Carl Sagan Christmas Lectures 4: Mars before Viking - 1977

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @HughMartell
    @HughMartell 3 года назад +21

    If Dr. Sagan gave a class on basket weaving, I would happily attend.

    • @michaeltette7869
      @michaeltette7869 3 года назад +2

      Basket weaving is pretty awesome. I love the weaving of history and science is fantastic.

  • @Pit.Gutzmann
    @Pit.Gutzmann 8 лет назад +40

    What I admire most in Dr. Sagan's lectures is that he freely admits if we are not sure about a certain explanation of a feature on Mars. He stays very open-minded and that's exactly what a scientist dhould do. Don't assume - find out!

    • @FirstLast-fr4hb
      @FirstLast-fr4hb 6 лет назад +3

      Its why google is so shit now with it becoming full of main stream journalist with emotional "confirmation" of "facts". It would be a wonderful world of science if everyone followed this logic based thinking instead of believing what seems easier.

    • @ceciliateixeira5195
      @ceciliateixeira5195 6 лет назад +1

      he nows how to use what god gives him,, neurons

    • @thependragone
      @thependragone 5 лет назад

      @@ceciliateixeira5195 How many accounts do you use to comment religious shit ?

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 года назад

      "Don't assume - find out!"
      And yet Carl believed the creation of the universe happened without God. To Carl, it just began.
      ruclips.net/video/iDjwF_-ydcM/видео.html
      We have NO science for creation happening naturally. NONE. Carl did not care about finding out. He orgasmed being the dumbass he loved to be.

    • @5Andysalive
      @5Andysalive 4 года назад

      That is what scientists do. Only priests and conspiracy idiots "know the truth".

  •  3 года назад +10

    59:00, I wish, he would have seen Perseverance (and other rovers) landing and pictures of Mars, even the sound of winds.

  • @Squiffilect
    @Squiffilect Год назад +3

    I wish he could be around today to talk about what the findings of Perseverance show.

  • @sjp6839
    @sjp6839 2 года назад +4

    Carl sagan was such a good speaker, he could make talking about paint drying interesting. He was a true visionary

    • @terrondt
      @terrondt Год назад

      He breaks down complex subjects in a way that anybody can understand. I wish he was one of my professors in college!

  • @davidhand3376
    @davidhand3376 Год назад +2

    I am enjoying these lectures.
    Check out his comment about climate change. It starts around time stamp 42:51. And here we are.

  • @michaelexactly5741
    @michaelexactly5741 4 года назад +6

    And here we are now nearly half a century later ! And the Planet Mars has now been totally Terraformed into the paradise holiday destination we all know and love today .

    • @michaelexactly5741
      @michaelexactly5741 4 года назад +4

      @TheRenaissanceman65 One persons rubbish is another persons treasure !

  • @Halflife12no3
    @Halflife12no3 8 лет назад +31

    those kids are lucky :)

    • @Piapia650
      @Piapia650 7 лет назад +3

      I wonder how many of them got inspired by these lectures to go into science

    • @karinaandersen2618
      @karinaandersen2618 6 лет назад +2

      heck yeah I would have loved to be in any audience with Dr Carl Sagan

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 года назад

      Yeah, maybe those kids will be inspired to give word farts too, like...
      Carl Sagan "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
      Yet Carl was delusional thinking creation could happen without God.
      Carl Sagan, "The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before."
      Yet Carl never thought clearly about creation and what other miracles followed. Miracles don't happen naturally but they did to Carl who had NO proof they could happen naturally.
      Carl Sagan, "We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being."
      Yet Carl had myths miracles could happen naturally with NO proof they could.
      Those kids had a lying dumbass who cared nothing about truth.

  • @KayEl58
    @KayEl58 5 лет назад +12

    I remember being utterly transfixed watching these lectures as a teenager.

    • @Dillybar123
      @Dillybar123 4 года назад +4

      Me right now

    • @logandarklighter
      @logandarklighter 2 года назад

      Sorry for the late (2 yr gap) reply - but I was curious. Did they broadcast these on TV? Or were you actually there in the audience as a kid?

    • @KayEl58
      @KayEl58 2 года назад +1

      @@logandarklighter There was a live audience but I always watched them on TV. I don't think they went out live but they were broadcast just after Christmas during the school Christmas holiday.

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 4 года назад +3

    During the best of his days😪

  • @the1whofights434
    @the1whofights434 4 года назад +4

    What i would give for a chance to pick his brain what a badass

  • @davie-on8gh
    @davie-on8gh 6 лет назад +1

    all time fav lecture

  • @EdWeibe
    @EdWeibe 2 года назад

    Will be glad when we explore the caves of Mars. Hope its in my lifetime.

  • @christhescienceguy6285
    @christhescienceguy6285 4 года назад +1

    Omg I love this!

