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2024 Ann Druyan Q&A: Voyager Golden Record, Cosmos, and Carl Sagan's Favorite Song
*** TURN ON SUBTITLES: This event was hosted and recorded by students on rented equipment, so please forgive us for our video and audio quality! ***
On February 13, 2024, the Cornell Astronomical Society and the Carl Sagan Institute were honored to hold an audience Q&A with Ann Druyan after a showing of Episode 6 of Cosmos at Cornell Cinema.
In addition to her work on Cosmos in 1980, Ann Druyan was the writer and producer for the two newer seasons of Cosmos (A Spacetime Odyssey in 2014 and Possible Worlds in 2020). She has written and co-written dozens of books, television shows, and movies, including six books with Carl Sagan and the film adaptation of Contact. She was also a member of the Voyager Golden Record team, which selected pictures, sounds, and music from Earth to cast out into space; her heartbeat and brain waves will roam the stars for millions of years.
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0:00 Opening Remarks
4:45 Q&A - Behind the scenes of Cosmos
12:45 What the Pale Blue Dot still teaches
20:56 Carl Sagan's favorite song
23:20 How to communicate science
28:38 The Voyager Golden Record
45:20 Thank you!
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Komentáře

  • @benitofrio
    @benitofrio Před 4 hodinami

    "who we could GET".. .Introducer at his best, and still despicable. 🤮 And this is why we are where we are today, 2024. Sagan is an Earthly treasure, to be cherished forever more.

  • @hughbarton5743
    @hughbarton5743 Před 17 hodinami

    Thank ylu.

  • @namenotshown9277
    @namenotshown9277 Před 3 dny

    since your students will forgive you for the issues, but non the less very annoying, make your guests comfortable at least a comfortable chair would be a good start, just a simple phone recording would have been better, so thats lesson two, have some redundency built in, like on rockets, just in case something goes wrong, but forgiven for the mistiakes of course. So the western explorers did a bad job, how about the new explorers? SpaceX, China etc, think they will treat other planets with respect? me thinks not, seems we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past........two human failures of character are: desire for control and lack of empathy ...............sort out those two and we have some chance for a good future.

  • @thomaschang4847
    @thomaschang4847 Před 5 dny

    And if there was no shovanism, God would save. I guess that was his weakness. Collasol collastropy.

  • @thomaschang4847
    @thomaschang4847 Před 5 dny

    Only 62. I am 62.

  • @thomaschang4847
    @thomaschang4847 Před 5 dny

    96

  • @thomaschang4847
    @thomaschang4847 Před 5 dny

    1934~1964 He died of cancer. Sad.

  • @thomaschang4847
    @thomaschang4847 Před 5 dny

    Carl thoufh gone is alive

  • @Lacresh
    @Lacresh Před 8 dny

    We have a privileged right to exhibit human beings in a Zoo (we don't at all, but we did until 1956)

  • @SalimMaroun-fb5rd
    @SalimMaroun-fb5rd Před 10 dny

    ❤❤❤❤ I was with You in the studio but you cannot see me because my voice was there

  • @TheHeidille
    @TheHeidille Před 11 dny

    He forgot to define civilization.

  • @MassVocals
    @MassVocals Před 13 dny

    LOve is the most important matter this connection waves all allow one to feel to think and be

  • @charlesthomas1159
    @charlesthomas1159 Před 14 dny

    SCORPIO STRIKES AGAIN !

  • @belialah
    @belialah Před 18 dny

    Sagan message for us is: be curious, be humble, be greatful and be optimistic

  • @richardlankas2050
    @richardlankas2050 Před 20 dny

    What a brilliant mind Carl was. Could hear a little ticking sound of his timer/clock as he delivered his lecture.

  • @ksalarang
    @ksalarang Před 20 dny

    the "on our own" response is so on point

  • @christopherbrzycki9525

    Yes science did deliver humanity from the dark place that it sat in. However in the last 100 years science has just gone around in circles and answers nothing. Only now there is much talk and the ones who listen have placed their faith in other humans who tell such wonderful tales of nothingness. How sad that humanity just repeats its mistakes over and over and loses its true faith again and again.

