Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - First Season English Subtitles

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Hello. My name is Ann Druyan.

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When Carl Sagan, Steven Soter and I…

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…wrote the Cosmos TV series
in the late 1970s…

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…a lot of things where different.

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Back then, the U.S. and the Soviet Union…

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…held the hole planet
in their perpetual hostage crisis…

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…called the Cold War.

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The wealth and scientific ingenuity
of our civilization…

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…was being squandered
on a runaway arms raise.

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All my life I've wondered
about life beyond the Earth.

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On those countless other planets
that we think circle other suns…

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…is there also life?

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Might the beings of other
worlds resemble us…

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…or would they be
astonishingly different?

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What would they be made of?

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In the vast Milky Way galaxy…

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…how common is what we call life?

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The nature of life on Earth…

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There are two ways to view the stars:

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As they really are
and as we might wish them to be.

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There are the Pleiades…

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…a group of young stars
astronomers recognize…

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…as leaving their stellar nurseries
of gas and dust.

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And this is the Crab Nebula…

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…a stellar graveyard,
where gas and dust…

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…are being dispersed back
into the interstellar medium.

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Inside it is a dying pulsar.

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This is the age of
planetary exploration…

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…when our ships have begun
to sail the heavens.

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In those heavens, there are
some worlds much like hell.

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Our planet is, in comparison,
much like a heaven.

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But the gates of heaven and hell…

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…are adjacent and unmarked.

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The Earth is a lovely…

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…and more or less placid place.

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Things change, but slowly.

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Martians.

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Why so many speculations
and fantasies about Martians…

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…rather than Saturnians, say,
or Plutonians?

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Because Mars seems,
at first glance, very Earth-like.

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It's the nearest planet
whose surface we can see.

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There are polar icecaps,
drifting white clouds…

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…raging dust storms,
seasonally changing patterns…

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…even a 24-hour day.

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Imagine that we are travelers
from the stars…

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…bound for the sun.

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We would discover it surrounded by
four giant, cloudy, gas worlds:

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Blue Neptune and its
frozen moon, Triton.

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And then farther in, Uranus
and its dark rings…

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…made perhaps of organic matter.

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Saturn, the jewel
of the solar system…

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…set within concentric rings…

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…composed of a billion icy moons.

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The sky calls to us.

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If we do not destroy ourselves…

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…we will one day venture
to the stars.

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There was a time when the stars
seemed an impenetrable mystery.

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Today, we have begun
to understand them.

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In our personal lives also, we
journey from ignorance to knowledge.

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Our individual growth reflects
the advancement of the species.

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The exploration of the cosmos is…

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…a voyage of self-discovery.

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We are drifting in
a great ocean of space and time.

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In that ocean, the events
that shape the future…

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…are working themselves out.

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Each creature and every world,
to the remotest star…

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…owe their existence to…

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…the great, coursing,
implacable forces of nature…

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…but also, to minor happenstance.

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We are carried with our planet
around the sun.

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The Earth has made more than

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If you wish to make
an apple pie from scratch…

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…you must first invent the universe.

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Thank you very much.

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Suppose I cut a piece…

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…out of this apple pie.

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Crumbly, but good.

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And now suppose we cut
this piece in half, or more or less.

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And then cut this piece in half…

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…and keep going.

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There is one experience
that every human shares…

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…of every language and culture:

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The experience of birth.

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Our recollections of birth are
hazy at best.

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They have the feel and aura
not so much of memories…

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…as of mystical transfigurations.

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It would be astonishing if
this profound early experience…

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…did not influence
our myths and religions…

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…our philosophy and our science.

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The surface of the Earth is
far more beautiful…

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…and far more intricate
than any lifeless world.

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Our planet is graced by life.

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And one quality that sets life
apart is its complexity…

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…slowly evolved through
4 billion years of natural selection.

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You can describe in detail…

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…how a rock is put together
in a single paragraph.

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But to describe
the basic structure of a tree…

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In the vastness of the cosmos…

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…there must be other civilizations
far older…

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…and more advanced than ours.

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So shouldn't we have been visited?
Shouldn't there be every now and then…

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…alien ships in the skies of Earth?

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There's nothing impossible
in this idea.

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And no one would be happier than me
if we were visited.

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But has it happened in fact?

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What counts is not what's plausible,
not what we'd like to believe…

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"I call Heaven and Earth
to witness against you this day…

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…that I have set before thee
life and death…

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…the blessing and the curse.

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Therefore choose life,
that thou mayest live…

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…thou and thy seed."

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Nearly 200 years ago,
in the Gulf of Alaska…

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…at a place called Lituya Bay…

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…two cultures that had never
met experienced a first encounter.

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The Tlingit people…