in the video below, astronomer Carl Sagan, traces events
from the time of the Big Bang to the formation of Life

and he manages to do so, with his brand of poetry,
in only 3 1/2 minutes



the above is an excerpt from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,

first broadcast by in 1980, the 13-episode Cosmos was
American public television's most watched series

it remained so for a decade, and today is regarded
as one of the all time geat science documentaries