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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage abstract "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book was also published to accompany the series.Cosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming".".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage completionDate "1980-12-21".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage composer Vangelis.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Ann_Druyan.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Carl_Sagan.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Steven_Soter.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage numberOfEpisodes "13".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage presenter Carl_Sagan.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage releaseDate "1980-09-28".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage subsequentWork Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage wikiPageExternalLink cosmosindex.htm.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage wikiPageExternalLink www.carlsagan.com.
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage composer "Vangelis; various artists".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage country "United States".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Ann_Druyan.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Carl_Sagan.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage creator Steven_Soter.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage director "Adrian Malone".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage episodenumber "10".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage firstAired "1980-09-28".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage firstRun PBS.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage followedBy "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage genre "Documentary".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage language "English".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage lastAired "1980-12-21".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage numEpisodes "13".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage originalairdate "1980-10-05".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage originalairdate "1980-12-21".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage pictureFormat "4".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage presenter "Carl Sagan".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage producer "Gregory Andorfer".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage producer "Rob McCain".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage runtime "3600.0".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Beginning with the origins of the universe in the Big Bang, Sagan describes the formation of different types of galaxies and anomalies such as galactic collisions and quasars. The episodes moves further into ideas about the structure of the Universe, such as different dimensions , an infinite vs. a finite universe, and the idea of an oscillating Universe . The search into other ideas such as dark matter and the multiverse is shown, using tools such as the Very Large Array in New Mexico. Cosmos Update shows new information about the odd, irregular surfaces of galaxies and the Milky Way perhaps being a barred spiral galaxy.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Beginning with the separation of the fuzzy thinking and pious fraud of astrology from the careful observations of astronomy, Sagan follows the development of astronomical observation. Beginning with constellations and ceremonial calendars , the story moves to the debate between Earth and Sun-centered models: Ptolemy and the geocentric worldview, Copernicus' theory, the data-gathering of Tycho Brahe, and the achievements of Johannes Kepler .".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Carl Sagan teaches students in a classroom in his childhood home in Brooklyn, New York, which leads into a history of the different mythologies about stars and the gradual revelation of their true nature. In ancient Greece, some philosophers freely pursue scientific knowledge, while others advocate slavery and epistemic secrecy.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Ideas about time and space are explored in the changes that constellations undergo over time, the redshift and blue shift measured in interstellar objects, time dilation in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, the designs of both Leonardo da Vinci and spacecraft that could travel near light speed, time travel and its hypothetical effects on human history, the origins of the Solar System, the history of life, and the immensity of space. In Cosmos Update, the idea of faster-than-light travel by wormholes is discussed.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Questions are raised about the search for intelligent life beyond the Earth, with UFOs and other close encounters refuted in favor of communications through SETI and radio telescope such as the Arecibo Observatory. The probability of technically advanced civilizations existing elsewhere in the Milky Way is interpreted using the Drake equation and a future hypothetical Encyclopedia Galactica is discussed as a repository of information about other worlds in the galaxy. The Cosmos Update notes that there have been fewer sightings of UFOs and more stories of abductions, while mentioning the META scanning the skies for signals.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Sagan discusses comets and asteroids as planetary impactors, giving recent examples of the Tunguska event and a lunar impact described by Canterbury monks in 1178. It moves to a description of the environment of Venus, from the previous fantastic theories of people such as Immanuel Velikovsky to the information gained by the Venera landers and its implications for Earth's greenhouse effect. The Cosmos Update highlights the connection to global warming.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution through natural selection . Among the topics are the development of life on the Cosmic Calendar and the Cambrian explosion; the function of DNA in growth; genetic replication, repairs, and mutation; the common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms; the creation of the molecules of life in the Miller–Urey experiment; and speculation on alien life . In the Cosmos Update ten years later, Sagan remarks on RNA also controlling chemical reactions and reproducing itself and the different roles of comets .".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Sagan reflects on the future of humanity and the question of "who speaks for Earth?" when meeting extraterrestrials. He discusses the very different meetings of the Tlingit people and explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse with the destruction of the Aztecs by Spanish conquistadors, the looming threat of nuclear warfare, and the threats shown by destruction of the Library of Alexandria and the murder of Hypatia. The episode ends with an overview of the beginning of the universe, the evolution of life, and the accomplishments of humanity and makes a plea to mankind to cherish life and continue its journey in the cosmos. The Cosmos Update notes the preliminary reconnaissance of planets with spacecraft, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa, and measures towards the reduction of nuclear weapons.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "Some versions of the series, including the first North American home video release , included a specially-made fourteenth episode, which consisted of an hour-long interview between Sagan and Ted Turner, in which the two discussed the series and new discoveries made in the years since its first broadcast.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "The episode, devoted to the planet Mars, begins with scientific and fictional speculation about the Red Planet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . It then moves to Robert Goddard's early experiments in rocket-building, inspired by reading science fiction, and the work by Mars probes, including the Viking, searching for life on Mars. The episode ends with the possibility of the terraforming and colonization of Mars and a Cosmos Update on the relevance of Mars' environment to Earth's and the possibility of a manned mission to Mars.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "The idea of intelligence is explored in the concepts of computers , whales , DNA, the human brain , and man-made structures for collective intelligence . The episode ends with speculation on alien intelligence and the information conveyed on the Voyager Golden Record.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "The journeys of the Voyager probes is put in the context of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, with a centuries-long tradition of sailing ship explorers, and its contemporary thinkers . Their discoveries are compared to the Voyager probes' discoveries among the Jovian and Saturn systems. In Cosmos Update, image processing reconstructs Voyager's worlds and Voyager's last portrait of the Solar System as it leaves is shown.".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage shortsummary "The simple act of making an apple pie is extrapolated into the atoms and subatomic particles necessary. Many of the ingredients necessary are formed of chemical elements formed in the life and deaths of stars , resulting in massive red giants and supernovae or collapsing into white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and even black holes. These produce all sorts of phenomena, such as radioactivity, cosmic rays, and even the curving of spacetime by gravity. Cosmos Update mentions the supernova SN 1987A and neutrino astronomy.".
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title Heaven_and_Hell_(Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage_episode).
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title Journeys_in_Space_and_Time.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title One_Voice_in_the_Cosmic_Fugue.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title The_Backbone_of_Night.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title Travellers'_Tales.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "Cosmos".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "Encyclopaedia Galactica".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "The Edge of Forever".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "The Lives of the Stars".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "The Persistence of Memory".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage title "Who Speaks for Earth?".
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage website www.carlsagan.com.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage subject Category:1980_American_television_series_debuts.
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- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage subject Category:1980s_American_television_series.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage subject Category:American_documentary_television_series.
- Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage subject Category:Documentary_films_about_space.