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A Glorious Dawn

By Miss Cellania in Science & Tech, Video Clips on Sep 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm



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Forget rap, forget the news, THIS is what auto-tune was meant for! Carl Sagan sings his lovely prose about our wonderful universe with an appearance by Stephen Hawking. -via Geeks Are Sexy


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  1. kranzorZ
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Funny! Hopefully this will somehow reignite interest in Sagan's masterpiece of television COSMOS...

  2. Tim Giachetti
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Carl was a geek and we love him for it.

  3. DaveL
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    This gave me a nerd-gasm. The universe's greatest spokesperson... miss you lots Carl...

  4. Kaitlin Lara
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Carl Sagan has long been a hero of mine, and I always appreciated the poetry of his words in Cosmos...as a musician, I love to hear Carl Sagan's words put to music, and in his (sort-of) own voice! Fantastic. Loved that man.

  5. Chris P
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Wow! Nicely Done!

    Carl was the best.

  6. Felipe Venancio
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Very cool song. great lyrics hahaha

  7. Lauren
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Holy. Cow. That was impressive. Now I have to go mess with my GarageBand program...

  8. 2133
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    most awesome WIN
    redo whole COSMOS

  9. giltwist
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    O.o

    I really like that... I'm half tempted to rip that to an MP3 and put it on my ambient downtempo playlist. It's sciencey and po-mo all at the same time. As they say, "MOAR!"

  10. Hypersapien
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    giltwist, you don't need to rip it. There's a link in the youtube description to the artist's site. He has the mp3 available for download.

  11. Ali S.
    Sep 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    Wow! Just wow! Not big fan of autotuning but I make an exception when it comes to Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking! Awesome.

  12. Alex
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 2:05 am

    Billions and billions of props to John Boswell who made this!

  13. seekshelter
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    if anyone is interested, Hulu has Cosmos up for viewing...

  14. giltwist
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    @Hypersapien

    Ah! Didn't notice that, thanks! Now, I will admit I own the Klein Four's CD, but I would totally shell out $16.99 for 12 tracks of this sort of thing. Carl Sagan was masterfully poetic and totally brilliant. I'd love to see other science fiction and fantasy authors put to ambient downtempo. Can you imagine how awesome the Jabberwock might sound this way? Oo! Or how about some of the recordings of Tolkien reading long passages in Quenya!

  15. EthicalBob
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Nicely done!

    Carl Sagan on Autotune = Kermit the Frog? The secret is out...

  16. gdw3
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    Pure genius. Thank you so much for posting this.

  17. G
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Wow. That came out to be a really good song. Actually with the lyrics, quite beautiful. I love it!

  18. Fernando Sotomayor
    Jan 8th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    Woah, this made me cry, it's a beautiful speech and i'm gonna have to look for the original

    now if you care to join me, gentlemen, ladies
    to the STARS!

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