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The journeys of the Voyager probes are put in the context of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, with a centuries-long tradition of sailing ship explorers, and its contemporary thinkers (such as Constantijn Huygens and his son Christian). Their discoveries are compared to the Voyager probes' discoveries among the Jovian and Saturn systems. Sagan was a member of the Voyager research team, and production of the episode coincided with the probes arriving at Jupiter; at one point, Sagan is filmed receiving one of the first-ever images of one of Jupiter's moons. In Cosmos Update, image processing reconstructs Voyager's worlds and Voyager's last portrait of the Solar System as it leaves is shown.

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00:00Hello, my name is Anne Drianne.
00:05When Carl Sagan, Steven Soder and I wrote the Cosmos television series in the late 1970s,
00:11a lot of things were different.
00:13Back then, the United States and the Soviet Union held the whole planet in a perpetual hostage crisis called the Cold War.
00:20The wealth and scientific ingenuity of our civilization was being squandered on a runaway arms race
00:26that employed more than half the world's scientists and infested the Earth with 50,000 nuclear weapons.
00:35So much has happened since then. The Cold War is history, and science has made great strides.
00:42We've completed the spacecraft reconnaissance of the solar system,
00:46the preliminary mapping of the visible universe that surrounds us,
00:50and we have charted the universe within, the human genome.
00:55When Cosmos was first broadcast, there was no World Wide Web. It was a different world.
01:01What a tribute to Carl Sagan, a scientist who took many a punch for daring to speculate
01:07that even after 20 of the most eventful years in the history of science,
01:12Cosmos requires few revisions and indeed is rich in prophecy.
01:18Cosmos is both a history of the scientific enterprise and an attempt to convey the soaring spiritual high of its central revelation,
01:28our oneness with the universe.
01:31Now please, enjoy Cosmos, the proud saga of how, through the searching of 40,000 generations of our ancestors,
01:40we have come to discover our coordinates in space and in time,
01:45and how, through the awesomely powerful method of science,
01:50we have been able to reconstruct the sweep of cosmic evolution,
01:54and to find our own part in its great story.
02:00the main purpose of how, through the
03:51Humensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth.
03:57For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves.
04:03This is a time of great danger, but our species is young and curious and brave.
04:10It shows much promise.
04:12In the last few millennia, we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the cosmos and our place within it.
04:20I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos, in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
04:30We're about to begin a journey through the cosmos.
04:40We'll encounter galaxies and suns and planets, life and consciousness, coming into being, evolving and perishing.
04:50Worlds of ice and stars of diamond, atoms as massive as suns and universes smaller than atoms.
04:59But it's also a story of our own planet and the plants and animals that share it with us.
05:06And it's a story about us, how we achieved our present understanding of the cosmos, how the cosmos has shaped our evolution and our culture, and what our fate may be.
05:17We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads, but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both.
05:31We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.
05:37The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature.
05:49The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
05:54On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.
05:58Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle deep, and the water seems inviting.
06:04Today, some part of our being knows this is where we came from.
06:10We long to return.
06:13And we can, because the cosmos is also within us.
06:16We're made of star stuff.
06:19We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
06:23The journey for each of us begins here.
06:26We're going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination,
06:30unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size.
06:35Drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies, it can take us anywhere in space and time.
06:41Perfect as a snowflake, organic as a dandelion seed,
06:47it will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts.
06:53Come with me.
06:54Before us is the cosmos on the grandest scale we know.
07:10We are far from the shores of earth, in the uncharted reaches of the cosmic ocean,
07:21strewn like sea froth on the waves of space are innumerable faint tendrils of light,
07:28some of them containing hundreds of billions of suns.
07:33These are the galaxies, drifting endlessly in the great cosmic dark.
07:41In our ship of the imagination, we are halfway to the edge of the known universe.
07:49In this, the first of our cosmic voyages, we begin to explore the universe revealed by science.
08:07Our course will eventually carry us to a far-off and exotic world.
08:19But from the depths of space, we cannot detect even the cluster of galaxies in which our Milky Way is embedded,
08:26much less the sun or the earth.
08:29we cannot detect even theREE.
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