wow!!! Im giving half an hour to talk to Carl Sagan, one of the greatest thinking minds of recent times. What should I ask him about?........I know the loch ness monster!!!!
OMG The presenter is a a doofus !!! Carl Sagan you will always be awesome :)
We humans must finaly open our eyes and wake up about the world. We dont know what it is, why are we doing things we dont like when we could be living in harmony and enjoying every day at it is...Our common goal cannot be more fucking obvious. Lets work together and discover LIFE!
we are run by the governement.. work, physical apperence, materialism, indivudialsm...All this for nothing. As a group we must have a goal and a vision to go far, if we dont have a goal it will lead us to failure. WTF?
@freedomland11 Truth is just the truth I've said the exact same statement yet i live across the globe from where your state of reality is based..we share one common force built on universal truth! What divides beings in this reality is the opposite of truth which is a main contributing factor behind mass ignorance..thank you for your existence you make my stay in this reality plain worthwhile knowing that there are beings with mental vision that project out of the box thought..be peace&love
Religious folk say that in order to find true happiness you need to accept God and/or Christ...look at Carl Sagan, he's way more happy than any religious person I have ever met, he knew exactly what was going on and was happy whereas religious folk claim to be happy but they're really not because their life is a constant struggle to please daddy...i mean God.
The Edafa comment does make sense. We are not made to last forever. We are a part of this planet. And we will return to the earth again, to sleep without dreams. Sounds sort of peacful to me, no pain.
And Kamic68 wow. You say you loose nothing by just believing, i beg to differ. You will waste your years of your life praying to something like a toenail. LOL : D
CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
There is a logical underpinning to life outside Earth. Life originated from circumstances on early Earth that could occur anywhere else had certain parameters met the requirements. And in this vast, awesome universe, there has bound to be at least some, at least simple life elsewhere in time and space.
"Consider that Pale Red Dot" we see at the end of the "Like&Dislike" Bar..Now Imagine that red dot with life, they to imagine a God created them for solely a purpose in life. How seriously would you take them??
Do u not believe religion was strategically placed among the human species to prevent pure anarchy? The species must have boundaries or it would self destruct. It is hard to believe an ancient culture had the where with all to write such a book as the bible. Who pieced the many books together. Many questions. Placed by another species; perhaps ourselves at another point of time...
I am catholic but that doesn't avoid me admiring this man. But what's the reason to live a temporary existence as he and all of us are faded to if not to prepare us for eternity. We were made to last forever not as flesh and bone but spiritually. I believe that will be our destiny. Are we just playing the game of existence with no reason. I dont think so.
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@bishop8000 even if we are wrong about Hinduism,Islam, Jainism, Judaism,Taoism,Christianity,and Buddhism.. What do we have to lose? If you are right, we have nothing to lose. If you are wrong, You have everything to lose.
@Kamric68 Not according to Christianity or Islam.............if you are wrong according to their specific doctrines it matters not what following you have in any other faith........you are burning for eternity if you due not accept their specific doctrine. That in part is why they are evangelical in their approach to all other nonbelievers..........
@Kamric68 wrong. the majority of religions punish infidels with eternal damnation, you are better off being nice to others without worshiping or idolising other beings and hope that if a divine creator exists it is a merciful and benevolent one if you really want to go down that road.
@Kamric68 The argument of 'even if we are wrong about religion what do we have to lose?' is so cowardly. It is much more noble to base one's beliefs on evidence even if the evidence is not always welcome to us. I personally find it much more liberating to live as if this life is my only one.
@Kamric68 ah but you could argue that by living in truth (if proven true when dead) atheists are living fruitfully, rather than basing our lives on and around myths.
@Kamric68 Actually,it's you who has then lost everything.
You've spent your whole life based on a false premise, therefor making many many wrong decisions, wasting your time, inflicting unnecessary harm to others etc... you have ridiculed your own existence.
@Kamric68 That doesn't even make any sense. If atheists are wrong, they get eternal life. If theists are wrong, they wasted their only life. Its quite the opposite I would propose...
@777Simsalabim sometimes people fail to differentiate between a literal unidentified flying object and an unidentified flying object from space with a grey alien inside. i think he was talking about the latter. surely there are unidentified aircrafts that later become identified.
@777Simsalabim sometimes people fail to differentiate between a literal unidentified flying object and an unidentified flying object from space with a grey alien inside. i think he was talking about the latter. surely there are unidentified aircrafts that later become identified.
@Edrafa10 Why do you think there HAS to be an after life, you even said it this is a temporary existence...so why would it follow that we get an eternity for our destiny? Does the fish/chicken you eat play the game of existence for the same reason?
@Scooba87 Do you put human beings in the same level as fish or chicken? Well, I wonder whether they are worried about this subject. Maybe some silly fish of St. Peter's Fishing Club, crazy chickens members of the Egg's Assembly.
@Edrafa10 Then dont waste your time. Carl Sagan dont need the admiration of a catholic. He was a brilliant scientist who has done much for humankind. You are just another ignorant beliver who spends time talking to invisible people, defending the existence of zombies, reading a 2000 years old book full of inconsistencies....and all kind of aberrations to the logic and the reason. Dont preach us, and save your fantasy for your church.
@spanier24 You're so arrogant to the point of deciding who can or can't admire or respect a person. You are just vomiting foolish arguments, demonstrating you are a rude person, empty, certainly not the kind of behavior Mr. Sagan would admire. You just flew into a rage about nothing. This is called stupidity.
@Edrafa10 Existence doesn't need a reason. People need reasons. You need a reason for why you need to go to the dentist, etc. But a rock doesn't need a reason for being a rock. It just is. Existence just is, and it doesn't change because you want it to be different. But since we are humans, we think we need a reason to live. But you need to realize that there is no REAL reason, besides the one you make up for yourself. It can be as simple as just living a happy life.
@Edrafa10 And there's also a danger in applying your reason for living to an invented external being. Because then you're not living your own life. You're living the life that someone else dictated to you in a book.
Sagan had something that many warmongers on both sides lack: passion, high culture, excellent linguistic skills, vast knowledge, talent for storytelling and talking about something complex in beautiful and understandable terms. Respect for others while keeping at his opinion. I think he was prototype for Vulcans ;-)
@Edrafa10 Just because something is a pleasant thought doesn't make it any more likely to be true. It's fairly greedy to want to exist forever, however, the concept of eternal life can be achieved through ensuring humanity gets to continue.. Life is a merry go round, and eventually we have to get off it and let the next generation have their turn.
@Edrafa10 When you get to heaven what will you do? What does one do in heaven? I am being genuine btw and I'm not trying to argue. I'm not religious i don't believe in any god or follow any religion, I believe at death peoples worlds will simply cease and it will be like before you were born, non existent. I wouldnt want to live forever anyway, humans are not special we've evolved to what we are and look like according to the nature of our planet. We're a fluke in the nature of the universe.
Carl Sagan is wrong about the UFO's but he is a very intelligent man and the person looking for knowledge will know what to take for this, but what i wanted to highlight was the HOST he is a very intelligent man who know when to say what.
