This song changed the trajectory of my life: after being disillusioned with musical theatre and losing a bit of myself, I saw this over 10 years ago. I read everything I could from Sagan, and others, and decided that I wanted to study astrophysics. I’ve earned my PhD now, have been published in scientific journals, and work to bring the inspiration that this brought me to others. I thank you, profoundly.
Congratulations! It got me a bit emotional reading this. Thanks for sharing. How can I find your publications? I once wanted to be an astrophysicist myself. Studied a lot into the subject, but my field is computer engineering and neuroscience instead. I'll always love astronomy and physics with a passion of course. Really wishing you the absolute best in your journey ahead, let's keep pushing science forward.
melodysheep I'll be honest, I always find myself coming back to this video on days like this, or the anniversary of Dr. Sagan's death, and it always makes it a little bit better to come here and see you leave a comment on this video. Thank you, Melodysheep, for making my favorite song of all time.
Just as there is something fitting to Stephen Hawking passing away on Pi Day, there is something fitting to listen to this song now, to feel some little sense of how vast and wonderful he found the universe
The Carl Sagan parts make me cry, it's like everything he said was deeply philosophical and beautiful and moving. Rest in peace, your heart was made of starstuff
I'm biased I guess because I've lived in part of his lifetime, but I would want Carl to speak for humankind to other species. He's the perfect mix of intelligence, passion, and benevolence. I miss him, and I wish I could listen to him speak on current day issues.
Ha! Now that I think about it, music and science exist as my two favourite things too! ....Oh...well I also really REALLY enjoy old sci-fi and classic (particularly Hammer) horror films...and methadone...that's really more of a necessity than a "favourite thing" though....and food!! Good heavens, I forgot food! Huh....in retrospect, Sheet Music Boss, I suppose that there remain a fair number of things that I feel unavoidably attached too.
Well then you don't have time for interstellar hydrogen to collect into stars, undergo nuclear fusion to transform it into other heavier elements, the stars to go supernova, the resulting nebula to form the planet earth, the elements to combine into basic organic compounds, those organic compounds to form single celled organisms, and those single celled organisms to evolve into wheat, apples, cinnamon, chickens (for the eggs), sugar cane, etc. I suppose you could go out and buy pre-evolved apples, but then that's not really from scratch.
I first found this video around 2012, in high school, when I was in the middle of asking big questions about faith, reality, the universe and my place in it. To this day I still get shivers when I hear this song and listen to Sagan and Hawking's words. My favourite line is at the end, where Sagan says the surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean ... and the water is inviting. Beautiful.
"If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars." That's telling. We have so much potential as human beings, yet we are so destructive at the same time.
Mankind's destructive nature, perversely, is what led to many great technological leaps, advances in medicine and engineering innovations that the scientific community co-opted and tweaked to better our collective lot and hopefully extend our species existence in the universe. From radar to rocketry to nuclear power, much of what allows us to discover our universe has its roots in man yearning to kill more efficiently.
@@Parpyduck Sad but true. Look at Leonardo Da Vinci... He created lots of cool things like a functioning medieval scuba diving suit with a fully working linen asophagus for air... Yet in the end his mind was put to working on things like ballistas that fired multiple projectiles at one time.
"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves will one day venture to the stars." Oh I love that! And I love Carl Sagan he changed my life for the better as a young teen.
That's the way it was in the show. It's from Episode 7, about 10-15 minutes in. "Sometimes I think, how lucky we are to live in this time; the first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds."
Science communicators. I mean, his work on creating aminos from only brown goop and light was pretty amazing stuff, but it's not like his scientific career output is anywhere near many other scientists from just the second half of the twentieth century. What made Carl so special was his forty year long effort trying (and usually succeeding) to bring hard science to popular culture, through books, television, symposiums, and myriad interviews. Unparalleled in scientific communication.
My dad had me listen to this and a few others when I was about 7. I already had an interest in science and this only skyrocketed it. Thank you so much for changing my childhood for the better!
"The surface of the Earth is a shore of the cosmic ocean, recently we have waded out a little ways, and the water seems inviting" That is the line that fills me with hope
he didn't have to live long enough to watch Mankind see its end coming from climate change and decide, with both eyes open, that larger margins for shareholders were more important
No they are still alive. Their IDEAS are in BOOKS and BOOKS are greatest invention of HUMAN BEINGS ever made.. BY it, person who may be dead more than decades or century ago, he can talk to you directly. Our CARL and HAWKING and more heroes are still ALIVE. they are IMMORTAL.. Lots of love from 🇮🇳INDIA TO melodysheep
13 years later, this song and video still make my skin tingle. I'm struggling through the worst depression of my life right now, and this video has reminded me that wonder and optimism and hope exist. Thank you.
+Angelus Nielson Hint: you did. You said 'we' are capable of so much (i.e. humans) but we only give in to our "animal nature", as if there is either intelligence or one animal nature. A less anthropocentric way of putting it would be just to change 'animal' to 'human', thus making it 'human nature'.
