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Cosmos - Carl Sagan (Watch For Free!)

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Freshmaker said:
Ah. Just netcoppin a taste. :lol
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what does that mean?

edit: btw, i just started watching this series. i love this guy's voice and when he gets all philosophical.
 
bigben85 said:
finished watching it all. Incredible series!
Does anyone know if we have found out since then that the universe is expanding indefinitely, is going to contract, or is going to stop and stabilize itself?
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The current understanding is that with all the dark energy/dark matter in the universe, and the rate it's going it, it will not stop expanding. It's most likely it will expand forever until everything freezes or rips apart. It will probably not collapse on itself, I think they are almost certain of that.. but I really really do like the idea of the "oscillating universe" anyways. It just seems like a really cool thing to contemplate - but it's probably not true.
 
Extollere said:
The current understanding is that with all the dark energy/dark matter in the universe, and the rate it's going it, it will not stop expanding. It's most likely it will expand forever until everything freezes or rips apart. It will probably not collapse on itself, I think they are almost certain of that.. but I really really do like the idea of the "oscillating universe" anyways. It just seems like a really cool thing to contemplate - but it's probably not true.
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Yea it is probably because then we would have something that we can sort hang on to and have a "stable" universe to explore and stuff. Thanks for the info.
 
bigben85 said:
Yea it is probably because then we would have something that we can sort hang on to and have a "stable" universe to explore and stuff. Thanks for the info.
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:lol Wellll.... actually the "oscillating universe" has an infinite number of big-bangs, and big-crunches (where everything collapses into a singularity after expanding as far as it can. The idea is that this would produce a "bounce" and the universe would expand again. If time, space, and all matter condense into a singular space smaller than an atom (before making a new big bang) there would be no piece of history, no smidgen, or trace of anything that ever was before it. Nothing would slip through from one Universe to the next. So it's not really "stable" or something we can hold on to. Everything humanity achieved would become lost every single time.. Just think of that shitty Linkin Park song.

I like it because it suggests that there were an infinite amount of universes before ours, and that ours is just the current formation from the most recent big-bang, and that after the crunch the cycle will start again and continue forever. It's a really intriguing idea, but sadly not true. This universe will die slowly and probably never reform or renew.

There are a lot of other theories too though. I like the brane-theory, and the idea of multiple universes and 11 dimensions. There is still a lot of fascination to be had and mystery to discover.

...I hope we don't kill ourselves.. :(
 
weird.

so i'd never watched cosmos before today and decided to start doing it while i'm working, and i realized there's a section of sound in the first episode around 13:30 into it, where it was very similar to Alan Silvestri's work in the movie Contact in the actual contact sequence. Now it sounds like an homage.

awesome.
 
seat said:
This is great, but a shame about the annoying commercial interruptions.
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IIRC, you can choose an option to watch a longer commercial up front, and then the rest of the show without interruption.
 
soco said:
weird.

so i'd never watched cosmos before today and decided to start doing it while i'm working, and i realized there's a section of sound in the first episode around 13:30 into it, where it was very similar to Alan Silvestri's work in the movie Contact in the actual contact sequence. Now it sounds like an homage.

awesome.
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Just in case you didn't know, Carl Sagan wrote the novel Contact and helped develop the movie before he died.
 
Actually I got the boxset from my university's library this last Tuesday. So far I've just seen the first episode but as soon as I finish this post I'm going to pop the second DVD.

There's something magical about Carl. He can explain everything in such detail and in a friendly manner... Truly, one of the greatest minds of our time.
 
Crateman said:
Actually I got the boxset from my university's library this last Tuesday. So far I've just seen the first episode but as soon as I finish this post I'm going to pop the second DVD.

There's something magical about Carl. He can explain everything in such detail and in a friendly manner... Truly, one of the greatest minds of our time.
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Wait until you see the third episode. If there's a better love song ever written about science, I haven't heard it. Also, a nice tribute to Kepler.
 
xelios said:
His voice kills it for me.

I remember this one where he was saying something like the Earth is like an apple pie...yeah.
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It's been three months and I still want to punch this person in the face.
 
