From Cosmos, episode 12 "The Encyclopaedia Galactica"

posted by jimnms 1 decade 7 years 3 months ago • 5,990 views

From the 1981 BBC TV series.

posted by redthing 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 5,402 views

YT summary: We're all in this together - Carl Sagan makes this point better than anyone else, in this clip from his series 'Cosmos, A Personal Voyage'

posted by Fletch 1 decade 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 3,040 views

One of the best descriptions I've ever seen about what the fourth dimension would look like to a three-dimensional being. (I remember being wowed by this when it first aired.)

posted by atara 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 7,677 views

Millennium Simulation: The Virgo consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and the USA has today (June 2nd) released first results from the largest and... continue reading

posted by Majortomyorke 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 4,059 views

Clips from a BBC documentary explaining the arguments from the 1920's until now as to whether electrons are particles, waves or both. It outlines Einstein's distaste at Heisenberg's uncertainty principle... continue reading

posted by Majortomyorke 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 3,414 views

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into... continue reading

posted by mlx 1 decade 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 4,471 views

I know this was already posted here: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-grand-scheme-of-things. But this one has sound and I enjoy way more due to the music. Yann Tiersen, soundtrack from "Goodbye Lenin."

posted by joemawlma 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 6,819 views

Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end

posted by my15minutes 1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,819 views

more aboot it here on.. National Geographic

posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,775 views

I was told this is quite old, but I just saw it for the first time and it seems it was not sifted before. Enjoy

posted by maatc 1 decade 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 2,451 views

Here's new NASA satellite video showing the astounding loss of Arctic sea ice. From NASA: The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less... continue reading

posted by qruel 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 16,195 views

This is my15minutes's idea for a contest entry, both parodying and paying homage to The Matrix (but only the first one, not so much the sequels - because, .. ok, don't get me started). I love the Gloria... continue reading

posted by berticus 1 decade 7 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 2,808 views

History Channel Program: Life After People *2 minute trailer/sneak peak*

Where did we come from?

posted by MycroftHomlz 1 decade 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 4,297 views