God I love him. For me it is definitely a light-minded individual concerning the cosmos. Most especially the consolation aspect of this lesson. Amazing how glued I am to every minute. Miss you Carl.
My father told me once he used to watch Cosmos on aired television in a time when those type of programs were the norm. Here in Argentina a magazine named "Muy Interesante" were one of such where you would find all kinds of themes on Science; he collected those from 1980 to 2010 more or less. Thanks to these two boosters of knowledge, eventually he bought the Cosmos book that was not even cheap at that time. Once or twice he named Sagan as a great astronomer but I never really knew him by books nor by TV shows (obvious though I wasn't even born)..... until many, many years later at the age of 12 or 13 I discovered the Cosmos on a shelve of ou house's library and look at the cover and thought "what is this book?" and I got kept in the spell while looking at the pages inside. Later that year I read The Cosmic Connection and fell in love. Having discovered the thumbnails of these lectures of Ri today it means pure gold to me. 🤩
Wow!...a real blast from the past, thank you!. Carl Sagan is one of my all time great intellectual mentors who captivated me as a curious kid back in the day. I loved his 'Cosmos' series so much that i bought the book with several weeks of saved up pocket money, and escaped to the edges of the Universe during long dark winter nights...it is a cherished memory of mine to this day.
I actually skipped several school-classes just to watch his show, as it was broadcast during my school-hours back in the 80s. Must have been 8th or 9th grade, or there abouts. He was worth it :)
Carl was always on a different level than everyone else - he was special. We've still not seen anything like him in all these years, and we lost him almost 30 years ago. I watch Cosmos at least once a year, and I have the original hardback book. He certainly changed my life for the better - I think he changed many lives. To all the parents out there: please let your kids watch these 6 Carl Sagan Christmas lectures - let their minds wander in the wonder of the universe.
Jeez if he only knew how things have changed. Pluto, black holes, flat earthers, voyager leaving the solar system, spacex, etc. Thanks for releasing this, really pleased with the quality of the recording.
Yes! I've been hanging out for the RI to release high quality versions of Carl Sagan's Christmas Lectures! It's so nice to see it without VHS tracking issues and sound in proper sync. Thank you :)
I love his humility whenever he spoke and/or lectured and the fact that he didn’t necessarily contributed top a religion but a humble and learning life form of this universe. Class act.
By describing the Earth as a small, unimportant planet with a backward civilization, Carl Sagan was blowing up the egos of the people in the audience. The effect of this could be either nausea in the egotistical people who believe themselves to be very important or the intellectual estrangement that is an opening for the study, learning and development of science and philosophy. This is a guy at the top of the short list of Americans I admire.
Thankyou Royal Institution. I remember watching these exact lectures as a young boy and they sparked an interest in the universe that has lasted me a lifetime. Bless you.
Well, he didn't die (or become blind) after these lectures; he lived another 19 years, and continued to be involved with the Voyager programme. And there wasn't much for the probes to see after the 90s (just some solar wind measurements).
I never knew he spoke at the Royal Institution. It was great to watch him. My dad and I loved to watch him on public television. If anyone has not seen it yet, you should see the COSMOS series that Carl Sagan did. He talks about the earth, evolution, the solar system and the universe. Makes you think about the world as a whole, not divided.🔆🔅🔆🔅🔆
A truly great informed person, doing his best to teach us, a gift to mankind, thanks for the upload, my parents made me and my brother watch Cosmos and The World About Us, awesome series !
@@charleshendry5978 yes, there are definitely a lot more. Honorary mention to Prof. Harald Lesch, the german Carl Sagan. And Sagan is the main reason that scientists explaining things to the public aren't facing the same snobism from their colleagues, that Sagan was facing.
@@5Andysalive - Thousand of people were "inspired by Sagan", but that doesn't mean they're even in the same league. Tyson's "Cosmos" was to the original what Jar-Jar Binks was to Empire Strikes Back.
Knowledge and curiosity were his greatest gifts that live on in his absence, gone but not forgotten. I wish we had a modern day equal, and that he could have witnessed the success of events like the OSIRIS-REx project.
In answer to the "dinner with any historical figure" question, my answer is always Carl Sagan, and Rod Serling. Both humanists and wonderful communicator.
How come I had to find these lectures by accident? How come no one ever tells us about the wealth of information available online once you finally decide to step away from all social media?
