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I'm 22 year old european guy that never heard of Cosmos and Carl Sagan until a few years ago (mostly when I was reading/watching stuff by Neil Degrasse and Michio Kaku), and today I just finished watching it.

Holy fuck, I just cried for some reason. I was never a religious person but the way Carl Sagan (that btw looks a lot like my grandfather) explains the cosmos just awakened something in me, something I'd say almost religious, I felt overpowered by the magnificence of the cosmos and shed tears of wonder.

Is this normal or should I see a doctor ?

>> No.4853230

Get out, faggot

>> No.4853244

>>4853210
Carl Sagan was arguably responsible for a lot of what we accomplished in the 1960s with the space program. I think he's a visionary for seeing the human race as complete and not simply citizens of certain countries, creeds, or religions. It's easy to make fun of Carl Sagan, but make no mistake, he was a genius and a visionary.

I can only hope we can one day achieve what he perceived would be mankind's transcendence into the stars.

>> No.4853246

>>4853210
>/sci/ - Pop Science and Religion

>> No.4853265

>>4853244
he helped with the Mariner probes, that was about it

>> No.4853272
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4853272

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

gets me every time.

>> No.4853275

No, you're just a faggot.

Delete this thread.

>> No.4853277

>>4853246

Actually I think the world needs more pop-science.

Because it's pop science that motivates normal people to become scientists and decreasing the ignorance of the population.

If we keep science to ourselves we risk being finished by retards that think classical music sucks because it's old and that science is for nerds and losers.

And since our brains have a propensity for religion, I think it's better to get our fix of spirituality from observing the universe than conjuring up imaginary friends that want you to kill whoever doesn't agree with you.

>> No.4853281

>>4853277
True. Though perhaps it's too intellectual for /sci.

>> No.4853282

Congrats, you have found out you are gay.

>> No.4853291

>>4853272
"How many rivers we had to cross... before we found our way"

Oh God I cried

>> No.4853336

>>4853277
I agree, pop-sci got me interested in science to begin with. It's a nice stepping stone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I
>"For a fraction ... "
> Not gonna cry
> "... of a dot."
> I cried

>> No.4853360

>>4853336
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

Same clip, but I think a better version of it. Also OP should watch "The Assent of Man", if he hasn't already.

>> No.4853363

sagan was a atheist was he not?

so his inspiring, enlightening and empowering documentary about the frailty and beauty of life, humanity, earth, occurring in a massive void of scarce potential we call space, made you religious?

If anything it should make you realize we are not the center of the universe, a god does not look after us while disregarding all of its other creation (the universe), and furthermore, HAD NO HAND IN CREATING US; yet you got spiritual?


I dont understand why some people lack the intellect to see the bigger picture. Make a person feel small and they turn to a phantasmal father figure. . .go figure.

>> No.4853401

>>4853277
Of course, man, I would like to have the chance to thank Carl for what he made, he presented science in a beautiful way that even some scientist fail to view.

A man who was able to change the life of someone like me, who doesn't shared nether the country nor the mother language with him have made a most valuable change to this world than most of the billions of billions of man who preceded him

>> No.4853409

>>4853363
I think you need to work on your reading comprehension.

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>>4853363

this should answer your question whether sagan was an atheist, or not.

>> No.4853630

>>4853363

Cosmos made me a Pantheist/Pandeist.

>> No.4853634

You can have spiritual experiences and still be an atheist. It just means that you dont draw unjustified conclusions about the nature of the universe from your subjective experiences.