Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before his death in 1996. MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details.
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#MSNBC #CarlSagan #2021
I read that book around that time, when I was a teen in Bogotá Colombia; he inspired me to become a scientist. Today I’m finishing my PhD in neuroscience.
Thats great I'm happy for you.
You go Os! Carl inspired me too as a teen watching Cosmos. I got my PhD and worked as a neuroscientist until early retirement 13 years ago. Right now is a remarkable time to be in the field. Since the Human Genome Project was completed, molecular research (what I did) in neuroscience has accelerated incredibly fast, but I hope you remember to keep an eye on the human side of your work, and never lose your sense of wonder. That's what Carl taught me. Good luck to you :-)
Congratulations!!
Right on!
@@beenaplumber8379 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
if he were here today, he'd probably think "this is worse than I could have imagined."
He fortunately escaped the worst. Knowing is not the same as experiencing.
He did think MJ would be legal soon, but look at where we are
"And I have a pretty good imagination"
He is likely rolling in his grave.
Truly prophetic.
In all honesty, I imagine he’d probably be a vocal part of the throng pushing for socialization of governments, standardization of publicly available information and willing to accept slow attrition of individual liberties in exchange for a more widespread acknowledgement of intrinsic human and natural truths.
As much as I admire Sagan, this has always been my disagreement with his approach.
"Celebration of ignorance" is what I call social media.
Carl Sagan hit the nail on the head right there. It's quite depressing really.
Good luck and Good night to all.
when people are “unable to set their own agendas” and “unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true” hit hard
and he’s so right about the dumbing down in media and shorter attention spans. back in the day focus was a given. now I look at how unrealistic modern cartoons or movies are compared to 30-50 years ago
@@iceswallow7717 Funny, that he was meaning superstitious people and the fundamentalist religious rejecting science, not the rise of far-right extremists using fascist tactics to ban books, attack teachers and professors, rejecting medical professionals' advice, demonizing minority groups and so on.
Naah.
Social media is not the Blame, it just added Fuel and momentum to an already utterly dumb, self absorbed, borderline illiterate, obese and truly clueless country.
Truth.
I wonder if Brian Williams recognized the irony of what he read?
We don't know what we don't know.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
That's an on point quote from Asimov (who was a very imaginative and influential author).
Beautiful. It's true.
Exactly my point on the weakness of democracy. If to that we add that the people educated/capable of making the "right" calls (pandemics, climate change, etc...) are in a minority and that a substantial amount of the majority could be "easily" mislead or manipulated then we are simply doomed.
This is it right here
The founding fathers grappled with that. That’s why the Senate was not elected by popular vote in the beginning
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
Isaac Asimov.
"I have hairy legs"
A senile crook.
“I never had sexual relations with that woman”
A sexual predator from Arkansas.
@@Bruv234 What does this have to do with this subject matter? Think about that, if you can.
@@sampleis
*Tara Reade*
Funny thing is, that what hypocritically shocked you so much about T locker room talk, back then,
_"they LET YOU grab them by the P"_
is what B DID,
plus, he refuses to release the evidence.
You didn't "THINK" much about that. Did you, *hypocrite* ?
Ask, Kamala..... 🤫
@@Z1BABOUINOS Let's see this "evidence"...or STFU
I was born in the UK in 1984 and only really discovered Carl Sagan around 10 years ago. He is an inspiration, as a man, as an advocate of public scientific engagement and much more. He is one of my greatest heroes and I just wish he could have stayed with us a bit longer, the world needs voices like his more than ever
He is asking exactly the same questions I'm asking if I'm seeing a sci-fi movie.
Let's pretend (even if it's extremely unlikely) we would find a planet where an almost hairless, apelike species is the intelligent lifeform. Since everything that's big enough to be a planet has the form of a ball and therefore have different zones, wouldn't it be it like on earth, where the people from different regions have different colors and looks?
The rest Carl Sagan says is correct as well.
I just can't believe that almost nothing changed in the (40 or so) years after the interview.
I never realised he wrote the movie contact with Jodie Foster
goon
we sure need him now. My god, the most p opular people nowadays, are athletes and movie stars. Why CAN'T they be professors or teachers??
Most excellent video! Carl nailed it exactly 25 years ago.
Gave me chills to read his last words. He also said: "We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it."
Big pharma, who else? And who runs big pharma....? Connect the dots.
