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Chris Higgins
“Cosmos” Documentary, Auto-Tuned Vocals by Carl Sagan, ft. Stephen Hawking (Seriously)
by Chris Higgins - September 25, 2009 - 9:01 AM

I hereby present the most awesome thing I’ve seen all year: an autotuned remix of an episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Entitled “A Glorious Dawn,” it’s the best trailer I’ve yet seen for the series as a whole — it’s genuinely a catchy song, and it actually communicates Sagan’s sense of wonder for the cosmos. Absolutely brilliant. If you watch one internet video today, please let it be this one.

See also: Documentaries I Like: Cosmos, The Late Movies: Cosmos, The World of Auto-Tune, Winston Churchill Getting Funky.

(Via Blogtown PDX.)

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Comments (15)

  1. Wow. Just….wow.

    posted by Colin on 9-25-2009 at 10:11 am

  2. this has got to be one of the coolest things ya’ll have ever posted here!!

    posted by mri on 9-25-2009 at 10:25 am

  3. No words will do this enough justice.

    posted by Blake on 9-25-2009 at 10:32 am

  4. Absolutely. Awesome. I give it 10^21 stars.

    posted by Bryan on 9-25-2009 at 11:41 am

  5. This is the best thing I have seen in a LONG time. Made my entire day and possibly my week!

    One heck of a captcha: mindanao 6-foot-4-inch

    posted by Sara's Whimsy on 9-25-2009 at 11:55 am

  6. Does anyone else think that sounds like Kermit the Frog?

    posted by Jon B on 9-25-2009 at 1:00 pm

  7. Hmmmmmm, that’s out there i guess. I think i’d need some eeeelllllleeeessssssssddddeeeeeeeee to enjoy that one!

    posted by kale on 9-25-2009 at 1:58 pm

  8. Wow! Thank you so much for that link, what a great start to my day!

    posted by Erin on 9-25-2009 at 2:50 pm

  9. Awesome awesome awesome! This made my day!

    Jon B. – Yeah, I heard that a bit… I like it!

    posted by tona b. on 9-25-2009 at 3:04 pm

  10. Super slick. People capable of that sort of creative brilliance make me feel as small as the Earth spinning in a galaxy of 400 billion suns. Fantastic work there.

    posted by sapokesfan on 9-25-2009 at 3:26 pm

  11. ohhhh nooooo… you showed this to the wrong guy!!!! i’m so baked right now… i think i just watched it like 3 times in a row?????!! :(

    captcha: pittman realism

    posted by dakevs on 9-25-2009 at 5:28 pm

  12. The warble added to the voice made it difficult for me to make out the words. Sagan’s voice really didn’t need the enhancement, it stands on it’s own. I was always mesmerized by Cosmos. Sagan’s enthusiasm for his subject was contagious, and the show was as much art as science.

    posted by Pam on 9-25-2009 at 7:14 pm

  13. My God I’ve listened to this at least twenty times now. Who made this video? Genius.

    posted by sapokesfan on 9-25-2009 at 11:57 pm

  14. why did this make cry?

    posted by MEDIC on 9-27-2009 at 1:31 pm

  15. Carl Sagan ftw.

    I watch Cosmos on the science channel all the time :)

    posted by Atheist on 11-11-2009 at 3:44 pm

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