Carl Sagan always was my hero. What would he have had to say that Pluto is not a planet anymore? (A decision I fully support, otherwise we would have hundreds of planets.)
“For some reason, the earth is into squares.” - Carl Sagan. 🤣❤❤❤ So, we need telescopes to have a resolution of 100 m to see if other planets are “into” squares. Got it!
Those kids obviously came from good educated homes. I was about their age back in 77 and was nowhere in the vicinity of this cutting edge science for the time. It was more about survival for me considering the background I came from.
3:08 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (middle) sitting next to Prince Edward (right as we look) and Prince Andrew (left), members of the British Royal Family
I'd say the original Cosmos (despite a lot of information in it being outdated now) is, maybe on par with MythBusters, the most important long-running TV science show ever made. No time wasted with crackpot or supernatural theories (like every show seems to feel the need to include nowadays - either as clickbait or as a way to appease those nutters), just a straight-to-the-point scientific approach with carefully selected and highly polished language, able to convey a sense of scale and wonder without being manipulative or misleading.
Nicely orchestrated demonstration of planets movements, though it is just a tiny summit of the immense iceberg called planet science. I imagine Carl Saga is gained tonns of laurels, both showing melody of cosmos to bystanders and profoundly inspecting astronomy internally, dedicated colossal efforts to unfold skies and promote love for stars thus required special place in the hall of fame. Kudos both to RI and legendary savant.
to think that this predates all of Voyagers journey... It must just have launched. And yet there are suspicions of the Kuiper Belt already. But in the wrong place. I wonder why they thought there might be some between Saturn and Uranus.
77-24 Who are these people, maybe some ethnologist is going crazy on audience research 😂. Shakuhachi Japanese tune and No 🚸 going crazy some children are so crazy sitting alone just for science I don't think so might be some dinner snacks after lecture like in India we and my friends and camera man under 40 we were 20 😂 Definitely some poetic justice when small hall filled with old poetry lover jamming on Gujarati, Hindi, Sindhi & Konkani read in 2023, see I'm making comedy because this hasn't even replicated even 10% on infrastructure and 1% knowledge in Indian Science Planetarium which are used as attendance marking machinery for regional newspapers headlines of Science museum made from over budget money and Soon Religious lesson will be taught officially well they are now too but as a bit hint not openly ₹ 100 crores doesn't look good in middle of no man's land 😂 this museum like a picnic in swamp with nothing around the building that's what my city science centre looks like the bigger one, smaller one are like you can hurl chats to neighbour in nearby balcony making chapathi in middle of residential society 😂. 5:30 good we wasn't expelled doing political jargon would have looked dramatic with random flutes playing in background 😂. 7:42 This 📸 is creating fiction now to block tear glands. 10:00 Definitely They Don't Speak the Pale Blue Language 😂 too much Neghative energies 😂 the nationalist ideals talk some salt, 18:40 Definitely sarcasm, 22:20 good flat earthers agree on this empirical VISION😅.
Always a pleasure to watch Sagan. It's just a shame he felt obliged to frequently denigrate our planet and our species as "insignificant", "backward" and "debris" among many other insults. At the time, it probably seemed intellectually fashionable to be above it all. "Woe are we! Trapped here in the muck and boredom of pitiable Earth! There are much more interesting blobs of matter out there...far from here." In retrospect, it leaves a stain of decadent cynicism on his legacy. You'd think he was smart enough to see past the smallness of it. But, I guess not.
It's such a treat to hear him speak.
Thank you so much for uploading this to your channel!
God I love him. For me it is definitely a light-minded individual concerning the cosmos. Most especially the consolation aspect of this lesson. Amazing how glued I am to every minute. Miss you Carl.
My father told me once he used to watch Cosmos on aired television in a time when those type of programs were the norm. Here in Argentina a magazine named "Muy Interesante" were one of such where you would find all kinds of themes on Science; he collected those from 1980 to 2010 more or less. Thanks to these two boosters of knowledge, eventually he bought the Cosmos book that was not even cheap at that time. Once or twice he named Sagan as a great astronomer but I never really knew him by books nor by TV shows (obvious though I wasn't even born)..... until many, many years later at the age of 12 or 13 I discovered the Cosmos on a shelve of ou house's library and look at the cover and thought "what is this book?" and I got kept in the spell while looking at the pages inside. Later that year I read The Cosmic Connection and fell in love. Having discovered the thumbnails of these lectures of Ri today it means pure gold to me. 🤩
Wow!...a real blast from the past, thank you!. Carl Sagan is one of my all time great intellectual mentors who captivated me as a curious kid back in the day. I loved his 'Cosmos' series so much that i bought the book with several weeks of saved up pocket money, and escaped to the edges of the Universe during long dark winter nights...it is a cherished memory of mine to this day.
