Here is the Science Channel Web site on the Cosmos rebroadcast:

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

I wonder how many people with cable TV actually get this channel yet?

Carl Sagan Takes Questions

More From His ‘Wonder and Skepticism’ CSICOP 1994 Keynote

When Carl Sagan delivered his keynote address “Wonder and Skepticism” before a large audience at the CSICOP Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 23–26, 1994, a lively question-andanswer session followed. We published Sagan’s adaption of his talk as the cover article in the first bimonthly, magazine-format issue of the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, January/February 1995. (We republished it after Sagan’s December 1996 death as the lead chapter in the last of four general SI anthologies I edited, Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, Prometheus 1998, with my two-page epilogue.)

The Q/A session had been transcribed at the time along with the talk but put away and never published. A few months ago it was relocated, and Carl’s wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan, readily agreed that it should be published in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. It appears here, with omission of only a few nonsubstantive exchanges.

If some of the specifics discussed seem dated, others are as topical as today’s news. And the general themes remain current. We then publish on page 37 a passionately felt postscript, “The Great Turning Away,” written specially for this issue by Ann Druyan. —KENDRICK FRAZIER, Editor

http://www.csicop.org/si/2005-07/sagan.html

from cosmos......................................the greeks during there golden age never fade away.there science leads to a 2500 year early industrial revolution and in our era the greeks are setting out for the stars.The greek place names for the celestial objects are real geographical places having been colonized hundreds of years ago.............................................................................
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I've had the Science Channel for years, since it changed its name from the Discovery Science Channel. Definitely a must-have. A mix of various science-related shows from other Discovery networks, plus original programming, too. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for Cosmos.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

COSMOS host Dr. Carl Sagan takes viewers to the edge of the universe aboard a
spaceship of the imagination. Through beautiful and accurate special effects,
we witness quasars, exploding galaxies, star clusters, supernovas and pulsars.


Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 10:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

One Voice In the Cosmic Fugue

Dr. Sagans Cosmic Calendar makes the history of the universe understandable.
The evolutionary process we see unfolding helps us understand how life developed
on Earth, and lets us speculate on what forms life might take elsewhere in the
Cosmos.


Science happens -- be there. Follow our correspondents traveling around the
globe on scientific adventures.
http://science.discovery.com/fansites/disc...esthisweek.html

To find more TV listings please go to:
http://www.discovery.com/tv/schedule/daymu...jsp?network=ANL

To see related stories please go to: http://www.discovery.com

I've been doing a clear-out and have discovered that I have an audiotape of two of Carl Sagan's BBC Xmas Lectures from the Royal Institution in January 1978 - Mars before Viking, and The Exploration of Mars. It strikes me that these might be of interest to some of us, and so if anyone out there has the capability of turning the tapes into MP3 files then please let me know and I'll send you the original copy.

One clip to catch as the updated Cosmos airs:

In the episode on impact cratering, they have the super-8 <i assume> footage of the ?50? ?25? ?? meter diameter asteroid that entered the atmospher over New Mexico, made sonic booms over Montana from some 40? km altitude, and exited the atmosphere over the Canadian plains.

The guy who shot the film was on the east side of the lake by the Grand Teton mountains and got maybe 2/3 of the total pass from west-southwest to 45 deg high in he west to low in the north.

I was with a brother and 2 friends in Yellowstone at the time, did NOT see or hear about it till the next day.. but my bod was some 65 (guesstimaged) km from an asteroid that day.

oh.. and...
How many Carl Sagas does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

billions

..........and billions

Here are some details on that famous bolide, which also makes the reports of UFOs seems even more bogus, as this meteor certainly did not announce its arrival in advance, yet it was captured on film by a US military satellite, filmed in the days before common public videocams, photographed, and witnessed by thousands of people, all in its short skip through Earth's atmosphere.

http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/1972.html

Plus, had it hit Earth, it would have exploded with more force that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

The 1972 bolide was also covered in an article in Sky & Telescope that had a two-page display of the film in multiple frames. The exact issue is listed in the article above.

EXCELLENT link.. My recollections were off the top of my head, mostly the SkyTel article and Cosmos.

I'd love to know to within a few km how close it got to the Old Faithful area, which was the part of Yellowstone I was in when I didn't see it.