I recommend to everyone reading the Skeptic magazine's special on UFO's (Michael Shermer is the lead editor). Also, look up youtube videos of how easy it was for him and some grade school children to make UFO pictures that couldn't be beaten by detection on computers. It's a hoax people; i'm sorry.
all of those people who claim to be abducted by UFO'S don't have evidences besides blur pictures, those are subject to interpretation, when they are going to provide real evidence thanks
@4illegalalien I think you're just trolling, so gonna have to let you go. But if you're serious, yeah I require other people to know the actual explanation for reality. Before science, we looked at a rainbow and thought "god". It's the same thing here, you see something you can't explain and conclude it's aliens. The proper course is to wait until there's been a proper scientific analysis.
@4illegalalien Roswell has been well investigated, and alien technology is not the most likely explanation. If I saw something I couldn't explain with my own eyes, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's aliens, no. It's something that I would wait for investigation and expert opinions on.
@4illegalalien I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but global warming is supported by a mountain of evidence. An alien craft or even up-close and un-fakeable photos of alien technology would be powerful evidence and change many minds. The fact is that we haven't seen that sort of direct evidence for ET.
@4illegalalien I advocate a probability of belief... With life beyond the earth, there's a powerful argument to be made from the sheer number of stars and planets in the observable universe. But there is as of yet no direct evidence. So I think we should asign a probability value to E.T. life rather than propose a sharp false dichotomy of yes or no.
@4illegalalien Yes. And that would be the correct response. If you give yourself into believing without evidence, then there's no limit to the absurd things you'll take seriously. It could be that green men from another dimension are visiting us every other Thursday, but the evidence doesn't support it, so we have to be a-greenmenists until evidence is available.
“We were arrested together at the Nevada nuclear test site, protesting U.S. testing in the face of a Soviet moratorium on testing.” This happened in February 1987.
Although Sagan’s point is that he and Dr. Mack were not enemies, I like this quote because it reminds us that Dr. Sagan put his money where his mouth was. He didn’t merely preach from a pulpit, but was an activist willing to put his own life on the line for the rest of his planet.
@gannon33 you are the reason we do not release the cure to cancer. Seek an education! Get the hell out of here with bigfoot and other mythical bullshit.
I think it may also prove helpful to some of the viewers here to try to evaluate many of the more strident claims of the anti-theist critique ("brights") from a ideological/ metaphysics perspective. Check out the recent article by Jackson Lears in the May 16, 2011 issue of the The Nation entitled "Same Old New Atheism" .The article offers a compelling analysis of Sam Harris' works. Consideration is given to general atheistic social perspectives
their conscious. So maybe its you who needs to be enlightened !! I will definitely check out that book so I can see both sides of the argument and i'd advise you do the same because the way your talking it seems like you think your extra special or something which is non sense.
@bishop8000 I agree. What have been called "UFOs" do exist, but we can't possibly conclude what they are based on simple observation from afar. Could this technology be extraterrestrial? It's possible, but without enough tangible evidence to state that it is a fallacy.
@OneWarmDragon he actually didn't believe in ufos. He said he has never had the evidence to prove it. He was open to the possibility of some form of life somewhere in the cosmos. He's not a wacky ufo guy at all, read his books
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I admired Dr. Sagan, but he did not do his homework with the UFO phenomenon. I do not believe people have been physically abducted by aliens, but I do believe many people have experienced a psychical event that involves a nonhuman intelligence. If not a nonhuman intelligence it is an intelligence native to this planet and part of human consciousness. We don't understand it 100%.
@trevorcarterva No one did their homework more on the UFO "phenomenon" than Carl Sagan. It's not such due to contact with extra terrestrial intelligence, but with our own credulity.
@bishop8000 Sagan never denied the existence of UFO's or human-extra terrestrial contact. He was a man of truth, of measurable hypotheses, rather than random assumption and wonder. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
@therootbeerbaron He didn't deny the existence of UFO's, but as you rightly pointed out, extraordinary claims require extraodrinary evidence. The evidence for UFO contact is not extraordinary. The evidence for human contact is non-existent. Denying that they exist is not the position of a scientist, remaining skeptical and withholding belief until evidence is available was Sagan's stance.
@bishop8000 I love sagan and I respect him beyond words But come on now Rosewell They printed in the papers that they found 3 bodies and a craft. Plus dozens of people that were there have came out over the years saying they seen bodies and a craft. I honestly believe they've been here plenty of time but no matter what Carl sagan was amazing and his work on the study of the universe is invaluable !
@bishop8000 No but the fact it was printed in MAJOR newspapers and High end military and government people have come forward and many other civilian witnesses giving the exact same story I'd say thats pretty credible.
@bishop8000 Ok this conversation is going to go in circles. Thats why its called a government cover up because they retrieved the physical evidence. DUHHHHH ! I think its pretty incredible when you have several high profile government and military personal recounting the same story on different occasions. I think that says something. Something tells me these people wouldn't all be in it for shits and giggles.
@JG129 Maybe they do it for fame and attention, or money on the inevitable book deal that gullible people like you buy and take seriously. Instead, why don't you buy and read The Demon-Haunted World and become enlightened?
@bishop8000 Fame and money ??? I think you are quite ignorant as to how our government works ! Whistle blowers are more often mysteriously killed then offered fame or money !!! And if you would read into that story you would find many of these people were threatened with Death and harm against their families if they said anything So I don't believe it was in there favour to speak out about this ! Thats why a few of them mysteriously died and also a couple did death bed confessions to clear
@trevorcarterva Dr.Sagan didn't do his homework on UFO's , or alien influence because ,there is no solid evidence to support either of those notions .
I'm not trying to be hurtful and I ask this with all seriousness and sincerity : If you or someone you know, thinks they are being influenced by aliens or outside forces, how on Earth can you find that more likely and plausible than mental delusion ? If you want to answer me privately please do, I am interested in what you have to say.
Carl Sagan did not go out and talk to any UFO witness. He read some books, looked at some data and then determined there was nothing there. Is that research? There are many other scientists involved in UAP/UFO research, such as Dr. Vallee and Dr. Peter Sturrock, that feel the evidence is quite compelling. What research have you done, my friend? You've read some books, right?
@trevorcarterva Please. There is as much evidence for vampires as there is for UFO's.
As well as zombies. And werewolves. And bigfoot. And ghosts. And flying spaghetti monsters. And pretty much every myth ever created. Yet if all of those existed the earth would be chockfull of magical mysteries and the chance of people gathering evidence on those things would be enormous. If you look at it from a purely statistical perspective you'd have to agree that belief in such a thing is near retarded.
@gannen33 I agree with you, all folk lore passed down and spoon fed to the masses. The more I "listen" with an open mind and think for myself, (this is the first time I have said this to anyone or anywhere) I starting to question and some doubts regarding the god that has been taught from childhood till now. Is it a story passed down is it true. what evidence is there that is true, not what "they" say is true but facts and evidence. I have the same mindest for evolution, there is no evidence.
Carl Sagan, I have never met you, I've never held conversation with you, I will not see you in the afterlife, but I miss you. Hearing you speak is like an echo of history, a history I wish I was a part of. I wish I could've had an intelligent conversation with you. You've inspired me so much. I love you, I will spread your message till the day that I die. We will all keep you in our hearts.
