I sometimes imitate both Agent Smith and Carl Sagan, so I have no idea how this escaped my notice:
It drags a bit in the middle, but the end is great, especially the look on Morpehus’sss’ss face. Bonus: this starts with my favorite Sagan quotation.
Tip o’ the red pill to BATweep JimSly.
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May 5th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Yeah, Phil, what took you so long?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Yeah, Phil, what took you so long?
Also, I, too, can do a mean Sagan impression.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thats a more interesting speech then Agent Smith’s original dialog. Screw the matrix metaphysics reality kicks ass.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I so need to send this to our chemistry teachers. That would be perfect for them to start this topic.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Furthermore, Phil; it’s Morpheus, not “Morpehus”.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
It’s even better if you play Dark Side of the Moon while you watch.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:31 am
OT…To all who so lovingly wished me well on my special birthday… Thank You! I truly enjoyed reading what you had to say. I smiled at most, grinned at many, giggled and laughed out loud. You all had a part in making my day, a day apart.
But note that I did not raise my children by myself. They had a very special father! And I am proud that they took after him in many ways.
ESP-BAMom
May 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am
At the risk of sounding ignorant: Where is the Sagan speech from, and where can I get it all?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Thank you, Phil.
It’s time for me to change my pants from peeing them.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:39 am
I think that we should subject creationists and “Electric Universe” nutters to the same ‘interrogation’.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I always thought someone should make a recipe for Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie.
1. Create the universe.
2. Combine flour, salt, brown sugar, butter and mix thoroughly.
…
May 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
@ Eskil,
The speech is from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:59 am
@ Eskil, you can read a portion here: http://is.gd/wVM7
May 5th, 2009 at 9:05 am
This clip just makes me want to run out and buy Cosmos on DVD.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
You can get all of the Cosmos series on Hulu for those who asked.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am
But matter is even more freaky than that clip suggests. When you look at the nucleus, the part that has all the “stuff”, you see it’s made of nothing also! Well, quarks, but they don’t count as they have no size.
We better stop looking, lest we find we disappear altogether.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
This reminds me, we still have no replacement for Carl Sagan. In sum yes, absolutely. But not in the one-man-army way. A real icon in popular science. Wise in the ways of science and teaching.
Although I love science, most scientists IMHO, are no good at teaching. They can describe what they are doing but it’s….uhm, rather boring. And sometimes it does sound rather cold and passionless. To some extent I can understand why few are prepared to listen what they have to say.
Phil is on his way, though
PS. YAY BAMom
)
May 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I love how Sagan says “books” and “ships”.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
said
May 5th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I have been watching full episodes of Cosmos on Fancast.com, for those of you who are interested. They have 13 episodes of the updated (2000) series.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Haha, a classic Youtube…. surprised you hadn’t seen it until now!
May 5th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
CyroTank is unfortunately, correct. We DO NOT have a replacement for Sagan, just lots of wantabes with pretty faces (or occasionally, not) who think they talk well, trying to do what Willie Sutton did, go where the money is. No one with Sagan’s credentials as both a top-notch scientist AND a Pulitzer prize winning author.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
It’s true, we don’t have a replacement for Sagan. We do have lots and lots of wantabees though, who are following the money. But no one with Sagan’s scientific credentials who can hold a candle to him as a writer. As someone said about one of them (it can apply equally well to all, just change a few words): he’s to theoretical physics what Kenny G. is to jazz.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
The first time I saw it, I wondered what the frack was going on – guess it shows that I haven’t watched Matrix.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Phil: That was funny!
LOL
May 5th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Old video is old.
Delighted you found it, either way, Phil.
I love it.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I discovered the connection one day when I was in my kitchen and I heard the TV in the other room. I thought to myself “Hey I hear Agent Smith, the Matrix must be on.” I walked into the living room and was amazed to see I was watching Cosmos.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Crumbly but good!
May 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I’m sorry guys, I love Sagan, and I love The Matrix (1st one – the others sucked) but this mashup was kinda boring.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:45 am
I love that episode XD EPIC APPLE PIE! And seriously, this is far more interesting than ‘humanity is a virus’ and all…
Eskil, if you want some specifics, this is from the start of episode nine, The Lives Of The Stars.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:51 am
“drags a bit in the middle”? Come on, it’s “The Matrix” – it drags along like a 12-year-old one-legged dog with a broken foot.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Not a big fan of the Matrix – I remember back in high school, our teacher made us analyze the movie scene by scene.
Phil, post your Sagan impersonaton please.