I actually skipped several school-classes just to watch his show, as it was broadcast during my school-hours back in the 80s. Must have been 8th or 9th grade, or there abouts. He was worth it :)
@@JELmusic I was lucky in the UK as it aired over the xmas break....truly inspirational!
Wow! Just Wow 🤩! Dr. Sagan stimulated my curiosity as a child and still does now as an old man. 🙏
Carl was always on a different level than everyone else - he was special. We've still not seen anything like him in all these years, and we lost him almost 30 years ago. I watch Cosmos at least once a year, and I have the original hardback book. He certainly changed my life for the better - I think he changed many lives. To all the parents out there: please let your kids watch these 6 Carl Sagan Christmas lectures - let their minds wander in the wonder of the universe.
Same here. Big fan. This was a time that the Xmas lectures were top-notch and they will be cherished forever.
Sagan and Feynman were the best science communicators imho.
@@somersettyke9726 They were certainly top-notch. I am also very fond of Richard Dawkins' Xmas lectures.
Jeez if he only knew how things have changed. Pluto, black holes, flat earthers, voyager leaving the solar system, spacex, etc. Thanks for releasing this, really pleased with the quality of the recording.
Yes! I've been hanging out for the RI to release high quality versions of Carl Sagan's Christmas Lectures! It's so nice to see it without VHS tracking issues and sound in proper sync. Thank you :)
🎉 What. A. Treat. Thanks RI! So glad I fixed my membership up again and discovered this was just released.
We hope you enjoy watching these amazing lectures!
@@TheRoyalInstitution So nice of you good folks to put these up officially! 🌏🌍🌎👍📡📡📡
I wish Carl Sagan had called me an excellent Earth person!
Thanks RI for uploading!
I love his humility whenever he spoke and/or lectured and the fact that he didn’t necessarily contributed top a religion but a humble and learning life form of this universe. Class act.
By describing the Earth as a small, unimportant planet with a backward civilization, Carl Sagan was blowing up the egos of the people in the audience. The effect of this could be either nausea in the egotistical people who believe themselves to be very important or the intellectual estrangement that is an opening for the study, learning and development of science and philosophy. This is a guy at the top of the short list of Americans I admire.
I will forever be indebted to Sagan, for opening the real world of wonder and releasing me from the demon haunted fantasy
Thankyou Royal Institution. I remember watching these exact lectures as a young boy and they sparked an interest in the universe that has lasted me a lifetime. Bless you.
I’m quite sure I won’t be the only one to say Bravo to all things Sagan. ❤
If only Dr. Sagan could've seen how the Voyager probes would surpass everyone's wildest expectations!
Wait till aliens found voyager.
They are both working as we speak, which is astonishing, 45 years after launch.
He did. It was on his request that Voyager 1 turned around and took the pale blue dot photo in 1990.
I would recommend playing gta san andreas
Well, he didn't die (or become blind) after these lectures; he lived another 19 years, and continued to be involved with the Voyager programme. And there wasn't much for the probes to see after the 90s (just some solar wind measurements).
"In lecture 6, we will be making an apple pie from scratch. It will take 14 billion years."
"BOoooooo-whooooOP!!"
Jeff Goldblum could play Carl Sagan in a biopic, especially with their “uhhs” and “umms” lol
That's an interesting idea!
Great to see this remastered 🎖
Ah lads! This channel is an absolute treasure.
After the recent meteor shower, the nephew is a budding astronomer. Can't wait to pass this legend on.
AWSOME SCIENCE !!!
Thank you for sharing this with us
Thrilling to hear him talking about voyager in the future tense
Wow, great thanks to the Royal Institution for publishing these superb lectures here on RUclips. Carl`s contibutions are outstanding.
I never knew he spoke at the Royal Institution. It was great to watch him. My dad and I loved to watch him on public television. If anyone has not seen it yet, you should see the COSMOS series that Carl Sagan did. He talks about the earth, evolution, the solar system and the universe. Makes you think about the world as a whole, not divided.🔆🔅🔆🔅🔆
This man was so good.
