Carl Sagan's last interview, part 2 of 3

Carl Sagan gave his last interview with Charlie rose on May 27th 1996. He discussed pseudo-science, religion, unfounded claims, his personal love affair with science and his struggle with myelodysplasia as well as other elements of his last book: The Demon-Haunted World.

I thought it was important that a high quality copy of this interview, with proper audio video sync, was made available on youtube.

The Demon-Haunted World changed my life in ways more profound than I thought possible. That book, and the name of Carl Sagan, should be known to every high school graduate.

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."

Part 1 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jod7v-m573k
Part 2 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKSZO-aACk
Part 3 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxeN6Wf7mbU

CORRECTION: It's come to my attention that Carl gave one other television interview before his death. It was aired on ABC's Nightline on December 4th 1996. A short clip from that interview can be seen below. Please ask ABC to make the entire interview available.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_JX_-jaJOrU#t=79s

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[bishop8000]

@Edrafa10 Because we want so badly to believe in life after death, we need to reach in for added reserves of skepticism.

[bishop8000]

@Kamric68 "Pascal's wager debunked" <----search it.

[wingle007]

wow!!! Im giving half an hour to talk to Carl Sagan, one of the greatest thinking minds of recent times. What should I ask him about?........I know the loch ness monster!!!!

OMG The presenter is a a doofus !!! Carl Sagan you will always be awesome :)

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

@notilhenger i don't really hear him. it's just in my head..i'm not insane, i think

[notilhenger]

@equallyeasilyfuqyou lol wtf

[ThyrmBloodaxe]

@777Simsalabim sometimes people fail to differentiate between a literal unidentified flying object and an unidentified flying object from space with a grey alien inside. i think he was talking about the latter. surely there are unidentified aircrafts that later become identified.

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

my dad is still alive and sometimes i hear him call my name out of nowhere. bugs me out

[777Simsalabim]

@bishop8000

Carl Sagan surprised me in this interview.

I am his big fan but he shouldn’t mix astrology and superstitions with the subject of UFOs. It’s not a subject of believes. UFOs are real.

I October 2008 I saw a UFO for almost half-an-hour from 15-30 feet.

Before that I was a cautious skeptic. now I gather info about them on this channel.

[LAROUCHE777]

even if we have eternal lives, theres no way we can remember so, it is like dying, for some ppl dying is a new start

[LAROUCHE777]

We humans must finaly open our eyes and wake up about the world. We dont know what it is, why are we doing things we dont like when we could be living in harmony and enjoying every day at it is...Our common goal cannot be more fucking obvious. Lets work together and discover LIFE!

we are run by the governement.. work, physical apperence, materialism, indivudialsm...All this for nothing. As a group we must have a goal and a vision to go far, if we dont have a goal it will lead us to failure. WTF?

[Llukashipman]

@freedomland11 Truth is just the truth I've said the exact same statement yet i live across the globe from where your state of reality is based..we share one common force built on universal truth! What divides beings in this reality is the opposite of truth which is a main contributing factor behind mass ignorance..thank you for your existence you make my stay in this reality plain worthwhile knowing that there are beings with mental vision that project out of the box thought..be peace&love