carl sagan

The Earth has made ten orbits around the Sun since Carl Sagan died. I feel fortunate to not only have met him but to have taken him to dinner when he gave a talk at the little college I attended as an undergraduate. He wasn't well known back then but his presentation was still outstanding of...

http://palebluedot.ytmnd.com/ I can't believe "YTMND" managed to bring me to frickin' tears, but wow. I mean the same basic sentiment has been stated before but here's the empirical evidence of our insignificantness and poetry I can only dream of writing.

This, my friends, is kilobyte gold. Should be free, also. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165206611526024&q=charlie+rose How many people here have read "The Demon-Haunted World?" I've read most but not all of it...

I could spend my entire day watching Sagan explain it all.

I just got done reading the Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. To put it bluntly -- the book sucks. What I found between the pages was pointless drivel from a tiresome self-promoter. No one can judge anything until they have experienced it for themselves. Science as a candle in the dark? Guess...

A quick note. This set sells for some crazy price on Amazon and I had been really curious about the e-bay deals from China. Anyhoo, being a curious kinda guy I bought a copy, expecting the worst.Near as I can tell this is for far east distribution. Perfect packageing, lots of funny chinese...

These are refutations of excerpts I have taken from Carl Sagan's books: This suggests to me a need for radical population reduction, as opposed to a preparatory statement for the need to "work with what we have" in order to instigate a Utopic Disneyland. The presuppositions underlying this and...

Have a look at the comic strip starting here and running for the next 13 days. Very funny. Spoiler below: The specific cartoon I wish to comment on is this one, 11 days into the story, featuring the ghosts of Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. Asimov is willing to change his mind about the...

There was a great part in "Demon-Haunted World" where Carl toyed with some "UFO abductees" he was in correspondence with. First, he asked the people to write him back and tell him about the "aliens." They would write back and describe the aliens in great detail. Next Carl asked, "What do they...

The book is a masterwork. Sagan was a god. I read it in two days, and loved it. I only wish Carl was around to update it. I have read some other popular science books, like those of Stephen Hawking. Are there any great COSMOS-like books that are new (up to date)?

I found the 13 volume set at Sam's Club for $79. Awesome. Now I get to reexperience my favorite TV program from my childhood. Carl Sagan is my hero. Later, Stan

One thing that bothers me about modern xian thought (especially in the protestant realm) is the thought that you must pray daily to God for guidance and wisdom. They preach that you should pray before switching jobs or making a large purchase. They tell their flocks to pray that God help them...

I made this post, because I realized alot of the atheists are brainwashed by the 2 above. I say "brainwashed" because they dont have the intellect to see their flawed arguments, because of that, they become an atheist... I post this to type what is the best argument you got from this guys to...