Cosmos Episode 13: Who Speaks for Earth Part 7 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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[scienceandreasoniluv]

Speak out against religion, hate, injustice, nationalism, racism, bigotry, intolerance and hate.

[ArtesianFalma]

Being something every human should see, Cosmos is probably the most reasonable thing ever posted on Youtube.

[SereniaSaissa]

In this section (10 years on) Sagan himself created the concept of nuclear winter, and he was the first to start muttering about "global warming" while NOT doing any research on it. If he had done research, he would have known that all planets go through periods of warming up and cooling down. These are part of the planetary life cyle and nothing we do is going to stop it. This is why Al Gore is being laughed it and why he has to resort to using fake computer images - because he has NO PROOF.

[maurice]

@thescorpionking2020 He was a wishful thinker who got human nature wrong and "belived uncritically in progress" as his biographer Keay Davidson describes. In this bit we see him twisting history to make himself sound like a successful prophet, and this from a critic of religion and astrology! Everything new in 1990s history consisted of the world listening to him. Actually no

[cuntoxenry]

what's the music at the end?

[Jammed9000]

That uplifting stuff right there. I just finished the whole series. I shall now go back and start watching from the beginning.

[d3st88]

@awesomejohnnet

If you pay a bit of attention you realize that the gods and their fan clubs were among of the major things Carl Sagan was against.

[d3st88]

@projectbrumaire

Compassion is not unreasonable, nor unnatural. It is an evolutionary advantage. Other species have it too, it's not unheard of in the animal kingdom.

[limericklad2000]

Thank you so much for uploading this series. I'd never seen it before and it's been a beautiful experience. I'm sorry I'm not old enough to have fully appreciated him when he was alive. He was a visionary.

[limericklad2000]

@projectbrumaire Wait what? Science or technology can't 'provide' compassion? Of course they can't just like they can't provide any other emotion or character trait. Compassion or generosity or altruism is readily explained by evolution though and has been for quite some time. Peace :-)

[projectbrumaire]

WE HAVE COMPASSION!!!!!

Isn't it incredible?

The very thing science or technology cannot provide, something by all means unnatural and unreasonable considering darwinisim etc, yet critical for our species to get past this paradigm shift. We just have to live with each other in peace, something humans are fond of.

I am sure a plenty of Alien civilizations died out because they could not meet this requirement for immortality.

[DevinBaggage]

it's almost as if human kind has been doomed to failure from the beginning. unless we become One Planet, we are finished. I can only hope that there are many other worlds where the inhabitants have chosen life.