THE SAGAN SERIES - Decide To Listen

[@sayingthethingstheywont2619]

Sagan: "Its called radio" Me: tears fill eyes

[@benderbot44]

This is my favorite one, it's very up beat and a more happy tone than the other ones.

[@laaxe]

While on the crew of Contact, Carl sent us weekly thanks for the way the film was turning out. The final week of shooting, Carl had passed away. I've never been so attached to a project, and will admire Carl & Ann as long as I'm on this silly rock. BTW - Never be afraid to be an atheist. No one helps us more than one another.

[@michael_leclezio]

hi, what was your role on the making of Contact?

[@ob2110]

Thank you for sharing this, he helped form me and my way of thinking. I was a camp counsellor when these came out and would use them as part of my sessions. He was a true teacher

[@karljourney8025]

Some of the best scientific prose in the universe! Love Carl Sagan, his legacy continues and transcends death!

[@ilikemonkeysblogcom]

Thanks for making this series. It continually inspires me when I need to be inspired.

[@Listonoszka21]

This man inspires me to live, you know. Whenever I fell upset I recall his words, they really cheer me up. They give hope. :) WE FINALLY DECIDED TO LISTEN.

[@BrunesOvrBrauns]

Kudos for all the "Contact" clips!

[@BiffTannenBTTF]

Watching these for the first time 11 years ago is no different than today. They're still transformative and profound.

[@adelliab859]

my heart sank at 4:05 when "indefinitely" showed up :(

[@Aaron_Gentry]

I've thought for a long, long time now that it's not a question of if - it's more a question of where and what. What kind of beings are they? Where is their home world? How advanced (or backwards) is their level of technology? How long have they existed for? Do they look up at the stars on their home world and wonder like (some of us) do if they're all alone in the dark?

[@akarshrastogi3682]

Look up Kardashev Scale of Civilizations, your mind will be blown.

[@NKPyo]

Have faith in humanity, the act of spreading awareness is taken up by many people.We can do it, humanity is progressing at an exponential pace.

[@kaako86]

Amazing as usual. Love your Sagan series. Please make more. I donated what I could to the SETI site.

[@sirachman]

As long as we all do our part, anything can be achieved. Even, quite possibly, the hardest challenge of all.. Keeping the great majority of humanity from falling behind as science pushes us forward into the great and wonderous unknown.

[@osfan25]

This series really makes you think about your place not only on earth but in the universe. Really inspiring

[@mtanyc]

I love you Carl... thank you for everything and rest in peace...

[@Justsomeoneyoucouldhaveknown]

An argument against the idea that a distant civilization is too far advanced to use radio waves as communication. We still use conventional microscopes to discover and and grow our understanding of things that more advance (and expenses) electron microscopes can also detect. To say a civilization will completely stop using a technology because it's obsolete is nonsense we still use H.A.M. radios and there are still people who practice Morse code just for the fun of it. I'm Shure that in the future even our own society will have technology's at there disposal for recreational use that is nowadays just not a option be it because of things like price or politics.

[@EVLWNS]

All the way up to 3.50: Hell yeah! We can do anything! After 4.05: Oh wait, that's right: we suck.

[@MrDogger1011]

I feel the exact same. I hope that with my last breath I can believe humans will remember to be good.

[@jsb_music]

0:23 ... what a great shot, travelling through Orion.... Absolutely brilliant!

[@euge999]

Loved the images of the movie Contact !!

[@ReclusiarchLP]

This series is so inspiring. Awesome!

[@jonguyen100]

When I listen to Carl Sagan's voice, I feel hopeful. When I look down from this video to the comments below, filled with hatred and anger alongside of it, I want to cry, and not in the usual, good way that Sagan makes me want to cry.

[@Sativa1337]

Amazing, thank you sir, again

[@PerryThePlatypoos]

I randomly found The Sagan Series, and I'm very happy that I have. I'm looking at things entirely different now.

[@RivalDreamAroma]

Makes me tear up. It's maddening to think about!

[@cylente]

This just makes me depressed. Hearing the aspirations in this man's voice as he talks about what we should be focusing on as a species, and we just closed down the facilities to do so. Heartbreaking.

[@xxplicitt004]

Thank you once again!

[@SonOfTerra92]

THe search of other life may seem like a daunting task, but I find it an endeavour that has the potential of changing the way we humans see ourselves and the world we live in ...

[@realmarsastro]

Haven't we now also found a way to communicate with light, which is even more astounding?

[@MegaBondagefreak]

Rofl, got an ad for a Christian book for a Carl Sagan video..

[@Qwerty123zzuy]

MegaBondagefreak Thats so sad

[@sirpsychosecksi4953]

Thats so sad that you use "Rofl"

[@ghostbuddy3106]

@@sirpsychosecksi4953 hey fugoff nerd....

[@basefurie]

Amazing video, great use of Sagan's words....does anybody know the song used here?

[@garlic2519]

Still trying to find the song

[@garlic2519]

PENGUIN CAFE PERPETUUM MOBILE

[@DrCureAging]

We may live to see the day in which we grasp immortality. There are numerous scientists currently researching aging and cancer (I hope to be one of them after grad). Don't lose hope.

