Symphony of Science

[Kai]

Remember that Sagan autotune vid, Glorious Dawn? Well, the same guy has come out with a new one, featuring ND Tyson, Feynman, Sagan and Bill Nye, and it seems like hes planing on doing more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

This is really beautiful and religious stuff for me.

[Cramulus]

nice!

I really like this stuff

[Captain Utopia]

Awesome and beautiful.

[Fuquad]

Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 

[Captain Utopia]

Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 

He was in the first one:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

[Fuquad]

Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 

He was in the first one:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Cool.

[Kai]

We are all connected
to each other, biologically
to the earth, chemically
to the rest of the universe atomically

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 the cosmos can know itself

I'm just a guy standing on a planet
but really I'm just a speck, I'm just a speck,
compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
to think about all of this
to think about the vast emptiness of space
and billions and billions of stars,
billions and billions of specks

I know that the atoms in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos
that makes me want to grab people on the street
and say, HAVE YOU /HEARD/ THIS!?

Theres this tremendous mass, rolling all over in space,
which is the light in the room,
bouncing from one thing to the other
and its all really there, really really there
but you gotta stop and think about it,
consider it closely to really get the pleasure
and its all really there, really really there
the inconceivable nature of nature

across the sea of space
the stars are other suns
we've traveled this way before
and there is much to be learned

[Richter]

Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

[Kai]

Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.

[Captain Utopia]

"We are a way the cosmos can know itself"

It's not an original concept, but in terms of a scientific calling to compete with the scope and certainty of religion, it's the one which resonates with me the most. Is there anything more compelling than this?

[Kai]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioZf4TjoUI

I'm not really into this one as much. Its a different feel than the previous two, and the musicality really isn't there. It's like a bunch of short movements shoved together, and feels somewhat  disjointed.

[Captain Utopia]

I found the first two disjointed until I immersed myself into the narrative - this one gets better on repeat viewings - though I still dig the music in the first two more.

[Iason Ouabache]

Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

[Kai]

Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

If you've ever heard him talk about Sagan you'd know why. Sagan was Tyson's mentor.

[Iason Ouabache]

Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

If you've ever heard him talk about Sagan you'd know why. Sagan was Tyson's mentor.

Yes, I knew that. I heard a good interview with him on either Point of Inquiry or Skeptic's Guide to the Universe where he talked about Sagan extensively. Seems that Sagan had a habit of personally answering his own fan mail especially to youngsters who were interested in science. That's how the two met in the first place. Neil also took up the habit and handles his own fan mail.