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Carl Sagan Sings
gijoel writes "Someone with too much time on their hands and access to Auto-Tune has taken clips from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series to make this fantastic song. Watch for the Stephen Hawking cameo."
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What episode of Cosmos is the section where Sagan begins "I'm not very good at singing" ?
Should this not be posted under idle?
Autotune the News has been doing this kind of thing for a while now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4&feature=related
It was worth watching.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
It is perhaps unquestionably true that there is nothing more pathetic than the inheritors of the estate of great personages who choose to enrich their own endowments than carry on the work from which it came.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Yeah, but Carl Sagan is dead, so there aren't many other ways to make it seem like he's singing. If anything, this is the most appropriate use of autotune technology I've seen to date: Making the dead come back to life in a new way.
:)
I'm sure Carl would approve
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
I think about the time in which Sagan lived, and the hope and threat of a more glorious dawn awaiting. Someone once compared the light of a nuclear detonation to the light of a thousand suns. While the current nuclear stockpile wouldn't reach the light of 400 billion suns, I think it would be close enough for all intended purposes. The current poll on /. seems to be leaning heavily towards the expectation that we will have destroyed ourselves in 100 years; Hawking has repeatedly stated that if we are to survive long term as a species, we will have to inhabit other worlds or at least colonize space. It seems that, barring any of a thousand other extinction events, the current age of humanity, whatever span of time it may be, will in fact rest upon which more glorious dawn we, as a species, choose, or allow to be chosen for us.
He inspired a generation to be interested in science. How many actual scientists today can trace their choice of career back to Cosmos?
Oh, and read Demon-Haunted World.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I could listen to those two all day. That song just overflows with profoundness.
(Jostles for microphone) I'm sorry Carl, but Beyoncé had the best music video of all time!
perhaps unquestionably?
It's nice, but the music track is too loud compared to the voice.
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Is there a version edited for rednecks?
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Does anyone have any idea of how to get a hold of the very original Cosmos television series that aired on P.B.S. back in the early 80's ?
The Cosmos series was bought, remastered, and remade in the late 90's by Ted Turner, and that is the series that I own (the DVD set), however it is not what I watched as a child. I liked the original better. The original had much better ambient music, and in the transitions between scenes, worked much better I thought (more powerfully evoking). The remastered version may be more up to date scientifically, but the music has been replaced with mostly classical that doesn't fit the emotion, and is hacked up quite a bit.
I know the story is that Carl had a large disagreement with the way the original series was produced by KCET out of Los Angeles. Later the series was remade with the help of his wife, but some of the original music could not be relicensed (or was not even licensed correctly the first time) when the series was sold to Turner.
I have most of the episodes of the original 80's version on cassette, that I have now digitized. But the sound isn't that great since it was recorded by simply placing a microphone in front of the TV. There are other tape "abnormalities" as well, like the side A to side B change over.
I know there must be some remaining VHS or Beta tapes around of the original series somewhere, since they were sold as sets to schools and universities back in the 80's. I'd love to have a copy of those! Digital of course.
Cosmos is continually being removed from Youtube and re-added.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Yo, I'm happy for Autotune #1 and all, but I'ma let you finish... the Autotune the News #8 was the best news mix of all time.
Especially the lip-sync video editing was just too good. It had me singing along to Michael Vick ... that's gotta count for something :)
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Good point.
You can download both the mp3 and the high rez video from this page
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/youtube.html
Technoli
Do you think he'd be for or against sounding like Kermit the Frog gone techno?
I was given the book Comet which he co-authored with Ann Druyan, and while you might think the subject matter smaller, the vision it showed for how we could travel to space and spread life between the stars was amazing. It showed there's more to do out there than invent a spaceship to go from world to world at - how we do not know - speeds far greater than light's. We can be the ancestors of life made to be out there. Panspermia might not be a fact now, but we can make it so. I think that's a beautiful goal to pursue.
Lot's of negative comments here. I can only assume that they're posted by the younger generation.
To me though, that had the privilege to watch the original "Cosmos" series in my early teens, this video brings back found memories of a man that inspired me and planted the seed of curiosity in me.
I like this video. Not for the music or technical achievement, but for it's spirit.