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein
It's powerful, and Carl, not only did he have such mastery of words, poetry and the ability to easily explain, but he truly believed in our collective greatness.
Whenever I need to be inspired, I pop back in and watch this and it gives me goosebumps every single time! Thank you so much for creating it and sharing it...
I remember this girl I had a crush on showed me this at her house. She had it on one of those mini vinyls. With all the right little cracks in the sound it sounded majestic. Hope she’s ok❤️
I discoverd this today, it's so wonderful, I can't believe it, it makes me cry warm tear as I write this comment, Carl and Steven are dearly missed and as someone else said in the comments, more than ever we need people like them to help humanity go forward and hopefully, not destroy ourselves
Merel Danoe Actually you must first invent existence. For there may very well be an infinite number or universes all residing in the same infinite existence...(studying string theory right now and it's simultaneously opening my eyes and blowing my mind..
There's some argument over the true author of the recipes of that group as there are people who started a club who believe that someone called Jehovah wrote the recipes but other people don't believe in him
I don't normally make comments on videos but you, melodysheep, deserve accolades heaped upon you. Carl Sagan is one of the few people I consider a hero of mine and a champion for life everywhere. This is a beautiful tribute, poignant, clever and beautiful. A great way to introduce people to a man who so elegantly brought science to people in the most accessible way ever. Thankyou for making this - I'm sure Dr. Sagan would be proud. Also you should send this to his wife, Ann Druyan, as I'm sure she would absolutely love it. One day we shall all return to the stars, one way or another. Peace to you.
Eloquently said, you took the words right out of my mouth. Such a lovely tribute to one of the most beautiful minds to have graced our presence in the not too distant past. Yes, Carl truly would be proud. If you don't know about this song, then you cannot possibly be a true Carl Sagan fan. If necromancy were a true thing, I would revive him from the dead so he could convince humanity to work for itself instead of "against".
_Cosmos_ was made during the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation was a distinct possibility. But you're right. The powerful of the world find all kinds of ways to gamble with our future.
Or like there's no other way to actually 'be' than to be standing next to 'not to be', and examining that border and its risk will always cause a potent fear.
9 years ago, a student teacher suggested that I should check out this video. It was my first exposure to Carl Sagan. Intrigued, I rented Cosmos from my local library. I then read Sagan's Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot. This video introduced me to a man that inspired me to become a physicist.
I watched this the day it came out on Reddit 15 years ago. I'm back to revisit the nostalgia and retap my younger energy and curiosity for the world. Thanks for keeping it up!
Tonight, on the most recent episode of the new Cosmos, I basically quoted this song. I know that it's from the original Cosmos, but this remix was powerful enough to make it into the new version. I know enough about Ann Druyan to know this wasn't a coincidence. Congratulations, John. You've been immortalized.
On the final episode of the new Cosmos series, when DeGrasse Tyson suddenly kept silent and it came the speech of Sagan, while on screen was one of the biggest space pictures ever taken, I started to cry so much that my mother paused the DVD. I always cry at his words, they´re so... beautiful.
+SpaceWaifuu Carl Sagan was incredibly inspiring and optimistic about our future as a species. He has a way of getting people to tear up when they realize just how insignificant our world is, and how much of a gift it is that we're here.
I don't why, but this video makes me so like, sad but happy, because Carl Sagan and all those excellent scientists like Albert Einstein or Steven Hawking and even Nikolai Tesla are gone, but for a fact, what ever the after life is, they are exploring the Universe.
To the OP: I have been listening to this song for a few years. I know it word for word. I click "repeat" at least three times in a row each time comes up on my playlist. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo creative!!!!!!! RIP Carl, still miss you buddy. The world has become so "noisy", would be nice to have your voice of reason still around.
We need people like Carl Sagan more than ever now. We're living in a time where ignorance, misinformation, and tribalism are running absolutely rampant... We're capable of so much more as a species; we just need to see it.
you ever stumble onto a content creator you love, and then browse through their back catalog, and realize they were actually a content creator you found years ago, loved at the time, lost track of, and they managed to both change brands in the intervening years, still keep a through-thread, and *still* be something you like watching? Because that just happened to me. Hi Melodysheep, I found you years ago with this exact song, and then I found you again with your Life Beyond series just a month or two ago.
I had this video open just to listen in general and was about to hit play, RIGHT before I saw the news... He's seen his glorious dawn... RIP, Professor Stephen Hawking...
I was in the middle of my bachelors degree; I had the same reaction at 20 as you did at 12. That's the power of philosophical physicists like Sagan. Their works resonate universally and reach to the deepest parts of ourselves.
I just heard Neil say on the show "A still more glorious dawn awaits......." To me, this is an amazing tribute to Carl, to an amazing show, Neil was definitely a good choice to pass the torch. I just wonder how many quotes from the first COSMOS I've missed Neil say.
Brian Cox also quoted Sagan in his Universe and Solar System series. Sagan was, and still is an inspiration to so many people. He achieved so much and he was a true champion of the world.