  • @MohamedAli_99
    @MohamedAli_99 Před 26 dny

    شخصية عظيمة

  • @manish7897
    @manish7897 Před 26 dny

    If i'd a wish, i would like to attend a lecture from Carl Sagan sir

  • @MichaelOfRohan
    @MichaelOfRohan Před 27 dny

    This man is the hardest ass

  • @shghs.
    @shghs. Před měsícem

    the Messiahs and prophets need to be made to take his class so the world can get rid of the religious shit

  • @waneetafisher5610
    @waneetafisher5610 Před měsícem

    😅😊

  • @jacksongrant2204
    @jacksongrant2204 Před měsícem

    Every human being feels at the center of at least the planet. Any point on a sphere is the center point.

  • @neilmccormick2064
    @neilmccormick2064 Před měsícem

    Fast forward 30 years and the world is filling up with Flat Earth dingbats who believe Carl Sagan was personally involved in a giant conspiracy to hide the " truth " concerning the shape of the earth and much much more . We're fucked as a species. The Rise of the New Dumb is gaining momentum under the likes of MAGA Americans and fundamentalist religious nutbags across the globe . Good luck everyone , we're going to need it.

  • @catalinmot375
    @catalinmot375 Před měsícem

    So sad that he's not alive today to see how much we evolve in space exploration.

    • @user-qp2xy5zs7r
      @user-qp2xy5zs7r Před 20 dny

      I think we were far more ahead with the space race than todays 💩 topics like LGBQT+ etc..

  • @pfflyer3381
    @pfflyer3381 Před měsícem

    46:00 the same with gerrymandering, create poverty, then expect good citizens? Or to finger point?

  • @pfflyer3381
    @pfflyer3381 Před měsícem

    43:35, and no other animal but the MALE human, ( the worse mutation of the *FEMALE EGG!) THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT KILLS FOR SEX! * THATS WHY males have nipples, it's in the egg!! We're all trans, in the deepest sense! Lindsay gramm and the rock don't have the same amount of testosterone! And a touch of estrogen! Some "touched" more then others!! Maybe Lindsay and Bea Arthur!!??? Maybe estrogen, instead! After all, "he" whimpers like donnys mommy! Lind,and donny, the BLOOD lovers!❤ In the streets, in his bath!??? Respectively, that is.

  • @stuthy_p_r
    @stuthy_p_r Před měsícem

    🖤🔥

  • @stewartbrands
    @stewartbrands Před měsícem

    Carl Sagan was a salesman for himself first and for dreams. A charlatan who thinks that studying million and billion year old light, from things that certainly do not exist as he perceives them anymore, has relevance to now. It does not.He is an entertainer of dreams that have no intrinsic use to us. What counts and is important, then and now, is our Earth, its natural habitats,here and now in our present moments. Cosmology is scientific and philosophical poppycock about the distant past whether true or almost true in facts. The seriousness of our harm to natural habitats cannot be ignored even for the frivolous dreams of a popular cosmologist however esteemed you may think he was. Funding must not go to these fantasies he dreamt up but rather to here and now and our life supporting synergistic ecosystem. All this cosmological nonsense hoovers extreme amounts of funding for galaxies and stars from the past that do not exist as they are observed now. They are illusions from the past made popular by Sagan who had a vested interest in promoting these esoteric studies. Had Carl Sagan studied and promoted heightened awareness of natural habitats and the interdependent synergies to all life and security they represent it is likely his popularity would have done something important and useful. But his interests only caused people to take their eyes off the ball.The ball being Earth and its life processes. The result is the harmful fact that resources are diverted toward space dreams instead of being directed to reducing habitat harm by humans. Sagan found there was a market for daydreaming and looking at stars while avoiding necessary chores and awarenesses. Existential philosophies and extrapolations harmed the awareness of repairs needed to the damaged respect for habitats. Carl Sagan was a daydream promoter. He created harm.