@@grotekleum Thanks for this I’m gonna check it out 🙏🏻
so he’s basically advocating for a technocracy
This is what happen when hunter laptop was ignoring.
The Trump administration, the Saudi Royal family, and the Republic of China are the biggest examples of failed leadership in this regard. They all have gaslighted their respected populaces to the point that could lead to the world's complete extinction.
Unfortunately those who need to hear his message wouldn't understand that he was talking about them.
🎯 👍🏼
Your right but enough about trump supporters
My daughters say that all the time about some of our relatives, especially the ones their age.
It's a shame you focus on the last few lines and don't see the bigger picture.,
I hate how this always happens….
I never once stopped having an appreciation for Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan made me realize that I was connected to the earth and the stars and to every single thing on this planet.
Carl Sagan literally inspired me to be really interested in stargazing/ Science/ Tech & the perception that we are not as important as we think we are but are also more important than we think we are at the same time.🤯
I want Carl Sagan, HG Wells, George Orwell and Nikola Tesla back. That would be an amazing dinner.
Cannibal...
Throw Da Vinci into the mix....
With George Carlin as the moderator.
Perhaps Hanibal Lecter could have Donald Trump over for dinner....With some fava beans and a nice chianti
I remember even as an 8 year old I wondered why Chewie didn't get a medal.
Lol, me too.
I kinda thought in my young mind; had he received a medal, it would get tangled up in his hair. 😊
I thought back then, and later got it confirmed, that Fisher was just too short to hang it on him in a dignified manner. :P
I'm pretty sure he got it in the novelization.
Presumably wookiees have a religious prohibition against medals and they're just being culturally sensitive
Me too!!
Wow, I remember as a kid 1978, 8yrs old why do white people hate Black people so much and I was still upset Elvis died. smh
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan
Yes. It's much easier to fool someone than to make them see they were fooled.
Malvolm X said it as well: we've been bamboozled and hoodwinked. My purple have been screaming it for years only to be silenced and met with backlash. Now, we have no other choice but to stand up and look at what our "founding fathers" and their descendants gave us.
@@SusanKay- Trump could "stand in the middle of 5th ave and shoot someone and he wouldn't lose voters." For as much as a pathological liar as he is, that statement was true.
Wow! This is an astounding statement in these times, and so relevant to our current situation. Great quote!
Like it is said, if you keep repeating a lie enough times, eventually people will believe it. The evidence is staring us straight in the face. Will enough of us believe it now to make a change?
20+ years ago, this book fundamentally changed my worldview. As I write this, it's on the the shelf behind me, a bit worn and yellowed. I'll never forget the clarity it gave me. I only wish that more would come to the light of that candle.
I discovered Carl Sagan in 2008. I watched and rewatched his cosmos series several times. then I watched them once more in 2020 when the show turned 40. He's always been a voice of reason for me
and its all BS
“a kind of celebration of ignorance”.
wow did he ever nail that!!!!!
@@activatefiasco5843Jesus called! He hates you.
@@mrmark8603*
@@activatefiasco5843 Are you limited in vocabulary? You just repeat the same nonsense to everyone here.
Just like a trumpian "nuremberg" rally.
A “celebration of ignorance” is exactly what we’re dealing with here and now, he hit the nail on the head!
Especially in the White house
Hilarious….BLM and Woke “racism” are dying Just watch.
Absolutely.. Being woke, to me that means intelligence, knowledge and thinking for themselves, is a bad thing and praising a horrible person and giving applause to idiots on stage is now a thing... Read many of his books and I still didn't see this coming.. How ignorant I was in my thinking that, no, not here, not in the US.. Smdh
Everyone start reading books.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - MLK
We're doomed and we all just sit back and watch it. I hope we all have the courage to do the right thing when the time comes. God bless us all at the end of the day We're only human.
“To me, not teaching science would be perverse.. when you’re in love you want to tell the world.” - Dr. Sagan
I miss that brilliant man. I miss the calm inflection of his voice and the concise and articulate way he explained the Universe. RIP Carl Sagan.
The world is poorer without his intelligence and wisdom.
@@Dan_Ben_Michael Also, richer for having him here to lift us up.
I thought you were talking about Johnny Carson; then I got to the end of your eulogy and stood corrected!😅
Death is a ponzi scheme proven by quantum physics a long time ago.
There are any others, if you choose to listen.
Social Media is one of the biggest double edge swords in human history
so is profitable news
TV was much worse it did not let you generate your own content at all a slave to a box .
