carl sagan's cosmos autotuned

i like this

*drops acid*

That's fucking badass. I miss Sagan.

thought about making a thread for this last night but ended up just puttin it in the youtube thread... sooo good.

Mad love for carl

we need rationalists like sagan more now than ever

and his good friend james randi is at death's door too

damn shame that great minds like sagan and feynman left us so early.

one of the comments was spot on

heart of an explorer

soul of a poet

mind of a scientist

eyes of a child.

some kind soul uploaded LOADS of feynman to youtube about a month ago:

the inconceivable nature of nature

fire

this one BLOWS MY MIND. stored sunlight/heat, just... woah

an abstraction of a hydroelectric plant: bigger is electricity

electron pipes... yeah!

the train

feynman's last big project before he died was to do with a very simple engineering failure on the O-rings on the challenger

mirrors

why do mirrors seem to switch left and right, but not top and bottom?

there's loooads more on youtube too

no-one can explain things with such joy and enthusiasm and never-ending fascination and goddamn fucking wonder as feynman. a rare thing, a man who never stopped questing and exploring - he saw every question as merely the birth of another three! can you imagine what his lectures were like?

if i have a hero it's richard p feynman

something that some SA goons did (the original ended with ayn rand (horrible), then lil' jon (lol)was added and finally carl was added, cuz he's awesome.

  On 9/26/2009 at 1:29 AM, ieafs said:

just look at that little feller discovering fire

major lolage.

thanks for those vids kaini!

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why dogs smile and chimpanzees cry - a study of emotions in animals. narrated by sigourney 'get away from her you bitch!' weaver

this fucking destroyed me. i was literally in bits at the end. watch part 5 from 2:11-5:30 and tell me it isn't the most heartbreaking thing you've ever seen in your entire life :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_PR7vRwNso

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8-5wYOIP8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8W-kSYZLI8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2HbLKrolCA

this song has been stuck in my head all day. especially the apple pie line.

dude stop posting that dog smile chimp cry video its way too intense emotionally for me

  On 9/26/2009 at 10:34 PM, Hoodie said:

this song has been stuck in my head all day. especially the apple pie line.

me 2, exactly

lol i just knew this would get slashdotted

i took the plunge, nearly 9 gigs of cosmos on the way. i can't wait - while the book really fired my imagination at the age of 16, i've never seen the series.

cosmos is incredible and very idm. Its even got a song that boc sampled (aquarius)

There's so many books by Mr. Sagan, he's got a lot of material out there for those who miss him.

this video has had a very odd effect on me - i was familiar with a lot of stuff dr. sagan was involved with

but this led me to research a lot more... and it's weird - i now have a sort of vague sense of grief that he's gone... the same sort of vague sense of grief i have about richard feynman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

why couldn't this fool have used actual footage, not movie clips?

jesus wept.

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