  • @xyzllii
    @xyzllii Před měsícem

    Science. Maths. Physics etc...is cerebral which is a very small part of each human. If it had a heart ...it would not design weapons of mass destruction etc. So on ur bikes clever dicks.

  • @joelmosier125
    @joelmosier125 Před měsícem

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. FACT: Sun-Sunlight causes GRAVITY, and All Matter is Positive and negative charges. The Atom is still a THEORY today, 2024. Theory defined =NOT proven, doesn't exist. Wikipedia Atomic Theory: states current theoretical model of the atom. FACT: Big to small is the secret to the Universe REVEALED. Sun-Sunlight causes gravity and has small magnets, Universe flows from Positive to negative from the sun to the planet. (Dust, Dirt, Stone is a Negative charge). While opposites attract (People, Plants and Animals) have Big magnets flowing from left to right from negative to positive possessing a positive Aura and are connected to the planet. All Terrans understand this and are taught in school. I am J.Terran, the only Terran to be born on Eden/Earth 54 years old. Thank you for sharing your video.

  • @PaulSmith-tt2cy
    @PaulSmith-tt2cy Před měsícem

  • @PaulSmith-tt2cy
    @PaulSmith-tt2cy Před měsícem

    Ithaca p I visited just to see Cornell beautiful little city of Ithaca

  • @Valhallen002
    @Valhallen002 Před měsícem

    Video starts at 5:08 if you get tired of the old man rambling about useless information.

  • @leftyriverfunforlife3411
    @leftyriverfunforlife3411 Před měsícem

    If Carl Sagan was a human , then what are we in comparison ?

  • @mickeyd1342
    @mickeyd1342 Před měsícem

    I love this philosopher scientist

  • @TheMaestromMephisto
    @TheMaestromMephisto Před měsícem

    Enlightened man. Enlightened video.

  • @user-osliki66
    @user-osliki66 Před 2 měsíci

  • @mjowsey
    @mjowsey Před 2 měsíci

    I am at the center of my universe. I'm always in the middle of everything that I've ever experienced.

  • @TheMetahedron
    @TheMetahedron Před 2 měsíci

    Jane Goodall should have brought an Auto-matic Rifle.

    • @TheMetahedron
      @TheMetahedron Před 2 měsíci

      Not to shoot them, to assume Dominance.

  • @TheMetahedron
    @TheMetahedron Před 2 měsíci

    It may have been Sagan, long ago... But what is Dead Stop in space? And how can We ever determine that? Thank you Carl.

  • @saganandroid4175
    @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

    46:03 I can tell the card/picture is of a group of people, but who are they and where/what does it show?

  • @davidabulafia7145
    @davidabulafia7145 Před 2 měsíci

    97% of scientists believe the earth was in the centre of the universe, and Galileo, who opposed this idea was a heretic

    • @Sektion9
      @Sektion9 Před měsícem

      I wouldn't have called most of the 97% "scientists".

  • @saganandroid4175
    @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

    It irritates me that these kids twice refer to "Tyson's version of COSMOS". Tyson read a script from a teleprompter, that's it. The script, the content, etc., was mostly Ann Druyan. And I think Steven Soter was also involved again to a degree.

  • @saganandroid4175
    @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

    22:12 Worth noting that Carl Sagan played piano at Carnegie Hall. No joke.

  • @JSalesFilm
    @JSalesFilm Před 2 měsíci

    Great to see, love this. Tragic audio, though. Let me know if you all do this again and need help.