Everyone has a voice on social media and now the world is confronted with an uneasy truth..... We don't need this many opinions. We want to believe adding more cooks enhances the gumbo that is our social discourse.
@@danielesposito9705 and so is profitable prison systems.
It’s just tittytainment to feed junk food into our brain so when don’t think
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Wow. He really did describe the whole thing. Goosebumps
Some people are pure light in the darkness .. we miss you Carl Sagan. RIP
... and Christopher Hitchens.
@@alphabravo8703 Indeed! Love Christopher Hitchens. As a person living outside the United states and being young i just learned about these two people a couple of years ago.
@@kristofferhellstrom Carl's explaining dumbing down. That would explain Brian Williams
Remember Piggy in Lord of the Flies? Same thing. The only one making sense was killed.
"A celebration of ignorance" hit it on the head with that one
Pretty much describes the last four years!
@@dryroasted5599 lol, no. Biden is destroying America. But that barbecue tho.
Twitter and TikTok
@Blue Jazz MSNBC Lawyers DON'T CLAIM THEIR ANCHORS ARE ENTERTAINERS FOX DOES. GOING SO FAR AS TO ADMITTING ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE NEWS ARE IDIOTS
@Blue Jazz you're reaching, I think he meant the media as whole and how it would influence people who don't question where the information comes from. The dumbed the better
It's amazing how he could call out issues without insulting or placing blame on anyone or any group in particular. I strive to be as good a communicator as he was
So back in the 90s I was in college getting my psychology degree and one teacher gave the most amazing lessons where he spoke of the world and what it will look like in 30 years. OMG I started seeing it about 10 years ago and today.... BOOM 💥🎯... Here we are. Exactly where he said we'd be. I took a lot of classes, had a lot of teachers but he's the only one who gave lessons you couldn't stop listening to.
"Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true"
Sounds like America
Yep...sounds like the every liberal everywhere
@@lillypatrick8481 then explain global warming.
@@lillypatrick8481 i was going to comment on all the talking points and misinformation you spouted but i think the video that Honest Brian has shared has done it for me.
Truth always made me feel better.✌️
@@billybarnes1763 What about climate change? The world needs to address it, and it is.
“Celebration of ignorance” that one alone explains current events
Who was it wrote, "when ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?
Sagan was talking about these Trump fools, who follow a Nazi leader that likes the "Dumb & Dumber Philosophy!" Who needs Freedom when you have Trumpism, just make up your own truths and lie about everything else!
Yes indeed . I call it willful ignorance .
@@leemendham4788 Thomas Gray, 1742
People burning masks.
Truely a message the world desperately needs to hear and actualize.
LOL he was describing msnbc and their viewers
"All the way back in 1995" sounds strange when most people haven't even adapted to the 21st century yet.
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I'm 50 years old, and my first thought was "1995 wasn't 25 years ago!" Haha, how time flies.
Carl Sagan's predictions weren't as astonishing as they might sound. He was merely extrapolating from trends that had already started from then. By 1995, Reagan had already been the president, America's industrial core had started degrading, jobs were already being offshored, people were already discussing China's entry to the WTO, Newt Gingrich was already speaker of the house, we already had cable TV.
And a new technology called the internet was working its way around the world.
Adapted? Lol Ppl are ppl and that will never change. Nothing changes asides from the technology and the emporers. We use to have a nice free society until the leaders of our country sold us out to corporations and the Constitution became *for the ppl instead of Of the ppl. You see how 1 lil word changes everything? Also you act like 95 was long ago but it was merely a blink of the eye. You'll understand when (or if) you get off the surface and mature a bit more. He actually touched up on that a bit when he was speaking about the dumbing down of America but you thought he was speaking about adaption like it was a good thing ppl are turning into mindless robots lol
This was 80s
"The dumbing down of America ... the lowest common denominator ... the power of technology in the hands of the few ... the masses retreat to superstition ... the celebration of ignorance." Well Sagan was right and here we are!!
Yes here we are. All he said was so true
If our state is predictable, then organize and incentivize the logical course corrections.
Socialist education is a wonderful thing.
But but at least I am white ... you. Diuu.
@@roughhabit9085 Socialism keeps the dumbest of them alive.
Truly the definition of ahead of his time
“Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true.” Wow
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." - Carl Sagan
The failure of the public school system is cultural and intentional
@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384
Whatever troll! The topic is Carl Sagan !
Try to keep up !
@@AndiDuck sounds like you got left behind brother.