Watching Carl's shows... he was smart enough/educated enough to reason about the universe, humble enough to recognize he didn't have all the answers, and it doing so, realized the best outcome was to inspire another generation of thinkers. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Such a great and haunting melody to accompany such a beautiful and poetic genius. I discovered this at least ten years ago and here it is June of 2024 and I still revisit often. Just wonderful.
"Except for hydrogen and helium, every atom in the Sun and the Earth was synthesized in other stars. The silicon in the rocks, the oxygen in the air, the carbon in our DNA, the gold in our banks, the uranium in our arsenals were all made thousands of light-years away and billions of years ago. Our planet, our society and we ourselves are built of star stuff." - Carl Sagan We are the way for the universe to know itself.
+LucisFerre1 think about it like this though. all that matter came from somewhere. a grand element. condensed with all the particles in a potential substance capable of creating a universe. w/e that element was, was given the nuclear theory. probably how we discovered nuclear theory for the atom bomb. as our elements combine and turn, will eventually condense and burn as the stars are doing, creating the densest matter in the universe. soon. their gravitational force will pull themselves back together. condensing. cycling. inevitably starting this whole existence over again. i believe i figured out the universe. but i have no proof of course, only logic. XD
Just like many others, I have once again revisited this video following the passing of one of the most influential men in our age of science, Stephen Hawking. My dad showed me this video when I was much younger, and it opened my mind to new ways of thinking that I don’t think I would have pursued if it weren’t for this video. I know it seems like a stretch, but I was an impressionable child and this song made a huge impact on me. Thanks again for the video Melodysheep. If you read this comment I just want to let you know that I am pursuing music as well, and I’m so excited to go to college to learn how to teach others in a way that Carl Sagan, Neil Tyson, Stephen Hawking, and you have taught me. Sorry for being sentimental, and thanks for the time you took to read this. I thought you would want to know you helped change someone’s life for the better.
Carl Sagan and this song I heard from like 13 years ago inspired me to change careers and go into Aerospace dynamics. You never know who one's vision and art can change a strangers life. Thank you!
Missing Carl Sagan. Missing his ability to make science and the Cosmos so approachable. Thank you MS... You are awesome at keeping his ideas relavant and accessible.
I remember finding this when I couldn’t sleep and was a little depressed as I had just started High School and started experiencing several chronic illnesses that I still struggle with today. This helped change my perspective.
This is still one of my absolutely favorite things on RUclips, ten years after I discovered it. We need stuff like this right now. We need people like Sagan and hope for the future.
"The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves We will one day venture to the stars A still more glorious dawn awaits Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billion suns The rising of the milky way."-Dr. Carl Sagan The late, great Dr. Carl Sagan had the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a poet. ❤
This is easily one of the most beautiful songs/sentiments I have ever experienced and I find myself coming back to it time after time in order to reset my perspective. Thank you for making this. It is very much appreciated.
God I never get tired of this song. I wish I could force every single person on this planet to listen to it. It's that important. I'm quite sure that most of you don't care or think about things that are happening light-years away or occurred billions of years ago or will occur billions of years from now but if it weren't for that activity we wouldn't even be here talking and we'd have no reason to exist. "The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, We will one day venture to the stars."
Im not very good at singing songs but here is a try UUUOOOPP OOHH UUOOOPP OHHH OHHH UUOPPP OOHH If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. Space is filled with a network of wormholes You might emerge somewhere else in space Some wheb-else in time The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves We will one day venture to the stars A still more glorious dawn awaits Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billions suns The rising of the milky way So epic
This has been my trip for years now. Im soo grateful for this well created informative hypnotic intellectual musical lesson. Never had anyone not enjoy it that I've shared it with.
This video in particular was to me my initial step/spark of interest into pursuing my education in science back in 2012-2013. My late teens and early twenties, back when I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and no real career aspirations. Since then, I've returned back to academia and obtained my undergraduate in engineering. Worked for a few places, met some great people. Now on my way to becoming an engineer. It's been fulfilling but it was definitely a turbulent process at times. Wish all you guys the best of luck out there wishing to pursue a career related to science.
This is where I came first when I heard the news. He's still part of the cosmos, as we all have been forever, and will be- forever. Vale Stephen Hawking.
This is the first thing I came to listen to after hearing about Stephen Hawking’s death. Hopefully his energies along with Carl’s are floating around the galaxy somewhere, doing good for all of us. RIP to both of these wonderful men.
Carl Sagan Start - Brooklyn, NY End - Seattle, WA Grateful Carl’s spirit was captured like Lightning in a bottle in this vid & We can share in his teachings
10 years ago today. Thanks for being a part of my weird and wild creative journey everyone. Here's to 10 more together. Peace and love. ✌️
I came because I remembered the date the song was uploaded.
Love the 10 year tribute
I've just found you! today's a good day! ✌🏼
Thank you for all your inspirational videos.
Thanks for making these, they kinda helped shape me into me.
