The Great Demotions [Carl Sagan Tribute Series, S01E07]

[Brygelsmack]

Three planets by the time he recorded this... Carl Sagan would have been happy to know that by the time I'm writing this (26-02-2012), we have discovered 759 exoplanets beyond our solar system. A number that will continue to grow every month of every year to come. Maybe one day... we will visit one of these worlds.

[girlgoplayer]

Litany of Gendlin What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. —Eugene Gendlin

[RayTekkHD]

Wow, probably the best Sagan narration I've heard yet. Other than the pale blue dot, of course.

[MissesDizaster]

dam only 3 planets outside the solar system, ha ha we know like 700 now.

[scifi75]

Believe in humanity. From there, anything is possible.

[AGrayPhantom]

Kurtjmac sent me.

[skyorrichegg]

@no2religions I think you mean to say religions forbid the worship of the universe or in revering it above their chosen deity... most would teach reverence for it as a creation of a deity, Psalm 8:3 Qur'an 51:47 for example.

[no2religions]

Religion doesn't teach reverence for the universe, it forbids it.

[aroblesCG]

"We have great reason for humility."

[Tbrown5526]

Man, in his arrogance, thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a diety. More humble, and I think truer, to consider him created from animals.

[thetightpinkie]

This is it!

[huyked]

SOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful...

[bobdaugherty820]

This is one "hesitant" video. =p

[skyblazer7]

9:15 what a beautiful analogy.

[aeropostalbaby1]

8:14 all religious people, stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Carl Sagan is the closest thing to a god for being able to admit the possibility of himself being wrong. he deserves more respect than any preacher or pope ever has or ever will.

[beaprod]

I am in a constant state of awe and gaiety that I find myself fortunate enough to be living in this universe.

[N4SONIC]

The first 2 mins and 17 seconds should be shown to every human being on Planet Earth, esp the self obsessed c*nts on Facebook and Twitter, RIP Carl we miss you :).

[TheCombineify]

98.8%.

[joshthedudeoflife]

I wish this is what the major news networks would show for 9-11 tributes. To remind all of us that we are not the center of the Universe, that we dont have a special connection to a god and that we (all of us) must be humble in our approach to one another.

[jay1jayf]

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I think truer to consider him created from animals" that line always hits me hard.. it's an eye opener of the origin of religion and man's nature.

[TheChrisKilroy]

life always hits road blocks in their travel on the roads through time. as many as it hits, life, always finds its way.

we will achieve your dream sagan. not all have given up hope. you are our guide to our destiny among the stars.

[MrSupercat9]

@callumCGLP every time i watch one these tribute videos i come away teary eyed. not just because i miss Carl soooo badly, or the utter humility i feel(a good thing) but also because of the growing distance between my family and i. They are true believers in the Christian faith and i'm afraid of how they would react to me being an atheist, therefor i avoid them. So the growing distance is mostly my fault but i also have little tolerance for ignorance and far right-wingers which makes it hard...

[Anduy]

@MrSupercat9 you don't have to avoid your family. Just keep acting like a Christian when it is necessary to do so. I'm also an atheist living in a christian family and I have no problems whatsoever. Keep exploring the world of science the way an atheist would do, just don't hurt your family by telling them that you don't believe in god anymore.

[MrSelothi]

This video is beautiful, so far my favourite from your series (but I've still got all the rest to watch :P ).

I just love Mr. Sagan's way of presenting Life, the Universe & Everything, and I love you for allowing us measly little folk to be able to watch it all in one convenient place. There can never be enough people listening to Carl Sagan !

[darksonicful]

@brianneburnell1 all night bitch!!

[ErichoTTA]

I can't believe he's been dead for 15 years.

[MillenniumRequiem]

Everyone should spread this masterpeice around. It really makes me humble, and others should feel the same. I think eventually humanity will come around to see our place in the cosmos, and wish to return to the stars.

[percival132]

We may not have been given the lead in the cosmic drama, but I am grateful that we are still able to watch it unfold.

[mcruz1331]

Well then... at least our galaxy is at the center of the universe... Carl Sagan - "lol nope"

[CtrlDae]

Beautiful

[toumai1470]

isn`t that the soundtrack of "lost"?

[lostfishcustard]

@toumai1470 that what i thought too

[SojournerLi]

All my heroes are dead... Carl Sagan

Alan Watts

George Carlin

Myself

[Moyizzo]

I could listen to this guy talk forever.

[toumai1470]

@Moyizzo the voice of reason...

[tewster]

it saddens me how religion espouses to humility, but isn't humble in the slightest :( why do we need to be #1 when we (all things) are ONE.

[yellowlynx]

CallumCGLP, you works are dazzling -- I have sent all the links to my friends...

[FriScho]

one downvote - must be the pope...

[TheBahamianAtheist]

Carl Sagan, My Hero!

[mexicanwave]

A great mind, a great voice.

I'm sitting at my desk, working, listening to these vids one after another.

