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Added some text to distinguish Sagan's views on Hypatia with those of his views on astrology and evolution. The latter does reflect the consensus of persons in the field, while the former does not. -- User:Roadrunner
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DZIHYP.html
Pausing for a note of thanks...I'm grateful for the note about the Region 0 DVD release, which I've now bought. Lee M 04:05, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
added (half a billion) after the 500,000 number (1st paragraph), out of respect and honour for sagan's use of the word 'billion'. -- Revsuicide 21:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I think the article is missing a little piece in the introduction explaining what the series was about. I haven't seen the series since it was first aired in the UK more than twenty years ago so my memory is a little hazy. I propose to add "The series covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe." at the end of the first paragraph -- Etimbo | Talk 14:53, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have moved the external link to the list of music used in the series to the See also section. This is because the site it links to does not assert that there were copyright problems with the music and so I believe the link does not belong in the main body of the article as a reference. I also removed the text about missing images: when I looked that the site in question an image was shown. -- Etimbo | Talk 15:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For the new generations who have never seen the show but who have picked up the book, which is in many public libraries. -- snpoj
What do you think yes, no, ...
Theo Pardilla 13:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
What's a really good documentary or documentary series that deals with astronomy that is more accurate to today's knowledge, or is Cosmos still worth viewing to a modern audience?-- Sonjaaa 05:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
there are many space documentaries available on netflix today that will talk about similar topics, but Cosmos is definitely still worth watching as a modern audience. It's one of the only shows I've seen that is not only accessible to people who don't understand science very well, but also an incredibly emotional show that impacts people deeply to this day. Mfferrer ( talk) 18:48, 24 September 2019 (UTC) Mfferrer ( talk) 18:46, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
The History Channel has their rather decent series "The Universe" which features a lot of computer graphics, interviews with scientists and already has 2 seasons and a ton of episodes on a very wide range from topics, from an episode on just the Moon to an episode on light-speech to another episode on human reproduction in outer space! -- 99.31.222.73 ( talk) 17:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
The show might be comprised of multi-media. But it was either shot on video or film. And it was very very unlikely to have been shot on film. - Abscissa 00:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Cosmos was photographed on both film and videotape. Location scenes were shot on 16mm film; studio scenes were on tape.
Does anyone recall if the "14th episode" -- the Ted Turner-Carl Sagan interview that was included in the first VHS release of the series -- had a title? Also, I state in the article that it wasn't included on the DVD, based on what I've been able to find out about the set (which is apparently very rare); I'm happy to stand corrected if the interview is included after all. 23skidoo 04:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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There is a difference in episode names and spellings for Episode 6, 8 and 12. I have the "7-disc Collector's Edition, digitally remastered from Cosmos studios, 2000".
Episode # | Opening sequence | DVD menu | printed on DVD | printed on box | Cosmos books |
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Ep. 6 | Travellers' Tales | Travelers' Tales | Travellers' Tales | Travellers' Tales | Travelers' Tales |
Ep. 8 | Journeys in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time |
Ep. 12 | Encyclopaedia Galactica | Encyclopaedia Galactica | Encyclopedia Galactica | Encyclopedia Galactica | Encyclopaedia Galactica |
It is obvious that the names and spellings in the Opening Sequence are the correct ones because that's what the viewers saw in 1980. The episode names in the book are correct for the Cosmos (book) article. How do we avoid that casual editors, who only look at the DVD cover, change the names? I've tried with a hidden message, but Theo Pardilla removed it with this strange explanation:"no<< content". The hidden messages could save us from a lot of reverting and maybe edit wars. What do you think? Necessary Evil ( talk) 23:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
--Theo Pardilla 12:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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Is it true that the Science Channel is only airing 8 episodes out of the 13 originally in the series? Latitude0116 ( talk) 02:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
There's a quote I remember from watching the program when it fist aired: “The scientist’s job isn’t to find answers, but to find questions.” Can anyone verify this? Morganfitzp ( talk) 16:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Do we need so many and such long quotes? This isn't Wikiquote, and even if it was, these are surely excessive. It doesn't help that when some people see such a large quote list, they decide to expand it with their own personal favourites.-- Drat ( Talk) 13:56, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hulu.com has added the original, unedited 13 episodes. I tried to add the link to External Links at the bottom of the article, but User:Fastily has reverted my addition, saying the link is inappropriate. Given that there is a paragraph relating the (former) difficulty in finding the unedited original episodes, I don't agree that adding a link to those episodes is inappropriate when the host site is free to the public.