[@MrJoystickid]

Let's go to Europa and find some Alien Sharks, once we find life even small types of life in our own solar system outside of Earth I think things will begin to change for us all in a big way. We will know life will take hold where it can and that once and for all we are not specially made nor was this universe specially made for us.

[@cmdrreggit]

Sure - I understand - BUT - *If* life turns out to be everywhere, why are we not receiving *any* signals at all? I mean.......should I be worried?? 😱

[@Diavolo222]

I think its not a question of if they exist.Cause we would have to be very egotistical to think that we are the sole living creatures in this ENTIRE universe!

[@mosseljaan]

Well radiowaves are electromechanical waves and so is visible light. So we've been communicating with light since the radio( if you exclude smoke signals of course :-)).

[@QuantumPhenomena]

Beautiful.

[@DesolateGrunt]

I'm sad to say in my debate team at the highschool I attend, we have the topic of the Advancing of Space Programs. Only 3 people agree to advance while the rest laugh at SETI, NASA, the ideas to expand the human race outwards into space. They call it a waste of money and time. These are the people soon to be the future voters, citizens, and possibly leaders of our world's nations. I wish they could understand the words of Sagan, and realize the ignorance of their words. It hurts man

[@lhd]

This one really opens my mind up to the possibility of life beyond this planet

[@NKPyo]

Its never too late .Never

[@jarodpalmer]

That is great to hear! Thank you.

[@rickbags24]

Could not of said it better myself. As a species our priorities are warped and we must change that. We must adapt and evolve or we will be nothing in no time at all.

[@weedanime420]

I heard the piece of music that starts at the beginning of this video on the radio today. I found it very moving and knew I associated it with a memory. It took me thinking all day to remember it was from this video. PLEASE does anyone know what the music/piece is titled?

[@oisiaa]

Beautiful!

[@Felivii]

As soon as I watched this video, I thought of Contact and Project Argus. That book started my love for physics and Carl's books.

[@3FrostyD]

@djflee0 The actual song is Perpetuum Mobile by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Hence the Avicii link!

[@ZachRose88]

Science is the language of the universe! Beautiful.

[@b1gstbaws]

If we hear them, would we waste our existence on a missed phone call.

[@Michaelf1968]

No more of a waste then those who waste it in worship of a fable. This call is possible and the implications of us taking that call would be the greatest discovery in our history

[@ChrisAstro]

Beautifully done!

[@aliceahead]

I like the fact that there may be other animals on other planets somewhere in space. I mean, why wouldn't there? We exist, don't we? It's extraordinary really. The whole world and space and everything we live in. We are just a little dot in space. Evolution is awesome!

[@helloworldstein]

@dillygurl I thought it was dead for good. Great to know its back. I guess there still some people with a bit of sense left in them.

[@UchihaItachiSA]

Makes me happy that us here in South Africa are joining the scientific ranks and gettings the SKA

[@lachlanmaclean6506]

My favourite one

[@felipehamm6522]

What is the name of this wonderful song ?

[@scienceofreality]

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile

[@lovesalfie]

This is a beautiful video,a real eye opener,it is real sad SETI needs private funding.

[@TheJockman117]

@OfficialRadix it's Perpetuum Mobile by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

[@chaosoops]

I just add an Arabic Subtitle, Thanks for this Awe-inspiring Video

[@icarus212001]

@Coolmenest You know what I love most about science? The fact that, without it, we wouldn't be communicating with each other right now. And medicine. I quite like medicine.

[@alexanderm2220]

the statement about seti and the attack helicopter is crazy. Although sagan said that a few decades a go it is probably a similar statistic

[@blueshift314]

of course we did. we knew there were other galaxies other than the milky way at least as far back as the early 20th century. Sagan's time was the late 20th century. In fact, in his show, the cosmos, he talks about how at first we didn't know, and then we found out. then we figured out the further the way, the faster they were moving away from us.

[@conorisawsome]

Carl Sagan suddenly woke from a slumber of 13.7 billion years, and 15 years ago forever returned to that sleep. He found him self in a world filled with hate, intolerance, ignorance and death. He did the best he could through the power of science and understanding to help make that world as free and as beautiful as he could. Do not let his message and time on earth be in vein.

[@DesolateGrunt]

but we are the trailblazers, the pioneers, we set the framework, we hold the ground, we take the first steps, and our descendants will take the next and so on, And I wouldn't give up that privilege, to help our generation to be remembered as, "Those who landed on Mars", as the generation before was the one, "Who opened Space's doors" and the one before as the ones, "Who landed on the moon"

[@prismakelsey]

Penguin Cafe!! :D

[@Chris_Oblivion]

The clip starting at 2:33.. The silhouette of a man coming out of the light - what film is that from? It looks really familiar, and I'm racking my brains but can't remember what it's from!

[@ttk519]

Quantum entanglement is faster then radio, in fact, it is instantaneous.

[@Koolaiddewz]

I am a native English speaker, however I just noticed that there are 10 translated languages for the captions, and i would just like to say that it is awesome that you would take the time to create all those just to get the word of Carl Sagan out there on a side not, at least 99% of Polish words in this video start with either a p or z

[@Ko252]

I become a med. doctor last year, but this is far more inspiring.

