRexx]

Holy crap! I was thinking this not more than 3 minutes before reading this!!

[bugilator]

that used to happen a lot when i was smoking pot before dude!

[MrSigma]

But if that political party takes on Bush, Americans will still vote for Bush !!! hehehehehe. Or worse, the leader of this politcical party (in accordance with the human desire to destroy) might talk about dropping nuclear bombs on Mars !!