I remember watching this as a 16 year old in 1980, and it was shown around 7:00pm or 8:00pm, which is evening prime time. I need someone to cite the time properly for me before I correct the bit that refers to late screening in the UK - I don't call 7 or 8 in the evening 'late' ! Unfortunately I can't find any references to the original UK airdates. Anyone? Blitterbug ( talk) 13:59, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
@
Blitterbug: late to answer but
BBC Genome puts first episode on BBC1 London, 17 June 1981 22.15
[4] and repeated BBC 2 6 September 1982 18.15
[5].
GraemeLeggett (
talk) 16:32, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
IMO this section is just a curiosity and doesn't have any important informative value about the series.
Can someone look into this? There are snippets on Youtube which have an introduction by Carl Sagan's wife who briefly discusses the changes in the series from the 1970s to the 1990s (or 2000s, I forget when it was aired). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.218 ( talk) 07:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know how much Turner paid for Cosmos? I am surprised to learn that it was even possible to sell this series as PBS is federally and publicly funded. I think many contributors assumed funded programs of this nature were part of the public trust. Jeff Carr ( talk) 05:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Not everything on PBS is publicly-funded or publicly-owned (in fact, PBS is chartered to receive at most only about 1/2 of its operating budget from the US Federal Government; the rest is from donations). PBS is a network and PBS stations are affiliates who need programming to fill their broadcast schedules. PBS routinely purchases limited rights to independent producers' products. When those rights lapse, the products' copyright owners are free then to distribute their programs to other venues or sell ownership outright. Programs which air on PBS get their funding from whichever investors or donors filmmakers can persuade to part with some cash. As I recall, for the original PBS run of Cosmos, every episode was preceded by an explicit statement to the effect that it had been underwritten by Arco Petroleum.
There is a section which describes Dr. Sagan and the fact that Plato was against publicizing astrophysics in using telescopes. Could one imagine the lines to see through telescopes back then? Hypothesis: Plato was concerned with communications between persons here on Earth. For, Carl </\> 75.203.1.55 ( talk) 02:11, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
When did the title change from "Cosmos" to "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"?? Personal to whom?? That sounds like "creationist re-branding" as "personal to Carl Sagan". -- Scasey1960 ( talk) 09:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Fox announced a Cosmos remake/update thing created by (among others) Ann Druyan (Sagan's widow) and staring Neil Tyson. Should it have a mention on this page? -- Thoughtcriminall ( talk) 12:21, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
"Aired" and "Air Date" are unscientific because radio and TV broadcasts do not have anything to do with the air! Radio waves do not have anything to do with the air. The expression "On the Air" is an archaic one from the 1920s and 1930s, back when 99.9 percent of people did not understand the reality behind radio waves.
You ought to at least be scientific about a scientific
TV series.
D.A.W. - bachelor of electrical engineering and M.S.E.E.
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Per WP:ELNEVER,
Material that violates the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations should not be linked....This is particularly relevant when linking to sites such as Scribd or YouTube, where due care should be taken to avoid linking to material that violates copyright.
