I'm 80 yrs old. I've followed Carl Sagan's career, read his books, gained much of my initial knowledge of the universe and been inspired by him. If he were alive today he would be 87 yrs old. If I could talk to him now I would tell him about Voyagers 1 and 2; tell him they have left our solar system and are now beginning to traverse our Milky Way. But, that's just the beginning of the adventure! Our sun and the earth will be gone and the Voyagers will spend several billion more years before they reach the end of our galaxy. Oh how I wish I could talk to him, to hear his thoughts about the universe and the momentary nature of our existence. I would gladly give the the rest of my life to have just a few hours of conversation with him. Oh hell, I'm greedy. Since I'm dreaming anyway, let me have that conversation when the Voyagers reach their destination. Hmmm. . . if they don't make it, let me know just before that happens. Ok, I'm done.
That's really inspiring sir I'm 20 yr old girl i recently know about Carl Sagan and it's one of the best thing happened with me i will look forward to his all the book available and extra things When I see people like u i feel inspired honestly saying buz where I live here people are not curious they don't wanna know anything new and try to avoid when I told them about our universe how big it is but anyway it's there choose but i wanna be like sir Sagan . ✨
Science unifys generation and fill the gaps between them. I am 22 and I met Carl about 3 years ago due to Neil. I can definitely put it that way that it was life-changing. I love he had existed and still influences generations after his death. He lives on withing us, Carl Sagan lives on.
Bravo, dear sir. I share your admiration for Carl Sagan and I believe that the world is a much better, kinder and curious place, because of the time he has traveled with us and innuendo he has so eloquently expressed. I sometimes feel genuine gratitude for him having existed. Have a good life.
Sagan was a genius for communicating science. He made his talks accessible and enjoyable for younger audiences, but he didn't hold back on the details.
Like all genius’s of their time CS is on top and the best teacher. He makes the listener to want more and ask questions!!! We all mis his one of a kind personality. CS spoke his mind on his observation that man is killing man. He spoke out on the subject of NASA lack of funding; makes every tax payer think about that problem of man kind!!!
I love that he mentions Galileo satellite, which launched the year I was born, in 1989, over a decade earlier. Shows how long it takes to develop these incredibly technically challenging space programs.
How much Humanity's knowledge has advanced since 1977! And our technology.Carl Sagan entertained and taught us without us being aware that we were being taught.
The Cassini mission has provided many more detailed images, and a library of data besides. As Carl Sagan once said, science is an intergenerational collaboration to explore, understand, explain and predict the cosmos. Sometimes there are giants involved, often there are ordinary people standing on their shoulders to see a little further.
I used to love these Christmas lectures every year 😭 lol Carl Sagan was of course a favourite of mine. While a more modern lecturer I enjoyed doing the lectures was Brian Cox.
So cool he rips on Christianity in a Christmas lecture. So clever. So cool he did it in front of children. Sorely missed. I’m crying. I wish he were my professor. Sorely missed.
Wow-although this talk was mainly for children, this geezer actually learned something! The Universe is mostly RED! I never really thought about that, but I suppose it's true. Here's what I don't think Carl actually said: The night sky looks almost entirely white when you look at it on a very dark night. But that's only because, at very low light levels, your eyes do not see color. Everything LOOKS white. But raise the levels to daytime values, and you would see it's almost all red. Yeah, the East is red. And so is the West, North, and South.
Where does the “sense” comes at all levels: Cosmic, Planetary, Micro or Nano. How come the two creatures displaced in time and space “affect” each other ?
I have NEVER seen any evidence of a whirling, twirling, hurling, hurtling, wibbling, wobbling, zipping and zooming, spinning space ball, "planet" earth and NEITHER HAVE YOU.
@@roberth721 We are told that the deepest anyone has ever drilled into the surface of the earth is roughly eleven kilometres (6.35 miles) down yet we are also told that the core of the earth is twenty nine hundred kilometres down. Earthquakes are measured with a seismograph up to a depth of only seven hundred kilometres. Ground penetrating radar can only reach a maximum depth of one hundred feet (or thirty meters) in dry, low conductivity, materials and that is in the best of conditions. It's usually much less. Try to find some evidence that verifies that the core of the earth is made of and doing what they tell us that it is made of and doing.
@@roberth721 How are they able to tell us what supposed planets and stars that are supposedly millions and billions of supposed light years away are composed of right down to their supposed cores?
@@roberth721 If you melt a magnet, it loses its magnetic properties. Try to find some evidence of molten metal (of any type) generating a magnetic field.
