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What we need is another Carl Sagan, who doesn’t talk down to the general (ignorant) public, but also wants to bring them along for the ride through this wondrous and mysterious universe. Sagan used to appear regularly on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, talking about the Voyager missions to the outer planets or the latest discoveries in astronomy as if he was telling a story about something that had happened to him last week. People made fun of his delivery at times—“billions and billions…”—but they respected him, and they understood him because he had a way of taking the extraordinary and making it seem understandable, yet still extraordinary. When he explained how the basic matter that makes up every human being was generated in the cores of exploding stars he coined a memorable shorthand exploration: “We are starstuff,” he said, and it all made sense.

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Thanks Bruno, very Good Post als always

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Very good article.

> What we need is another Carl Sagan, who doesn’t talk down to the general
> (ignorant) public, but also wants to bring them along for the ride through
> this wondrous and mysterious universe. Sagan used to appear regularly on
> Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, talking about the Voyager missions to
> the outer planets or the latest discoveries in astronomy as if he was telling
> a story about something that had happened to him last week. People made fun of
> his delivery at times—“billions and
> billions…”—but they respected him, and they understood him
> because he had a way of taking the extraordinary and making it seem
> understandable, yet still extraordinary. When he explained how the basic
> matter that makes up every human being was generated in the cores of exploding
> stars he coined a memorable shorthand exploration: “We are
> starstuff,” he said, and it all made sense.
>
> from this article...
>
> Thanks Bruno, very Good Post als always
>
>
>
>

I remember seeing Carl Sagan on the Johnny Carson show. It was always a memorable occasion, a terrific learning moment. But he insisted in his book "Billions and Billions" that he never said 'billions and billions' in the Cosmos series. I know I heard him say it! Several times too...

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