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Harmony of the Worlds

A look at Johannes Kepler, the last scientific astrologer, the first modern astronomer, and the author of the first science fiction novel. Kepler provided insight into how the moon and the planets move in their orbits and how we might journey to them.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Heaven and Hell

A descent through the hellish atmosphere of Venus to explore its broiling
surface serves as a warning for our world about the possible consequences of the
increasing greenhouse effect. Dr. Sagan also leads viewers on a tour of the
Solar System.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Blues for a Red Planet

Dr. Sagan takes viewers on a tour of the red planet through the eyes of science
fiction authors and then through the unblinking eyes of two Viking spacecraft
that have sent thousands of pictures of the stunning Martian landscape back to
Earth since 1976.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Travellers' Tales

The exhilaration of 17th century Dutch explorers who ventured in sailing ships
halfway around our planet in their quest for wealth and knowledge is compared to
an inside view of the excitement of Voyagers expeditions to Jupiter and Saturn.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Backbone of Night

Dr. Carl Sagan takes viewers back to ancient Greece when the right answer to
such a basic question as "what are the stars?" was first glimpsed. He visits
the Brooklyn elementary school of his childhood where this same question is
still being asked.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

This episode shows Sagan speaking to a sixth-grade science class in his old classroom -- since Cosmos was made about 25 years ago, all of those little kids are now in their late 30s.

I wonder if any of them remember the day that Carl Sagan came into their classroom and handed out glossy pictures taken by the Voyagers?

-the other Doug

Héy Guys & Girls, all these episodes are available on DVD with for each episde a short 5-minute update by Dr Carl SAGAN himself ... Check:

http://www.carlsagan.com/

Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Travels in Space and Time

A startling voyage to see how star patterns change over millions of years is
followed by a journey to the planets of other stars, and a look at the
possibility of time travel.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html


Tomorrow, November 9, would have been Dr. Sagan's 71st birthday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Lives of the Stars

Dr. Carl Sagan shows how stars are born, live, die and sometimes collapse to
form neutron stars or black holes. Viewers then journey five billion years into
the future to witness the Sun expand and engulf our planet.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Edge of Forever

Dr. Sagan journeys to a time when galaxies were beginning to form, to India to
explore the infinite cycles of Hindu cosmology, and to show how humans of this
century discovered the expanding universe and its origin in the Big Bang.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

The Persistence of Memory

Focusing on the brain, Dr. Sagan examines another of the intelligent creatures
with whom we share the planet Earth - the whales. We then wind through the maze of the human brain to witness the architecture of thought.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Episode 12

Encyclopedia Galactica

Are there alien intelligences? How could we communicate with them? What about UFOs? The answers to these questions take us to Egypt to decode ancient hieroglyphics, to the largest radio telescope on Earth and, in the Spaceship of the Imagination, to visit other civilizations in space.

Dr. Sagan answers questions such as: "What is the life span of a planetary civilization?" and "Will we one day hook up with a network of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy?"

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 9:00 PM EST on The Science Channel:

Cosmos

Who Speaks for Earth

Through the use of startling special effects we retrace the 15 billion year journey from the Big Bang to the present. Dr. Sagan argues that our responsibility for survival is owed not just to ourselves, but also to the cosmos from which we originate.

http://science.discovery.com/convergence/cosmos/cosmos.html

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Conversations with Carl Sagan

Edited by Tom Head

"The progress of science is littered with dead theories; they were maladapted."

Though a well-regarded physicist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) is best-known as a writer of popular nonfiction and science fiction and as the host of the PBS series Cosmos. Through his writings and spoken commentary, he worked to popularize interests in astronomy, the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. From the beginning of his public career, when he co-wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe to the very end as he worked on the 1997 film adaptation of his novel Contact, these subjects absorbed him.

This interest in space was rooted in his understanding of the smallness and vulnerability of humanity measured against the immense size and power of the universe. This profound philosophical humility, mixed with personal exuberance, comes through in Conversations with Carl Sagan. In interviews and profiles, Sagan discusses with verve a wide variety of topics--the environment, nuclear disarmament, religion, politics, extraterrestrial life, astronomy, physics, robotics. Whether he is discussing his science fiction or his well-researched nonfiction works, his voice embraces reason and skepticism.

This volume shows how Sagan, a lifelong skeptic, refined his views and expressed amazement that Earth, for all his belief in extraterrestrial life, encompasses everything about which he cared.

Tom Head of Jackson, Mississippi, is a writer and poet whose work includes Women and Families (Voices from the Civil War), Possessions and Exorcisms (Fact or Fiction?), and 1966 (The Turbulent 60s).

December, 160 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index

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