This song changed the trajectory of my life: after being disillusioned with musical theatre and losing a bit of myself, I saw this over 10 years ago. I read everything I could from Sagan, and others, and decided that I wanted to study astrophysics. I’ve earned my PhD now, have been published in scientific journals, and work to bring the inspiration that this brought me to others.
I thank you, profoundly.
Congratulations! It got me a bit emotional reading this. Thanks for sharing. How can I find your publications? I once wanted to be an astrophysicist myself. Studied a lot into the subject, but my field is computer engineering and neuroscience instead. I'll always love astronomy and physics with a passion of course. Really wishing you the absolute best in your journey ahead, let's keep pushing science forward.
Same here. Didn't get my PhD, but I've studied a lot and have fallen in love with a scientific way of thinking.
That's amazing! Good for you!
Wow. 🎉
That is amazing! We should never be afraid to pivot. I have done it a few times in my career(s). :D
RIP Stephen Hawking. The legend.
melodysheep I'll be honest, I always find myself coming back to this video on days like this, or the anniversary of Dr. Sagan's death, and it always makes it a little bit better to come here and see you leave a comment on this video.
Thank you, Melodysheep, for making my favorite song of all time.
Now I have to listen to every Symphony of Science song with Dr. Hawking in it. RIP.
He will be missed by many and his discoveries and contributions for the rest of our time in this universe
He was a great man and a fantastic scientist
Just as there is something fitting to Stephen Hawking passing away on Pi Day, there is something fitting to listen to this song now, to feel some little sense of how vast and wonderful he found the universe
melodysheep we need new song video about hawking
It's 2023. And I'm back here to say that this song is timeless and incredible!
Indeed!
Me too! :D
😂😂 it's like returning home
This is my first time listening in probably 8-9 years
Same, I listened to this song before like back in 2021
Happy birthday Carl!
melodysheep Ahh, I'm glad someone else remembered!!!!
melodysheep this was just on adult swim and I thought it was an OK song so I came here
melodysheep this is best one for the best man
melodysheep Thanks for changing my life, for the better. Couldn't be any more serious about this. Thanks John B
RIP Stephen Hawking. Thank you for Everything...
The Carl Sagan parts make me cry, it's like everything he said was deeply philosophical and beautiful and moving. Rest in peace, your heart was made of starstuff
Same
2:13 Ah Whoop
I'm biased I guess because I've lived in part of his lifetime, but I would want Carl to speak for humankind to other species. He's the perfect mix of intelligence, passion, and benevolence. I miss him, and I wish I could listen to him speak on current day issues.
Same
Don't make me emotional😭
Combining two of my favourite things: Music and science! Beautiful! -Andrew
Oh wow, you’re here xD
Ha! Now that I think about it, music and science exist as my two favourite things too! ....Oh...well I also really REALLY enjoy old sci-fi and classic (particularly Hammer) horror films...and methadone...that's really more of a necessity than a "favourite thing" though....and food!! Good heavens, I forgot food! Huh....in retrospect, Sheet Music Boss, I suppose that there remain a fair number of things that I feel unavoidably attached too.
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I'd rather be 11 years late than to have never found this piece of musical GOLD 🔥
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Yeah it's good.
I found it 10-11 years ago haha
Correction: I found melody sheep in 2009!
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Jesus Carl I've only got an hour.
And yet why is it that such a infathomable number seems small, just in being finite?
hikari steinmetz and yet* stupid spell check.
You still couldn't make a pie from scratch in an hour!
Well then you don't have time for interstellar hydrogen to collect into stars, undergo nuclear fusion to transform it into other heavier elements, the stars to go supernova, the resulting nebula to form the planet earth, the elements to combine into basic organic compounds, those organic compounds to form single celled organisms, and those single celled organisms to evolve into wheat, apples, cinnamon, chickens (for the eggs), sugar cane, etc. I suppose you could go out and buy pre-evolved apples, but then that's not really from scratch.
BIG Dave I made a pie! And it only took 7.6 Trillion years!
I've been listening to this for over 7 years. Still Awesome.
Gordon Wolters same here
Gordon Wolters ditto
Same
I'm going on 9 😭
I know man, I've been listening to this between 6-8 years and it never gets old. In fact, it makes me cry most times... so beautiful
I first found this video around 2012, in high school, when I was in the middle of asking big questions about faith, reality, the universe and my place in it. To this day I still get shivers when I hear this song and listen to Sagan and Hawking's words. My favourite line is at the end, where Sagan says the surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean ... and the water is inviting. Beautiful.
Sagan was a hero to me and I miss him. Try to find a way to watch the original Cosmos, by any means necessary.
In 2012 I was about to undertake the biggest job of my life. 10 years later I am a changed person, but this song is still amazing.
"If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars." That's telling. We have so much potential as human beings, yet we are so destructive at the same time.
Mankind's destructive nature, perversely, is what led to many great technological leaps, advances in medicine and engineering innovations that the scientific community co-opted and tweaked to better our collective lot and hopefully extend our species existence in the universe. From radar to rocketry to nuclear power, much of what allows us to discover our universe has its roots in man yearning to kill more efficiently.