Alot of people say that America didn't go to the moon,that it was a hoax.I know that if it was a hoax I believe Carl Sagan would have raised a red flag.
Interesting how Sagan talks about technology...he had the foresight to think into the future. When this interview was conducted Windows 95 hadn't even come out, any discussion about distant planets was purely theoretical & was comical in the field of astronomy, & so many other technological marvels were not even conceived. As technology improves & people gain intelligence religion will slowly wither away & one day humanity will have the luxury of religion being nothing more than a distant memory
i tend to disagree whit the point that there are no spirits
i am sure there are beings on other planets , why can't there be supernatural beings , from other higher or lower dimensions that try to connect to this one
@pidromonz As ever, supernatural claims demand supernatural evidence. You disagree there are no spirits? Is that a way of saying you believe in spirits? If so, on what evidence, precisely, do you base this belief on? That, of course, is the reason that 'people of faith' are so unimpressive. They base their entire lives and systems of belief on supernatural claims that have not one ounce of evidence to support them. Enough blood to float entire navies has been spilled as a result.
@sdavis3398 There's lots of evidence of paranormal activity. Videos, recordings, experiences, ect.
The problem comes in when people like you refuse to believe any evidence given to them. Could some of it be fake? Of course, there's always a chance of that, but by sheer volume of records, from all different parts of the globe...can they all be faked?
@pidromonz The universe is cramed to the brim with organic and inorganic awareness. Earth is a center for awareness. When we die, we emerge as pure energy, if there is any energy left. Earth and this Universe is our playground. The higher and lower demensions are traps or vortexes that pull us away from our home, Earth.
@pidromonz If there is no energy left then we are an empty vessel. We are not dead we just don't have the energy to run our awareness. Some have referred to this as an eternal sleep.
you do realize we have the technology to detect far more than the spectrum of our senses ?
Further, you don't seem to know how science works, there's no need in seeing things with your inferior eyes to proove they exist. I don't see you, therefore you don't exist ? Your method seems to work like I can't see pink unicorns in pants, but hey, we don't know, they might exist and use fancy cloaking devices... (some people say the saw em, I swear)
wow, extraordinary :) I was referring to technology and maths that prove existence of dark matter, air and stuff you normaly don't see. But I don't expect you to understand anything beyond your ignorant views, skeptical (or rational or scientific) thinking would require "thinking" rather then believing stuff. Don't get me wrong, you may believe what you want, but don't spit out some bullshit arguments when you obviously don't understand the things you are talking about.
@UrbanPole don't play smart ass with me , you can continue to be as closed minded as you want and only believe in facts ... if you would have lived 500 years ago you would believe the earth is flat
you don't even understand that the whole universe is just energy , and atoms are 98% empty space, how do you explain 'solid' to me
@pidromonz I would rely on science that discovered what they call dark matter, and how about a ballon it's full of air...you can see it's affect. Now, can religion show a spirit or another supernatural dimension....Fail.
Carl Sagan has, many times, said that the likely-hood of there being life on other planets is very high. However, he said that they aren't visiting us in the way that we think they do.
Anything we see to be supernatural is just something natural that we have yet to understand. Say something breaks the laws of physics; that means the laws we've used to describe the world are wrong in some instances. Not that they've been broken.
@berniebay totally agree, there are tons of things that we understand, and what we perceive as supernatural, could be natural to beings from other parts of the universe :)
even a few hundred years ago man thought the world was flat , so theories can be proven wrong
@pidromonz Lack of evidence is not a evidence of the opposite statement. So why not? Let be open minded. We are creatures of creativity. Have you seen the episode when Carl Sagan explains the 4th dimension? Mostly like a shadow is a 2 dimension representation of a 3d object, maybe some objects or "things" can be represented in our 3d spacetime. Maybe what we perceive and call ghosts are 3d representation from another dimension in our world. Who knows?....yet
2:03 I hate how scientists say others are being rediculous when, they find ways to describe things as rediculous, in picture, to disuade people from something, whether or not they're evidenced. That's Not Objective!
@bishop8000 You got off at the wrong point. MAybe I phrased that wrong some. He's saying it's rediculous at that point referencing "how SiLLy it sounds?". Real things don't need (or can) be/seem silly and definately be real. Reference why alien abduction IS fraudulent. That's another point That brings up about scientists; they'll ignore things that are prevalent, but with no EviDence of why they're real, but don't make action to make counter-arguments.
@InToonamIsLegacy It's just the same on the other side!! (what the evangelists, for example, do. I have to strain: "TO A Degree!" Scientific thought is great, but I don't think it's manifested well on many students.) ahaha :) (not being objective) Scientific method training may need more emphasis, because it's clearly not Perfected in scientists. You get me?
@InToonamIsLegacy If there's "no evidence of why they're real" as you put it, do they really need to make counter-arguments? In science, the burden of proof rests on the party making the claim, not on the party saying they're aren't convinced.
@bishop8000 If you were getting smacked i the head with no apparent cause, and there wasn't any evidence, wouldn't you want to know why? That's why people are called crazy, which is "dismissive". I say they're lazy, or probobly, there are just some times where it's reasonable for scientists to explore further, then again, hypothesees are often derived from curiosity.
@InToonamIsLegacy They're not lazy though, if you're still talking about astrology, that's been debunked thousands of times. The trouble is getting the ignorant masses to listen. Life has a way of smacking us in the head, it doesn't mean there's an astrological influence controlling it. Human beings are bad statisticians, we look for patterns, and we seem to find them even when the events are random and unconnected.
@bishop8000 I don't give credit to astrologers as a side note. The trouble is the scientist has to be capable and is restricted by time and resources to be able to consider everything for something to become a law. Everything still is discovered, essentially, by chance.
@InToonamIsLegacy Interesting analogy. If one felt one was being smacked in the head, there are two hypotheses - 1) an external force is impacting your head 2) hallucinations, migraines, or previously induced brain damage (for example) is triggering the pain receptors in your head, despite the fact no external force is present. If the first hypothesis is true, one would expect evidence in the form of bruising. This would be the approach a scientist would take. Absence of bruising => hypothesis 2
@denislemenoir aha! you're making a big mistake that humans tend to put possibilities, i've found, into binaries. Instead of thinking of possibilities, explore the external force as precise as appropriate (and open ((and unbiased)), so more like "what is anything affecting the space around it, observed?" Good possibilities, but hypothesees are formed from what is Observed backed with a reasonable mechanism to test. Those were immediate reactions of what to suspect.
I honestly detest having to miss people like Carl Sagan - such a force for good. - the mere fact he is not walking around anymore takes down Earth's points as a location you'd like to visit being an Alien - Aliens would go: Hey look thats earth! You know, its a dump now, but Carl SAGAN used to live there! If only we got here earlier it would have been worth not blowing up! (completely kidding ofcourse!)
This is not his last interview. His last one was with Nightline December 4th 1996, two weeks before his death. Please add a correction to the description of the video. Thanks
We've(America) wasted so much money on war since the beginning of the 19th century. I wonder, if we had channeled our efforts more effectively, would this man be alive today? I like to think so.
every time I hear Sagan's voice, I am instantly taken back to that feeling of amazement and wonder I felt as a child watching his cosmos videos. Truly amazing human being.
people,SHHHHHHH just listennnn, Carl is speaking! thats obviously why you chose to watch this vid right? to hear what he has to say....orr am i missing something?
