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Hi /sci/

I'm, looking for opinions and ideas. Please contribute if you care and if something comes to mind.

My goal in life is to spread Carl Sagan's perspective-of-life or "worldview" as far out and as far wide as I can.

I'm 21. I'm a College Junior, and I still don't know what I want to Major in.

I love Science. I love the idea of teaching, but I'm afraid I rather not become a High School teacher (granted it is a pretty thankless job).

Does anyone have suggestions?

Thank you.

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>> No.5077327

Academics sounds like an obvious place to be. It combines researching your favorite subject, and teaching it to students that actually want to be there.

>> No.5077329

>>5077317
Then you either have to purse a Phd and be a pop scientist, or drop out right now and try to proselytize. Either way, it's sounds like you are misguided.

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not sagan but like-minded thought alike

>> No.5077340

Thank you for sharing your opinions with me.

>>5077329
What do you suggest I do? Why am I misguided?

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>> No.5077351

>>5077340
I suggest you learn more about the world before spreading an ideology, that's all. If you can't figure out your college major (and you are junior? wtf?), yet you want to take on this project, you are going to have a tough time.

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So, I feel compelled to add the following:

I definitely feel like I'm misguided, currently the only thing I think about it smoking cannabis. I think a lot about girls, which is natural but I am getting pretty annoyed by that shit, and I feel like I perhaps don't have what it takes to become an academic.

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Original Content

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>> No.5077376

Why don't you study science and pedagogy?

>> No.5077381

Up to what mathematics have you been exposed to?

What specific fields of science interest you and how much of those fields have you been exposed to?

>> No.5077397

>>5077376
I'm thinking of something like that. I'm not particularly interested in kids but I do figure it is the most essential thing to spread curiosity and skepticism throughout our youngest generations.

>>5077381
I have been exposed up to Calc II (which gave me a hard time) Haven't really gone into Calc III because Calc II intimidated me.

I had a strong interest for Physics, it sounded attracted to me. I had astrophysicist in mind but that died off as soon as I took my first Physics class.

Earth Science is very interesting to me. Mathematics is fascinating as well but I rather not get too deep into math. Chemistry is easy. Biology is something I would like to probe but I never really got the chance.

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>>5077397

I have been exposed to Earth Science but I figured it was something just to get an A on.

I LOVE astronomy, but I would have to get deep into Physics to get anything important in in Astronomy/Astrophysics.

I host this page on facebook, BTW:
facebook.com/Transcend.Via.Benevolence

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it seems like I'll just be posting random images of him that I find on my computer...

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>> No.5077478 [DELETED] 

Faggot science worshippers are ruining what should be a dispassionate pursuit.


STOP INJECTING YOUR FAGGY SPIRITUALITY BULLSHIT CUNT

Also Sagan LIED about nuclear winter to advance a political goal.

>> No.5077497

>>5077478
>what should be a dispassionate pursuit.
how so?

>> No.5077500

>>5077478
What's wrong with worshiping science? Sagan did it, Neil DeGrasse Tyson does it. Why is it a bad thing?

And what do you mean by Sagan's political goal that he lied about so he could further?

Your choice of language clouds my judgement on what to make of your comment but thanks for the contribution anyways...

>> No.5077504

>>5077478
if science doesn't improve the human condition it is absolutely pointless

>> No.5077511 [DELETED] 

>>5077500
Because you turn science into a cargo cult. You probably also worship faggot shit like equality and democracy too, stupid progressive fuck. You're just a typical teenaged redditard.


http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/08/climate_of_fear_from_nuclear_w.html

Sagan and some other researchers made some horribly sloppy models of nuclear warfare effects, and that's where we get the myth of nuclear winter wiping out all life from. They refused to retract their findings when it was shown it was bunk. Shit tier science.

>> No.5077513 [DELETED] 

>>5077504
Science doesn't "improve the human condition". Technology does. But I don't see you nerds sucking the cocks of engineers do I?

>> No.5077523

>>5077478

Sounds like you're just an idiot and have no idea what you're talking about.

Keep trying hard to sound edgy and "rational" bro, maybe you can fool your pleb friends and your mom into thinking you're smart.

>> No.5077526

>>5077513
May ask for some background good sir?

Are you an engineer?

>> No.5077537

>>5077513
well, we do get tingles at the great achievements we've achieved as a species from the pyramids to saturn V, but since we're humans we need more than just solutions to material problems

>> No.5077539

>>5077537
Hello. I think your awesome. Thanks for being awesome.

>> No.5077557

Hi everybody. I figured it out, this lowlife right here >>5077511 is a right-wing tea party fuckhead with money and a gate to the internet. I wish these people would not plague matters of grownups...

>> No.5077567 [DELETED] 

>>5077537
>since we're humans we need more than just solutions to material problems

pozzed fag
>>5077539
This isn't fucking Reddit you whore.
>>5077557
>BAWWWWW HE DISAGREES WITH MEH HE MUST BE A TEABAGGER BAWWW

Keep sucking that cock.

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>>5077557
>>5077539
>>5077537
>>5077317

>> No.5077575

>>5077567

Troll

/sci/, we've got a troll...

is this common?

>> No.5077579

>>5077567

Thanks for ruining my thread, asshole.

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>>5077575
>OMG A TROLL
>is this common


Holy shit, it's so fucking obvious you are a redditor.

>> No.5077581

>>5077567

you're probably fat and ignorant and playing games all the fucking time. Grow the fuck up.

>> No.5077586 [DELETED] 

>>5077579
>>5077581
Obvious redditards. Your thread is shit and doesn't belong on /sci/. It's circlejerking over some pothead faggot who died a while ago. Delete it.

>> No.5077584

ITT: Mature and intelligent conversation

>> No.5077592 [DELETED] 

>>5077584
>Im a redditor Im so mature and intelligent!
>OMG LOL SAGAN IS SO KEWL I WANT 2 DEDICATE MY LIFE 2 HIM EVEN THO I DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT SCIENCE OMG DO U NO WHO NIEL DEGRASSE TYSON IS HE IS THIS AWESOME BLACK SCIENTIST GUY

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Alright. Well.

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>>5077592
I'm not even the guy you were arguing with

>> No.5077617

why are people so reluctant to accept that science is cool because it makes you happy in itself as well as because it makes things that make you happy

>> No.5077964

>>5077617
Because I hate happiness.

>> No.5077992

You can do it, OP. You can spread knowledge about science. Watch DT for inspiration. She's the Carl Sagan of our times.

>> No.5078924

>>5077317

just keep supporting Dr Sagan in every way you can. he is the foremost scientist we have, so he can use everyone's support.