Cosmos

[Mich the Tester]

Watching it all over again, starting here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NAW...eature=related

Watched it as a child. Still as brilliant as ever.

[darmstadt]

Cosmopolitan is also pretty good

[PM-Junkie]

Ah, Professor Kermie. A sad loss.

Try this one...Sagan combined with Pink Floyd and a stunning bit of video.

linky

[HairyArsedBloke]

One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century wrote: "Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."



I watched "The Ascent of Man" last year. Bit heavy going in parts.

[TimberWolf]

Watching it all over again, starting here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NAW...eature=related

Watched it as a child. Still as brilliant as ever.

Good call And while you're at it YouTube some Vangelis.

Also these

And in the interlude : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

[Mich the Tester]

Good call And while you're at it YouTube some Vangelis.

Also these

And in the interlude : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

What first got me interested in science when I was about 8 years old was Sagan´s bendy map with two little pillars to show how Eratosthenes deduced that the earth is round. Look at that; two of humanity's most brilliant minds in one sentence.

[doodab]

Watching it all over again, starting here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NAW...eature=related

Watched it as a child. Still as brilliant as ever.

I have it on DVD here, I never saw it before. First class television.

[NickFitz]

I watched "The Ascent of Man" last year. Bit heavy going in parts.

That bit when he's crouching in the pond at Auschwitz, and reaches beneath the surface to pull up a handful of ashes which could contain fragments of his own family (a number of whom were murdered there), and cradles them in his hands as he continues to talk to camera about that grossest of all abuses of mankind's technological capabilities...

[Churchill]

One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century wrote: "Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

I watched "The Ascent of Man" last year. Bit heavy going in parts.

Isn't that from HHGTTG?

Not googled it.

[Coalman]

Any one been watching the Wonders of the Solar System by Professor Brian Cox - briliant and simply explains everything.

Latest episode about the rings of Saturn - excellent.

And yes he was part of D'Ream and did 'Things can only get better ...'