@@billybarnes1763
You sound like one of those weirdos who thinks the only gender on social media is male.
@@AndiDuck wtf are you talking about? Do you even know?
How far left behind are you? Getting a lil desperate....
Asimov predicted it in 1941 (Nightfall); the mob dismisses great minds and critical thinking.
Try Robert Heinlein, "Revolt in 2100"...almost LITERALLY what we're fighting against.
Great mind. Great man as well.
or read what George Washington had to say about political parties in his farewell address. it'll sound VERY familiar.
Kurt Vonnegut
Very appropriate references guys _ i ll submit Steel Pulse Wild goose chase. 😃
This guy was so ahead of his time, intelligent, and the sort of mind you'd want running this country. Not like a large portion of those who are, and have in the past, run this country.
Carl died when I was a young boy, but boy oh boy did he change my life forever.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
And that is about all We have left..............Paul
yeah, well that is everyone on Earth then.
Sounds like he was talking about ANTIFA and BLM.
@@justgivemethetruth nah, mostly just Trump and his supporters.
@@YM-zz5qq
I'd like to think that, but it's just not true.
When being a scientist, doctor or intellectual is a negative trait to so many people it’s become a very scary and sad world.
It's a return to the European dark ages
I'm pretty sure you can thank religions for that!
@@mlblja ... The GloBULL warming religion. Zuckerberg has appointed himself the GOD of LEFTYISM. All anti-dogma dissenters are HERETICS.
@@GordoGambler I think you just proved melvins point
@@GordoGambler Thank you. I'd rather have truth than an imaginary voice from the sky guiding my morals. People like you abandon even the most primary rules of your chosen religion in the names of people that never existed.
"The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading. It's a depressingly accurate prediction of the shitshow we're in.
In 1974 a PSA by Leonard Nimoy
said we would soon die of a ice age
2022 I'm still here
Carl Sagan was a rare American sage. He foresaw the frightful descent into barbaric celebration of ignorance we witness today.
No greater statement was made with fewer words.
👍🏼
*CELEBRATION OF IGNORANCE:* Wearing a sticker BRAGGING that you took an experimental vaccine with zero long-term safety data made by known criminals who lie about trial data for something that has a 99.95% survival rate for people under 50. "Pfizer has been a habitual offender, persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results." - PubMed
@@markbernhardt6281 : Thanks so much. Carl Sagan, in both science and humanities, was a seer and a breath of fresh air. The world desperately needs more enlightened beings like him.
robotron17 I see you got down the rabbit hole good 🙄
“Chewbacca deserves a medal” - Carl Sagan
I've never seen star wars but is that really true? At the end the human crew gets a medal but he doesn't?
I can't give you a like (because nice), but I can say I 100% agree
@@DaveWraptastic Yes, it's true.
Chewbacca was oath bound to Han Solo, but i agree that he deserves a medal.
Ever occur to anyone that Chewbacca may have declined to be awarded? We assume wookie culture would let him accept it.
I clicked for Carl Sagan, got Brian Williams. Shouldn't have ignored the MSNBC logo ...
I loved his show Cosmos, it really inspired me when I was growing up. It was so awesome!
Sagan would be horrified to know those "10 second sound bites" have been reduced to mouse clicks.
Literally just headlines. People get their news from headlines.
You’re both behind .. memes and tweets with a character limit. You’re left to interpret them however you can because there will never be any context ..
My expert says so
He speaks for us
Or extended to a whole show by Tucker Carlson...
He wouldn't have been horrified, he would have anticipated it as the natural next step in the regressive evolution of human consumption.
That excerpt gave me chills. That guy was a visionary. Too bad no one listened hard enough to stop it.
If I only had the money, support and like minded individuals who thought like myself. Carl Sagan
Shaped my life in so many ways...I still think of him fondly in these days gone by. Seems less than a parsec ago
He represented the best of humanity and still does.
I read that 25 years ago. The book is still on my nightstand. It was a damning report on what was wrong with us and I have yet to read it to the end. Why? It shook me and I needed a break. I will finish it once I recover.
Every word in that quote is an undeniable truth of our present state of being. Sometimes I dread being around for the next 20 years, because how badly things are right now.
There's a chance we'll be here to see things get better.
@@randygibbons7817 Given the lobbying by the fossil fuel industry on the policy of the US that chance is deliberately being shrunk by corruption, greed and self interest.
