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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:04 AM
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For your viewing pleasure, Carl Sagans "Cosmos". Link to entire series.
Edited on Sat Feb-14-09 12:06 AM by nytemare
IMHO, the best science series ever, and there have been many great ones.

Every episode is posted, with decent quality. The dvd is quite expensive, so this is a good alternative.

Carl will be forever missed.

Please try to keep kicked so many can enjoy.

http://spctv.feedbeat.com/home/?topic=video&search=cosmos

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:09 AM
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1. How many stars are out there, Carl?
“billyuns and billyuns”

:P
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:16 AM
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4. I read a book by him with that title.
Edited on Sat Feb-14-09 12:16 AM by nytemare
The first line is, "For the record, I never said it." The Johnny Carson impersonation stuck!

:)
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:22 AM
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5. Battle of the PBS Network Stars
:P
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:09 AM
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2. I love Carl Sagan.
:hug: :loveya:
Thank you.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:15 AM
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3. I bought the DVD set on Ebay a few years back.
I sometimes play it as I try to go to sleep to relax me. Nothing like a universe of wonder to drift off to sleep to!

:hi:
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:32 AM
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6. He was a sweetie. Reminds me a lot of Mr. Rogers.
I miss Carl Sagan and Mr. Rogers. :(
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:55 AM
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7. This is PLATINUM!!
Thank you! :hug:
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:33 AM
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9. You're quite welcome!
If one was to sit straight through, it would be 13 hours of prime viewing.

:)
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:32 AM
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8. Nice!
:D
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:34 AM
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10. Holy cow, I forgot the apostrophe to make his name a possessive!
An apostrophe catastrophe!

:D
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:37 AM
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11. Thank you!
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:25 PM
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17. Sure thing!
I've gotten such enjoyment out of my DVD's of this program, I need to share the wealth.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 07:46 AM
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12. What a lovely Valentine's Day gift, nytemare. Thank you.
"This is what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of evolution."
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:24 PM
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16. "There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach of the planet Earth."
Just that thought is staggeringly amazing.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:12 PM
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21. And "We are made of star stuff".
If that fact doesn't make your socks roll up and down, better check your blood pressure.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:20 PM
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22. I love that term.
Star Stuff. :)
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 08:45 AM
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13. Superb, but don't forget "Connections"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 11:56 AM
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14. And his "The Day the Universe Changed" n/t
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:22 PM
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15. That's why I had to add the IMHO.
I still enjoy Nova, and "The Universe" on the History Channel is quite enjoyable. I TIVO these shows like crazy.

:)
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:45 PM
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25. Connections was the shizz!
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:26 PM
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18. I had it downloaded, got up to about episode 5 or 6 I think.
... then that harddrive went kaputski.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:37 PM
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20. It was too much for the hard drive to handle.
:)

I like how the show documents the Voyager missions, with the giant computers and huge tapes the pictures are stored on. I wonder what Carl would think of today's computer imaging capabilities.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 12:27 PM
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19. Thank you for that,
and thank you Mr. Sagan!
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:29 PM
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23. Well, that's right up my alley.
Obviously. :-)
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:38 PM
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24. ROFL!
:rofl:

It obviously is. It would NOT be an extraordinary claim to say that is was up your alley.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 01:52 PM
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26. Another great series that no one ever heard of...


The Mechanical Universe... And Beyond, is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology, funded by the Annenberg/CPBProject, and produced by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (a non-profit consortium of California community colleges). The series introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Universe

Residents of the US and Canada can legally stream the entire series http://www.intelecom.org/course_info.asp?id=22">here.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 02:02 PM
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28. Thanks, I will bookmark that one.
:hi:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 02:01 PM
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27. Do they have Eugene Weber's The Western Tradition. That was some fucking show!
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 02:05 PM
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29. The main website I linked too has many science and documentary programs.
It may just be on there.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 05:33 PM
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30. Kick for the afternoon crowd.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 10:01 PM
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31. Kick for night shift.
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