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Carl Sagan's Cosmos On Science Channel, 25th Anniversary Rebroadcast
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post Sep 15 2005, 05:27 PM
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Here is the Science Channel Web site on the Cosmos rebroadcast:

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

I wonder how many people with cable TV actually get this channel yet?


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Sep 15 2005, 09:16 PM
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Carl Sagan Takes Questions

More From His ‘Wonder and Skepticism’ CSICOP 1994 Keynote

When Carl Sagan delivered his keynote address “Wonder and Skepticism” before a large audience at the CSICOP Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 23–26, 1994, a lively question-andanswer session followed. We published Sagan’s adaption of his talk as the cover article in the first bimonthly, magazine-format issue of the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, January/February 1995. (We republished it after Sagan’s December 1996 death as the lead chapter in the last of four general SI anthologies I edited, Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, Prometheus 1998, with my two-page epilogue.)

The Q/A session had been transcribed at the time along with the talk but put away and never published. A few months ago it was relocated, and Carl’s wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan, readily agreed that it should be published in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. It appears here, with omission of only a few nonsubstantive exchanges.

If some of the specifics discussed seem dated, others are as topical as today’s news. And the general themes remain current. We then publish on page 37 a passionately felt postscript, “The Great Turning Away,” written specially for this issue by Ann Druyan. —KENDRICK FRAZIER, Editor

http://www.csicop.org/si/2005-07/sagan.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Sep 16 2005, 12:44 AM
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from cosmos......................................the greeks during there golden age never fade away.there science leads to a 2500 year early industrial revolution and in our era the greeks are setting out for the stars.The greek place names for the celestial objects are real geographical places having been colonized hundreds of years ago.............................................................................
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post Sep 16 2005, 01:59 AM
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I've had the Science Channel for years, since it changed its name from the Discovery Science Channel. Definitely a must-have. A mix of various science-related shows from other Discovery networks, plus original programming, too. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for Cosmos. smile.gif
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post Sep 27 2005, 12:59 PM
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

COSMOS host Dr. Carl Sagan takes viewers to the edge of the universe aboard a
spaceship of the imagination. Through beautiful and accurate special effects,
we witness quasars, exploding galaxies, star clusters, supernovas and pulsars.


Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 10:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

One Voice In the Cosmic Fugue

Dr. Sagans Cosmic Calendar makes the history of the universe understandable.
The evolutionary process we see unfolding helps us understand how life developed
on Earth, and lets us speculate on what forms life might take elsewhere in the
Cosmos.


Science happens -- be there. Follow our correspondents traveling around the
globe on scientific adventures.
http://science.discovery.com/fansites/disc...esthisweek.html

To find more TV listings please go to:
http://www.discovery.com/tv/schedule/daymu...jsp?network=ANL

To see related stories please go to: http://www.discovery.com


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Sep 27 2005, 07:08 PM
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I've been doing a clear-out and have discovered that I have an audiotape of two of Carl Sagan's BBC Xmas Lectures from the Royal Institution in January 1978 - Mars before Viking, and The Exploration of Mars. It strikes me that these might be of interest to some of us, and so if anyone out there has the capability of turning the tapes into MP3 files then please let me know and I'll send you the original copy.


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post Sep 28 2005, 07:13 AM
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One clip to catch as the updated Cosmos airs:

In the episode on impact cratering, they have the super-8 <i assume> footage of the ?50? ?25? ?? meter diameter asteroid that entered the atmospher over New Mexico, made sonic booms over Montana from some 40? km altitude, and exited the atmosphere over the Canadian plains.

The guy who shot the film was on the east side of the lake by the Grand Teton mountains and got maybe 2/3 of the total pass from west-southwest to 45 deg high in he west to low in the north.

I was with a brother and 2 friends in Yellowstone at the time, did NOT see or hear about it till the next day.. but my bod was some 65 (guesstimaged) km from an asteroid that day.

oh.. and...
How many Carl Sagas does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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..........and billions biggrin.gif biggrin.gif rolleyes.gif
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post Sep 28 2005, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE (edstrick @ Sep 28 2005, 02:13 AM)
One clip to catch as the updated Cosmos airs:

In the episode on impact cratering, they have the super-8 <i assume> footage of the ?50? ?25? ?? meter diameter asteroid that entered the atmospher over New Mexico, made sonic booms over Montana from some 40? km altitude, and exited the atmosphere over the Canadian plains.

The guy who shot the film was on the east side of the lake by the Grand Teton mountains and got maybe 2/3 of the total pass from west-southwest to 45 deg high in he west to low in the north.

I was with a brother and 2 friends in Yellowstone at the time, did NOT see or hear about it till the next day.. but my bod was some 65 (guesstimaged) km from an asteroid that day.
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Here are some details on that famous bolide, which also makes the reports of UFOs seems even more bogus, as this meteor certainly did not announce its arrival in advance, yet it was captured on film by a US military satellite, filmed in the days before common public videocams, photographed, and witnessed by thousands of people, all in its short skip through Earth's atmosphere.

http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/1972.html

Plus, had it hit Earth, it would have exploded with more force that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

The 1972 bolide was also covered in an article in Sky & Telescope that had a two-page display of the film in multiple frames. The exact issue is listed in the article above.


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Sep 29 2005, 07:15 AM
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EXCELLENT link.. My recollections were off the top of my head, mostly the SkyTel article and Cosmos.

I'd love to know to within a few km how close it got to the Old Faithful area, which was the part of Yellowstone I was in when I didn't see it.
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post Oct 4 2005, 11:23 AM
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Harmony of the Worlds

A look at Johannes Kepler, the last scientific astrologer, the first modern astronomer, and the author of the first science fiction novel. Kepler provided insight into how the moon and the planets move in their orbits and how we might journey to them.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Oct 11 2005, 02:40 PM
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Heaven and Hell

A descent through the hellish atmosphere of Venus to explore its broiling
surface serves as a warning for our world about the possible consequences of the
increasing greenhouse effect. Dr. Sagan also leads viewers on a tour of the
Solar System.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Oct 18 2005, 01:40 PM
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Blues for a Red Planet

Dr. Sagan takes viewers on a tour of the red planet through the eyes of science
fiction authors and then through the unblinking eyes of two Viking spacecraft
that have sent thousands of pictures of the stunning Martian landscape back to
Earth since 1976.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Oct 25 2005, 01:32 PM
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Travellers' Tales

The exhilaration of 17th century Dutch explorers who ventured in sailing ships
halfway around our planet in their quest for wealth and knowledge is compared to
an inside view of the excitement of Voyagers expeditions to Jupiter and Saturn.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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