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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a thirteen-part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Cosmos was the generic name given to a series of earth-orbiting satellites by the Soviet Union.
Sometimes the term 'cosmos' is considered to be only the observed universe, while the term "universe" refers to all that exists whether it has been discovered or not.
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 cosmos
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a thirteen-part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Cosmos was the generic name given to a series of earth-orbiting satellites by the Soviet Union.
Sometimes the term 'cosmos' is considered to be only the observed universe, while the term "universe" refers to all that exists whether it has been discovered or not.
www.fact-library.com /cosmos.html   (231 words)

  
 Blind Willie Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnson's recording of "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" was included on the Voyager Golden Record, sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft in 1977, and for this reason was used in the widely seen science show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan in 1980.
Johnson was not born blind, and, although it is not specifically known how his condition came about, it is widely believed that his stepmother, in a fit of rage, blinded him when he was 7 years old by throwing lye in his face.
Johnson remained poor until the end, preaching and singing in the streets of Beaumont, Texas to anyone who would listen.
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 Heikegani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For this reason, the Heike crab was used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection, as the crabs with shells resembling Samurai have a greater chance of reproducing.
It is localy believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in the Heike Monogatari ("The Tale of the Heike").
Heikegani are rarely eaten, and it is considered proper to throw them back into the sea if they are caught.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heike_crab   (167 words)

  
 Heikegani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For this reason, the Heike crab was used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection, as the crabs with shells resembling Samurai have a greater chance of reproducing.
Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face.
It is localy believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in the Heike Monogatari ("The Tale of the Heike").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heike_crab   (167 words)

  
 A Personal Voyage -- Harmony of the Worlds
The man who sought harmony in the cosmos was fated to live at a time of exceptional discord on Earth.
His Three Laws of Planetary Motion represent, we now know, is a real harmony of the worlds, but to Kepler, they were only incidental to his quest for a cosmic system based on the perfect solids, a system which, it turns out, existed only in his mind.
And if we lived in an unpredictable world where things changed in random or very complex ways, we wouldn't be able to figure things out, and again there would be no such thing as science.
www.american-buddha.com /pers.voyage.carl.htm   (167 words)

  
 Cosmos - TheBestLinks.com - Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan, Greek language, Multiverse, ...
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a thirteen-part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
The cosmos is the universe, especially when thought of as an orderly or harmonious system.
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 Carl Sagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was the name of a 13-part TV series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Carl Sagan was an avid user of marijuana, although he never publicly admitted it during his life.
Sagan was a significant figure, and his supporters credit his importance to his popularization of the natural sciences, opposing both restraints on science and reactionary applications of science, defending democratic traditions, resisting nationalism, defending humanism, and arguing against geocentric and anthropocentric views.
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