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Fisches Send message Joined: 5 Dec 99 Posts: 14 Credit: 30,862 RAC: 0 |
Hi out there, sometimes I read the following quote: "If We Are Alone in the Universe, Then It Is an Awful Waste of Space" It's always stated as a Carl Sagan quote. I remember that it's in the movie Contact, but actually couldn't find it in the book. Does any of you know wheter or not Sagan really said that, or if its merly a mix up? (Nevertheless I think it's cool statement). |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
> Hi out there, > sometimes I read the following quote: > > "If We Are Alone in the Universe, Then It Is an Awful Waste of Space" > > It's always stated as a Carl Sagan quote. I remember that it's in the movie > Contact, but actually couldn't find it in the book. > > Does any of you know wheter or not Sagan really said that, or if its merly a > mix up? > (Nevertheless I think it's cool statement). > [b]Byron, this is your cue, you're the Carl Sagan expert. Account frozen... |
Celtic Wolf Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3278 Credit: 595,676 RAC: 0 |
> Hi out there, > sometimes I read the following quote: > > "If We Are Alone in the Universe, Then It Is an Awful Waste of Space" > > It's always stated as a Carl Sagan quote. I remember that it's in the movie > Contact, but actually couldn't find it in the book. > > Does any of you know wheter or not Sagan really said that, or if its merly a > mix up? > (Nevertheless I think it's cool statement). > http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue. American Spirit BBQ Proudly Serving those that courageously defend freedom. |
Fisches Send message Joined: 5 Dec 99 Posts: 14 Credit: 30,862 RAC: 0 |
> <a> href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan[/url] > Have seen that earlier, but is it actually true? Again, people could mistake the line from the movie as a quote by Sagan. But as far as I know Sagan has been dead for some years by the time the movie was released. So, he might not even have been involved in writing the script. --> Book yes, script.. don't know. |
K3UZZ Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 175 Credit: 67,332 RAC: 0 |
Shown in a NASA window, as a quote, by Carl Sagan |
Sir Ulli Send message Joined: 21 Oct 99 Posts: 2246 Credit: 6,136,250 RAC: 0 |
found this http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/contact.html http://members.cox.net/mathmistakes/eridani.htm http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan and this http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-11/ann-druyan.html . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . this is from the Book Cosmos Greetings from Germany NRW Ulli S@h Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 © |
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