To all citizens of the cosmos:

[uhjigali]

Was this guy for real?

Is this your Messiah!

The end was the best! Im still laughing!

40 years after man walked on the moon and that may have been a hoax. we can now... what? walk on the moon? Keep up the progress, keep spending that money!

[bishop8000]

Laugh it up. Computers, cars, airplanes, medicine, long life spans... Everything that makes your life comfortable is a direct result to the rational scientific approach that Carl Sagan advocated.

"after man walked on the moon and that may have been a hoax"

You're in OJ land!

[uhjigali]

Whats any of what you said got do do with the cosmos and space travel? Youre a good puppet! Sure technology is gonna get better even if it was left to a third world country, that would happen!

Its called reinventing the wheel! Everything you mentioned has been around for at least a 100 years, with the exception of computers- at least 50 or 60.

People eat healtheir! Even hard labor jobs are far less strainful than the were 50 years ago. You can chalk that up to osha and lawsuits etc..

[bishop8000]

You are ignorant beyond what the English language can describe so I don't see any point in continuing the conversation.

[Choowbz]

uhjigali I don't often get to here from people of the Land of the Swazi for 99.99% of our life on this planet We rode on the backs of animals and used an open flame for a light Not one photograph for ten thousand years till 1827 As religion lost its grip our science was made free'er to give you the Tec to Talk across the world It can just as easily be lost as seen with Taliban rule Sagan is not held as a Messiah Just a spokesman for science and life And a good one

[superfordtech]

We are going to use our technology to kill each other, thanks for the choices Carl.

Its sad there is not more people like Carl Sagan, he was an inspiration to me at a young age while I was getting beaten and abused in Christian school.

[Jabo007Celt]

We will survive if we start getting along with each other. Step 1. Get rid of Islam.

[VonGoetzi]

careful what you say there. They get very offended about that sort a thing.

[Jabo007Celt]

I don't care.

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

CARL SAGAN was the wise man of the 20th century. He is an inspiration for all of us.

We miss him dearly.

[pentaceratops07]

I miss him.

[TRITANIA99]

The world is darker without his knowledge and his wisdom.

[mandor05]

No. The world would be darker if his knowledge and wisdom didn't live on.

[Burzamonte]

Sagan knew nothing about compassion.

Religion is the only hope some people have. To take it away from them by being a person in authority and claiming that Atheism is correct is as far removed from compassion as it gets.

He was also just a big mouth who never invented anything. All he did was to popularize science which gave him the money and importance he yearned for.

Remove Vangelis music and Sagan is nothing. Is Vangelis an atheist ? Was Newton or Einstein ?

Nope.

[bishop8000]

You're an idiot. Everything you said was incorrect.

[Burzamonte]

No. I can prove everything I said.

You are an idiot for calling me an idiot without even attemting to prove me wrong.

But I forgive you. If you need to have Sagan as your personal prophet then feel free to do so. I was quite impressed by him when I was 13 and watched all episodes of Cosmos.

[ultraudv]

@bishop8000 yes, Burzamonte is programed to be ignorant, like most of the mystics

[TRITANIA99]

You're completely wrong and everything that you grote, it's holy crap.

Carl was more than compassion, he was humility, his disciplinary and spiritual life science, since he was a child, let him as one the greatest Astronomer of all the times, and considered for all academy of science in the world; the Albert Einstein's succesor and also THE LATEST ASTRONOMER of XX century.

[Burzamonte]

No he wasn't. He was an arrogant prick. He treated ufologists with utter contempt and threw away 1000 pages of compiled ufo-evidence after reading the title. And it doesn't stop there. Sagan wasn't even a proper scientist. He was a lay man. I have it on good authority that he wasn't considered very bright in the scientific community. When astronomical books are written 100 years from now his name won't be mentioned.

[TRITANIA99]

Search who really was Carl Sagan and came to this site and we can carry on. He will rememberfor ever, for one the Greatest Astronomer of all the times, and the fisrt man who cofounder and president the planetary society for search of Extraterrestrial intellegence and study the planets and the entirety cosmos.

You're Big liar.

[storck08]

no one would mention you in those books, that's for sure.

