I find the opening music on Carl Sagan's web page Beautiful and haunting ...

http://www.carlsagan.com/

what do you think ?

It's an absolutely lovely piece of music Byron, you're right :)

Hi Byron.
I think I could listen to that page all day :)
It's by Vangelis.
http://youtu.be/80Lwj_ybVno
I have a CD with that song on it.

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I find the opening music on Carl Sagan's web page Beautiful and haunting ...

http://www.carlsagan.com/

what do you think ?

It's an absolutely lovely piece of music Byron, you're right :)

+1

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The music you mention is by Vangelis and it's part of the score for the original Cosmos series, that CS "compered" back in late 1980....

And yes it is very "ambient" - glad that Vangelis allowed a sample to be used.

I've got the series on DVD, which came out in 2000 ;)

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Good morning everyone :)

Good morning Byron:)

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Howdy and good afternoon, Byron!

CC

Hi CC good to see you.

An interview with Carl during the making of NOVA's "Time Travel."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/Sagan-Time-Travel.html



He butts heads with Stephen Hawking a bit here.
Although I would agree with Hawking that time travel into the past is impossible, Sagan makes me feel slightly silly for thinking that.

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COSMOS

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilization grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, based on his acclaimed television series.

An interview with Carl during the making of NOVA's "Time Travel."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/Sagan-Time-Travel.html



He butts heads with Stephen Hawking a bit here.
Although I would agree with Hawking that time travel into the past is impossible, Sagan makes me feel slightly silly for thinking that.

Interesting.

I basically subscribe to the idea that if time travel were possible, we'd know about it because there would be people from the future here. The Hitchhiker's Guide series paints a fairly realistic picture of what a society with time travel would be like. I know it's trying to be rather cynical, but I think it's closer to the truth than we'd like. (I also allow for the Star Trek model, from the Voyager era, where by the time it's invented, society has enough self discipline not to make a mess of the past like in Hitchhiker's, but that theory doesn't allow for other less idealistic races having it, which they surely would, which is demonstrated pretty well in Enterprise.)

However, Sagan presents some interesting arguments, such as it only being possible to go back to the point where it's invented.

Being able to only go forward is, as I understand it, compatible with relativity as we already know it: invent a way to go fast enough, and you'll end up at some point in the future almost instantly from your perspective, but with no way to get back.

I have always wondered why it takes time, from the perspective of people in the TARDIS, for it to travel through time. The easiest answer, of course, is that that's how the writers need it to be so they can get in whatever dialog or plot developments they need.

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Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

We are time travellers....

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I wouldn't be able to tell how Carl Sagan and Cosmos actually changed my life... basically because it didn't change it. I've never felt like I belonged to this world, I mean the societies in which we are living. What Carl Sagan revealed to me is that you don't need to have a scientific degree to understand how our world works and that was priceless!

For those interested, in case this hasn't been posted yet: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 1977: The Planets by Carl Sagan

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Well, this man has been forgotten...

...but will always be remembered (now there's a nice paradox for ye:))

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