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Carl Sagan - A Glorious Dawn
Other fans of Sagan will hopefully enjoy this as much as I.

YouTube - Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
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Other fans of Sagan will hopefully enjoy this as much as I.

YouTube - Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
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My thoughts exactly. Kinda makes me want to go out and get the Cosmos DVD box set. Haven't seen those in forever..
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My thoughts exactly. Kinda makes me want to go out and get the Cosmos DVD box set. Haven't seen those in forever..
I watched it when I was a kid, on PBS, when it first came out.

I think I'd like it much more now, especially since I can see that his speaking style is lucid, creative and breathtakingly insightful at times.
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Netflix has the complete collection you can watch instantly (in case your a member)
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My thoughts exactly. Kinda makes me want to go out and get the Cosmos DVD box set. Haven't seen those in forever..
http://www.hulu.com/cosmos

there you go buddy
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I watched it when I was a kid, on PBS, when it first came out.

I think I'd like it much more now, especially since I can see that his speaking style is lucid, creative and breathtakingly insightful at times.
I agree. The guy is almost poetic and the ideas he teaches are timeless, despite all the advances in science since.
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Netflix has the complete collection you can watch instantly (in case your a member)
I'm probably the last person in the world who's not.

Although you got me thinking and I just discovered the whole series is also available on Hulu. Looks like someones gonna be hooking the computer up to the HDTV this weekend...
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Hulu - Cosmos

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See my post above. You read my mind, sir.
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lol make sure to go out and buy some pot before you start
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I watched it when I was a kid, on PBS, when it first came out.

I think I'd like it much more now, especially since I can see that his speaking style is lucid, creative and breathtakingly insightful at times.
Yeah.
It was a shame he died so soon in his life.
I also remember watching it, and I was pretty young.
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lol make sure to go out and buy some pot before you start
I don't think Mr.Sagan would want it any other way.

BTW, Sagan's paper on marijuana:

Marijuana Uses - Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marijuana Uses
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More than I already have? Okie dokie!
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I don't think Mr.Sagan would want it any other way.

BTW, Sagan's paper on marijuana:

Marijuana Uses - Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marijuana Uses
that commie fuc...I KNEW there was a reason I didn't like him or his gay 'cosmos'....
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that commie fuc...I KNEW there was a reason I didn't like him or his gay 'cosmos'....


How could you not like a guy that does this?
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I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for. I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves. It was a point obvious in a way, but rarely talked about. I drew the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down. One idea led to another, and at the end of about an hour of extremely hard work I found I had written eleven short essays on a wide range of social, political, philosophical, and human biological topics. Because of problems of space, I can't go into the details of these essays, but from all external signs, such as public reactions and expert commentary, they seem to contain valid insights. I have used them in university commencement addresses, public lectures, and in my books.
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Great quote...

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Man's entire history, every king, every battle, every moment is contained in the last mili-second on the Cosmic calendar. And here we stand. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice. We can enhance life and come to know the universe that has made us, or we can squander our 15 billion year heritage in meaningless self destruction.
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