To copy the words of the great George Carlin..
"it's never gonna get any better. Don't look forward to it. Be happy with what you got."
If you listen to the crowd react to Segan's comments you'll notice laughter,
back then they call such comments humor.
Keep the faith, we all need to, and try to be the best we can ❤️
Just another example of what happens when "smart" people do not get the amount of press as singers and actors
...the amount of time as dumb people
I have often thought of that but somehow it is difficult to gather a crowd in a stadium around a group of scientists doing lab work for the next discovery. Perhaps more scientists should get more publicity for their accomplishments. However, I fear that there may be a hurdle to understanding what they did compared to someone putting a ball in a net.
People who tell the truth don't get fanfare. George Carlin always did. He was a legend. When he passed it was like "oh yeah comedian George Carlin died". All just to redirect people away from the truth about how we royally messed things up? It's right there in front of us. Most of us just want quality of life to improve. We are wasting time following social media.
celebration of ignorance? SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THEM DARN RALLIES TO ME, WHAT Y'ALL THINK
@Captain Obvious 'We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.' Professor Julius Sumner Miller. 1940
Brian Williams adds an extra later of trustworthiness to this segment. Well done!
Mind blowing 😒🤯America really is in decline. I was thinking just about these things while watching George Carlin… can’t remember how I ended up seeing Carl Sagan and, unfortunately for me, today is the first time I hear of him … priceless work 🙏
I am a peon with a BA who loudly shouted the same sentiments over 20 years ago. It didn't take an astrophysicist to see where America was headed.
Well, it may not require an astrophysicist, but obviously many of us don’t or didn’t have the requisite skills to see that, at least not many of us… that said, Im in the south, poor education, I didn’t even graduate and I could see the writing on the wall 20 years ago too… I think others were concerned about it even 50+ years ago. They were shouted down, shamed and called names for their concerns for humanity and the system that we rely on, I’m not sure things are one bit better now, just further advanced.
True.
@@swayback7375
It's never too late to graduate if you wanted to. There's lots of help out there.
Good luck.
"The United States has gone from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." - Albert Einstein
That was Oscar Wild as far as I know. My apologies if I am wrong Could be of French origin to. But Its a great quote,
@@karllansche9843 You might be right! It sounds more like O.Wild than Einstein (he finished his life in America and this quote wouldn't have helped).
@@karllansche9843 Wilde.
@@wordsculpt Wilde of course. thanks !
Perfect words to sum up a nation in a single sentence.
He absolutely got a medal.
Chewbacca not getting a medal bugged me, too!
An absolute legend. I'd argue his greatest contribution to science was his ability to make it accessible to everyone. He could take incredibly complex ideas and simplify them enough for the average person to understand without coming off as condescending.
Agreed. Well said!💕
The way to distinguish between an informed and intelligent person, and someone who Really knows their stuff, is that the first resort to jargon, and the second understand the information so well that they can think of a dozen everyday examples!
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-Isaac Asimov (1980)
Isaac was a dirty old man that aussalted young women.
@@grantlong6586 Cool story bro.
@@grantlong6586 Be Best.
@@Billkwando :)
@@grantlong6586 have we come to this? Not everything has to be negative. Be better than that Sis.
Segan passed away, he now has answers to truth that the majority if not all of us alive don't fully know.
All we can do now is shed a tear.
My religious denomination is unapologetically "Sagan".
I passionately watched "Cosmos" as a teenager and I recall my dad once commenting , "You are even starting to sound like him." Sagan inspired my choice of college courses. He was a HUGE influence on my life.
Same here! I went into theoretical physics because of Sagan.
Well done...there are few people who deserve the status of being the epitome of greatness.
He had a beautiful mind.
Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" is a must-read for every thinking human being.
Preach. Irony noted.
Ummm Thank You…I’m buying the book…🤔🧐
The section 'Baloney Detection Kit' is essential reading. It's worth buying the book alone for.
not
Put it on my wishlist
So glad I discovered Carl and his work through a song I heard last year..
This is, oh man, there are so many words for this...sobering is one word that comes to mind. Thank you for this.
The problem is most people WANT to live within their illusions.
its easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
human nature.
Right, or rather their 'delusions'; Ignorance isn't 'bliss'. It can actually turn quickly into willful schizophrenia.
That's because the late 20th century & the current 21st century realities have thoroughly *sucked* so far.
@@jobob47 You just explained MAGA loyalism.
Ignorance is bliss, after all...