I have removed all of the links to the episodes illegally hosted on YouTube.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
The updated version of the series that is stated in the “Overview” section to have been released in 1989 or shortly after sounds suspiciously like the 1986 special edition mentioned later. Both are said to include new content, and are associated with Ted Turner: the 1986 version is stated to have premiered on TBS, and the later version is said to have come about after “Turner Home Entertainment purchased Cosmos . . . in 1989.” A significant difference is that the 1989 version is implied to include all thirteen episodes (though abridged), plus a new fourteenth, while the 1986 version is specifically stated to be cut down to only six episodes. At the least, if these are actually distinct versions, the “Overview” section is incorrect when it states that the series was “making the move to commercial television” after the 1989 purchase, since the special edition would have aired on TBS three years earlier (I would infer that the ten minutes cut from each episode by the BBC may been removed for the purpose of inserting commercial breaks also).
Neither section of text cites any sources.
Does anyone have a source on the release date of the 1986 special edition? Charlielovesyou ( talk) 23:35, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I don't know if this is relevant, but I just borrowed the 'Seven Disc Collector's Edition' from the Library here in Brisbane, Australia, and it is different to any of the other descriptions I have seen. Released by Ovation and Cosmos Studios in 20?? (I can't read the small writing), it says Digitally remastered and restored, but that's it. It has the original full length 13 episodes, and the photo gallery. No interview with Ted Turner. There are NO special features at all, no Dolby 5.1 sound, no subtitles, and no choice of language at all. No menu at all in fact, except to choose one of two episodes. This is probably not noteworthy for the article, but I thought it was strange. Probably the 'cut down' Aussie version? David / blucat. 15/4/2016.~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.178.105.232 ( talk) 19:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
We should probably include mention of the "billions and billions" expression which Sagan used so often in this series that it became a catchphrase (Google: "billions+and+billions"+"carl+sagan"+-wikipedia), and was lampooned by The Far Side and others, and became the title of Sagan's final book. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 17:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
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I do not recall the exact date (approx 1990 to 1994) that I saw the original Update to Episode 10 of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. I had just come home from work and turned on my TV and heard the end title music for Cosmos. I was preparing to change the channel from which ever Turner Broadcasting Channel it was (because I had obviously missed the episode) and there was Dr. Sagan in a black turtle neck! What a surprise!
He looked a little older - there was some gray in his black hair - otherwise he looked the same as he had when I first saw the PBS version.
He started talking about the IRAS satellite and how before it ran out of fuel - they had decided to image the entire sky. And he said something to the effect: "...and we found something astonishing..." or "amazing"... His image was replaced with a circle of red dots on a black background. He then said that each red dot was a galaxy, quasar or ("...") cluster. And then I realized the circle was a sphere of red dots because it rotated approximately 90 degrees and there was a humanoid form (kind of like the Architectural bathroom door signs) in the middle of the dots! A shiver traveled up my spine! I had just read a description of the image in the Mundaka Upanishad (Part I, Chapter I) the day before! He may have said something about the "13 billion light-year cone" and "Cepheid variables".
Sadly I did not have a blank VHS tape or a camera handy.
I emailed the IRAS team and they all remember seeing the IRAS Infrared spherical projection image - however none of them knew where the image could be found. One person even told me there had a been a poster...
When Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was released on DVD - I was very disappointed. Dr. Sagan was wearing a sports coat and his hair was completely gray and he began talking about people seeing things in images that are not there. His image was replaced with a color version of Dr. Geller's "stick man" image - which I had already seen in her book some years before the Ted Turner version of the show.
Does anyone else recall seeing the original update to Episode 10 that the Turner Network broadcast?
Xray1zero ( talk) 09:00, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
There isn't currently a place to put this in the main article, but should it ever be expanded to include more detail about its production, it's possible to date at least some of the New York City filming in Episode 2 to September 21, 1979, because Sagan is shown buying a stack of newspapers at a newsstand, one of which has the infamous "The Beatles are Back!" headline the New York Post ran on that date (as at the time it was rumoured they were reuniting for a charity concert; the concert happened, but the reunion didn't). The episode itself aired just over a year after, and only a couple months before John Lennon died. 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 14:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
The answer would be helpful to anyone wanting to quote from the series for books or articles they are writing. 2600:8801:B011:300:B09F:3FEF:E7EB:2AC5 ( talk) 15:59, 28 March 2021 (UTC) James.