  • @davedesoto3434
    @davedesoto3434 Před 2 měsíci

    So amazed by his ability to recall authors books etc.. amazing! So funny how the folks asking about God, conscience, ethnocentrism etc total missed the point. Case in point it we send a radio signal out into space right now. It would take 100000 years to traveling at the speed of light to only leave our milky way galaxy and for it to travel to another galaxy would take even longer... there are billions and billions of galaxies. IN SUMMARY... there's no chance of communication with other galaxies in any foreseeable future. We have everything we need here take care of it...its all we will ever have.

  • @mikebrigandi_
    @mikebrigandi_ Před 2 měsíci

    I’m excited to see the Carl Sagan movie Voyagers with Andrew Garfield. Wonder if that will come out this year

  • @saganandroid4175
    @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

    What resolution was this recorded at? At 720p is still looking like 360 or 480 lines. And any idea what caused the audio issue at 7:45?

    • @CarlSaganInstitute
      @CarlSaganInstitute Před 2 měsíci

      Along with the audio problems, our HD video also came out badly 😅This event was put together and recorded by students (which I am one of) on rented equipment, so we didn't have a whole lot of options. On top of that, the spotlights in Cornell Cinema were broken that night, so the better quality video was overexposed and we had to use this back-up (lower quality) video instead! Trust me, I went through a lot of turmoil over the quality of this video. I wish we could've had a professional recording, but we didn't have access to that. I hope you can still enjoy it!

    • @brownjoela
      @brownjoela Před 2 měsíci

      @@CarlSaganInstitutethank you for making this version available

    • @CarlSaganInstitute
      @CarlSaganInstitute Před 2 měsíci

      7:45 is when Cornell Cinema increased the volume. This made it easier to hear Ms. Druyan in the theater but started to add serious distortion to the recording (Cornell Cinema doesn't normally record audio, so they weren't aware this would be an issue, and of course you don't realize until after something like this happens)! I used the Cornell Cinema audio as much as I could before switching to our camera's echo-y audio for some of the later parts.

    • @saganandroid4175
      @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

      @@CarlSaganInstitute Glad you guys had backup equipment. Redundancy is so important in space affairs. It's mindboggling that the Cornell archivist, the Cornell media dept., and the science departments weren't all jockeying to get the best angles to record this. A living legend appears and it's beyond their interest to cover it?

    • @saganandroid4175
      @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

      @@CarlSaganInstitute well the first 7:45 sounded great. You find out for me who played with the volume without checking levels, and I will personally take them to task. You'd expect better from anyone connected to Cornell.

  • @CarlSaganInstitute
    @CarlSaganInstitute Před 2 měsíci

    Thanks for watching everyone! Please TURN ON SUBTITLES in order to hear it better. Before you ask "Why is the audio so hard to understand?" or "Why is the video quality low?": Our better quality camera was overexposed and everything was washed out, so we had to use this lower quality back-up recording :( As for the audio, there are two tracks here-one recorded directly from the microphone in Cornell Cinema and one from the video camera. Unfortunately, the audio had to be boosted in order for Ms. Druyan to be heard in the theater, but this maxed out the audio recording and made it extremely distorted, so I had to use the echo-y video camera audio for these parts instead. I was extremely bummed out about the audio since we worked so hard on this event. To compensate, I wrote subtitles for everything! I hope everyone can turn those on and still enjoy the video.

    • @saganandroid4175
      @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

      Can you control the Close Captioning text or is that Google-generated? At 17:39 Ann references the"crown of creation" but it says "ground of creation". Which of course makes no sense 🙂

    • @CarlSaganInstitute
      @CarlSaganInstitute Před 2 měsíci

      @@saganandroid4175I'll fix that, thanks!

    • @saganandroid4175
      @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

      40:40 I think Ann refers to Chou Wen-chung. @CarlSaganInstitute

    • @CarlSaganInstitute
      @CarlSaganInstitute Před 2 měsíci

      @@saganandroid4175Great sleuthing! Updated that as well.

    • @saganandroid4175
      @saganandroid4175 Před 2 měsíci

      @@CarlSaganInstitute still butthurt over lack of Vegan ice cream! 🤬😜😤😲👽🌎