Has there been a thread devoted to Carl Sagan Yet?
Byron Leigh Hatch, maybe you can confirm or deny...

Carl changed my life when i was a young teenager and first watched 'Cosmos' on the small tube.
Not to the extent of Neil deGrasse Tyson, but still changed my life.

I will forever think of Issac Asimov as the Grand Master of Science Fiction and the reason i really got excited about the sciences in the first place, but Carl validated that for me.
I also don't wanna diminish Arthur C. Clarke's contribution to my life (or Seti@Home), but this thread is for Carl Sagan!

For some reason i was thinking about one of the many times i saw Carl on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and stumbled upon this awesome compilation of Carl's wisdom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZ4197C1I0

I'm hoping others here can hit me with more Carl awesomeness.

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I was in 7th grade, and loved the original Cosmos! I went to the library last Fall and checked out the series and rewatched it with my mom. I've been taping the new version, but haven't watched much of it yet. You really can't compare the old and new, though. Carl was the master, and the original series was extremely well produced.

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The wife and I have been watching the new version. We like it. Neal does pay homage to Carl. I think its just as good and would say Carl would like it.
Remember Carls wife Anne is also a writer and producer of the show.

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Old James

The wife and I have been watching the new version. We like it. Neal does pay homage to Carl. I think its just as good and would say Carl would like it.
Remember Carls wife Anne is also a writer and producer of the show.

You're right - Ann Druyan is involved, and I read a nice story in The New Yorker about Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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Thanx so much for this thread Contact:) Carl Sagan is one of my heroes! If I come up with some Carl awesomeness I'll surely be writing it here:)

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It must've been pretty cool to work on those Voyager Golden Records like he and Ann did. They fell in love during that project.

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Sagan was also very worried about climate
problems that could be caused by man....

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James Sotherden wrote:

The wife and I have been watching the new version. We like it. Neal does pay homage to Carl. I think its just as good and would say Carl would like it.

My wife and I also. I agree with every word of what you say here.

Gordon Lowe wrote:

It must've been pretty cool to work on those Voyager Golden Records like he and Ann did. They fell in love during that project.

"the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet." Nicely done and nicely stated, Carl.
And I will admit that I have had a bit of a crush on Ann for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqnw01WOYAw

celttooth wrote:

Sagan was also very worried about climate problems that could be caused by man....

Right. In 1960 he made a name for himself among astronomers by calculating that Venus was a victim of runaway greenhouse effect.
His actual calculations were very crude and not accurate - it was 1960! - but the greenhouse effect has been discussed ever since and was eventually applied to Earth. The US government just days ago finally admitted that global warming is real and something to be very worried about. We should have listened to his warnings a very long time ago. Many are still in denial and accuse scientists of being fear mongers and bullies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOltNjsegrI

Wow eh?

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We should also recall what he thought
about nuclear war and climate....
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/sagan-carl_nuclear-winter-1983.html

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I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Contact!! :)

My other half bought me the original cosmos series on DVD for my birthday. Best present ever! I had already watched it, but had forgotten so many wonderful bits! It's so nice to revisit them all and know I can do whenever I wish now.

Couldn't sleep last night so at 4am this morning I was watching the episode where he was visiting a school and handing out pictures of planets and stars etc. He said to them that each and every one of them were a part of the milky way.

I think if we all learned to see ourselves as that first, and earthlings second, rather than divided by man made borders and customs, we might have made a much better world to hand on to our children.

Re the new series, I cannot watch it, but will be getting it on DVD as soon as it is released. :)

Couldn't sleep last night so at 4am this morning I was watching the episode where he was visiting a school and handing out pictures of planets and stars etc. He said to them that each and every one of them were a part of the milky way.

That was a nice episode.

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I also have the Cosmos, box set. I remember Nick, from Are We Alone?, which aired on Science, Channel.

I love this pic :-)



At age six, Nick Sagan's greeting, "Hello from the children of planet Earth," was recorded and placed aboard NASA's Voyager Golden Record.[1] (Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights, sounds and music, the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft are now the most distant human-made objects in the universe, with Voyager I having left the solar system on August 25, 2012, becoming the first man-made object to do so.[2]) Sagan went to The Mirman School as a child and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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anniet wrote:

I was watching the episode where he was visiting a school and handing out pictures of planets and stars etc. He said to them that each and every one of them were a part of the milky way.

Farley Mowat once said "I feel terribly naked and isolated as a human being, feeling my species is going to die out through its own efforts. But if you can somehow learn to feel that you're not isolated, that we're part of a whole stream of life, then it's not so frightening. It ceases to be important whether we disappear as a species."

I've re-watched the DVD's a few times and always notice something i haven't previously. The last episode of the series always makes me feel very positive about us and life in general.

Lynn wrote:

I remember Nick, from Are We Alone?, which aired on Science, Channel.

Thanks. I will try hard to find it and watch.
I do remember seeing his name on writing credits for several Star Trek Next Gen and Voyager episodes. It brought - brings - big smiles to my face, as does that pic.

Well, speakin of Nick...
Frank Drake and Nick Sagan Meet Again

http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/are-we-alone/videos/alien-encounters-frank-drake-and-nick-sagan-meet-again.htm

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I'm sure this has been posted before. Everywhere. It has almost 9 million views.
But it's the first time i've heard this. And it included Steven Hawking! Someone else i should have mentioned as an influence on me. It made my day. Thanks.
I'm waiting for YOUR Carl story. I'll try to be patient.

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I'm sure this has been posted before. Everywhere. It has almost 9 million views.
But it's the first time i've heard this. And it included Steven Hawking! Someone else i should have mentioned as an influence on me. It made my day. Thanks.
I'm waiting for YOUR Carl story. I'll try to be patient.

Well, while we're waiting, I just found out that one of Bill Nye (The Science Guy)'s Lecturers was Carl Sagan. Lucky man. :)

I met him at my undergrad. I was already well on my way to law school or I just might have changed major. Still I admire him. Even named a couple of streets in his honnor. Sagan Court and Sagan Circle. They are located between Moonglow and Pluto, just south of Europa. Oh and you need to take Enterprise to get there.:)

Has there been a thread devoted to Carl Sagan Yet?
Byron Leigh Hatch, maybe you can confirm or deny...

Carl changed my life when i was a young teenager and first watched 'Cosmos' on the small tube.
Not to the extent of Neil deGrasse Tyson, but still changed my life.

I will forever think of Issac Asimov as the Grand Master of Science Fiction and the reason i really got excited about the sciences in the first place, but Carl validated that for me.
I also don't wanna diminish Arthur C. Clarke's contribution to my life (or Seti@Home), but this thread is for Carl Sagan!

For some reason i was thinking about one of the many times i saw Carl on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and stumbled upon this awesome compilation of Carl's wisdom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZ4197C1I0

I'm hoping others here can hit me with more Carl awesomeness.

Hi Contact,

Long time no see ... very good to see you again :)

I think one or two over the past ten years.

I Just wanted to say thank you for this thread ... and to say hello hello :)

I gotta run so I will post more latter.

Best Wishes
Byron

Beautiful! Thank you CC:)

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I find the opening music on Carl Sagan's web page Beautiful and haunting ...

http://www.carlsagan.com/

what do you think ?