Carl Sagan

[Anonymous No.4935873]

Carl Sagan general thread?

[Anonymous No.4935908]

Why? There are already billions and billions of them.

[awesomesauce No.4935934]

I love this man too.

[Anonymous No.4935942]

>>4935908
I have to admit that was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4936013]

I play pale blue dot before I go to sleep

usually the great demotions

[Anonymous No.4936040]

[Anonymous No.4936069]

[Anonymous No.4936228]

This thread needs MOAR

[Anonymous No.4936252]

What exactly did Carl Sagan do for science? Just curious..

[Anonymous No.4936271]

>>4936252
Wrote dozens of research papers, worked on several NASA missions, and one of the most effective popularizers of science in the last half a century.

[Anonymous No.4936309]

>>4936252
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan#Scientific_achievements

[Anonymous No.4936392]

I'm 21, and last week I downloaded Cosmos, and have been watching it sporadically. I'm on episode 4, and Sagan is such a joy to watch. I'd like to read some of his books, any recommendations for a starting point?

[Anonymous No.4936414]

>>4936392
The demon haunted world is a must read for any skeptic.

[Anonymous Prime No.4936493]

He helped Atomic Robo defeat an inter-dimensional tentacle monster.

[Anonymous No.4936507]

I lived in his old dorm room last year. Awesome guy.

[Anonymous No.4936649]

>>4936507

uchicago burton-judson hall vincent house 3rd floor?

[Anonymous No.4936660]

>>4936654

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, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[Anonymous No.4936654]

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. 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.

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[Anonymous No.4936665]

>>4936414
thanks! I ordered that along with Pale Blue Dot and of course, Cosmos.

[Anonymous No.4936698]

>>4936654
i appreciate you

[Anonymous No.4936740]

obligatory for tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3-0saiQs0

[Anonymous No.4936759]

>>4936649

yup. Got a BJ everyday.

[Anonymous No.4936835]

>>4936759

nice, sagan is the reason i went to u of c

[Anonymous No.4936962]

>>4936740
this made me very happy

thanks

[Anonymous No.4937092]

>>4936665
Are you me? I ordered Pale Blue Dot, Cosmos, and Demon Haunted World in one bundle as well.

[Anonymous No.4937126]

>>4936740
Touching. Thank you for it.

I wonder how he'd react to today's technology and space progress. Maybe ashamed cause we haven't solved our petty disputes still and the space program basically died?

[Anonymous No.4937240]

>>4937092
Bundle? Damn. Though I got the two books for under a dollar from goodwillbooks and cosmos for like 4 from someplace else, with shipping it was like 17. All hardcover I believe.

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