Carl Sagan introduces the library of Alexandria

Clip from episode one of the COSMOS series

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[ArtiePiscano]

You do realise christiantiy is based on pagan religions and that the catholic church was one of the biggest perpetuators of slavery in human history. Just thought I'd let you know brother, don't take my word for it though history speaks for itself.

[NinjaChampionKO]

DEATH TO ABRAHAM FOLLOWING RETARDS!!!

You fuckers burned The library of Alexandria to the ground and caused hundreds of years of pointless bloodshed in the dark ages........

[staranjela]

Very enjoyable thank you

[RJL738]

Imagine an alien library so vast that it encompasses several planets. They would have technology so advanced that most of their inner volume would be cities and the cities outside and inside these planets would be dimentionally recessed or bigger on the inside. These planets would be connected and their collective volume could even be {7294,4920,4627,6798,8869,6979­,397} times their conventional volume for planets that big. Imagine a library with compact technology that big.

[rhdtv2002]

@soNofLeoniDasandLas man - I wish I could go back in time..to these times, to the times of the great pyramid..at the times of dinosaurs..

[soNofLeoniDasandLas]

@rhdtv2002 yes most , i say 99 % were destroyed, some other works of these ancients were found in other areas of the Greek world, example some inventions of Archimedes, are being used to this day because they found some of his written work. His invention of the fan type design to distribute air to create energy, lift and thrust is being used today in jet engines and other machines, his invention of the screw like excavator that in one movement excavates , and also brings the soil to the surfa--

[soNofLeoniDasandLas]

there were 700.000 thousand volumes of the greatest Greek scientists, engineers , mathematicians, philosophers, etc. Many scholars believe that if the library was not burned, technology would have been 500 years ahead of what it is today.

[Keinlicht]

@rhdtv2002 OH FUCK EVERYTHINGS A GOD DAMN CONSPIRACY NOWADAYS

[TheJovanist]

Carl Sagan be rocking nice pants XD

[TheJovanist]

Google > all Libraries combined on the face of Planet Earth. This Library of Alexandria is kinda cool though.

[rhdtv2002]

I am not 100% that the books were really destroyed..If so, we would have known who did this, I think this is a coverup..Someone has allot of these books and manuscripts..that is why nobody knows because something else happened..Knowledge of the acient were was taken away on purpose to hide it from us..still around