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You have 3500 books and how many of them have you actualy read? If anyone read that many books they would have seen many conflicting perspectives. No one has time to read 3500 books so what you say is meaningless. You must be insecure trying to show other people all those books trying to make up for it. You need to ground yourself. You most likely where called stupid over and over again while you were a child not you are wounded and trying to make up for it.
@Gongs16 You are a walking definition of hypocrisy. You said we're acting like children, yet all you've done since you got here was make arguments like "you're a dummy head" and "liar liar liar liar liar".
@Gongs16 Really? You may not have the time to read 10 books, some of the books are annual journals so I only read the articles that are relevant. I must have been through 50% of this literature and some more than once.
@Gongs16 At an easy pace I could read 3500 books at an average of 300 pages per book in about 17 years. Not even one quarter of my life expectancy. The fact that you can't read that fast doesn't mean no one can.
@Gongs16: Well you would think he'd pass those books on to someone else who either can't afford them or to expand someone elses knowledge. Keeping that many books tells me he's narrcisistic and likes to give the impression that he's smart when guests come to visit.. if he has any. !!
As a person that reads a lot, there are ways to read more than "3500" books in a lifetime. I have many decades ahead of me, so i can't attest to reading more than thirty five hundred books. But! Hell, buddy, I'll let you in on a little secret! If you read a lot of books on subjects like mathematics, chemistry, or astronomy you can even start to recognize entire chapters in other books. Pretty soon, it'll be like looking at pictures! Just like when we were children. ahh the good o' days.
By the way i do apologize, i didn't realize you guys were trolling. Just wanted to offer information to the fact that, people can read 3500 books in their lifetime.
wow!!! Im giving half an hour to talk to Carl Sagan, one of the greatest thinking minds of recent times. What should I ask him about?........I know the loch ness monster!!!!
OMG The presenter is a a doofus !!! Carl Sagan you will always be awesome :)
wingle007 1 week ago
my dad is still alive and sometimes i hear him call my name out of nowhere. bugs me out
equallyeasilyfuqyou 2 weeks ago
@equallyeasilyfuqyou lol wtf
notilhenger 1 week ago
@notilhenger i don't really hear him. it's just in my head..i'm not insane, i think
equallyeasilyfuqyou 1 week ago
even if we have eternal lives, theres no way we can remember so, it is like dying, for some ppl dying is a new start
LAROUCHE777 3 weeks ago
We humans must finaly open our eyes and wake up about the world. We dont know what it is, why are we doing things we dont like when we could be living in harmony and enjoying every day at it is...Our common goal cannot be more fucking obvious. Lets work together and discover LIFE!
we are run by the governement.. work, physical apperence, materialism, indivudialsm...All this for nothing. As a group we must have a goal and a vision to go far, if we dont have a goal it will lead us to failure. WTF?
LAROUCHE777 3 weeks ago
Look all I know is this...
When I die, I would'nt want to go to Heaven Nor Hell....
I would love to travel the cosmos ....
So God, that is my wish!! Who's with me?? so I wont be alone traveling!!
freedomland11 1 month ago 4
@freedomland11
I'd love to travel the universe rather than dying.
Smaug84 1 month ago
@freedomland11 Truth is just the truth I've said the exact same statement yet i live across the globe from where your state of reality is based..we share one common force built on universal truth! What divides beings in this reality is the opposite of truth which is a main contributing factor behind mass ignorance..thank you for your existence you make my stay in this reality plain worthwhile knowing that there are beings with mental vision that project out of the box thought..be peace&love
Llukashipman 3 weeks ago
him and terence mckenna should have hung out
jnlendrum 2 months ago
@ 1:03 is the first time i've seen carl sagan laugh xD
WaiWu 2 months ago
It's a shame interviews aren't conducted in such a patient manner as this anymore. this is great interview. fucking fox news...
ArmedToTheHorns 2 months ago 4
I'd like to pay a professional psychic to channel Sagan's spirit. Anyone want to pitch in? Let me know.
animals0feel1pain2 2 months ago
I agree with the science thing, we are playing with a gun basically. If we have religion in a tech/science based world you'll get 9/11
INMATE2468 2 months ago
Religious folk say that in order to find true happiness you need to accept God and/or Christ...look at Carl Sagan, he's way more happy than any religious person I have ever met, he knew exactly what was going on and was happy whereas religious folk claim to be happy but they're really not because their life is a constant struggle to please daddy...i mean God.
donk525 2 months ago
The Edafa comment does make sense. We are not made to last forever. We are a part of this planet. And we will return to the earth again, to sleep without dreams. Sounds sort of peacful to me, no pain.
And Kamic68 wow. You say you loose nothing by just believing, i beg to differ. You will waste your years of your life praying to something like a toenail. LOL : D
krapptacular 3 months ago
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CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
Not only that, but if we are truly alone as life in this cosmos, wouldn't it all be quite an awful waste of space?
BlockisticStudios 3 months ago
There is a logical underpinning to life outside Earth. Life originated from circumstances on early Earth that could occur anywhere else had certain parameters met the requirements. And in this vast, awesome universe, there has bound to be at least some, at least simple life elsewhere in time and space.
BlockisticStudios 3 months ago
"Consider that Pale Red Dot" we see at the end of the "Like&Dislike" Bar..Now Imagine that red dot with life, they to imagine a God created them for solely a purpose in life. How seriously would you take them??
-Carl Sagan A man who makes us Think!!
freedomland11 3 months ago
Do u not believe religion was strategically placed among the human species to prevent pure anarchy? The species must have boundaries or it would self destruct. It is hard to believe an ancient culture had the where with all to write such a book as the bible. Who pieced the many books together. Many questions. Placed by another species; perhaps ourselves at another point of time...
ThePaulgregg 3 months ago
I had respect for him, until he denounced what science has proved to be a non-local phenomenon.
Humbledish 4 months ago
@ELEMENT901223 Natural explanation: Lots of similar looking islands, lots of water and sky, easy to get disoriented before GPS.
bishop8000 4 months ago 5
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I am catholic but that doesn't avoid me admiring this man. But what's the reason to live a temporary existence as he and all of us are faded to if not to prepare us for eternity. We were made to last forever not as flesh and bone but spiritually. I believe that will be our destiny. Are we just playing the game of existence with no reason. I dont think so.
Edrafa10 4 months ago
@Edrafa10 Because we want so badly to believe in life after death, we need to reach in for added reserves of skepticism.
bishop8000 4 months ago 54
@bishop8000 Imagine Sagan's "Oh, crap!" face while his soul went out his body.
Edrafa10 4 months ago
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@bishop8000 even if we are wrong about Hinduism,Islam, Jainism, Judaism,Taoism,Christianity,and Buddhism.. What do we have to lose? If you are right, we have nothing to lose. If you are wrong, You have everything to lose.
