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Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Excerpts from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in space. More specifically, from the chapter titled A universe Not Made For Us. I edited together the audio from the audio-book, and added the video from Stephen Hawking’s Into the Universe and Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Solar System. The music is Jack’s Theme from the Lost soundtrack.

I am overjoyed by the reaction to this video. To all those who have made such kind comments: thank you! It is a testament to Carl’s seemingly endless brilliance that he is still able to touch so many people over a decade since his death.

Watch this video with Spanish subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPLzUpHqHM
Watch this video with Portuguese subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W43wOBGueUI
Watch this video with Arabic subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWeNlZKhk4c
Watch this video with Russian subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvhImhF914

I do realize the subtitles are wildly inaccurate and somewhat offensive to some and for that I apologize. YouTube’s auto-transcribe function is still a work-in-progress, but I’ll see what I can do about adding my own subtitles.

If you enjoyed this video, read the magnificent book from which it originated: http://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278371196&sr=8-1

Also highly recommended, Billions and Billions: http://www.amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-Death-Brink-Millennium/dp/0345379187/ref=pd_sim_b_2

For those of you interested in my other work, here is a zombie movie that some friends and I put together in a couple of days (NSFW): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-pYx72kAI&feature=PlayList&p=67B53ADA0AC49FC1&index=0&playnext=1

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Welcome to the Universe – III: The Size of Things

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Part III: The Size of Things

In this episode, we take a brief trip through the Solar System and beyond to see the size of the Universe.

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Life in the Universe #1: Just on Earth, or Everywhere?

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

This is the first episode of a series on life in the universe. Looking for life in the universe isn’t like looking for your car keys. It’s hard to know where to even start. The best place to start is probably by NOT trying to find alien civilizations, but rather ANY kind of life we can.

The problem is, civilizations live and die in the blink of an eye compared to the lifecycles stars. They could come and go and we’d never know it.

Duration : 0:8:2

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What is the Universe Expanding Into?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

By popular space Fan request, I offer this video to help answer some of your questions regarding the expanding universe. Many of you consistently ask: If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?

This concept is non-trivial to try and explain in a 5 minute YT video, but I do my best. I hope this helps!

Thanks to all of you space fans for watching this channel, it means a lot to me.

Music from Kevin MacLeod:
http://incompetech.com

Duration : 0:5:48

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Horizon: Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? (Part 1 of 6)

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Horizon: Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? (2010)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6RjTgyLr0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5q8WVyNVI
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPDd3Umv06c
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-N4_zfGJI
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElbuzKrTkk
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rv9BqTWzI

Runtime: 00:58:56

There’s something very odd going on in space, something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a gigantic and invisible celestial vacuum cleaner.

Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery,’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find.’ The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies but threatens to overturn our current understanding of the birth and evolution of the universe.

Does dark flow herald a new era of cosmological understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?

Another brilliant documentary from the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ series.

Duration : 0:9:56

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Stephen Hawking’s Universe – EP1:Seeing Is Believing (1/ 5)

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.

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‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including “The Physics of Star Trek.”

Books by Lawrence Krauss:

http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-M.-Krauss/e/B000AP7AZS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

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The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

In 2003, the Hubble space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.