A truly great informed person, doing his best to teach us, a gift to mankind, thanks for the upload, my parents made me and my brother watch Cosmos and The World About Us, awesome series !
This is a wonderful lecture. I greatly enjoyed his diction as well.
Splendid! Thanks a ton for uploading this video!.. Indeed a treat to hear words of wisdom from Carl Segan!
2:38 He is talking about 2060 Chiron. Now classified as one of "centaurs"; which are not a hoard.
Carl Sagan on a bad day still trumps today's science ambassadors
nah, rose tinted glasses off, Cox Nye or DGT are ok. And all inspired by Sagan.
Richard Dawkins?
@@charleshendry5978 yes, there are definitely a lot more. Honorary mention to Prof. Harald Lesch, the german Carl Sagan.
And Sagan is the main reason that scientists explaining things to the public aren't facing the same snobism from their colleagues, that Sagan was facing.
Tibees check her out softly spoken and so clear.
@@5Andysalive - Thousand of people were "inspired by Sagan", but that doesn't mean they're even in the same league. Tyson's "Cosmos" was to the original what Jar-Jar Binks was to Empire Strikes Back.
Knowledge and curiosity were his greatest gifts that live on in his absence, gone but not forgotten. I wish we had a modern day equal, and that he could have witnessed the success of events like the OSIRIS-REx project.
An exceptionally talented man.
A master at work. Simplification of science and clarity of communication just came so easily to Carl. What a loss to the world he was and still is.
In answer to the "dinner with any historical figure" question, my answer is always Carl Sagan, and Rod Serling. Both humanists and wonderful communicator.
4:05 A suspension of disbelief bridge.
A Most unique Human Being 🙏
Would love to know if any of the attendees on the day are rewatching this now😁
How come I had to find these lectures by accident? How come no one ever tells us about the wealth of information available online once you finally decide to step away from all social media?
There are billions and billions of stars in the universe.
Carl Sagan always was my hero. What would he have had to say that Pluto is not a planet anymore? (A decision I fully support, otherwise we would have hundreds of planets.)
Brilliant
Wonderful stuff. I wish he could present an update today.
A humble genius greatly missed. If only he could see how far technology has advanced and the outstanding voyager programmes success.
Carl Sagan was everyones hero when it came to space stuff
Which muppets thought that the Japanese noise would add anything over Carl Sagans mellifluous voice
I would like to have a coffee & cake moment with one of these kids whose life was significantly influenced by these lectures...
Pluto is a planet! Carl Sagan has spoken. End of discussion 😁
Great.
“For some reason, the earth is into squares.” - Carl Sagan. 🤣❤❤❤ So, we need telescopes to have a resolution of 100 m to see if other planets are “into” squares. Got it!
awesome
Carl has some gravity to him 😍
Those kids obviously came from good educated homes. I was about their age back in 77 and was nowhere in the vicinity of this cutting edge science for the time. It was more about survival for me considering the background I came from.
🟦🔴🟦 THANKS TO CARL SAGAN AND HIS CHRISTMAS LECTURE SESSION AT ROYAL INSTITUTION !🟦🔴🟦
3:08 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (middle) sitting next to Prince Edward (right as we look) and Prince Andrew (left), members of the British Royal Family
I'd say the original Cosmos (despite a lot of information in it being outdated now) is, maybe on par with MythBusters, the most important long-running TV science show ever made. No time wasted with crackpot or supernatural theories (like every show seems to feel the need to include nowadays - either as clickbait or as a way to appease those nutters), just a straight-to-the-point scientific approach with carefully selected and highly polished language, able to convey a sense of scale and wonder without being manipulative or misleading.
Nicely orchestrated demonstration of planets movements, though it is just a tiny summit of the immense iceberg called planet science. I imagine Carl Saga is gained tonns of laurels, both showing melody of cosmos to bystanders and profoundly inspecting astronomy internally, dedicated colossal efforts to unfold skies and promote love for stars thus required special place in the hall of fame. Kudos both to RI and legendary savant.
Wild to think this is pre-voyager
This was 5 months after Voyager 2 was launched.
Wow❤
I bet carl was blown away when voyager did go past Jupiter🎉🎉🎉🎉
Somewhere something an incredible is waiting to be known.
The title says "earth" (common noun, which refers to the material or terrain type), but it should say "Earth" (proper noun, referring to the planet).
It's 2024 and we already know the world is a country. Let the ignorance of the past stay in the past please, thank you. 🙏🏻
The good old days when Pluto was still a planet.
