Sagan Thread

[Anonymous No.1804055]

It's been billions and billions of posts since the last Sagan Thread.

[Anonymous No.1804070]

The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

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[sage No.1804071]

sage for science cult, sagan and the science pope dawkins are fucking crazy

[Anonymous No.1804074]

[sage No.1804076]

>>1804071

you mad

[Anonymous No.1804078]

Watched cosmos again just yesterday, pic related.

[Anonymous No.1804081]

Doubt that Carl Sagan was the best human being that has ever lived?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imS6H1JAkGY

[Anonymous No.1804083]

>>1804071

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

[Anonymous No.1804095]

Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe:, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

[Anonymous No.1804101]

Was this the same Sagan, who came up with moronic Nuclear Winter theory?

[Anonymous No.1804129]

>>1804095
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

That video makes me teary eyed.

[Anonymous No.1804130]

>>1804101
>moronic Nuclear winter theory
someone doesn't know how atmospheres work

[Anonymous No.1804131]

I just now altered the name at the bottom from Franklin to Sagan. Not bad for not using Photoshop if I do say so myself.

[Anonymous No.1804136]

>>1804101
Scientific American had an full length article talking about how even the exchange of 100 nuclear warheads would put up enough ash to reduce sunlight across the entire planet, significantly reducing crop yields and seasonal temperatures.

[Anonymous No.1804138]

>>1804131

Awesome

[Anonymous No.1804140]

I built this wearable with video glasses so that I literally never have to stop watching COSMOS.

[Anonymous No.1804141]

>>1804140

Not even while I am shitting.

[Anonymous No.1804144]

>>1804140
mfw I realized that is what I have been waiting for my entire life.

[Anonymous No.1804151]

>>1804071

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[Anonymous No.1804202]

>>1804131
>>1804131


if only.......

[Anonymous No.1804207]

>>1804131
What replaces "In god we trust"?

[Anonymous No.1804214]

>>1804207
in logic we trust?

if only if only....