Bruce Springsteen's "New York City Serenade" ends with the lyrics "He's singing" over and over.

"Singing" sounds just like "Sagan" if you say it in your head. It's my Sagan theme song.
 
Zeliard said:
It's been three months and I still want to punch this person in the face.
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Seriously.


Since we can't have Carl Sagan do the voice-overs for The Universe, do you think Mike Myers might fill in? He's the next closest *eessh* thhhinnnnnnguuuh
 
I want to thank you guys for bringing this series to my attention again. Like many of us, I watched this series in grade school in my science classes. While I enjoyed it then, watching it again now that I'm an adult is so much more rewarding. I love how Sagan emphasized the need for peace in this series, and how our understanding of the universe directly relates to it. In our choice to favor life or death, or course we should choose life!
 
Parallax Scroll said:
Man, I thought this was gonna be full of boring science shit. How wrong I was!
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Tell me about it. This show is like a punch to the face of awesomeness. So many amazing quotes as well.
 
Extollere said:
Tell me about it. This show is like a punch to the face of awesomeness. So many amazing quotes as well.
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Watching this, I think I have a better understanding of what people mean when they say they're "spiritual, but not religious." There's a - for lack of a better term - spiritual aspect to Cosmos that I find comforting and uplifting. And it's based on observable scientific phenomena instead of the writings in an old book or teachings of a man that we're told to blindly believe without asking questions.
 
I watched Cosmos during college, I soon became an atheist afterwards, and a big fan of Carl Sagan :D

And WTF at not liking Carl Sagan's voice! Does Not Compute.
 
Extollere said:
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc
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Awesome.

Although I've been atheist/agnostic most of my life, I've also suffered from major depression for most of that time, and one of my counselors suggested that a lack of spirituality and a belief in something "bigger than myself" could be part of the reason for that. I've tried going to church and reading the Bible for the last few months, hoping I could eventually learn to believe in God. But you know what? I like this better.
 
Everyone should watch this.


Naked Snake said:
I watched Cosmos during college, I soon became an atheist afterwards, and a big fan of Carl Sagan :D

And WTF at not liking Carl Sagan's voice! Does Not Compute.
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More like Agnostic rite?
 
Persona7 said:
More like Agnostic rite?
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Umm, I don't like to get into the technicalities of the differences between the meanings of agnostic and atheist. All I know is that I don't believe in any "God" or religion... Now whether the universe was created by some "higher power" or whatever, I don't completely rule out that possibility, but as far as I'm concerned it's totally inconsequential since that hypothetical creator never communicated with the human race or demanded anything.
 
Naked Snake said:
Umm, I don't like to get into the technicalities of the differences between the meanings of agnostic and atheist. All I know is that I don't believe in any "God" or religion... Now whether the universe was created by some "higher power" or whatever, I don't completely rule out that possibility, but as far as I'm concerned it's totally inconsequential since that hypothetical creator never communicated with the human race or demanded anything.
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You can be both. Atheists can also be agnostic about the existence of a god, while also choosing to not believe in any. They are sort of answers to two different questions.

Anyway - back to Cosmos being awesome!
 
I'm rewatching this whole series again and I love it. It's been years and years since I've seen it all.

I especially love the bits that describe how all elements are formed inside stars and supernovas. That we are "star stuff" No matter how many times I hear that, it never fails to impress me.
 
I have been watching this for the second time over the last week via Netflix Instant. I feel kinda sad being 30 and only just discovering the show about a year and a half ago. I wonder how I would be now if I had seen all this at a much younger age.

Sagan's enthusiasm and tone of the way he teaches just seems like he is really sharing something he loves to you. You can tell he had the utmost passion for what he did and it shows. It almost makes me tear up while watching thinking this great man died way earlier than he should have. This is such an amazing show, and I hope to watch it many times over for years to come.
 
Man, I saw the whole series and in the last episode "who represents earth", they show 10 years later version of Carl Sagan and he aged pretty badly. Must have contributed to his early death
 
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