He knew how stupid we were and would be and currently are
No doubt.
@@normalguycap And who put them in charge?
George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Exactly- we have Biden / democrats destroying every state they control and we’re so stupid, they we elect these idiots to the highest power of office. Hope you’re practicing your Mandarin. China 🇨🇳 is coming
The smartest of us pull the rest of us forward, the dumbest drag us down.
That is terrifyingly accurate
80% of the comments on this thread perfectly prove his point.
Boy that last sentence about the media was right on. They are a huge factor in the "dumbing down......".
This one and all. We have great mistakes to correct. And there’s no point in even explaining them anymore. I’ve given up. People truly are ignorant.
@@danielcurcio6642 This channel is what brought Sagan's prescient words to peoples' attention. The media Mr. Sagan was alluding to was obviously rightwing propaganda garbage like OAN, Newsmax, and FoxNews. Evidently you're one of the ignorant and misinformed that desperately needs to get out of his safe little echo chamber bubble.
@@Brendan-Black hahaha. Take it from someone who is from former socialists country, under the government which consist of former socialist we couldn't lustrate, people like you will bring democracy down. We all use to look up to USA, now we lough at you, you are becoming more communist then we ever was and that is sad. Deevolution at work!
You forgot Trump!
Ever hear of the US FCC's Fairness Doctrine?
We should listen to more intellectuals and scholars. Hello? Studying never stops.
You mean the intellectual elite 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱❗
That's right. Yes, there are the uneducated. But it's not a lack of education or degrees per se. A lot of people have an aversion to learning in this country. Hence, the contempt for experts. Studying never stops and it begins with critical reading. Many can't do that, and they don't have a factory to keep busy.
I'm still learning
That makes you a radical leftist in 2021 though. Bigly.
I think that people who are of the perspective that it is NOT necessary to continue studying throughout their entire lives should be incarcerated for the safety and security of everyone else.
....they say Truth Conquers All...Mr.C.Sagan was a definition of that...pure, true and humble too
That quote from The Demon-Haunted World is chillingly prophetic.
If only being smart and educated meant something to virtually everyone like it used to.
Trump MAGA followers and Covidiots are proof of the dumbing down of America.
Because being book smart doesn't mean you have common sense or can think for yourself. Usually. I do think he was able to collect information he received and he was able to break it down and put it into his own way of thinking. He was obviously able to think for himself and not take everything he was taught from books as the truth. Using star wars is a good example of what we are. All the different creatures resemble different cultures and stero types. It doesn't mean there are other Galaxys, but its symbolic to the nature of ppl, and quite possibly our future.
@@janetduncan87 hi how are you? explain how cancer research is a common sense or related to common sense or requires common sense to save millions of lives? In this way many of our societal issues are exterior to what common sense solutions can address. Thanks and read a book
Just please not the bible lol.
People have never wanted to be smart and educated. They just have ALWAYS thought they already are.
I got goosebumps hearing those predictions. Every word has come true.
That was pretty exact. Frightening.
Me too, chilling!
Goosebumps mean truth \ this is the Holyghost helping us tell truth from lies! Thank you
@@jamesmoses6092 Well, the notion or irony seems to be lost on you.
My thoughts exactly. Hard to believe he said that over 25 years ago! He was a true genius.
We need you now more than ever Carl.
The real irony here is that this is being played on MSNBC.
Sagan's quotes literally gave me chills from how accurately he described what has happened to us 25 yrs. ago. WOW!
He basically described the Republicans of today, especially those Trumpturds!
@@grandwonder5858 he didn't know they would form a huge, ignorant kkkult. And cults never end well. 🤡
@@grandwonder5858 TDS much?
@@spongedebfatpants1308 No more so than is warranted by the truth.
@@grandwonder5858 I didn't realize the road to idiocracy was republican. I guess it depends upon whether you think a group of insulated elitists can find more useful truth than the individual. I rather prefer the free thinker.
nobody could say the word 'billions' like good ol' Dr. Carl
I remember being in my teens in my living room listening on a small transistor radio to Carl talk and just being mesmerized by the way he made space sound so intriguing.
Billions in billions
The antithesis of Trump's billions.
Wait! The Trumpist idiots would say he couldn't call himself Dr Sagan because he's not a medic.
