DJ Sagan is in the House
October 31, 2009 5:48 PM Subscribe
Linking together Science, Music and Poetry Symphony of Science - "We Are All Connected" featuring Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. An amazing remix sampling The History Channel's Universe series, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Universe by Stephen Hawking, Cosmos, The Powers of 10, and more.
I know it's meant to be ironic and hokey, but I've rewatched this several times now and I find myself amazed each time. It's fun, more than a bit poetic, and downright beautiful.
The part that gets me each time, though, is Carl Sagan's chorus. I was six years old when Cosmos first premiered on PBS, and I remember my parents sitting me down in front of the TV to watch since I was also a big Star Wars and Star Trek fan-in-the-making. Carl is a personal hero to me, so I started to tear up when I watched this part:
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We're made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Re-read that last line aloud: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Sheer genius and poetry wrapped in one.
I know it's meant to be ironic and hokey, but I've rewatched this several times now and I find myself amazed each time. It's fun, more than a bit poetic, and downright beautiful.
The part that gets me each time, though, is Carl Sagan's chorus. I was six years old when Cosmos first premiered on PBS, and I remember my parents sitting me down in front of the TV to watch since I was also a big Star Wars and Star Trek fan-in-the-making. Carl is a personal hero to me, so I started to tear up when I watched this part:
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We're made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Re-read that last line aloud: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Sheer genius and poetry wrapped in one.
This post was deleted for the following reason: We are more connected than you can possibly imagine. -- cortex
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