@@Parpyduck Sad but true. Look at Leonardo Da Vinci... He created lots of cool things like a functioning medieval scuba diving suit with a fully working linen asophagus for air... Yet in the end his mind was put to working on things like ballistas that fired multiple projectiles at one time.
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There is no "if" anymore. It probably was in the 1970th but we wasted time and let opportunities pass
If only we hadn't invented the money, sigh.
"The sky calls to us.
If we do not destroy ourselves
will one day venture to the stars."
Oh I love that! And I love Carl Sagan he changed my life for the better as a young teen.
2:47 "visiting other worlds" his voice goes so deep i get chills every time
Reneevee133 ikr.
That's the way it was in the show. It's from Episode 7, about 10-15 minutes in. "Sometimes I think, how lucky we are to live in this time; the first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds."
@RENEEVEE133 : And then the piano riff after Carl's voice... 🥰
14 years and still coming back to this!
In 500 years, Carl Sagan is going to remembered among all the great scientists in human history.
Science communicators.
I mean, his work on creating aminos from only brown goop and light was pretty amazing stuff, but it's not like his scientific career output is anywhere near many other scientists from just the second half of the twentieth century.
What made Carl so special was his forty year long effort trying (and usually succeeding) to bring hard science to popular culture, through books, television, symposiums, and myriad interviews. Unparalleled in scientific communication.
Almost seven years later and I still ADORE this.
Its Legendary
Absolutely!
@mask me And I'm STILL here listening!!!!!! :)
@@rachels.9984 Yup :)
Virat Kohli 😊🎉
My dad had me listen to this and a few others when I was about 7. I already had an interest in science and this only skyrocketed it. Thank you so much for changing my childhood for the better!
Your dad is a G
"The surface of the Earth is a shore of the cosmic ocean, recently we have waded out a little ways, and the water seems inviting" That is the line that fills me with hope
❤
12 years passed and this remix still ocupy a special place on my neuronal network.
Carl Sagan era incrível :')
Same i used to listen to these on repeat everyday. Science and music together is perfection
You're good people.
Same, I still find myself randomly saying the apple pie line, all these years later.
absolutely, rent free
Hope these two are chilling together in the stars now. R.I.P.
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
-Carl Sagan
hm.. interesting..
way too anthropocentric
Way too little philosophical comprehension Oktay.
How so, Oktay? We are not separate from the cosmos. We are just a subset that is able to store information from one moment to the next.
I love that idea
R.I.P Carl Sagan. A terrible loss to all of mankind.
now both of them are dead );
No, not a terrible loss to mankind.... An incredible gain to mankind, that has now sadly gone. (Semantics I know, but still...)
he didn't have to live long enough to watch Mankind see its end coming from climate change and decide, with both eyes open, that larger margins for shareholders were more important
Don't be sad that he died be happy that we had him we are able to see his great work in science.his atoms are now part of us
No they are still alive. Their IDEAS are in BOOKS and BOOKS are greatest invention of HUMAN BEINGS ever made.. BY it, person who may be dead more than decades or century ago, he can talk to you directly. Our CARL and HAWKING and more heroes are still ALIVE. they are IMMORTAL..
Lots of love from 🇮🇳INDIA TO melodysheep
13 years later, this song and video still make my skin tingle. I'm struggling through the worst depression of my life right now, and this video has reminded me that wonder and optimism and hope exist. Thank you.
it's the "If we don't destroy ourselves." that gets me every time. We are capable of so much but we don't listen to anything but our animal natures.
Carl would tell you how anthropocentric that sounds. He'd also chortle saying "As if there is one animal nature".
I am not understanding what you are saying. Could you explain clearer?
+Angelus Nielson Humans are not the only animal.
Automated Miner Did I say they were?
Hint, no I didn't.
+Angelus Nielson Hint: you did. You said 'we' are capable of so much (i.e. humans) but we only give in to our "animal nature", as if there is either intelligence or one animal nature. A less anthropocentric way of putting it would be just to change 'animal' to 'human', thus making it 'human nature'.
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
I have probably listened to this 50x and every single time I cry. I don't know why.
It's powerful, and Carl, not only did he have such mastery of words, poetry and the ability to easily explain, but he truly believed in our collective greatness.
Me too. Every time make me cry
I want to believe we can live up to our potenital, but I fail to see the way. Dont give up hope.
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Humanity is capable beautiful dreams and futures, simultaneously they can create horrible nightmares and suffering.
You cry because it makes you realize that a still more glorious dawn awaits!
Whenever I need to be inspired, I pop back in and watch this and it gives me goosebumps every single time! Thank you so much for creating it and sharing it...
I remember this girl I had a crush on showed me this at her house. She had it on one of those mini vinyls. With all the right little cracks in the sound it sounded majestic. Hope she’s ok❤️
She must be pretty awesome.
Crush well placed.
This is on a vinyl record?...