I think McDonald's was about to launch an advertising campaign using Carl Sagan to proclaim that there were billions and billions served
Sagan was "The Star of the Stars", as one journalist termed him at the time of his passing. Sagan was a great popularizer who really connected with the average guy in the street. I loved Sagan's "Cosmos" series & never missed one of his Carson appearances, or, later, his Charlie Rose interviews(though I was no fan of Rose in general as an interviewer). The astrophysicist made astronomy truly cool, though I was interested long before Sagan came on the scene. The man took a number of hits from his professional colleagues in those years, deriding his academic work & denigrating his rising fame as a mere popularizer, not a serious scientist. Jealousy & envy certainly played a part in their criticisms, which I believe were unmerited. Sagan appealed to a still-literate & intelligent, curious citizenry in the mid-70's, something largely missing from today's dumbed-down society, WAY dumbed-down. The generation of the post moon-landings, of which I was a member, had become aware as to how alone we are in the universe & were both mesmerized & enchanted by "what's out there". Sagan made our queasiness & fascination over this understandable, thought-provoking, & wonderfully philosophical. After Watergate, the population had become thoroughly cynical toward the U.S. government, its institutions, & the meaningless promises of politicians. Astronomy became one of the last untainted verities we could focus on, a way to "escape" our earthbound problems, disappointments, & increasing dissatisfaction with all levels of government in general, a chance to "get outside of ourselves", at least for a little while. Sagan provided this escape & alot of us, myself included, were more than receptive to it. The awe & wonder he made us feel has, I'm afraid, vanished entirely in our own decadent, downward-spiralling age, one bereft of inspirational imagination. I still miss Mr. Sagan, every time I gaze at the night-sky, dreaming of what's "out-there", just as he did.
Irony, that a media company guilty of what he accused reports it as if they are not so.
My father was a fan of Carl Sagan and incidentally he passed away in 2021. A quote by Sagan was read during his memorial service.
Which quote
Lol alan i got notification of your comment but it's not showing here unfortunately. Why would they block a comment?
I also lost mom in 2021. God bless your father.
>>A quote by Sagan was read during his memorial service.
Neat
I went to my first Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca.
It was a Wookiee mistake.
I got a bad feeling about this
Must have been a bit of a Hairy situation.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love it! 😆lolololololololololol 😆
i assume things really got out of Han-d
Orwell predicted the mess we'd be in in the book 1984. That was written in the 40s.
Carl Sagan has one of the most satisfying voices ever.
He was a genius, such as his Cosmos series.
We do miss his mind and intellect. He was 62 when he passed, I was 51, now I am fortunate to be 77, I wish he was 88 now.
A genius ? Obviously the bar is set low these days. Just Like the word hero .
Hi Raymond your not fortunate to be the age you are you are blessed! That man might have been very smart yet so very foolish to not believe and almighty God! The Lord took him early didn't he! I hope and pray that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and savior! I'm 51 years old now and my name is Michelle and I would love to pray with you or just even talk to you if you would like? Just post me back. John 3:16 Says It All!
@@michellecongdon6220 so what your saying is people who live long are blessed?
Like do we really have to bring up the Almighty? Not all of us were born into Church or live the same way.
Let the deceased man get some "media" hype
He was a genius, but he didn't realize this "everybody is special" crap got us people that reject science, holding their opinion higher than the factual evidence.
I am 52 now. Carl Sagan is my hero.
Sagan had the gift of being able to explain difficult scientific concepts in a way that simple-minded folks such as myself could actually comprehend. He wasn't just brilliant; he could effectively communicate the ideas from his brilliant mind to teach others.
Explaining ANYthing to simple-minded folks WOULD be perceived BY the simple-minded as "brilliant". But taking time & effort to verify the info, one comes to recognize the absence of logic and actual knowledge.
TESLA discussed "gravity", and the lack thereof ... Brilliantly.
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Are you saying Carl Sagan wasn't a real genius and just bamboozled those that would listen? What did he ever say that was wrong?
@@liman42 Uh .... the whole concept of reaching outer space & the glober b.s.? Just look at 2 things: Pics of old blasts from the 60s, and the official 'curve' chart data. The blast area alone is 125 miles wide, i have read - so, where is the 9,666 bending of the horizontal horizon.
Those pics show the entire photo of flat horizon, on each side of the blast plume - so, I do not see ANY curve, let alone about 20,000 ft.
I am only being logical, not adversarial.
Then, consider the suez canal - constructed level flat....but the 100 continuous miles of construction has no 6,666' bend that i know of.
Hey...Do pilots nose-down every few minutes?