Kamric68 4 months ago
@Kamric68 "Pascal's wager debunked" <----search it.
bishop8000 4 months ago 48
Exactly, Pascals wager!
bsdwiz 3 months ago
@bishop8000 You again? arent u tired of lying to yourself, when are u gonna wake up? probably after u die, but then... that's too late, pal!
valentyn0 1 month ago
@Kamric68 Not according to Christianity or Islam.............if you are wrong according to their specific doctrines it matters not what following you have in any other faith........you are burning for eternity if you due not accept their specific doctrine. That in part is why they are evangelical in their approach to all other nonbelievers..........
jacopman 3 months ago
@Kamric68 wrong. the majority of religions punish infidels with eternal damnation, you are better off being nice to others without worshiping or idolising other beings and hope that if a divine creator exists it is a merciful and benevolent one if you really want to go down that road.
haz464 3 months ago
@Kamric68 The argument of 'even if we are wrong about religion what do we have to lose?' is so cowardly. It is much more noble to base one's beliefs on evidence even if the evidence is not always welcome to us. I personally find it much more liberating to live as if this life is my only one.
ZF1000 3 months ago
@Kamric68 ah but you could argue that by living in truth (if proven true when dead) atheists are living fruitfully, rather than basing our lives on and around myths.
MDGravey15 1 month ago
@Kamric68 Actually,it's you who has then lost everything.
You've spent your whole life based on a false premise, therefor making many many wrong decisions, wasting your time, inflicting unnecessary harm to others etc... you have ridiculed your own existence.
sooperfukker 1 month ago 2
@Kamric68 getting sick of theists not fucking realizing how old that fucking arguement is.
randomperson2538 1 month ago
@Kamric68 That doesn't even make any sense. If atheists are wrong, they get eternal life. If theists are wrong, they wasted their only life. Its quite the opposite I would propose...
turquoiseguy 3 weeks ago
@bishop8000
Carl Sagan surprised me in this interview.
I am his big fan but he shouldn’t mix astrology and superstitions with the subject of UFOs. It’s not a subject of believes. UFOs are real.
I October 2008 I saw a UFO for almost half-an-hour from 15-30 feet.
Before that I was a cautious skeptic. now I gather info about them on this channel.
777Simsalabim 2 weeks ago
@777Simsalabim sometimes people fail to differentiate between a literal unidentified flying object and an unidentified flying object from space with a grey alien inside. i think he was talking about the latter. surely there are unidentified aircrafts that later become identified.
ThyrmBloodaxe 1 week ago
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@777Simsalabim sometimes people fail to differentiate between a literal unidentified flying object and an unidentified flying object from space with a grey alien inside. i think he was talking about the latter. surely there are unidentified aircrafts that later become identified.
ThyrmBloodaxe 1 week ago
@Edrafa10 Why do you think there HAS to be an after life, you even said it this is a temporary existence...so why would it follow that we get an eternity for our destiny? Does the fish/chicken you eat play the game of existence for the same reason?
Scooba87 4 months ago
@Scooba87 Do you put human beings in the same level as fish or chicken? Well, I wonder whether they are worried about this subject. Maybe some silly fish of St. Peter's Fishing Club, crazy chickens members of the Egg's Assembly.
Edrafa10 4 months ago
@Edrafa10 Then dont waste your time. Carl Sagan dont need the admiration of a catholic. He was a brilliant scientist who has done much for humankind. You are just another ignorant beliver who spends time talking to invisible people, defending the existence of zombies, reading a 2000 years old book full of inconsistencies....and all kind of aberrations to the logic and the reason. Dont preach us, and save your fantasy for your church.
spanier24 4 months ago
@spanier24 You're so arrogant to the point of deciding who can or can't admire or respect a person. You are just vomiting foolish arguments, demonstrating you are a rude person, empty, certainly not the kind of behavior Mr. Sagan would admire. You just flew into a rage about nothing. This is called stupidity.
Edrafa10 4 months ago
@Edrafa10 Save your phantasies about gods and spirits for your church...dont preach us.
spanier24 4 months ago 2
@Edrafa10 Existence doesn't need a reason. People need reasons. You need a reason for why you need to go to the dentist, etc. But a rock doesn't need a reason for being a rock. It just is. Existence just is, and it doesn't change because you want it to be different. But since we are humans, we think we need a reason to live. But you need to realize that there is no REAL reason, besides the one you make up for yourself. It can be as simple as just living a happy life.
tobbaddol 4 months ago
@Edrafa10 And there's also a danger in applying your reason for living to an invented external being. Because then you're not living your own life. You're living the life that someone else dictated to you in a book.
tobbaddol 4 months ago
@Edrafa10
Sagan had something that many warmongers on both sides lack: passion, high culture, excellent linguistic skills, vast knowledge, talent for storytelling and talking about something complex in beautiful and understandable terms. Respect for others while keeping at his opinion. I think he was prototype for Vulcans ;-)
AnteyPL 3 months ago
@Edrafa10 Just because something is a pleasant thought doesn't make it any more likely to be true. It's fairly greedy to want to exist forever, however, the concept of eternal life can be achieved through ensuring humanity gets to continue.. Life is a merry go round, and eventually we have to get off it and let the next generation have their turn.
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MrRIPino 1 month ago
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@Edrafa10 When you get to heaven what will you do? What does one do in heaven? I am being genuine btw and I'm not trying to argue. I'm not religious i don't believe in any god or follow any religion, I believe at death peoples worlds will simply cease and it will be like before you were born, non existent. I wouldnt want to live forever anyway, humans are not special we've evolved to what we are and look like according to the nature of our planet. We're a fluke in the nature of the universe.
MrRIPino 1 month ago
Carl Sagan is wrong about the UFO's but he is a very intelligent man and the person looking for knowledge will know what to take for this, but what i wanted to highlight was the HOST he is a very intelligent man who know when to say what.
nashorie 4 months ago
I wish I could speak like he does. he sounds so smart without sounding pretentious
manwithouthat44 5 months ago 2
I recommend to everyone reading the Skeptic magazine's special on UFO's (Michael Shermer is the lead editor). Also, look up youtube videos of how easy it was for him and some grade school children to make UFO pictures that couldn't be beaten by detection on computers. It's a hoax people; i'm sorry.
ZachRose88 5 months ago
what kind of cuntface dislikes this?
noordstation 5 months ago
all of those people who claim to be abducted by UFO'S don't have evidences besides blur pictures, those are subject to interpretation, when they are going to provide real evidence thanks
legolasgreenleaff 5 months ago
@4illegalalien I think you're just trolling, so gonna have to let you go. But if you're serious, yeah I require other people to know the actual explanation for reality. Before science, we looked at a rainbow and thought "god". It's the same thing here, you see something you can't explain and conclude it's aliens. The proper course is to wait until there's been a proper scientific analysis.
bishop8000 5 months ago
@4illegalalien Roswell has been well investigated, and alien technology is not the most likely explanation. If I saw something I couldn't explain with my own eyes, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's aliens, no. It's something that I would wait for investigation and expert opinions on.
bishop8000 5 months ago
@4illegalalien I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but global warming is supported by a mountain of evidence. An alien craft or even up-close and un-fakeable photos of alien technology would be powerful evidence and change many minds. The fact is that we haven't seen that sort of direct evidence for ET.
bishop8000 5 months ago
@4illegalalien I advocate a probability of belief... With life beyond the earth, there's a powerful argument to be made from the sheer number of stars and planets in the observable universe. But there is as of yet no direct evidence. So I think we should asign a probability value to E.T. life rather than propose a sharp false dichotomy of yes or no.
bishop8000 5 months ago
@4illegalalien Yes. And that would be the correct response. If you give yourself into believing without evidence, then there's no limit to the absurd things you'll take seriously. It could be that green men from another dimension are visiting us every other Thursday, but the evidence doesn't support it, so we have to be a-greenmenists until evidence is available.
bishop8000 5 months ago
“We were arrested together at the Nevada nuclear test site, protesting U.S. testing in the face of a Soviet moratorium on testing.” This happened in February 1987.