[TRITANIA99]

You're Big ignorant and completetly moron.

you would never gonna achieve that how Carl achieved for humanity, even if you'd born a hundreds times.

He wrote too many books, one of those books a Pulitzer Prize winner for the book The Dragons of Eden , "Recomended" also The Demons Hunted World.

He played roll to inginieering the Viking, Mariner, voyagers spacecraft, for the fisrt time in the history of the human being to explore our Solar system. And i can't tell you more that he achieved.

[monox]

newton and einstein were atheist, but they belived in thier OWN god, no in the typical christian god

sagan also said "i believe in my own god"

thier god wasnt the stupid christian god

so yes, you can consider nowton and einstein atheists, because they had thier own concep of god, like sagan

thats not religion, because thier god was something/someone who/wich controled the phisics laws and all that stuff, sagan also said something similar

they never pray

[greycloud24]

you could call them deists.

[1videoaday]

you could...

[greycloud24]

pantheists is also a good label.

[monox]

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it"

Albert Einstein

[monox]

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish"

Albert Einstein

[pomotov]

Ironicly:

God doesnt play with dice

Albert Einstein

[HeroesFail]

Enjoy your lack of being able to understand poetry.

[pomotov]

I already am!

[sansserifa]

It's amazing how religious people cling to that same Einstein sentence to try and convince themselves that he was religious. His views on religion are already absolutely clear, that "God doesn't play with dice" one is a manner of speech, much like "thank god" or "for god's sake". It's a little sad how religious people can't let go of that sentence.

[pomotov]

I dont see why it could be sad to express a thought or an idea, specially when it has nothing to do with trying to convience anybody, is just an opinion, which makes it no true at all, opinions are just opinions.

[sansserifa]

and I replied with mine..

(the Einstein thing isn't a personal opinion, though)

[pomotov]

Then I am confused, Is it an opinion or not?? if it is not, then It would be very nice of you to tell me on what basis you say it is not an opinion and the source of information where you got that fact.

[sansserifa]

The fact that it's sad, yes, it's my opinion. Einstein's views on religion: especially from the book "Einstein's God", and some other things he said on books or letters etc. You can go on WikiQuote where there's a relatively large collection of stuff he said about god.

Sorry if I offended you, though.

[pomotov]

Hey bro, you definetly have not offended me what so ever, I appreciate your attitude. To say what you feel or think should not be something taken too seriously. It just called my attention you mentioned it was "sad" I dont see any sadness in any expression of ideas or views. Thanks for the source of information I will make sure to look for it. Although I disagree on WikiQuote as a reliable source of info, anyway it sure is a starting reference. thanks!

[sansserifa]

I wouldn't think they're reliable either, but they're all sourced.

[poweredxbyxhope]

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but expressed it clearly." -Albert Einstein

Do you really, figuratively believe in Lady Luck or Mother Earth?

Opinions are all very well until they begin to be taken as fact, in spite of evidence and common sense. That is called ignorance, and ignorance breeds much worse things than itself.

[IronGums]

Sagan: How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.' A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

[kriptonis]

Great text in the description...but you should use double quotation marks ( " ... " ) in the begining and end, and you should start by saying "Rich Blundell said" or "In the words of Rich Blundell..." . You shouldn't just post a link, if they aren't your words, that should be clearly explicit. ;)

[NasaTvThisWeek]

I'm going to put your vid on my front page. Awesome Job! Thanks!!!

[Dawiha]

I have to say, Carl Sagan moves me, he is the most inspiring person that I have ever listened to. He motivates me to understand who we really are, and our place in the cosmos. I can't get enough of Carl Sagan. He is missed, but what he has set in motion will never die.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Rich Blundell wrote that>^

Good words.

[bishop8000]

Yeah, I linked to him at the bottom of the text.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

BTW thanks for the Loch Lomond lyrics.

[bishop8000]

I'm not sure that my lyrics are right, I just listened to the song a lot, but they sound plausible.

[revtyson]

HEAVY! I love the end quotes!!!

CARL SAGAN: For the first time we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young and curious and brave. It shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made almost astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the cosmos and our place within it. I believe our future depends powerfully on well we understand this cosmos in which we float like a mode of dust in the morning sky.