IF i could see the evidence, I would cheer loudly!!
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Oh, and altitude above the earth an airplane flies needs to be consistent so yes, as you travel the altitude, to be constant, has to be corrected otherwise the plane would continue to climb until it reached it's structural limits. That's what autopilot does. It makes automatic corrections for course and altitude. That's what a pilot would have to do if autopilot wasn't engaged although there are other factors involved.
" For every 60 nautical miles the airplane flies in a straight line, it has to pitch down 1 degree. But since pilots have to make constant adjustments to keep the plane leveled and maintain altitude, and since 1 small degree over 60 miles is impossible for a human being to notice, those adjustments come out as noise."
@@liman42 You must be consulting WikiPeddleCrap.
At 500 mph, airPLANES would nose-down every 3 minutes. Pilots DO know this. AirPLANE windows are fisheye - to make the curve.
Do combustible engines work in a vacuum?
Hey, i have done my homework SINCE Disney's "magic". No delay when Nixon spoke to "the moon" guys ... not back then. I'd think a.i. or something altered that - similar to that Mandella Effect stuff.
It is called Sea LEVEL for a reason. (to mock the gullible and comatose eyeballs)
Did ya know the astronots are freemasons? Ever nitice satanic missiin patch symbols?
Ever wonder y PLANEts are named for pagan gods?
(words do matter ... as in Uranus, Dark matter Black holes and that poop shaped stuff nasa animated for folks. Ever hear of Mr.Marble? Mocking folks! C'MON now! 😆)
Sagan understood, as few do, both that physical laws obey, and that people are flawed.
Even this was a soundbite. Read the book. Well worth your time. Progress isn't inevitable. It depends on how informed you are, and the choices you and everyone else make.
A celebration of ignorance. Perfectly said Carl Sagan.
It’s easier to go to church and leave all the thinking to your exploiters. It’s hard to grab a brain when you don’t have one...
"A celebration of ignorance" --- Republican slogan.
That sums up any and all cults and organised religion, Trump included.
he was very ignorant
@@onlythewise1 Crikey! Just how many degrees do you hold, if you think a man with 4 degrees was ignorant?👀
The pale blue dot. Carl gifts us so much truth, eloquently delivered.
Christian from WWE?
Sagan Gang
I'll clutch crystals before I listen to MSNBC thanks.
That's crazy. He predicted the future of major news outlets... including nbc
Intelligence has been replaced with emotions and most are too dumb to see it.
true dat!
They haven't learnt that superstition and religious radicalism cause nothing but hysteria and mis-information. Just ask the innocent women burnt at the stake for being 'witches' and men tortured for daring to be of scientific dispositions during the inquisition.
You can't "replace" intelligence with emotions. It is just a lack thereof intelligence.
You'll have to elaborate more on the emotional bit, because I just might be too dumb to see it 🤷
PEOPLE ARE PUTTING THIS GUY ON A PEDESTAL THAT HE DOESNT DESERVE TO BE ON! The DINOSAURS HAD FEW HUNDRED MILLIONS OF YEARS TO EVOLVE AND YET NO SENTIENT SPECIES. HUMAN ARE AROUND FOR 2 MILLION AND WE ARE HYPER EVOLVED????? HUMAN EVOLUTION IS A JOKE, NO WAY IT HAPPENED NATURALLY. LOOK AT OUR DNA AND YOU WILL FIND A TON OF EDITING!!!!! WHO EDITED IT, FOR SURE IT WASNT NATURE!!!!!!
This comment is a prime example of that
Man, did he ever nail nearly exactly how things would be in our world at this time. His prescience was genius level and beyond.
All you have to do to be so "prescient" is to read history.
@@Dyrnwyn You don't even have to do that.
If you basically cynically assume that people will do the easiest, cheapest, and laziest thing, you're going to be right 9 times out of 10.
@@youtubesuresuckscock That seems like it would have to be true, once you are able to reach so many people so cheaply. "The lowest COMMON denominator" is what will get the most hits. Therefore is is purposely spread more ( to carry along the message from the commercial sponsor) , and infects more brains.
@@Dyrnwyn Or live in the 80's and 90's and see it happen. It's not that Sagan was so smart, but that the people in general are dense blind morons.
But not nearly as well is what Nietzsche predicted would happen when humanity declared God is dead.
This hits hard...
I knew his first wife, an evolutionary biologist (among other credentials) and heard her influence in his perspective. How interesting