Cosmos Episode 7: The Backbone of Night Part 1 of 6
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Uploaded by TylerD113 on Jan 12, 2008
Humans once thought the stars were campfires in the sky and the Milky Way "the backbone of night."
In this fascinating segment Dr. Sagan takes us back to ancient Greece, when the basic question "what are the stars?" was first asked. He visits the Brooklyn elementary school of his childhood, where this same question is still on students' minds.
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how cool would it have been to be one of the kids in that classroom? to be able to say you had Carl Sagan visit your class
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1:34 : Front-first parking, wrong side of street, too far from kerb, no seat-belt, window left open, door left unlocked, parking meter ignored. Good work, Carl.
1 year ago 6
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@brod2man >:O maybe thats true
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It's official; Carl Sagan can teach science better than Chuck Norris
1 year ago 4
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Love his laugh at 6:19... What a wonderfully real person.
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Brilliant... "Sure! YOU're considered a part of the Milky Way galaxy... The Sun is one star, there is a few hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, and around each star, maybe, there's a whole bunch of planets, and on one of those planets is life, and one of the lifeforms on that planet is you... So you're a part of the Milky Way galaxy too..!"
1 year ago 7
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"The *right* kind of book."
:)
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sagan=hero.
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How can a video like this have only 11, 350 views?! Youtube should make any of the cosmos episodes a feature video when you open up the search engine.
1 year ago 2
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I wonder how many of those kids in the classroom were inspired and influenced to become science leaders today
1 year ago 2
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Man, I wish Carl Sagan taught my 6th grade science class!!!
loutufillaro 2 years ago 41
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Carl Sagan and his work. This show, along with the space-related textbooks my father gave my brother and I for Christmas, was what originally got me interested in the universe and eventually science as a whole. The world lost an amazing person when Sagan passed away.
tuotierugif 3 years ago 33