Carl Sagan : Cosmos

[Eighteeteewhy]

I've been watching this series from the 80s over the past few weeks on YouTube. Wow, what a wonderful brilliant series it is. Ok, the parts in his 'spaceship' are a bit corny but the rest is really interesting.
Sad that Carl died relatively early he seemed a 'good guy'

Needs to be watched if only to hear the way he says yoomans.

I found this as well,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&fea...

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ETA...probably the best comment I've ever read on a YouTube vid,

"how am I only the 47125 viewer of this vid, it needs to be watched by every human being"

Edited by Eighteeteewhy on Wednesday 14th November 12:39

[Eric Mc]

He was a good guy - even if he helped kick start all the global warming nonsense.

[callyman]

I have also watched most of them (a personal journey series) on Youtube.
Enjoyed them so much I've bought them all on DVD.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/9730717/Cosmos/Prod...

[jmorgan]

Forgot about this, added to wish list. Rather the DVD myself but watching it cos I want to. I expect many on the planet have other worries that take precedence.

[Halmyre]

Sagan was a great communicator, although I remember when the series first came out that we would go around imitating his portentous delivery. He did the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures one year as well. Shame he died relatively young.

Apple's internal name for a MacOS release was going to be called 'Sagan'. Sagan heard about this and complained, not wanting it to be seen as a product endorsement, so the name was changed to 'BHA', which supposedly stood for Butt-Head Astronomer, at which point the lawyers really got involved...

[Eric Mc]

Sagan was also the name of a nototrious Gerrman prisoner of war camp - famously depicted in "The Great Escape".

So calling a product a "Sagan" may not have been that clever.

[Shaolin]

I bought the DVD box set a couple of years ago, last time I saw it was on the tv when I was about 17.

Little had really dated, I was a bit disappointed when Brian Cox's progs were less than an update of Cosmos.

The set is currently with my arty/linguist eldest son who hadn't heard about it and has been raving about it.

[Eric Mc]

It still stands up to scrutiny today. Some of the science has dated as the series is pre-Hubble and pre a lot of new developments in astronomy and physics.

The boxed set I have contains a sub-title option where more up to date thinking is shown as a sub-title at the relevant point in each programme. Having said that, even those sub-titled updates are showing their age now.

[Halmyre]

Eric Mc said:

Sagan was also the name of a nototrious Gerrman prisoner of war camp - famously depicted in "The Great Escape".

So calling a product a "Sagan" may not have been that clever.

Possibly, but I'd guess that 'Sagan' is more likely to bring to mind the astronomer rather than a POW camp. Or am I thinking that because I'm of a scientific bent?

[Eric Mc]

Well, I was aware of both - because I am interested in both.

He was right to have a go at Apple. Not everyone wants their name associated with someone else's business.

[MartG]

Excellent series - though I don't have it on DVD I do have the original VHS box set, which I dug out for my son to watch a couple of years ago. When he mentioned during an interview for university ( he wants to study physics ) he'd seen it, the interviewer seemed to take a real shine to him :-)

[LordGrover]

A little over twelve quid from amazon: click.

c. £1/hour

[DamienB]

Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World" is also well worth a read.

[TheHeretic]

Degrasse-Tyson is remaking Cosmos, and updating it. Can't see it being as good, as Tyson seems to suffer from ego a bit too much.

[APanda]

Anyone watched 'The Sagan Series' by Reid Gower?

A few nicely edited Youtube videos with Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot voiceover.

Worth a watch I think.

ETA link: http://youtu.be/oY59wZdCDo0

[TheHeretic]

Well, if we're going to have that sort of thing...

Symphony of Science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

Oh, and this is worth a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk

Edited by TheHeretic on Friday 16th November 14:37

[callyman]

LordGrover said:

A little over twelve quid from amazon: click.

c. £1/hour

£10.98 on Play

[TheHeretic]

callyman said:

£10.98 on Play

Free on YouTube, (or it used to be)

[uktrailmonster]

The Cosmos TV series and illustrated book really got me interested in science and the universe as a kid in the 80s. More recently I read one of Carl Sagan's later books, "Pale Blue Dot", which was a sequel to Cosmos. Both are beautifully written by somebody obviously passionate and knowledgeable about their subject and are very thought provoking in a positive way. I'd go as far as saying that Cosmos is my all-time favourite book and I'm gutted that I lent my original illustrated hardback to a work colleague some years ago and sadly never saw it again.

[TheHeretic]

Very much looking forward to this. Still, Neil just doesn't sound like Carl...

"Neil, say 'Human Beings'"
"Human beings"
"Hmmmm.... "