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Added some text to distinguish Sagan's views on Hypatia with those of his views on astrology and evolution. The latter does reflect the consensus of persons in the field, while the former does not. -- User:Roadrunner
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DZIHYP.html
Pausing for a note of thanks...I'm grateful for the note about the Region 0 DVD release, which I've now bought. Lee M 04:05, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
added (half a billion) after the 500,000 number (1st paragraph), out of respect and honour for sagan's use of the word 'billion'. -- Revsuicide 21:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I think the article is missing a little piece in the introduction explaining what the series was about. I haven't seen the series since it was first aired in the UK more than twenty years ago so my memory is a little hazy. I propose to add "The series covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe." at the end of the first paragraph -- Etimbo | Talk 14:53, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have moved the external link to the list of music used in the series to the See also section. This is because the site it links to does not assert that there were copyright problems with the music and so I believe the link does not belong in the main body of the article as a reference. I also removed the text about missing images: when I looked that the site in question an image was shown. -- Etimbo | Talk 15:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For the new generations who have never seen the show but who have picked up the book, which is in many public libraries. -- snpoj
What do you think yes, no, ...
Theo Pardilla 13:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
What's a really good documentary or documentary series that deals with astronomy that is more accurate to today's knowledge, or is Cosmos still worth viewing to a modern audience?-- Sonjaaa 05:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
there are many space documentaries available on netflix today that will talk about similar topics, but Cosmos is definitely still worth watching as a modern audience. It's one of the only shows I've seen that is not only accessible to people who don't understand science very well, but also an incredibly emotional show that impacts people deeply to this day. Mfferrer ( talk) 18:48, 24 September 2019 (UTC) Mfferrer ( talk) 18:46, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
The History Channel has their rather decent series "The Universe" which features a lot of computer graphics, interviews with scientists and already has 2 seasons and a ton of episodes on a very wide range from topics, from an episode on just the Moon to an episode on light-speech to another episode on human reproduction in outer space! -- 99.31.222.73 ( talk) 17:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
The show might be comprised of multi-media. But it was either shot on video or film. And it was very very unlikely to have been shot on film. - Abscissa 00:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Cosmos was photographed on both film and videotape. Location scenes were shot on 16mm film; studio scenes were on tape.
Does anyone recall if the "14th episode" -- the Ted Turner-Carl Sagan interview that was included in the first VHS release of the series -- had a title? Also, I state in the article that it wasn't included on the DVD, based on what I've been able to find out about the set (which is apparently very rare); I'm happy to stand corrected if the interview is included after all. 23skidoo 04:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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There is a difference in episode names and spellings for Episode 6, 8 and 12. I have the "7-disc Collector's Edition, digitally remastered from Cosmos studios, 2000".
Episode # | Opening sequence | DVD menu | printed on DVD | printed on box | Cosmos books |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ep. 6 | Travellers' Tales | Travelers' Tales | Travellers' Tales | Travellers' Tales | Travelers' Tales |
Ep. 8 | Journeys in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time | Travels in Space and Time |
Ep. 12 | Encyclopaedia Galactica | Encyclopaedia Galactica | Encyclopedia Galactica | Encyclopedia Galactica | Encyclopaedia Galactica |
It is obvious that the names and spellings in the Opening Sequence are the correct ones because that's what the viewers saw in 1980. The episode names in the book are correct for the Cosmos (book) article. How do we avoid that casual editors, who only look at the DVD cover, change the names? I've tried with a hidden message, but Theo Pardilla removed it with this strange explanation:"no<< content". The hidden messages could save us from a lot of reverting and maybe edit wars. What do you think? Necessary Evil ( talk) 23:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
--Theo Pardilla 12:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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Is it true that the Science Channel is only airing 8 episodes out of the 13 originally in the series? Latitude0116 ( talk) 02:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
There's a quote I remember from watching the program when it fist aired: “The scientist’s job isn’t to find answers, but to find questions.” Can anyone verify this? Morganfitzp ( talk) 16:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Do we need so many and such long quotes? This isn't Wikiquote, and even if it was, these are surely excessive. It doesn't help that when some people see such a large quote list, they decide to expand it with their own personal favourites.-- Drat ( Talk) 13:56, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hulu.com has added the original, unedited 13 episodes. I tried to add the link to External Links at the bottom of the article, but User:Fastily has reverted my addition, saying the link is inappropriate. Given that there is a paragraph relating the (former) difficulty in finding the unedited original episodes, I don't agree that adding a link to those episodes is inappropriate when the host site is free to the public.