Although Sagan’s point is that he and Dr. Mack were not enemies, I like this quote because it reminds us that Dr. Sagan put his money where his mouth was. He didn’t merely preach from a pulpit, but was an activist willing to put his own life on the line for the rest of his planet.
TheDan337 5 months ago
Someone who is good with audio needs to remaster the audio to this interview, I would listen to it on loop for days
Noyes654 5 months ago
@gannon33 you are the reason we do not release the cure to cancer. Seek an education! Get the hell out of here with bigfoot and other mythical bullshit.
mattysimsoficial 6 months ago
When I listen to Carl Sagan I feel I understand him 100%. I just wish I had the same talent speaking about my beliefs as he has.
spektrum1983 6 months ago 3
send his dna to space in a capsule for another intelligent race to stumble upon and clone... he is fit to represent earth in my opinion
ehohkay 6 months ago 5
One of the finest representatives eyoomanity has to offer.
SedanChair 7 months ago
i miss carl :'(
chinamanspeakenlis 7 months ago
@bishop8000
Can you activate the closed captions? Thx :)
antiteista83 7 months ago
He was as brilliant as he was interesting, he still had so much to teach us, we must carry his torch in these dark times.
drpeppa2357 7 months ago 2
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shieldsff 8 months ago
I could listen to his voice all day
ChronicallyConfused 8 months ago
their conscious. So maybe its you who needs to be enlightened !! I will definitely check out that book so I can see both sides of the argument and i'd advise you do the same because the way your talking it seems like you think your extra special or something which is non sense.
JG129 8 months ago
@JG129 Conspiracy theories don't convince me of extra terrestrial visitation. Only extraordinary evidence can do that.
bishop8000 8 months ago 9
@bishop8000 I agree. What have been called "UFOs" do exist, but we can't possibly conclude what they are based on simple observation from afar. Could this technology be extraterrestrial? It's possible, but without enough tangible evidence to state that it is a fallacy.
Sean19a7x2 6 months ago
@OneWarmDragon he actually didn't believe in ufos. He said he has never had the evidence to prove it. He was open to the possibility of some form of life somewhere in the cosmos. He's not a wacky ufo guy at all, read his books
iainteenbaleedat 8 months ago
this host looks like devil
AlphaMaIe 8 months ago
"We don't know if it's there; we don't know if it's not there. Let's look!"
It's this kind of ideology that makes Carl Sagan such a magnificent person.
TyeNee 9 months ago
I love his face at 4:53.
Carl was so ahead.
4dOp 9 months ago
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I admired Dr. Sagan, but he did not do his homework with the UFO phenomenon. I do not believe people have been physically abducted by aliens, but I do believe many people have experienced a psychical event that involves a nonhuman intelligence. If not a nonhuman intelligence it is an intelligence native to this planet and part of human consciousness. We don't understand it 100%.
trevorcarterva 9 months ago
@trevorcarterva No one did their homework more on the UFO "phenomenon" than Carl Sagan. It's not such due to contact with extra terrestrial intelligence, but with our own credulity.
bishop8000 9 months ago 23
@bishop8000 Sagan never denied the existence of UFO's or human-extra terrestrial contact. He was a man of truth, of measurable hypotheses, rather than random assumption and wonder. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
therootbeerbaron 9 months ago 3
@therootbeerbaron He didn't deny the existence of UFO's, but as you rightly pointed out, extraordinary claims require extraodrinary evidence. The evidence for UFO contact is not extraordinary. The evidence for human contact is non-existent. Denying that they exist is not the position of a scientist, remaining skeptical and withholding belief until evidence is available was Sagan's stance.
bishop8000 9 months ago 4
@bishop8000 I love sagan and I respect him beyond words But come on now Rosewell They printed in the papers that they found 3 bodies and a craft. Plus dozens of people that were there have came out over the years saying they seen bodies and a craft. I honestly believe they've been here plenty of time but no matter what Carl sagan was amazing and his work on the study of the universe is invaluable !
JG129 8 months ago
@JG129 "They printed it in the newspaper and there were eye witnesses therefore it must be true."
bishop8000 8 months ago
@bishop8000 No but the fact it was printed in MAJOR newspapers and High end military and government people have come forward and many other civilian witnesses giving the exact same story I'd say thats pretty credible.
JG129 8 months ago
@JG129 No it's not. Only tangible verifiable evidence means anything at all.
bishop8000 8 months ago
@bishop8000 Ok this conversation is going to go in circles. Thats why its called a government cover up because they retrieved the physical evidence. DUHHHHH ! I think its pretty incredible when you have several high profile government and military personal recounting the same story on different occasions. I think that says something. Something tells me these people wouldn't all be in it for shits and giggles.
JG129 8 months ago
@JG129 Maybe they do it for fame and attention, or money on the inevitable book deal that gullible people like you buy and take seriously. Instead, why don't you buy and read The Demon-Haunted World and become enlightened?
bishop8000 8 months ago
@bishop8000 Fame and money ??? I think you are quite ignorant as to how our government works ! Whistle blowers are more often mysteriously killed then offered fame or money !!! And if you would read into that story you would find many of these people were threatened with Death and harm against their families if they said anything So I don't believe it was in there favour to speak out about this ! Thats why a few of them mysteriously died and also a couple did death bed confessions to clear
JG129 8 months ago
@JG129 If you dont think that the governments only interest is money then you have no idea how the american economist
adamsturgeon99 7 months ago
@trevorcarterva Dr.Sagan didn't do his homework on UFO's , or alien influence because ,there is no solid evidence to support either of those notions .
I'm not trying to be hurtful and I ask this with all seriousness and sincerity : If you or someone you know, thinks they are being influenced by aliens or outside forces, how on Earth can you find that more likely and plausible than mental delusion ? If you want to answer me privately please do, I am interested in what you have to say.
Peace.
OneWarmDragon 8 months ago
@OneWarmDragon
Carl Sagan did not go out and talk to any UFO witness. He read some books, looked at some data and then determined there was nothing there. Is that research? There are many other scientists involved in UAP/UFO research, such as Dr. Vallee and Dr. Peter Sturrock, that feel the evidence is quite compelling. What research have you done, my friend? You've read some books, right?
trevorcarterva 7 months ago
@trevorcarterva Please. There is as much evidence for vampires as there is for UFO's.