@@kingtiger2.2002 yeah, I have no idea how many or where she got it. That’s how I first heard it though.
@@kingtiger2.2002 this was actually older than 12 years. a lot older
MC Sagan and DJ Hawkings bringing the quantium beats!
+Oliver R Hilarious xD
Tf lol 😂😂😂
i get chills every time i listen to carl sagan's voice in the chorus. So incredibly soothing and reassuring.
I agree. The chord chosen for the word "sky" is so badass. "The sky calls to us ..."
“A still more glorious dawn awaits” is fucking beautiful.
I discoverd this today, it's so wonderful, I can't believe it, it makes me cry warm tear as I write this comment, Carl and Steven are dearly missed and as someone else said in the comments, more than ever we need people like them to help humanity go forward and hopefully, not destroy ourselves
Bill Gates turned evil and Elon Musk is questionable lol
When Sagan writes a cookbook no matter the food step one will be 'invent the universe'
Merel Danoe He'll have a job writing that cookbook, having been dead for 19 years.
Merel Danoe Actually you must first invent existence. For there may very well be an infinite number or universes all residing in the same infinite existence...(studying string theory right now and it's simultaneously opening my eyes and blowing my mind..
SetSutekh if you wait more than 15 billion years we'll give you 50% off.
+Steampunk Juggernaught [Channel dead] days deep
There's some argument over the true author of the recipes of that group as there are people who started a club who believe that someone called Jehovah wrote the recipes but other people don't believe in him
my life would be very different, and not better, if it wasn't for Carl Sagan.
I don't normally make comments on videos but you, melodysheep, deserve accolades heaped upon you. Carl Sagan is one of the few people I consider a hero of mine and a champion for life everywhere. This is a beautiful tribute, poignant, clever and beautiful. A great way to introduce people to a man who so elegantly brought science to people in the most accessible way ever. Thankyou for making this - I'm sure Dr. Sagan would be proud. Also you should send this to his wife, Ann Druyan, as I'm sure she would absolutely love it. One day we shall all return to the stars, one way or another. Peace to you.
Eloquently said, you took the words right out of my mouth. Such a lovely tribute to one of the most beautiful minds to have graced our presence in the not too distant past. Yes, Carl truly would be proud. If you don't know about this song, then you cannot possibly be a true Carl Sagan fan. If necromancy were a true thing, I would revive him from the dead so he could convince humanity to work for itself instead of "against".
Had forgotten about this. And this is one of those things that should not be forgotten. We need these truths now more than ever.
"If we don't destroy ourselves" Christ so potent. Like we put ourselves perpetually on the brink.
Or that were are perpetually on the brink even when it doesn't feel like it.
_Cosmos_ was made during the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation was a distinct possibility. But you're right. The powerful of the world find all kinds of ways to gamble with our future.
Or like there's no other way to actually 'be' than to be standing next to 'not to be', and examining that border and its risk will always cause a potent fear.
"Space is filled with a network of wormholes, you might emergence somewehere else in space, somewhen else in time"
Broke me into tears.
9 years ago, a student teacher suggested that I should check out this video. It was my first exposure to Carl Sagan. Intrigued, I rented Cosmos from my local library. I then read Sagan's Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot. This video introduced me to a man that inspired me to become a physicist.
I watched this the day it came out on Reddit 15 years ago. I'm back to revisit the nostalgia and retap my younger energy and curiosity for the world. Thanks for keeping it up!
Still a bop even after 13 years. What a legend. Don't let this die
Tonight, on the most recent episode of the new Cosmos, I basically quoted this song. I know that it's from the original Cosmos, but this remix was powerful enough to make it into the new version. I know enough about Ann Druyan to know this wasn't a coincidence. Congratulations, John. You've been immortalized.
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
That's why I'm here now. :)
Which episode?
On the final episode of the new Cosmos series, when DeGrasse Tyson suddenly kept silent and it came the speech of Sagan, while on screen was one of the biggest space pictures ever taken, I started to cry so much that my mother paused the DVD. I always cry at his words, they´re so... beautiful.
+SpaceWaifuu What are you, Gay? Ha!
+Peter “Wife” Beater its not gay its *FABULOUS*
+SpaceWaifuu Carl Sagan was incredibly inspiring and optimistic about our future as a species. He has a way of getting people to tear up when they realize just how insignificant our world is, and how much of a gift it is that we're here.
Lutranereis What are you, Gay? Ha!
+Peter “Wife” Beater whats wrong with being fabulous? Must be better than beating your wife
I don't why, but this video makes me so like, sad but happy, because Carl Sagan and all those excellent scientists like Albert Einstein or Steven Hawking and even Nikolai Tesla are gone, but for a fact, what ever the after life is, they are exploring the Universe.
Carl Sagan: "Let me make this simple for you. Nuclear war bad. Space exploration good."
*politician raises hand*
Politician: "Wait... what?"
Oh bill
👍
To the OP:
I have been listening to this song for a few years.
I know it word for word.