I remember watching this as a 16 year old in 1980, and it was shown around 7:00pm or 8:00pm, which is evening prime time. I need someone to cite the time properly for me before I correct the bit that refers to late screening in the UK - I don't call 7 or 8 in the evening 'late' ! Unfortunately I can't find any references to the original UK airdates. Anyone? Blitterbug ( talk) 13:59, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
@
Blitterbug: late to answer but
BBC Genome puts first episode on BBC1 London, 17 June 1981 22.15
[4] and repeated BBC 2 6 September 1982 18.15
[5].
GraemeLeggett (
talk) 16:32, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
IMO this section is just a curiosity and doesn't have any important informative value about the series.
Can someone look into this? There are snippets on Youtube which have an introduction by Carl Sagan's wife who briefly discusses the changes in the series from the 1970s to the 1990s (or 2000s, I forget when it was aired). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.218 ( talk) 07:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know how much Turner paid for Cosmos? I am surprised to learn that it was even possible to sell this series as PBS is federally and publicly funded. I think many contributors assumed funded programs of this nature were part of the public trust. Jeff Carr ( talk) 05:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Not everything on PBS is publicly-funded or publicly-owned (in fact, PBS is chartered to receive at most only about 1/2 of its operating budget from the US Federal Government; the rest is from donations). PBS is a network and PBS stations are affiliates who need programming to fill their broadcast schedules. PBS routinely purchases limited rights to independent producers' products. When those rights lapse, the products' copyright owners are free then to distribute their programs to other venues or sell ownership outright. Programs which air on PBS get their funding from whichever investors or donors filmmakers can persuade to part with some cash. As I recall, for the original PBS run of Cosmos, every episode was preceded by an explicit statement to the effect that it had been underwritten by Arco Petroleum.
There is a section which describes Dr. Sagan and the fact that Plato was against publicizing astrophysics in using telescopes. Could one imagine the lines to see through telescopes back then? Hypothesis: Plato was concerned with communications between persons here on Earth. For, Carl </\> 75.203.1.55 ( talk) 02:11, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
When did the title change from "Cosmos" to "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"?? Personal to whom?? That sounds like "creationist re-branding" as "personal to Carl Sagan". -- Scasey1960 ( talk) 09:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Fox announced a Cosmos remake/update thing created by (among others) Ann Druyan (Sagan's widow) and staring Neil Tyson. Should it have a mention on this page? -- Thoughtcriminall ( talk) 12:21, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
"Aired" and "Air Date" are unscientific because radio and TV broadcasts do not have anything to do with the air! Radio waves do not have anything to do with the air. The expression "On the Air" is an archaic one from the 1920s and 1930s, back when 99.9 percent of people did not understand the reality behind radio waves.
You ought to at least be scientific about a scientific
TV series.
D.A.W. - bachelor of electrical engineering and M.S.E.E.
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I have removed all of the links to the episodes illegally hosted on YouTube.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
The updated version of the series that is stated in the “Overview” section to have been released in 1989 or shortly after sounds suspiciously like the 1986 special edition mentioned later. Both are said to include new content, and are associated with Ted Turner: the 1986 version is stated to have premiered on TBS, and the later version is said to have come about after “Turner Home Entertainment purchased Cosmos . . . in 1989.” A significant difference is that the 1989 version is implied to include all thirteen episodes (though abridged), plus a new fourteenth, while the 1986 version is specifically stated to be cut down to only six episodes. At the least, if these are actually distinct versions, the “Overview” section is incorrect when it states that the series was “making the move to commercial television” after the 1989 purchase, since the special edition would have aired on TBS three years earlier (I would infer that the ten minutes cut from each episode by the BBC may been removed for the purpose of inserting commercial breaks also).
