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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

I know of only onenonhuman symbolic language, and only one instance whenwe humans made...

I know of only one
nonhuman symbolic language, and only one instance when
we humans made contact with the life-form that uses it

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I know of only one nonhuman symbolic language,
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and only one instance when we humans made contact with
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the life-form that uses it.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:34
Uploaded
Jun 01, 2025
Season
1
Episode
7
Genres
documentary, animation, family

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Movie Summary

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" returns for a second season. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, serves as executive producer.
S01 • E01 Within this tiny single-celled organism was a kind of chemical ladder, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
Within this tiny single-celled organism was a kind of chemic...
S01 • E12 To change the oceans, the land and the atmosphere. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
To change the oceans, the land and the atmosphere.
S01 • E02 When a honeybee dies, it releases a special chemical. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
When a honeybee dies, it releases a special chemical.
S01 • E04 Even as a child, Vavilov had a sense of urgency. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:04
Even as a child, Vavilov had a sense of urgency.
S01 • E09 How could three sheets of cardboard set such a catastrophe in motion? - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
How could three sheets of cardboard set such a catastrophe i...
S01 • E10 Marie and Pierre had discovered a completely new element. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Marie and Pierre had discovered a completely new element.
S01 • E02 It's a death pheromone that has a characteristic odor, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
It's a death pheromone that has a characteristic odor,
S01 • E12 And these changes have led to a new mass extinction. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
And these changes have led to a new mass extinction.
S01 • E04 "Too little time, too much to do," was his lifelong refrain. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
"Too little time, too much to do," was his lifelon...
S01 • E08 In science, there are the Galileos, the Newtons, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
In science, there are the Galileos, the Newtons,
S01 • E03 We've only recently begun to appreciate how powerfully - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
We've only recently begun to appreciate how powerfully
S01 • E09 A green glass shade like this one will only allow the green light through, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:10
A green glass shade like this one will only allow the green ...
S01 • E07 Their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics would astonish most of us. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics would astonish ...
S01 • E11 Once, there was a people who chose the unknown. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Once, there was a people who chose the unknown.
S01 • E12 The scientific community has looked at the evidence, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
The scientific community has looked at the evidence,
S01 • E10 The Curies showed that the radium was entirely - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
The Curies showed that the radium was entirely
S01 • E08 And then there's another kind of great scientist. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:04
And then there's another kind of great scientist.
S01 • E03 When we think about the ways life has changed Earth, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:10
When we think about the ways life has changed Earth,
S01 • E11 They risked everything to go forth on uncharted seas - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
They risked everything to go forth on uncharted seas
S01 • E05 Broca established for the first time that there were - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:10
Broca established for the first time that there were