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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many of you knew that tomorrow is Carl Sagan Day?
I found this: Carl Sagan Day
Very cool.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I LOVED that guy.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)lastlib
(23,253 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts):p
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)StarryNite
(9,454 posts)I do now!
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)stuntcat
(12,022 posts)Yay
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)November 9, but not the same year .
pangaia
(24,324 posts)When I taught at Ithaca College so many years ago, I used to eat at a Japanese Restaurant TOO frequently and hung out with the owner and his family. Carl would come in occasionally and we, and often others, would hang after closing and talk..and talk, and drink sake.(I forget if he drank also) . Of course Carl did most of the talking. :>
He was/is a treasure..
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)at the top of a beautiful waterfall (Ithaca falls I think).
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ithaca Falls is where Fall Creek goes over...
I never went to his house.
Ithaca is one of my favorite places...
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Thank you Carl...
TM99
(8,352 posts)Very cool. He introduced me to a lot of interesting scientific thinking as a young man.
cbrer
(1,831 posts)"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's, or grandchildren's time, when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few; and no one representing the public can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas, or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline,unable to distinguish what's true, and what feels good, we slide, almost imperceptibly, back into superstition and darkness".
I'm not suggesting this has come true, but one could make a hell of a "slippery slope" argument...