A Glorious Dawn

[comicIDIOT]

I have to admit, this is more of my geek side here. It's compiled from clips of Carl Sagans' "Cosmos" explaining the universe.

Whether or not any of you have watched Carl Sagans' "Cosmos," you'll enjoy this video. These videos made me think and gave me enmormous insight and this video is a good summary. If only his episodes were in this same tone! They were so boring

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[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it's own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting.

How often do you guys look up and explore the stars?

[Saknika]

I think a friend showed me that video a few days ago. I wasn't too interested, to be honest. But I do love stargazing! I'm just more for astrology instead of astronomy. x3

[comicIDIOT]

So you know about the thirteenth astrological sign?

[Saknika]

In the Chinese zodiac, yes.

[comicIDIOT]

Not Ophiuchus?
Dates: 30-Nov, 17-Dec

[Saknika]

Never got that deep into astrology. I stuck with the Chinese zodiac, and the Tropical one that we're used to. Because no matter what, Japanese Culture > Astrology. LOL So I was learning other stuff instead.

[shp]

My uncle wants to make video games, and he and I've been talking about making a RPG with seven people, at the start, and calling them the Zodiaks. My closest friend and I play it out sometimes.

But I like a clear night where you can see many, many stars. I wqnted to study astrology once as I thought I would be a psychic but it turns out my mind's too lazy. XD