They are fantastic pieces of work Callum. Well done and thank you for bringing Carl Sagan to youtube in this collection.

[Scratchy314]

These videos are amazing

[mattofasia]

Is there any chance of getting mandarin subtitles for this. I would DEARLY love to show this to my students and coworkers.

[fatkasuvayu]

The Watson shot is epic!

[shaedies]

xkcd(dot)com /893/

Latest xkcd kind of a tribute to Carl Sagan's sentiment.

[Inannawhimsey]

callumCGLP: what programs do you use to make these?

[TakashiNippon]

I just got mindfucked!

[drumrnva]

This whole series blows me away. Thank you so much for posting!



[gutterdocmd]

This series is excellent and so well done. For a man in his 20s you are so intelligent and eloquent beyond your young age. You Tube is primarily a younger audience and it is so wonderful that you are putting this younger generation in touch with Carl Sagan. Please keep this up, I know it must be very time consuming and the fact that you are doing this while attending college is just awesome! I'm a subscriber for life, thank you!

[ItsScienceBitch]

Carl RIP, we need men like you more than ever.

[cjw1010]

amazing videos. It would be fascinating if it ended up being that all of the galaxies ended up making up a much larger galaxy of which there are billions of those kinds of galaxies.

[MasonRaburn]

Saw it on WingsofRedemption's channel, and came over here to give credit where credit is due. Great video, man.

[ps3bots]

had to sub your videos are just so good

[Stratmaster86]

As many have already pointed out, I must still congratulate you on bringing such brilliant words to my eyes and ears. I try not to watch them all in one sitting, but instead watch one per evening and process it through my own mind so that I can fully grasp this amazing information. It has me at the edge of changing majors :) Thank you, my friend.

[boccastones]

I noticed that when Sagan is talking about the pretense religious alegations he only mentioned judeo-christian-islamic faiths. That's because it's a western sickness to believe that we are so specially loved by some antropomorphic god. Some eastern religions (or philosophies) do not make those claims for they are built in the observation of nature which is most humbling.

[prasmant09]

My Brother and I have been hooked on the series and anything Carl Sagan since I stumbled (literally) to your first video. Callum Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Our hats are off to you.

[nfhslugger]

Amazing. Simply amazing. Thank you for this

[brianneburnell1]

i've been up since 2 am watching these! you're nice lets hang out!

[flight454]

3:08- that statement is a litle outdated now. We have confirmend thousands of planets, and hundreds that are earthlike. I wish carl sagan could have been here today to witness how far exoplanetary science has come.

[callumCGLP]

@flight454 Thank you for pointing that out. At first I was going to leave it out, but then I thought its inclusion helps to portray the miraculous speed at which science progresses, despite the issues Carl raises in this video. Truly remarkable.

[chewy8807]

@callumCGLP You should annotate how many planets have been found so people know how far it has come. Thanks for the great series.

[d3st88]

@flight454

Aye mate. When the news was fresh, I was like.. Man.. I would love to tell this to Carl Sagan.

[dexluther]

@flight454 Thousands of planets may have been found, but I think your number of Earthlike ones is a little bloated.

[Inannawhimsey]

@flight454: He is here, in everyone he ever touched, in everyone who ever loved him :3 Check out the book I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.

[YoshiLives]

@flight454 About four are currently believed to be habitable, if we could ever reach them.

[astroclast]

@flight454

If I'm not mistaken the number of detected exoplanets runs to a few hundred (300-400) and maybe 1-2 are earthlike (3-4x the mass of earth). But progress is fast!

[Thastorcyclone]

@flight454

Good men die so soon =/ soon christopher hitchens too, and carl sagan died at almot same age...sigh =(

[thescorpionking2020]

@Thastorcyclone hope hitchens lives,cant afford to lose him

[BlackStar250874]

@flight454 Yeah, surely not hundreds of earth-like planets. Detections these days are not always so sure anyway. Your last statement, however, is true (but please - Carl Sagan with with CAPS please! With honour!)

[MegaAwesomePossem]

@flight454 We have not found a single earthlike planet. We have found a few of the same approximate size, but none that we've confirmed to be inhabitable. Also we've found around 500 exoplanets, not thousands. We know because of that that there must be billions though.

[Jesuscopterapocalyps]

@flight454 50-60 earthlike

[rontayan]

More please! Dying for more!

[callumCGLP]

@rontayan Haha. There is plenty more to come, don't worry. Unfortunately, exam period is fast approaching, so I will be rather bogged down. But there are a couple of new videos in the works, and still more to come after that!

[claton95]

@callumCGLP what are you majoring in?

[WindScar48]

Thank you for this great video! I could listen to Carl Sagan all day, whether I am sad or happy.

[jimmyjimbowp]

Thank you so much for this series. Carl is one of the great heroes. Please keep going!

[Drensworth]

Utterly brilliant. Both Carl Sagan and you. This series was thought provoking, humbling, and intensely interesting. I am currently reading Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection, which I just started before finding these... He is such a brilliant guy, its a damn shame he died. Couldn't answer his questions in time, but I hope we, for the sake of his memory and for us, will cherish his knowledge and insight throughout the generations, and hopefully find answers to his questions.