  • @LagmasterB
    @LagmasterB 4 месяца назад

    How happy would he have been to see Mars rovers

  • @EdWeibe
    @EdWeibe 2 года назад

    Space telescope Institute in Baltimore did thse kinds of lessons in early Hubble days. I know because I was there. We have sensors on the moon that detect hits, or at least we did. Not sure if they still function. I know new telescopes can see spectra of exoplanets to see atmosphere features but I wonder if one day we could just scan for crater count and know if there was weather there? I know it wouldn't tell us the kind of weather, but its a neat concept.

  • @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira
    @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira 6 лет назад +5

    stunning man he is, will always be

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 4 года назад +2

    I never knew cornell univ students were these youngs!🤣

    • @Ryan-on5on
      @Ryan-on5on Год назад

      Yes, the avg. Cornell matriculation age of 10 still remains the youngest in the U.S!

  • @dontquestionmyname5490
    @dontquestionmyname5490 7 лет назад +13

    who left a dislike?

  • @tonyhannibal1580
    @tonyhannibal1580 4 месяца назад

    Just imagine putting a lab coat on with Dr Sagan

  • @ratti80
    @ratti80 6 лет назад +1

    43:15 Climate change! Carl Sagan new in 1977!!!

    • @Jablicek
      @Jablicek 6 лет назад

      The theory of climate change goes back to at least the early 19thC and Joseph Fourrier (when discussing our current climate change).
      The concept that climates change over time is older than that.

    • @ratti80
      @ratti80 6 лет назад

      Jablička That’s true. But he knew that it will become a big problem. He had some concept of what we know call Antropocene!

    • @Jablicek
      @Jablicek 6 лет назад

      Well, that would probably have been Arrhenius, who postulated that *we* were causing the planet to warm is the very late 19th C.
      None of this is new, but it does take time to gather and collate data, especially if you're asking weather stations across the world to send you their readings and then having to chart them.
      The UK's MetOffice has weather data from Oxford going back to 1853, viewable here: www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/oxforddata.txt
      The England and Wales Precipitation series goes back to 1766: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/monthly/HadEWP_monthly_qc.txt
      The Central England Temperature series is a standardised instrument record dating back to 1659, and you can view it here: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat
      They're nicely laid out on these pages, but the CET dataset took Prof. Gordon Manley over 30 years to compile; a task he continued even after his retirement from the Met Office and that was still incomplete at the time of his death. Others have assumed the role since 1980 - and Prof. Manley got so close to his own time, his compilation reached 1973, before he died in 1980. It's a truly great work!

    • @ratti80
      @ratti80 6 лет назад +1

      J Davis Autocorrection! No need to insult!

    • @ratti80
      @ratti80 6 лет назад

      Alex G It is a big problem! Learn to understand facts and statistic! You can find the raw data online!
      And, as I have written above, it was autocorrection. Learn to read idiot!

  • @PrimumGenus
    @PrimumGenus Год назад

    damn, even covid19 spreading backwards in time to 1977.

  • @VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt
    @VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt 3 года назад

    i think noone watching this great lectures today except e.... because people dont have time instead foolish things..
    im now 24 years old.... YOUTH of today totally distracted

  • @mrgrumpy888
    @mrgrumpy888 3 года назад

    Lucky kids...

  • @shafiulismam5334
    @shafiulismam5334 4 года назад

  • @johnratcliffe6191
    @johnratcliffe6191 4 года назад

    MR NOBODY'S PRINCESS
    THATS THE COILEST....WHAT THE SHIT???
    YOU WANNA TRADE NAME'S?

  • @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira
    @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira 8 лет назад +1

    Not taking pils.and stoping smoking.want ❤ 3much💘

  • @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira
    @CeciliaAbreuTeixeira 8 лет назад

    want 3 much

  • @vinceherried497
    @vinceherried497 8 лет назад

    He talks so slowly it puts me to sleep, why I hated the cosmos TV series snore

    • @ceciliateixeira5195
      @ceciliateixeira5195 6 лет назад +2

      yes , so you can andestend, not like it what u doing here then, not whatch but not say bad things

    • @grahambirdsall7733
      @grahambirdsall7733 6 лет назад +3

      Surprise,surprise nothing on your own channel Vince Herriedl! mmmm some sad people on social media.

    • @ceciliateixeira5195
      @ceciliateixeira5195 6 лет назад +2

      well why u whatch, then ,, go to sleep then

    • @ceciliateixeira5195
      @ceciliateixeira5195 5 лет назад +2

      he is talking, not singing, fast fowords, if you hated, why you whatch, u not have better thigs than saying bad things about the beauty of the cosmos

    • @ImmanuelGrayson
      @ImmanuelGrayson 5 лет назад

      ruclips.net/video/6_-jtyhAVTc/видео.html