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Carl Sagan’s The Planets

May 19, 2011 Comments off
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Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

May 19, 2011 Comments off
Cosmos
A Personal Voyage  is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.[1] It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people.[2][3] A book to accompany the series was also published.

Episode 1: “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”
Episode 2: “One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue”
Episode 3: “The Harmony of the Worlds”
Episode 4: “Heaven and Hell”
Episode 5: “Blues for a Red Planet”
Episode 6: “Travellers’ Tales”
Episode 7: “The Backbone of Night”
Episode 8: “Journeys in Space and Time”
Episode 9: “The Lives of the Stars”
Episode 10: “The Edge of Forever”
Episode 11: “The Persistence of Memory”
Episode 12: “Encyclopaedia Galactica”
Episode 13: “Who Speaks for Earth?”
Episode 14: “Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan”
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God, The Universe and Everything Else

May 17, 2011 Comments off

Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.