The meaning of life, the universe and everything as explained by singing planets (video)

The next time you’re wondering what the overall point of your existence in the cosmos is, Cartoon Network’s ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ has an answer for you. I should warn you though that you’re probably not going to like the answer very much. I’ve also included responses to the question from Carl Sagan and…

Short film ‘Wanderers’ examines the appeal of colonizing other planets

This short film by Erik Wernquist recreates landscapes from our solar system and is narrated with words from Carl Sagan. It explores the appeal of new frontiers and new places and the part of our nature that lures us ‘out there’. Regardless of whether or not you, personally, want to go to space it has…

Short video on how you, personally, are connected to the first life on Earth and the big bang

Carl Sagan famously said that ‘we are all star stuff’. While that sounds nice there are a lot of people out there who don’t know what that really means. This short video from Kurzgesagt explains all of that – exactly what kind of star stuff you are and how you personally are came from the Big Bang…

Bill Nye talks about taking Carl Sagan’s astronomy classes at Cornell

Before Sagan was on Cosmos and Bill Nye was “the Science Guy”, Nye was a student of Sagan’s at Cornell University. As you’ll know if you watched Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos reboot, Sagan tried to recruit him for Cornell also. Tyson chose Harvard instead but other students of Sagan include David Morrison of the SETI…

Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in the Original Cosmos

If you’ve been watching Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey then you’ve seen the wonderfully animated segments on Evolution. It was touched upon in the first episode and discussed in much more detail in the second. This video is the evolution segment from Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos. The animation is much less complex and…

First Trailer for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos Reboot

According to cNet the return of Cosmos, formerly hosted by Carl Sagan began at a lunch meeting between famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane. It was there that Tyson first suggested a reboot to McFarlane (now an executive producer on the series) who then took the idea to Fox. The…