Neither section of text cites any sources.
Does anyone have a source on the release date of the 1986 special edition? Charlielovesyou ( talk) 23:35, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I don't know if this is relevant, but I just borrowed the 'Seven Disc Collector's Edition' from the Library here in Brisbane, Australia, and it is different to any of the other descriptions I have seen. Released by Ovation and Cosmos Studios in 20?? (I can't read the small writing), it says Digitally remastered and restored, but that's it. It has the original full length 13 episodes, and the photo gallery. No interview with Ted Turner. There are NO special features at all, no Dolby 5.1 sound, no subtitles, and no choice of language at all. No menu at all in fact, except to choose one of two episodes. This is probably not noteworthy for the article, but I thought it was strange. Probably the 'cut down' Aussie version? David / blucat. 15/4/2016.~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.178.105.232 ( talk) 19:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
We should probably include mention of the "billions and billions" expression which Sagan used so often in this series that it became a catchphrase (Google: "billions+and+billions"+"carl+sagan"+-wikipedia), and was lampooned by The Far Side and others, and became the title of Sagan's final book. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 17:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
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I do not recall the exact date (approx 1990 to 1994) that I saw the original Update to Episode 10 of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. I had just come home from work and turned on my TV and heard the end title music for Cosmos. I was preparing to change the channel from which ever Turner Broadcasting Channel it was (because I had obviously missed the episode) and there was Dr. Sagan in a black turtle neck! What a surprise!
He looked a little older - there was some gray in his black hair - otherwise he looked the same as he had when I first saw the PBS version.
He started talking about the IRAS satellite and how before it ran out of fuel - they had decided to image the entire sky. And he said something to the effect: "...and we found something astonishing..." or "amazing"... His image was replaced with a circle of red dots on a black background. He then said that each red dot was a galaxy, quasar or ("...") cluster. And then I realized the circle was a sphere of red dots because it rotated approximately 90 degrees and there was a humanoid form (kind of like the Architectural bathroom door signs) in the middle of the dots! A shiver traveled up my spine! I had just read a description of the image in the Mundaka Upanishad (Part I, Chapter I) the day before! He may have said something about the "13 billion light-year cone" and "Cepheid variables".
Sadly I did not have a blank VHS tape or a camera handy.
I emailed the IRAS team and they all remember seeing the IRAS Infrared spherical projection image - however none of them knew where the image could be found. One person even told me there had a been a poster...
When Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was released on DVD - I was very disappointed. Dr. Sagan was wearing a sports coat and his hair was completely gray and he began talking about people seeing things in images that are not there. His image was replaced with a color version of Dr. Geller's "stick man" image - which I had already seen in her book some years before the Ted Turner version of the show.
Does anyone else recall seeing the original update to Episode 10 that the Turner Network broadcast?
Xray1zero ( talk) 09:00, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
There isn't currently a place to put this in the main article, but should it ever be expanded to include more detail about its production, it's possible to date at least some of the New York City filming in Episode 2 to September 21, 1979, because Sagan is shown buying a stack of newspapers at a newsstand, one of which has the infamous "The Beatles are Back!" headline the New York Post ran on that date (as at the time it was rumoured they were reuniting for a charity concert; the concert happened, but the reunion didn't). The episode itself aired just over a year after, and only a couple months before John Lennon died. 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 14:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
The answer would be helpful to anyone wanting to quote from the series for books or articles they are writing. 2600:8801:B011:300:B09F:3FEF:E7EB:2AC5 ( talk) 15:59, 28 March 2021 (UTC) James.