Carl Sagans Cosmos - Episode 7 - The Backbone of the Night

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

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[kingkong8974]

wow, the evolution hypothesis was made that long ago.

[TheScienceFoundation]

@kingkong8974 Yeah the idea of common ancestry considerably predates Darwin, it's just that he was one of the first to both come up with a workable mechanism and articulate it so well.

[sciencemile]

How lucky we are to live in this time.

But how lucky those kids were to have Carl Sagan come in and lecture :o

[adrianbatson]

52:00 I love that he said that, when these kids are his age (mid 40's in the video) we'll be using the techniques he demonstrated to observe planets around distant stars. And now those kids (8-10 by the looks of them) are now in their early to mid 40's, and we're detecting new planets with very similar techniques by the day. How the hell did he do that!?

[Yoso11]

Fuck yeah Carl Sagan teaching little kids sense! I feel like all their lives just changed in his lecture, realizing their own purpose or something.

[goreziad]

democrates is awesome :D

[MrSwedenik]

I love the hubble deep field and ultra deep field. I could stare at those pictures all day...so humbling

[MrSwedenik]

@saiyaniam hahaha

[JoshuaFVrooman]

@sciencemile Bill Nye studied under him I believe, now THAT'S lucky!

[episcophagus]

OH. Mars Cups! Shouldn't they be in episode 4?

[TheGmodtutorials101]

@gethsoftware I am not a douche bag.

[martinbondesson]

I get tears in my eyes when Carl speaks so passionately to these children about the universe. It's understandable though, since I'm as passionate about it as he was. I love Carl. Every word this man spoke was pure poetry, and words of wisdom. He's always been my greatest role model. You are truly missed, good sir...

[scienceandreasoniluv]

Religion tells kids they might go to hell. Carl Sagan tells kids they are part of the Milky-way galaxy.