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AutoTuned Sagan

by John Conway

Oddly addicting…a million views and rising!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc]

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October 14th, 2009 2:51 PM
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12 Responses to “AutoTuned Sagan”

  1. 1.   Unklar Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I miss Carl Sagan!

  2. 2.   joulesm Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Love this line: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

  3. 3.   graviton383 Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Really nice…

  4. 4.   VanMan Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    I am not entirely sure why, but no one has been able to replace Carl Sagan as spokesman for science. Perhaps it will take another generation or so.

    I was iffy about the video at first, but it got me going after a bit.

    Still, I would rather see Cosmos as it was originally broadcast in full.

  5. 5.   True_Q Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    This video is awesome. Thanks for posting it

  6. 6.   The sky calls to us « Path To Sustainable Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    [...] October 15, 2009 by Richard AutoTuned Sagan [...]

  7. 7.   Michael T. Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    What was unique about Sagan was his infectiousness sense of wonder.

  8. 8.   ‘The sky cries for us’ « A Man With A Ph.D. Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    [...] AutoTuned Sagan [...]

  9. 9.   changcho Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Taken from the Cosmos chapter where he discusses atoms. Yup, Sagan is sorely missed.

  10. 10.   Brian Mingus Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    love this.

  11. 11.   Tod R. Lauer Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Here is the next video in the series – this one has Sagan, Feynman, Neil Tyson, and Bill Nye…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

  12. 12.   AutoTuned Sagan - notspace.net Says:
    November 1st, 2009 at 2:25 am

    [...] by Notspace on Nov.01, 2009, under Uncategorized AutoTuned Sagan [...]





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