Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution through natural selection (and the pitfalls of intelligent design). Among the topics are the development of life on the Cosmic Calendar and the Cambrian explosion; the function of DNA in growth; genetic replication, repairs, and mutation; the common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms; the creation of the molecules of life in the Miller–Urey experiment; and speculation on alien life (such as life in Jupiter's clouds). In the Cosmos Update ten years later, Sagan remarks on RNA also controlling chemical reactions and reproducing itself and the different roles of comets (potentially carrying organic molecules or causing the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event).

Cosmos Part II - One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue

The episode, devoted to the planet Mars, begins with scientific and fictional speculation about the Red Planet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction books, and Percival Lowell's false vision of canals on Mars). It then moves to Robert Goddard's early experiments in rocket-building, inspired by reading science fiction, and the work by Mars probes, including the Viking, searching for life on Mars. The episode ends with the possibility of the terraforming and colonization of Mars and a Cosmos Update on the relevance of Mars' environment to Earth's and the possibility of a human mission to Mars.

I am skipping here - and possibly confusing some listeners - Parts 3 and 4, but they will be added!

Cosmos Part V - Blues For A Red Planet

Journeys in Space and Time...

The episode begins with an overview of space and time and the changes constellations undergo over time, as well as the red and blue shifts of interstellar objects. Time dilation in Einstein's theory of relativity is introduced. Then, ancient inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are presented and the theoretical possibilities of traveling at the speed of light are discussed. Other topics include time travel and its potential consequences, the beginnings of the solar system, the history of life, and the immensity of the universe.

Reisen durch Raum und Zeit...

Die Episode beginnt mit einer Übersicht über Raum und Zeit und den Veränderungen, denen Konstellationen im Laufe der Zeit unterworfen sind, sowie der Rot- und Blauverschiebung interstellarer Objekte. Es wird die Zeit-Dilatation in Einsteins Relativitätstheorie vorgestellt. Danach werden alte Erfindungen von Leonardo da Vinci präsentiert und über die theoretischen Möglichkeiten des Reisens mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit diskutiert. Weitere Themen sind Zeitreisen und deren potentiellen Konsequenzen, die Anfänge des Sonnensystems, die Geschichte des Lebens und die Unermesslichkeit des Weltalls.

Cosmos Part VIII - Journeys In Space And Time

Using the example of the preparation of an apple pie, the parts are explained up to the atoms and subatomic particles (electrons, protons, and neutrons). It is explained how the chemical elements were formed by the fusion in the stars and also by the passing of the stars. Red giants, supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars and black holes are explained, and also the phenomena produced by them, such as radioactivity, cosmic rays and also the curvature of space-time by gravity.

Am Beispiel der Zubereitung eines Apfelkuchens werden die Teile bis hin zu den Atomen und subatomaren Partikeln (Elektronen, Protonen, and Neutronen) erklärt. Es wird erklärt, wie die chemischen Elemente durch die Fusion in den Sternen und auch durch das Vergehen der Sterne entstanden sind. Dazu werden Rote Riesen, Supernovae, Weiße Zwerge, Neutronensterne, Pulsare und Schwarze Löcher erklärt, und auch auf die von diesen erzeugten Phänomene wie Radioaktivität, Kosmische Strahlung und auch die Krümmung der Raumzeit durch die Gravitation eingegangen.

Cosmos Part IX - The Live Of The Stars

The episode starts with the formation of the universe by the Big Bang, Sagan describes the formation of different galaxies and anomalies like interacting galaxies and quasars. After that, various ideas about the structure of the universe, such as different dimensions (explained using the imaginary Flatland and a four-dimensional tesseract), a finite or infinite universe, an oscillating universe. The exploration of concepts such as dark matter or the multiverse using the Very Large Array is presented.

Cosmos Part X - The Edge Of Forever (Na na na Italo Disco Mix)

Sometimes I feel like I'm destroying the previous song by uploading a new one...☹️

Music never dies.... tho: Awakens my videos on Youtube from their slumber, please 🌹😁

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My music lives, breathes, thinks, feels. All that I live, breathe, think, feel. And it fills me. Although my music is animated by the simplest chords, it is still meant to convey joy. Sometimes sad, sometimes self-critical, sometimes upbeat and cheerful, then again melancholic and yet heavy. Sometimes epic, sometimes romantic, here and there folk elements, oriental influences, then again strong beats and percussion, trance, dance....pop, dynamic riffs, harmonic chords, guitar sounds leading away...and there is an Ambient character mostly to find.
 
I hope the diversity does not confuse too much. Just as I can't keep my inner self in check when writing and creating music, I can't keep it in check when expressing myself. Maybe one or the other will find exactly what he or she is looking for at this moment. Would be very happy to have helped in the search....

For those of you who are interested, I have been making music since I got my physical abilities under control. I really do not know with certainty to name, whether my legacies in the diapers at that time, along with the sounds that conditioned this, can be called music. Well, anyway: I've been consciously making music for a little over 4...oops..40 years. Now one or the other wonders: "Why does he annoy us with it now?". Quite simply: because I CAN! In the past, one was not given the opportunity to have such a valuable platform. Four years ago I started to develop my songs, which I wrote YEARS before and played on small organs, and decided to upload them here. Nobody really wants to hear my old cassette recordings anymore, really. 

I strive for a certain quality, but do not cherish the claim of professionalism. For four years I cherish and maintain this site, had several times my difficulties with comments, with soundcloud itself. At the moment it works and that's why I'm happy to continue to participate. 

On 31.12.2022 by the way, my soundcloud banner will be updated and then.... yes then you will also see my face, my face! Eeeeeh, wait...My weight...I mean my weight! 😂

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See you soon in this theater and thanks soooo much,

Frank Mehl

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