Dicknuts      My God, it's filled with stars.
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kennydra      billions and billions of specks
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KnowFuture      Though it makes me cringe whenever a person of science uses the vague quantifier "billions" (I guess in my mind a scientist would always give an actual number), I can't rate anything with Richard Feynman and/or Carl Sagan in it any lower than a 5.
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kennydra "I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said 'billion' many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said 'billions and billions.' For one thing, it's imprecise. How many billions are 'billions and billions'? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? 'Billions and billions' is pretty vague... For a while, out of childish pique, I wouldn't utter the phrase, even when asked to. But I've gotten over that. So, for the record, here it goes: 'Billions and billions.' " -carl sagan
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Comatose2 really now, when you're talking about the number of stars and galaxies in our universe you've done well to be accurate to within one or two orders of magnitude.
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Comatose2      Astrophysics needs no autotune.
Of course, it doesn't NOT need autotune either, so 100 billion stars (plus or minus 100 billion and five).
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Ashenblade      For once, I don't mind the anonymous submitter. It makes this seem like a gift from POETV itself. Like finding a present on your doorstep with no name.
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Caminante Nocturno      People like Carl Sagan and Bill Nye should have holidays named after them.
They will soon enough. Mark my words.
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ProfessorChaos      Science is Poetry.
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kingarthur      Like, total zen, man. Seriously.
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pastorofmuppets      have you HEARD this
(I know only one published scientist, and she claims to have never seen Cosmos. Now that's some bullshit.)
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And Then Explosions      That's it, I've gotta subscribe to this guy's channel.
I would buy a whole album of this.
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And Then Explosions SPOKE TOO SOON.
This is the start of something awesome. http://www.symphonyofscience.com./
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andyweak      ok is this the same guy that does the autotune news?
I tend to favor this one because of Carl Sagan...billions and billions. awesome!!!
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Rudy      I giving this a five even though it makes Bill Nye look disconcertingly like Ad Rock.
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glasseye      Wonderful.
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smoothbrain      fucking awesome
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jxl      This is a no-brainer 5 star because at 2:45 I think I heard Feynman playing the bongos and chanting "orange juice."
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pastorofmuppets http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=62895
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
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engrish muffin      We have traveled this way before, but there is much to be learned.
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Squeamish      These things always cheer me up; every time I think the human race is just a day away from total cockroach-infested annihilation, I come across one of these videos and think "well, maybe it's not so bad."
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megaspy2000      this is amazing
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Spider Jerusalem      :'D
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Lies, lies, LIES! I hope this person keeps going: these are hymns that speak to me.
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