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Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)

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Uploaded by on Sep 17, 2009

MP3: http://www.symphonyofscience.com

My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.

RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!

This song is now out on 7" vinyl through Jack White and friends at Third Man Records! Check it out here:
http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/carlsagan.aspx

And is now available on iTunes as well (Search for A Glorious Dawn)

Please, click HQ to watch in better quality.

Go here for another scientist remix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/

Enjoy!!

-John
boswelj3@gmail.com


Lyrics:

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
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Watch Cosmos for free on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/cosmos

Carl Sagan's Mii Character #(for Wii):
6774-1898-8986

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  • It heartens me to see 60,000 likes and 700 some odd dislikes. Perhaps the world is not as doomed as the media would have me think, but rather, "the squeakiest wheel gets the grease." Spaghetti Monster bless Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and all the other advanced thinkers of our time. Whether alive or dead, you shall carry us to the Rising of the Milky Way.

  • carl sagan my inspiration even tho im only 12 :D

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  • @kylecpcs and furthermore, may we reject the commercial and discriminatory institutions brought on by fanatic fans of the invisible geriatric in the sky....

    (I'm going to get trolled for this)

  • We are the cosmos and way to know ourselves, we are the universe, we are all god, and all energy. we are one conscience. one love

  • @TheVerandaguy Hahahaha, oh scuse me, i haven't read the last magazine news in science!. What a fascinating discovery, the ke$ha's law, with that law we should be able to make a lot of easy money for the funding of science.

  • I now know why i drink excessively and do drugs more often then i should. Because an episode of jersey shore is seen more then the teaching of carl sagan. How can a species survive when such stupidity triumphs of reason and understanding? We are doomed, its only a matter of time. Our narcissistic ways will ultimately doom us.

  • I wish Mr. Sagan was still alive, he would work wonders with the newer theories of the universe.

  • @darkkirby3 Haha same here and im 15 xD

  • @LordSesshaku It's not a hypothesis. It's called Ke$ha's law. It states: any singer in the category of pop, hip-hop or rap, whose total monthly narcotics consumptions is superior to their weight on a body with the same mass as Sol, uses at least 90% auto-tune in any given song they produce.

    While the hypothesis is named after the renowned auto-tune user and multi-drug addict, she's much to high to postulate it at any given time. It was conceived by a team of "crack" researchers at UC Berkeley.

  • what up with people putting _ in their comments? what a bunch of faggots

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