I click "repeat" at least three times in a row each time comes up on my playlist.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo creative!!!!!!!
RIP Carl, still miss you buddy.
The world has become so "noisy", would be nice to have your voice of reason still around.
Same!
Carl would be proud of this video
I was just thinking that very thing, although it is a shame to spoil his magnificent voice with Auto-Tune..
+WhiteDwarfVR4 It's the only way to make his straight spoken voice 'sing' for the purpose of the song.
its not a problem at all, auto tune is a tool just like anything and in this song it works pretty well. rip sagan. smoke one for you.
It is pretty dope... I come back to this every couple of years...
We need people like Carl Sagan more than ever now. We're living in a time where ignorance, misinformation, and tribalism are running absolutely rampant...
We're capable of so much more as a species; we just need to see it.
Trump-RFK 🇺🇸🏆💪🏻
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Carl Sagan
He never said that. Never.
@@saganandroid4175 Lmao imagine Carl saying " Know " instead of " Known ", literally double digit IQ shit.
@@yakivpopavich Not just that, he never said it even with/out the typo.
2:18 "Awww shit Hawking just rolled in! He about to drop some heat!!!!"
You are amazing
He dropped heat so hot it had to be measured in kelvin 👌🏻
@@hannahscholtzz7355 Lololol
also measure its coolness in nanokelvin@@hannahscholtzz7355
Lmao
A wonderful way to remember a great man.
you ever stumble onto a content creator you love, and then browse through their back catalog, and realize they were actually a content creator you found years ago, loved at the time, lost track of, and they managed to both change brands in the intervening years, still keep a through-thread, and *still* be something you like watching?
Because that just happened to me.
Hi Melodysheep, I found you years ago with this exact song, and then I found you again with your Life Beyond series just a month or two ago.
I went out and looked up at the stars this morning. thank you Carl Sagan
I had this video open just to listen in general and was about to hit play, RIGHT before I saw the news... He's seen his glorious dawn... RIP, Professor Stephen Hawking...
Even after 5 years I still can't get enough of this awesome video. Thanks MelodySheep, your skill, talent is addicting!
I remember when it first came out, I was 12 and fascinated about astronomy. What a throwback, still very good song tho 😊
I was in the middle of my bachelors degree; I had the same reaction at 20 as you did at 12. That's the power of philosophical physicists like Sagan. Their works resonate universally and reach to the deepest parts of ourselves.
same here, watching this stuff in secondary school. Moved on up into engineering.
a decade later I'm still captivated by this
I just heard Neil say on the show "A still more glorious dawn awaits......."
To me, this is an amazing tribute to Carl, to an amazing show, Neil was definitely a good choice to pass the torch. I just wonder how many quotes from the first COSMOS I've missed Neil say.
Love the Carl Sagan tributes.
Brian Cox also quoted Sagan in his Universe and Solar System series. Sagan was, and still is an inspiration to so many people. He achieved so much and he was a true champion of the world.
Watching Carl's shows... he was smart enough/educated enough to reason about the universe, humble enough to recognize he didn't have all the answers, and it doing so, realized the best outcome was to inspire another generation of thinkers. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Such a great and haunting melody to accompany such a beautiful and poetic genius. I discovered this at least ten years ago and here it is June of 2024 and I still revisit often. Just wonderful.
This is one of the most important songs of all time.. and most people don't understand this.
"Except for hydrogen and helium, every atom in the Sun and the Earth was synthesized in other stars. The silicon in the rocks, the oxygen in the air, the carbon in our DNA, the gold in our banks, the uranium in our arsenals were all made thousands of light-years away and billions of years ago. Our planet, our society and we ourselves are built of star stuff." - Carl Sagan
We are the way for the universe to know itself.
+LucisFerre1 think about it like this though. all that matter came from somewhere. a grand element. condensed with all the particles in a potential substance capable of creating a universe. w/e that element was, was given the nuclear theory. probably how we discovered nuclear theory for the atom bomb. as our elements combine and turn, will eventually condense and burn as the stars are doing, creating the densest matter in the universe. soon. their gravitational force will pull themselves back together. condensing. cycling. inevitably starting this whole existence over again. i believe i figured out the universe. but i have no proof of course, only logic. XD
❤❤
Didn't the big bang make a little bit of lithium though
Just like many others, I have once again revisited this video following the passing of one of the most influential men in our age of science, Stephen Hawking. My dad showed me this video when I was much younger, and it opened my mind to new ways of thinking that I don’t think I would have pursued if it weren’t for this video. I know it seems like a stretch, but I was an impressionable child and this song made a huge impact on me. Thanks again for the video Melodysheep. If you read this comment I just want to let you know that I am pursuing music as well, and I’m so excited to go to college to learn how to teach others in a way that Carl Sagan, Neil Tyson, Stephen Hawking, and you have taught me. Sorry for being sentimental, and thanks for the time you took to read this. I thought you would want to know you helped change someone’s life for the better.
I remember listening to this when it only had 10,000 views. It's terrific.