[@Theorycraft]

@NobDickBalls Through human evolution as our brains develop so do our emotions, because emotions are part of our brain. This means we get more sophisticated. They say that kids are cruel, that's because a child's brain is underdeveloped, and as they get older there brains develop they get more sophisticated and less cruel. With that in mind when we meet an advanced alien civilizations millions of years ahead of us there is no way they would ever be hostile because they would be too sophisticated

[@realmarsastro]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Because that's actual light travelling through a cable, isn't it? I mean, it has to be directed with a cable, but it's still communication with light!

[@motim92]

... and that is just one tiny Galaxy of hunderts of billions...

[@creede55]

@TheChristChris its from Cosmos by Carl Sagan, I think its the episode about the lives of stars, not sure. but defiantly sure its from Cosmos ;)

[@chuck_machine]

Ah yes! The SETI screensaver @ 1:16 - whatever happened with that? Used to run that on my old machine.

[@kev.ng.11]

if they are smarter, they will or they have, but they didn't show

[@djflee0]

@3FrostyD I know already... But thanks for sharing

[@IsThisMyName89]

To quote James Burke "Never have so many people understood so little about so much". This was said in the 80's imagine how he would react to 2012 If you like these type of videos I recommend watching /watch?v=WgOp-nz3lHg

[@adastraperaspera99]

if and when we ever make contact, I have a feeling that people will comment about how Carl Sagan helped get us there. After all, he was one of SETI's earliest supporters and a well known public advocate of the extraterrestrial search program.

[@meetKEL]

Thank you very much! ^ ^ But i don't name the video, this is the name of this documentary.

[@adelliab859]

SETI is rebooting their satellites in September :D online fundraising can really do a lot.

[@Neueregel]

And what do you suggest instead instead of Radio communication probing? Sit and do nothing?

[@locoman7]

Get this VIRAL!!!!!!!!

[@Koolaiddewz]

@iinkshade 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you

[@JimKuback2009]

Radio is light, chief. It's just a lower wavelength of light. Basically, the spectrum (from lowest-energy to highest-energy) is radio, microwave, infrared, visible spectrum, ultraviolet, X-ray, gamma and ultra-high energy gamma. The light that you can see is the same as radio, except EM radiation at radio frequencies is invisible to the human eye.

[@SonOfTerra92]

Radio communication study is the saving grace of my engineering career. I would have dropped out if this hadnt motivated me ...

[@CuriousMoth]

I understand the software of an ipod intrinsically. The hardware? A little bit, but not enough that I could currently create one myself even with all the right tools available.. Thing is, it wasn't one person who invented the ipod. The majority of people in the world have skill sets which they can combine to create technological applications. What matters is not that each person understands the how to construct the whole, it's that each person contributes what parts they can to attain the sum.

[@owerr66]

any idea what song was that in the background?

[@NobDickBalls]

@MillenniumRequiem What a suprise!!!!

[@businessmanart]

Nothing wrong with talking about it ... we learn by examining and questioning all scenarios

[@eamonnsiocain6454]

A priori might not be shared between species.

[@MrFunnylicious]

and you have to remember, at the time of Sagan, we did not know there were other galaxies other than the Milky Way until the Hubble Telescope.

[@Lecski]

That is my friend exactly the same thing Carl Sagan once said: "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology"...

[@ii4887]

@crazybrity are you as surprised as I am that society functions at all? @NobDickBalls nice name, what chapter of Genesis is that from?

[@ThoughtlessDNB]

Can someone please tell me the name of this amazing song playing in the background?

[@MaximC]

If you'll have time, please add links to the their respective playlists to reach of these series videos.

[@MaximC]

Or not "please", but I mean you could do that, it could be useful, one could just find the playlist directly from the video description that way

[@schwartzxc13]

@TheChristChris That's Carl Sagan in his TV series "Cosmos".

[@Bluenoser613]

"Small Steps Ellie, Small Steps"

[@Maggot1750]

@rbassilian Steven Hawkins has talked about this, he believes there are no civilizations as advanced or more advanced than us within a couple hundred light years. But that's only a couple hundred light years, tiny in perspective of the the Milky-way galaxy let alone the universe.

[@MisterMcMaestro]

Can someone tell me the name of the song in this video? It's always been really powerful to me but I've never known what it's called.

[@ellieshaw951]

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile. Says in the description

[@thewatching191]

@FlyHighFuture Even if the message was old due to the distance it traveled, then it certainly proves of other life, and if the distance is long, than we should not fear of any contact for this generation, or the hundreds that would be ahead of us. The program is just to listen, like an eavesdropper, so no matter what, they would not know of us, for we just simple picked up the message but didn't stop it. I think it would amazing now to receive a message to finally shut some people up. :)

[@nytzje]

If everyone that watched this video donated 10 dollars, which isn't a large amount to give at all the search for life could continue. So everyone that watches this from now on should do their part and donate whatever you can, I sure as hell know I'm donating.

[@MasterRainwater1]

I'm convinced humanity is going to die on this rock