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>>6435014
>University of Pittsburg Department of Physics & Astronomy
>Propaganda
Top lel.

Greatest physicists of all time thread?

1. Carl Sagan
2. Michio Kaku
3. Stephen Hawking

>The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
>but the way those atoms are put together

Carl Sagan pretty much led my childhood hobbies, so, are there any recent men like him, aside from Tyson, who I should be aware of?

and on a related note, is there ANYWHERE I could possibly find video of Sagan at the 1977 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London?

There has to be, even just a few minutes, SOMEWHERE.

Good morning/day/evening to you, /sci/. I don't come here very often, sadly, but I do have something that I would like to discuss with you regarding biology and things like that.

I have a hobby of writing some amateur sci-fi in my spare time, and I do not like to write about things without finding out what I can about them first. So I wonder; on a planet without any larger bodies of water, is it still more probable for life to arise in the water? Can it begin on land, even? What might the implications of life arising on land rather than in water be on, say, a planet of roughly the same gravity as Earth?

More questions to come as we progress, and thank you.

Did it bring any interesting space stuff to analyze?
I love that kind of stuff

“In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”
? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

>>5169108
OH RIGHT I'M JEWISH TOO SILLY MEEE

>Also Neils Bohr