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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Tan had been having epilepticseizures since childhood, but he was committed toBicêtre...

Tan had been having epileptic
seizures since childhood, but he was committed to
Bicêtre because he had lost all powers of speech except
for being able to say "“tan."” Now, poor Tan lay dying

Full Transcript

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Tan had been having epileptic seizures since childhood,
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but he was committed to Bicêtre because he had lost
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all powers of speech except for being able to say "“tan."”
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Now, poor Tan lay dying.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:33
Uploaded
Jun 01, 2025
Season
1
Episode
5
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 • E06 A contact binary star system. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:04
A contact binary star system.
S01 • E10 The Earth's surface soon cooled, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
The Earth's surface soon cooled,
S01 • E07 How many forests have I been in without any awareness - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
How many forests have I been in without any awareness
S01 • E09 A way to call heads or tails. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
A way to call heads or tails.
S01 • E12 Others ranged north, taking a left turn into Europe. - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
Others ranged north, taking a left turn into Europe.
S01 • E04 He bred tens of thousands of them, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
He bred tens of thousands of them,
S01 • E10 The magma slowly circulating and our uranium atom found - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:13
The magma slowly circulating and our uranium atom found
S01 • E01 If we can learn to surf those gravitational waves the - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
If we can learn to surf those gravitational waves the
S01 • E06 They are so closed to one another, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
They are so closed to one another,
S01 • E12 There is evidence that they would later evolve into the - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
There is evidence that they would later evolve into the
S01 • E08 And now that partnership of decades is about to end - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
And now that partnership of decades is about to end
S01 • E13 All these decades later, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
All these decades later,
S01 • E07 Who are we to search for alien intelligence when we can't even recognize, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:12
Who are we to search for alien intelligence when we can'...
S01 • E03 What you've just seen is the most plausible scientific - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
What you've just seen is the most plausible scientific
S01 • E05 His right side had become paralyzed, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:05
His right side had become paralyzed,
S01 • E09 And like Newton, Christiaan Huygens had his own theory of light, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:07
And like Newton, Christiaan Huygens had his own theory of li...
S01 • E13 But like Carl, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:06
But like Carl,
S01 • E08 The pathway from our Earthbound helplessness to - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
The pathway from our Earthbound helplessness to
S01 • E01 It's as impossible to foresee as our world was to the - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:09
It's as impossible to foresee as our world was to the
S01 • E12 We have no idea what they called themselves, - Cosmos: Possible Worlds 00:08
We have no idea what they called themselves,