Thanks for this series.

[callumCGLP]

@Drensworth Thank you for your kind words! It truly is a shame that he died before his time. I think he would be a massively influential voice in this age of misinformation and science denial. Hopefully we, as a species, can heed his message and work together to improve life for everyone and everything on this planet.

[valvetrom]

Monumental Science and philosophy ,but the music is very pedestrian,a sleepy orchestrasyrup

[MrRiggyRiggs]

Whats out there damnit..id love to know.

[answerfourtytwo]

Now i know for a fact that the freedom to repurpose and reintroduce whatever sources we see fit is something we have to cherish and protect.

This is what the endless cycles and linkages of youtube are capable of and what it should continue to do.

callum, Brilliant work sharing the things you have collected and the things you have come to understand through these mediums, man.

[9fifty1]

You've done great with this entire series. Thankyou for creating these and I hope there will be more as I watch what you've created often.

[FtBeast]

My brother from another mother, thank you so much for keeping this amazing series going. Great work.

[blowersho]

Brilliantly done, I applaud you. You are keeping alive the memory of a great person therefore you are also are a great person. Thank you.

[JackeShanTwo]

Excellent!

[shackupyourstruly]

Now, what we have been calling The Universe is now theorized as being only one instance of a multiverse...

[majestic93]

Profoundly humbling with some fantastic imagery and wonderfully put-together music, Callum. I think this is perhaps the best of the (so far) seven tributes.

Thank you Carl, and thank you Callum!

[FullAccessAgent]

Another great video. Leaves me with nothing to say. Carl said it all.

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

Just think about it. If it were not for the few intellectual heroes of the preceding times, and our time, imagine where we’d be, how short we would have come. I swear, if it were not for people like Carl Sagan, Isaac Newton, Sam Harris, etcetera, religion and other chauvinisms would have probably caused us to go extinct a long time ago.

[d3st88]

Thank you very much for this wonderful video, sir.

[freelancer332]

I'm always really excited when I see that you've uploaded another part of this tribute series! :) Thank you so much

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

Wow, holy shit, that was one of the most amazing and profound things I have listened to in a long time. This, in my opinion, is by far your best Carl Sagan tribute video. Thumbs up if you agree.

[Tyme2Die]

The more you understand science the more you cannot believe religion.

[mutalix]

Thank you Carl! Thank you CallumCGLP! One day when education flourishes and logic and rationality is as common as breathing , that will be the day that when we learned from our collective mistakes as a species and took another long awaited step forward.

[aplen22]

The lack of views for this entire project is saddening. Every citizen, leader, every human! Should hear these words from Carl. As always your series never fails to deliver greatness. Thank you.

[paperluigi64]

Makes me wish that we can all see existence like Carl Sagan did..

[TheRealDaveMatthews]

Brilliant.... That is all. :)

[seamurbile]

Excellent work! I love this series. Thank you.

[mercenary122]

I do not know words in the English language that can describe this experience!

great work

[muzammilali007]

I hope we make contact with extraterrestrials in our life time. This genetic mental disease called religion will then be buried forever.

[elthornio]

This brings a tear to the eye of this guy. Beautiful.

[JosephMcarthur]

CallumCGLP, They may not be your words but i think by doing this you are doing the world as much good as he did. Your introducing old words to a new generation, one that gravely needs it.

[callumCGLP]

@JosephMcarthur Thank you, Joseph. Comments like yours make all the hard work worthwhile :)

[nuitaridark]

@JosephMcarthur too true

[aLittleDarkEyed]

absolutely beautiful. That's all i can say.

[jpsithlord]

carl sagan is the paragon of science

[jssherrard]

...awesome!

[Alkapawn]

Back onto the Pale Blue Dot ..Superb

[zwwalker]

nice vid callum!!!

[sahandpar]

Brings tears to my eyes.

Miss you Carl :)

[BlackStar250874]

@sahandpar I still remember his Cosmos series from the early 80's. That's the first time I saw him, when I was still a child. He was too great loss to everyone here on Earth. I am so sad that he is gone. :(

Too bad he wasn't around to see when Opportunity and Spirit went to Mars +  to see some other discoveries.. Including exoplanets..

[blurglide]

What a writer and speaker. We need to find someone to fill his shoes.

[GordonWolters]

I'm usually a stoic guy, but listening to these, I feel tears of awe, joy and fear swelling up inside, for mankind's future.

[cristianfcao]

Wonderful series. Thanks a lot for posting them!

[AMGrulz]

Uitstekend!

[MrWajax]

Another wonderful addition to the tribute series! Thank you for producing these videos.

[mykeljee]

love all of these!

[seks03]

Great Video, I love science

[Seal0611]

Amazing series man, keep them coming. Every time I see one go up I get unimaginably excited.

[SolidSnake69XXX]

first! great work