I'd say RIP Stephen Hawking but the conservation of energy means he'll blaze on for a very long time
This song has unlocked many doors for me. Without it, I would not be on the path im on today.
Carl Sagan and this song I heard from like 13 years ago inspired me to change careers and go into Aerospace dynamics. You never know who one's vision and art can change a strangers life. Thank you!
I went into astronomy! I always come back to this when I feel a loss of motivation.
Missing Carl Sagan. Missing his ability to make science and the Cosmos so approachable.
Thank you MS... You are awesome at keeping his ideas relavant and accessible.
I remember finding this when I couldn’t sleep and was a little depressed as I had just started High School and started experiencing several chronic illnesses that I still struggle with today. This helped change my perspective.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits; not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns - the rising of the Milky Way!"
LOVE.
This is still one of my absolutely favorite things on RUclips, ten years after I discovered it. We need stuff like this right now. We need people like Sagan and hope for the future.
Just returned to this I didn't know it was MELODYSHEEP!! Aw man the growth of this channel since then is incredible!
It makes me cry
Like all the time!
Are you serious?
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I listened to this as my first song of 2024 looking at the sunrise. Still a more glorious dawn awaits indeed. Cheers everyone!
"The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way."-Dr. Carl Sagan
The late, great Dr. Carl Sagan had the mind
of a scientist, and the heart of a poet. ❤
This is easily one of the most beautiful songs/sentiments I have ever experienced and I find myself coming back to it time after time in order to reset my perspective. Thank you for making this. It is very much appreciated.
He left a legacy of brilliance, and he and Dr. Hawking will always be missed. I miss their intelligence, insight and humanity.
Listening to this today as I need Carl Sagan and science so bad right now.
God I never get tired of this song. I wish I could force every single person on this planet to listen to it. It's that important. I'm quite sure that most of you don't care or think about things that are happening light-years away or occurred billions of years ago or will occur billions of years from now but if it weren't for that activity we wouldn't even be here talking and we'd have no reason to exist.
"The sky calls to us.
If we do not destroy ourselves,
We will one day venture to the stars."
I've been listening to this song regularly for 14 years. Thank you.
Im not very good at singing songs but here is a try
UUUOOOPP OOHH UUOOOPP OHHH OHHH UUOPPP OOHH
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
you must first invent the universe.
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some wheb-else in time
The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billions suns
The rising of the milky way
So epic
This has been my trip for years now. Im soo grateful for this well created informative hypnotic intellectual musical lesson. Never had anyone not enjoy it that I've shared it with.
This video was uploaded 11 years ago and for me this is the best music video or whatever we call this.
Here again, this time celebrating the clearest images of our universe being released today. Cheers everyone.
This video introduced me to Carl Sagan and his work, and I am so grateful for that. Awesome song. Awesome person.
This video in particular was to me my initial step/spark of interest into pursuing my education in science back in 2012-2013. My late teens and early twenties, back when I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and no real career aspirations. Since then, I've returned back to academia and obtained my undergraduate in engineering. Worked for a few places, met some great people. Now on my way to becoming an engineer. It's been fulfilling but it was definitely a turbulent process at times. Wish all you guys the best of luck out there wishing to pursue a career related to science.
back again. My kids are growing up with this.
2 legends we've lost to time, that we need them more than ever. Rest in peace carl and stephen. 😔
This is where I came first when I heard the news.
He's still part of the cosmos, as we all have been forever, and will be- forever.
Vale Stephen Hawking.
Carl would be so proud! Thanks Symphony of Science for this jewel.
The surface of the Earth, is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently we've waded a little way out, and the water seems inviting...
His family almost DMCAed it. I think he would of liked it but not his family
This is the first thing I came to listen to after hearing about Stephen Hawking’s death. Hopefully his energies along with Carl’s are floating around the galaxy somewhere, doing good for all of us. RIP to both of these wonderful men.
Carl Sagan
Start - Brooklyn, NY
End - Seattle, WA
Grateful Carl’s spirit was captured like
Lightning in a bottle in this vid &
We can share in his teachings
First heard this song 10 years ago, and i am still in love with it. Thank you for making this
bought this years ago on iTunes and it still gets a run to this day, thanks dude!
"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars" Wow...
After hearing about the movie about Stephen Hawking, wouldn't it be great to see one about Carl ?
He truly was an underrated scientist/philosopher, wasn't he?
@@solariumtrismegistus1070 Yeah, he was underrated.
Or was he (Vsauce music plays)
i haven't seen this in roughly 10 years but just thought to look it up. what a unique little piece of internet history.
Thanks for making these! Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking were amazing people.
Still come back to this fire jam almost 11 years later.
Same! So nostalgic and inspiring :)
Y'alls music taste is on another level
You too ;)
@@netherwolves3412 what is that supposed to mean 😀
@@bababou3987 you are watching this video, so you must have a great music taste 😆
@@netherwolves3412 LMAO
I've known of this song for just about 9 years now, and it will forever be one of my favorites.