We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.
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I own way too many videogames I haven't played and books I haven't read yet.
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My wife is awesome. This is at her work’s Thanksgiving lunch.
ME GUSTA
That thing better be made from scratch.
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Watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Hulu →
Well, I know what I’ll be doing at my folks’ house this Thanksgiving…
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Fox Orders 13-Episode Sequel To Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ for 2013 . . . Produced by Seth MacFarlane →
Wait, wait … it gets better … hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. They have been working with Carl Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan on producing this updated remake. In prime time, no less!
How will they fit in all the pop-culture cutaways, drunk dogs and naked fat guys into Carl’s writing?
Yeah I don’t know how this makes me feel.
Okay, what? Seth MacFarlane? Tyson and Sagan ftw, but I am NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT MACFARLANE. ;_;
AMIRITE?
Like… I feel strange, but also good.
Not a big fan of MacFarlane, but Carl Sagan + Neil deGrasse Tyson = Instant Load of Win.
I’m not a fan of MacFarlane at all, but hey, this is pretty neat. The fact that they’re going to re-air the original Cosmos in prime-time is the coolest factoid in this, though. Who’d have thought?
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What different cultures thought of the Big Dipper.
Medieval England - Farm plow
Ancient Chinese - The Eternal Bureaucrat riding in clouds
Northern Europeans - A cart
Ancient Greeks and Native Americans - A bear’s tail
Ancient Egyptians - A bull, reclining man, a hippopotamus with a crocodile on its back
Cosmos auto-reblog. (I still need to finish watching it).
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If the timeline of the universe were compressed into our calendar, everything humans have ever done would be within the last second of December 31st.
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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 made us or we can squander our 15 billion year heritage in meaningless self-destruction.
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean.
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people"
Carl Sagan (via atheos)
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“Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there’s a sucsession of incidence, events, occurences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidity we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissaince. But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.”
- Carl Sagan explains the immensity of space and time. This clip is from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos episode 8, “Journeys in Space and Time.”
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“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
I just watched my first episode of Cosmos since the summer (I know, I know). This man is one of my heroes. I can’t wait to finish it up soon—I’m really excited about the last few episodes, where he looks into the brain and into the future. He passed on way too soon.
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