Cosmos Episode 13: Who Speaks for Earth Part 2 of 7

Through the use of special effects we retrace the 15-billion-year journey from the big bang to the present. We also hear the tragic story of the martyrdom of Hypatia, the woman scientist of ancient Alexandria. This is the famous episode on nuclear war in which Dr. Sagan argues that our responsibility for survival is owed not just to ourselves, but also to the cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

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Education

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• Cosmos
• Sagan
• Speaks
• Earth
• Episode

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Too bad you're not an Alpha based Amiga computer. Then you'd be pretty cool.

Now pay attention to the turtlenecked one.

[djancak]

"we" wont do something that dumb?

all it takes is a few idiots with power

[dronecaster]

@tabrisangel22 Vangelis. Probably the most beautiful piece of music he ever wrote.

[GordonMorrice]

@GordonMorrice Should we hate? Should we?

[GordonMorrice]

Never destroy Earth.

[jbs4em]

@tabrisangel22 Ignore the other guy, it's the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, not his 8th.

[MrDBarch]

Carl Sagan wow, i grew up watching his science specials on b&w tv on the weekends lol

[acolytexiv]

@tabrisangel22 If you mean at the beginning of this section, it's Beethoven's 8th Symphony

[0mni42]

@GordonMorrice

The funny thing is, the previous episode ("Encyclopedia Galactica") featured the same montage of information in the galactic computer, but there our probability of survival was 40%. Sagan changed it for the purposes of telling the story in this episode.

[JohnF30Music]

end ethnicism now

[BillF1967]

A few apocalyptic religious zealots with access to doomsday weaponry could easily bring this scenario into being.