As well as zombies. And werewolves. And bigfoot. And ghosts. And flying spaghetti monsters. And pretty much every myth ever created. Yet if all of those existed the earth would be chockfull of magical mysteries and the chance of people gathering evidence on those things would be enormous. If you look at it from a purely statistical perspective you'd have to agree that belief in such a thing is near retarded.
gannen33 7 months ago 2
@gannen33 I agree with you, all folk lore passed down and spoon fed to the masses. The more I "listen" with an open mind and think for myself, (this is the first time I have said this to anyone or anywhere) I starting to question and some doubts regarding the god that has been taught from childhood till now. Is it a story passed down is it true. what evidence is there that is true, not what "they" say is true but facts and evidence. I have the same mindest for evolution, there is no evidence.
rms16006 6 months ago
Carl Sagan, I have never met you, I've never held conversation with you, I will not see you in the afterlife, but I miss you. Hearing you speak is like an echo of history, a history I wish I was a part of. I wish I could've had an intelligent conversation with you. You've inspired me so much. I love you, I will spread your message till the day that I die. We will all keep you in our hearts.
DisgustForHumanity 9 months ago 10
@DisgustForHumanity I feel the same way...I really, really miss him, too even though I never met him. :(
sgtovey 9 months ago
Alot of people say that America didn't go to the moon,that it was a hoax.I know that if it was a hoax I believe Carl Sagan would have raised a red flag.
banner1835 9 months ago
Interesting how Sagan talks about technology...he had the foresight to think into the future. When this interview was conducted Windows 95 hadn't even come out, any discussion about distant planets was purely theoretical & was comical in the field of astronomy, & so many other technological marvels were not even conceived. As technology improves & people gain intelligence religion will slowly wither away & one day humanity will have the luxury of religion being nothing more than a distant memory
andyrooney12 10 months ago
is called half asleep lets you see stuff just don;t get scare the way i go into it go to sleep looking up
noir0222 11 months ago
Carl Sagan is an amazing thinker.. Its really too bad he never had the chance to understand neuroscience and consciousness like we can today
Trailer1220 11 months ago
he practically predicted 911 there at the end
MrBombsniffer 11 months ago
i really hate that interviewer.
bigleonard1984 11 months ago
don't think like the masses , think for yourself
i tend to disagree whit the point that there are no spirits
i am sure there are beings on other planets , why can't there be supernatural beings , from other higher or lower dimensions that try to connect to this one
pidromonz 11 months ago
@pidromonz There can be. As ever, the question is not if these things are possible, they surely are, it's how good is the supporting evidence.
bishop8000 11 months ago 54
@bishop8000 "Extraordinary clams require extraordinary evidence."
TuNuCedeMalis 10 months ago
@pidromonz As ever, supernatural claims demand supernatural evidence. You disagree there are no spirits? Is that a way of saying you believe in spirits? If so, on what evidence, precisely, do you base this belief on? That, of course, is the reason that 'people of faith' are so unimpressive. They base their entire lives and systems of belief on supernatural claims that have not one ounce of evidence to support them. Enough blood to float entire navies has been spilled as a result.
sdavis3398 11 months ago
@sdavis3398 i have no faith , not a religious person ,
supernatural beings are beings from a higher dimension than ours , you can't see them but you can feel them , i have had my share of encounters
any person believes what he wants
pidromonz 11 months ago
@sdavis3398 the mind only sees less than 0.1% what is around it , what you don't see doesn't mean it's not there
pidromonz 11 months ago
@sdavis3398 There's lots of evidence of paranormal activity. Videos, recordings, experiences, ect.
The problem comes in when people like you refuse to believe any evidence given to them. Could some of it be fake? Of course, there's always a chance of that, but by sheer volume of records, from all different parts of the globe...can they all be faked?
ilovethelegend 11 months ago
@pidromonz The universe is cramed to the brim with organic and inorganic awareness. Earth is a center for awareness. When we die, we emerge as pure energy, if there is any energy left. Earth and this Universe is our playground. The higher and lower demensions are traps or vortexes that pull us away from our home, Earth.
101thehunter 11 months ago
@101thehunter agree with you, but what if there's no energy left...
pidromonz 11 months ago
@pidromonz If there is no energy left then we are an empty vessel. We are not dead we just don't have the energy to run our awareness. Some have referred to this as an eternal sleep.
101thehunter 11 months ago
@101thehunter some are already asleep , although they live:))
pidromonz 11 months ago
@pidromonz Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, pidromonz.
yoyomafosho 11 months ago
@pidromonz What's a spirit? What's a dimension? Show me something supernatural.
ScottBrown666 10 months ago
@ScottBrown666 show me dark matter show me consciousness , can you see them? can you see air when you look at an object?
pidromonz 10 months ago
@pidromonz
you do realize we have the technology to detect far more than the spectrum of our senses ?
Further, you don't seem to know how science works, there's no need in seeing things with your inferior eyes to proove they exist. I don't see you, therefore you don't exist ? Your method seems to work like I can't see pink unicorns in pants, but hey, we don't know, they might exist and use fancy cloaking devices... (some people say the saw em, I swear)
UrbanPole 10 months ago
@UrbanPole technology is not that advanced yet to contact a higher realm... thank you for sharing this with me
pidromonz 10 months ago
@pidromonz
wow, extraordinary :) I was referring to technology and maths that prove existence of dark matter, air and stuff you normaly don't see. But I don't expect you to understand anything beyond your ignorant views, skeptical (or rational or scientific) thinking would require "thinking" rather then believing stuff. Don't get me wrong, you may believe what you want, but don't spit out some bullshit arguments when you obviously don't understand the things you are talking about.
UrbanPole 10 months ago
@UrbanPole don't play smart ass with me , you can continue to be as closed minded as you want and only believe in facts ... if you would have lived 500 years ago you would believe the earth is flat
you don't even understand that the whole universe is just energy , and atoms are 98% empty space, how do you explain 'solid' to me
pidromonz 10 months ago
@pidromonz I would rely on science that discovered what they call dark matter, and how about a ballon it's full of air...you can see it's affect. Now, can religion show a spirit or another supernatural dimension....Fail.
spareaxe 5 months ago
@spareaxe Well, science talks about many dimensions and many universes...it is legitimate speculation independent of religious authority.
squamish4244 5 months ago
@squamish4244 Yes, I have heard of parallel universe theories but again unless Science can prove it.
spareaxe 5 months ago
@spareaxe That will obviously take some doing! But I think this all began with one possible solution to the "Schrodinger's Cat" dilemma.
squamish4244 5 months ago
@pidromonz
Carl Sagan has, many times, said that the likely-hood of there being life on other planets is very high. However, he said that they aren't visiting us in the way that we think they do.
Anything we see to be supernatural is just something natural that we have yet to understand. Say something breaks the laws of physics; that means the laws we've used to describe the world are wrong in some instances. Not that they've been broken.
berniebay 10 months ago
@berniebay totally agree, there are tons of things that we understand, and what we perceive as supernatural, could be natural to beings from other parts of the universe :)
even a few hundred years ago man thought the world was flat , so theories can be proven wrong
pidromonz 10 months ago
@pidromonz Lack of evidence is not a evidence of the opposite statement. So why not? Let be open minded. We are creatures of creativity. Have you seen the episode when Carl Sagan explains the 4th dimension? Mostly like a shadow is a 2 dimension representation of a 3d object, maybe some objects or "things" can be represented in our 3d spacetime. Maybe what we perceive and call ghosts are 3d representation from another dimension in our world. Who knows?....yet
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pidromonz 11 months ago
2:03 I hate how scientists say others are being rediculous when, they find ways to describe things as rediculous, in picture, to disuade people from something, whether or not they're evidenced. That's Not Objective!
