Cosmos: "Kepler's Persecution"

Clip from Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Episode 3 on Kepler and his Somnium. http://www.kipesquire.com

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[HelpTruth]

I miss Carl Sagan.

[TheCottonTop]

3:26 I cannot bleave those charges. Thats God fearing people for you. How many more have to die in the name of god?

[wishcraft4u2]

I would like to know what song plays to the beginning of this vid.

There is some webpage where the complete soundtrack of the original edition is supposed to be given and it lists this as Purcell's music for the funeral of queen mary. But I'm pretty sure that isnt what's playing in this version...

Does anyone know?

[Npowell01]

cont.

Mankind will realize its true potential in a society of non-aggressive philosophers.

Before a science major jumps down my throat about how "philosophy is useless, and responsible for X problems," I'd like to remind them that it's sound meditation of data by the data-collecting human being that creates an "informed decision." Science makes no decisions about what to do with data, it just seeks it.

e.g., calculating the area of a sector of a circle can be used with sprinklers or turrets.

[Npowell01]

@Yoetah

That's all well and good, and I see where you're coming from: The sexual dimorphism of early humans, the gender roles of male hunting (spearing) and female contemplation/planning/meal preparation at home, early matriarchal societies, the symbolic nature of a vagina, the "woman behind the man" dynamic, etc.

It's all well and good, but why bring gender conflict into the spreading of values (skepticism, curiosity) that should be embraced by both men and women in the first place?

[Npowell01]

@Yoetah

People have been "caught on" for thousands of years.

Diogenes of Sinope, when approached by Alexander the Great, about why he was playing with bones:

"I am trying to distinguish the bones of your father from the bones of his slaves."

The problem is that this kind of wisdom has been slow to trickle down into the uninterested populous, or up into the greedy nobility: Both groups only seem to embrace knowledge when there's a short-term profit involved, or promises of eternity.

Shame.

[MagiMysteryTour]

"The conflict, portrayed on both sides as a Holy War, was more an exploitation of religious bigotry by those hungry for land and power." 0:55 (oil = power)

400 years later all that's changed is the technology of war, except the balance is extremely one-sided.

[number1historybuff]

Two people are geocentrists.

[YuTubeWeTube]

@mmmxxxi are there any extended exposure time photos taken from the moon? 

[thomaswolfgang81]

I lived in his birthplace of Weil der Stadt from may 1 1987-nov 30 1991 i miss it alot hope to be back there soon.

[Riff625]

It's interesting to note that the man responsible for the thirty years war is none other than Pope Urban VIII. The very same man who placed Galileo under house arrest and threatened him with torture in order to coerce a recanting of his observations. Of course the politics of his position at the time is what really put him under pressure to do such terrible things, thus we blame christianity as a whole for the retardation of human progress.