Carl Sagan 1966 Interviewed about UFO's

To commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the release of Cosmos i've uploaded A 1966 Interview with Walter Cronkite and Carl Sagan about the existence of UFO's and the possibility of contacting alien civilizations.

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[frankiethefrank]

Magnificent man.

[cardsharkaa]

Sagan hung around with a pirate astronomer for the CIA? Jesus christ I never knew that about him.

[Anon Hancock]

Light travels at 670Million MPH? I know it does 178,000miles in 1 second

[69brockstar]

The Pirate CIA"actor" lights up a bowl and blows smoke around the room while Sagan is talking,funny!Interesting psychological answer for the people"needing"to see UFO's.

[Empedocles449]

They look like Bond villians.

[Mark Seibold]

Lest you [we] speak of anything as only how we understand it in our own personal conventional wisdom of the past and personal use of limited language. Are we really that short sighted? For "If the ideas is not at first absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein

Let us expand our ideas outside the archaic conventional wisdom of the dark ages of the past. Then there is hope for discovering possibly something new. -M2013

[R Hall]

Your lack of grasp of the implications of the cosmological constant cannot be taken seriously so I can't debate that point. It;s incorrect, bc nothing that transcends spacetime is bound to laws of cause/effect, entropy, etc.Your notions are restricted to spacetime. Like saying 'i dont know why im incorrect to say square circle.' The 'how did creator get there' is a question unanswerable by sci, but we can know, w/ sci, that it was uncaused (see Susskind, et al, or see Hawking/Penrose).

[F1RacerRR]

It is one thing for me to understand it, but quite another to share in their disturbance. That's a personal emotion to them which I do not share.

I don't see any reason why it is incorrect to say that a creator needs to have been created. Don't see why the same questions can't be asked. Also if there is no time, no space etc.. then how did the creation manage to take place & how did the intelligent creator get to be there in the first place? Sorry I just happen to think down a different path.

[R Hall]

You'd have to understand why Susskind, one of the most brilliant atheist physicists in history, with 2 others, titled the paper "disturbing." We go to them as they know what's "disturbing," not we non-physicists. If there is a creator that exists outside of spacetime, then it's incorrect to say that that thing needs to have been created. Your point works only w/in our spacetime. No spacetime, there's no time, no space, no beginning or end. This is why Susskind, et al, are "disturbed."

[F1RacerRR]

Doubt I would find anything in science disturbing. The only thing that I am convinced of is that the God depicted in the bible is entirely man-made and not the other way around. Nor do I subscribe to any creationist notions about how the world is so beautiful that it could only have been the result of intelligent design. I'm an atheist so won't be falling back into the 'unexplained-therefore-must be an intelligent designer' position. Cos then u need 2 consider who made the designer ad infinitum

[R Hall]

I honestly have worked in sci labs as a college student. Our age old question remains. As sci advances we fine more fine tuning, more apparent design, not less. We find more evid for an indep causal agent as admitted by Hawking and Penrose, and verified by Susskind et al, who called it 'disturbing.' Doesn't =God, but does = 'disturbing.' Think of that. With this we can no longer poo poo the notion as fixed with ignorant peasant farmers in middle age Europe.