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy When do scientists offer opinions that are not supported by the balance of evidence?
bishop8000 11 months ago 2
@bishop8000 You got off at the wrong point. MAybe I phrased that wrong some. He's saying it's rediculous at that point referencing "how SiLLy it sounds?". Real things don't need (or can) be/seem silly and definately be real. Reference why alien abduction IS fraudulent. That's another point That brings up about scientists; they'll ignore things that are prevalent, but with no EviDence of why they're real, but don't make action to make counter-arguments.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy It's just the same on the other side!! (what the evangelists, for example, do. I have to strain: "TO A Degree!" Scientific thought is great, but I don't think it's manifested well on many students.) ahaha :) (not being objective) Scientific method training may need more emphasis, because it's clearly not Perfected in scientists. You get me?
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy contextually, he just made a mistake, but it's not something I'd accept if I did it.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy If there's "no evidence of why they're real" as you put it, do they really need to make counter-arguments? In science, the burden of proof rests on the party making the claim, not on the party saying they're aren't convinced.
bishop8000 11 months ago
@bishop8000 If you were getting smacked i the head with no apparent cause, and there wasn't any evidence, wouldn't you want to know why? That's why people are called crazy, which is "dismissive". I say they're lazy, or probobly, there are just some times where it's reasonable for scientists to explore further, then again, hypothesees are often derived from curiosity.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy They're not lazy though, if you're still talking about astrology, that's been debunked thousands of times. The trouble is getting the ignorant masses to listen. Life has a way of smacking us in the head, it doesn't mean there's an astrological influence controlling it. Human beings are bad statisticians, we look for patterns, and we seem to find them even when the events are random and unconnected.
bishop8000 11 months ago
@bishop8000 I don't give credit to astrologers as a side note. The trouble is the scientist has to be capable and is restricted by time and resources to be able to consider everything for something to become a law. Everything still is discovered, essentially, by chance.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@InToonamIsLegacy Interesting analogy. If one felt one was being smacked in the head, there are two hypotheses - 1) an external force is impacting your head 2) hallucinations, migraines, or previously induced brain damage (for example) is triggering the pain receptors in your head, despite the fact no external force is present. If the first hypothesis is true, one would expect evidence in the form of bruising. This would be the approach a scientist would take. Absence of bruising => hypothesis 2
denislemenoir 11 months ago
@denislemenoir aha! you're making a big mistake that humans tend to put possibilities, i've found, into binaries. Instead of thinking of possibilities, explore the external force as precise as appropriate (and open ((and unbiased)), so more like "what is anything affecting the space around it, observed?" Good possibilities, but hypothesees are formed from what is Observed backed with a reasonable mechanism to test. Those were immediate reactions of what to suspect.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
@bishop8000 lazy are the said scientists, not the "crazy" ones.
InToonamIsLegacy 11 months ago
I honestly detest having to miss people like Carl Sagan - such a force for good. - the mere fact he is not walking around anymore takes down Earth's points as a location you'd like to visit being an Alien - Aliens would go: Hey look thats earth! You know, its a dump now, but Carl SAGAN used to live there! If only we got here earlier it would have been worth not blowing up! (completely kidding ofcourse!)
OccamsKatana 11 months ago
I disagree with his views on UFOs, but then again he wasn't privy to the revelations of the last decade.
HueyTheDoctor87 1 year ago
@HueyTheDoctor87 Remember what the "U" stands for in UFO. The last decade wouldn't have changed Carl Sagan's view on the matter in the slightest.
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WhatWouldBukowskiDo 1 year ago
3500 books lol
Not everybody has been watching the TV their whole life you idiot.
JuggaloOzi 1 year ago
*sigh*
We've(America) wasted so much money on war since the beginning of the 19th century. I wonder, if we had channeled our efforts more effectively, would this man be alive today? I like to think so.
EnveeH2 1 year ago
Listen to Carl! Stop arguing!!!!
torontoBluejays87 1 year ago
every time I hear Sagan's voice, I am instantly taken back to that feeling of amazement and wonder I felt as a child watching his cosmos videos. Truly amazing human being.
JMU24AZP 1 year ago 4
people,SHHHHHHH just listennnn, Carl is speaking! thats obviously why you chose to watch this vid right? to hear what he has to say....orr am i missing something?
ahmingah 1 year ago
The world is such a sadder place for the loss of the great Carl Sagan.
Harlingtonjnr3 1 year ago 6
I love this man.
scruffyexaminer 1 year ago
lol @ the Ramtha dicussion. Carl's deadpanning that McClaine thought Ramtha was her brother was quite funny.
ClamCrunchy 1 year ago
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Gongs16 1 year ago
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You have 3500 books and how many of them have you actualy read? If anyone read that many books they would have seen many conflicting perspectives. No one has time to read 3500 books so what you say is meaningless. You must be insecure trying to show other people all those books trying to make up for it. You need to ground yourself. You most likely where called stupid over and over again while you were a child not you are wounded and trying to make up for it.
Gongs16 1 year ago
@Gongs16 You are a walking definition of hypocrisy. You said we're acting like children, yet all you've done since you got here was make arguments like "you're a dummy head" and "liar liar liar liar liar".
bishop8000 1 year ago 46
@Gongs16 Really? You may not have the time to read 10 books, some of the books are annual journals so I only read the articles that are relevant. I must have been through 50% of this literature and some more than once.
mik99D 1 year ago
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mik99D 1 year ago
@Gongs16 At an easy pace I could read 3500 books at an average of 300 pages per book in about 17 years. Not even one quarter of my life expectancy. The fact that you can't read that fast doesn't mean no one can.
TheAnubisDrake 1 year ago
@Gongs16: Well you would think he'd pass those books on to someone else who either can't afford them or to expand someone elses knowledge. Keeping that many books tells me he's narrcisistic and likes to give the impression that he's smart when guests come to visit.. if he has any. !!
celticlofts 1 year ago
@Gongs16
As a person that reads a lot, there are ways to read more than "3500" books in a lifetime. I have many decades ahead of me, so i can't attest to reading more than thirty five hundred books. But! Hell, buddy, I'll let you in on a little secret! If you read a lot of books on subjects like mathematics, chemistry, or astronomy you can even start to recognize entire chapters in other books. Pretty soon, it'll be like looking at pictures! Just like when we were children. ahh the good o' days.
KongMing415 1 year ago
@Gongs16
By the way i do apologize, i didn't realize you guys were trolling. Just wanted to offer information to the fact that, people can read 3500 books in their lifetime.
KongMing415 1 year ago
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opseusm 1 year ago
@opseusm Pants on fire!
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Gongs16 1 year ago
You can't trick me with your lies and deception.
opseusm 1 year ago