3:10 Wondering if that's Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, together with Prince Edward, now Duke of Edinburgh, sitting in the front row?
Thats just your opinion, I like it.
And its "Torture", not "torcher"
CARL SAGAN SHOULD HAVE DONE THE NARRATION FOR THE BBC CHILDREN'S TV SERIES 'THE CLANGER'S' ! ! ! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
CARL SAGAN, "SCIENCE IS A SELF-CORRECTING MECHANISM" THAT'S JUST A SMART WAY OF SAYING, "I REALLY DON'T KNOW ! ! !"🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Where can i find the other 5?
They’re available to watch now for our RUclips members, and we’re going to be making them public one a day over the next week.
Mr. Anderson
I demoted Pluto myself personally in the mid 90's I thought it was too small to be a planet
Carl Sagan co0hosted the PBS Science special, "The Violent Universe" in 1969.
IT'S A SHAME THAT THE TWO VOYAGER SPACECRAFT DIDN'T FIND THE HOMEWORLD OF 'THE CLANGER'S' ! ! ! ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I just realized ... sagan ... has a ... similar ... speaking cadence ... to william ... shatner.
And both went boldly where very few had gone before...
to think that this predates all of Voyagers journey... It must just have launched.
And yet there are suspicions of the Kuiper Belt already. But in the wrong place. I wonder why they thought there might be some between Saturn and Uranus.
This lecture took place in December, Voyager 2 launched the previous August. It would be another 17 months before it reached Jupiter.
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Are Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and the Duke of Kent sitting on the front row?
30km is 98,000 feet not 80,000 ft. Not sure how I knew he was wrong.
PROF CARL SAGAN MUST KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE HE HAS GOT LETTERS AFTER HIS NAME, RIGHT? WRONG ! ! !🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
He pronounces Uranus wrong 🤦♂️
Johan might have weather issues with drone. Izak Finnbogason was on live and his drone was drifting in the wind.
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Beyond the imaginary curve takes care of all this .
No they don't. They are just flerf idiots.
Flat earthers are the dumbest people who have ever lived.
77-24 Who are these people, maybe some ethnologist is going crazy on audience research 😂. Shakuhachi Japanese tune and No 🚸 going crazy some children are so crazy sitting alone just for science I don't think so might be some dinner snacks after lecture like in India we and my friends and camera man under 40 we were 20 😂 Definitely some poetic justice when small hall filled with old poetry lover jamming on Gujarati, Hindi, Sindhi & Konkani read in 2023, see I'm making comedy because this hasn't even replicated even 10% on infrastructure and 1% knowledge in Indian Science Planetarium which are used as attendance marking machinery for regional newspapers headlines of Science museum made from over budget money and Soon Religious lesson will be taught officially well they are now too but as a bit hint not openly ₹ 100 crores doesn't look good in middle of no man's land 😂 this museum like a picnic in swamp with nothing around the building that's what my city science centre looks like the bigger one, smaller one are like you can hurl chats to neighbour in nearby balcony making chapathi in middle of residential society 😂. 5:30 good we wasn't expelled doing political jargon would have looked dramatic with random flutes playing in background 😂. 7:42 This 📸 is creating fiction now to block tear glands. 10:00 Definitely They Don't Speak the Pale Blue Language 😂 too much Neghative energies 😂 the nationalist ideals talk some salt, 18:40 Definitely sarcasm, 22:20 good flat earthers agree on this empirical VISION😅.
Children's Mind Kontrol
"The Earth"? I thought our planet's name was "Earth" or is he meaning the dirt earth? ah, American.
The Earth specifies the planet as opposed to a handful of dirt.
What is with the FRACTURED speech???? Robotic or what?!
Always a pleasure to watch Sagan. It's just a shame he felt obliged to frequently denigrate our planet and our species as "insignificant", "backward" and "debris" among many other insults. At the time, it probably seemed intellectually fashionable to be above it all. "Woe are we! Trapped here in the muck and boredom of pitiable Earth! There are much more interesting blobs of matter out there...far from here."
In retrospect, it leaves a stain of decadent cynicism on his legacy. You'd think he was smart enough to see past the smallness of it. But, I guess not.
ASURBANIPAL
I hope someone finds a way to delete/erase that horrible Japanese flute torcher. otherwise it's a great lecture from the master.
Wish they had done away with that "music". Too annoying.
Mr. Anderson