Dr. Carl Sagan

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage taught and made science to more children than any teacher or textbook ever could. For that, I applaud him.

Did he not let Jesus in to his life?

He WAS Dr. Carl Sagan!

I'd have done him.

I loved the man. Cosmos aired when I was first starting college to pursue my biology degree. Though my degree was more in the health sciences, I loved learning about the 'space stuff' from Carl.

My space father and my was earth mother.

Couldn’t bare him. I also wanted to kick ‘Contact’ in the ‘nads for being so obvious. Otherwise, it was very beige of him to be such a benign symptom of the 1970s. We were a luckier civilization for an appreciation for men like Sagan and Cousteau.

He hand selected all the music from Cosmos

Just out of curiosity, what is your native language, R7?

He's one of my true heroes. His [/italic]The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark[/italic] is one of the best books on the importance of rational thought and against superstition and religion I've ever read. If you haven't read it, you really should..

R10 Thank you! I am going to add it to my list.

I also found this video with Sagan on Charlie Rose before he passed. I am going to pour a glass of wine and give it a watch!

[quote]Couldn’t bare him.

He made you wear a condom, R7?

One of my favorite songs!

R8 the "Music of Cosmos" album collecting music featured in the show is just wonderful. I've bought it several times over the years.

Atta boy Carl!

Carl Sagan on Desert Island Discs

Carl Sagan on Johnny

"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

On politics

Isn’t he the guy who had fat black prostitutes shit on a glass table he was under?

Oh wait….

What R20?! Danny Thomas?

He had an interesting voice and way of speaking.

They say Danny Thomas was the Carl Sagan of scatatological sexual fetishes

I wonder what he would think of AI.

He was never "the foremost astronomer."

Don't confuse monetizing one's professional work for being tops in a field.

I hated his voice. I was a child. My parents thought he was the tits.

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Had him for Astronomy 101 at Cornell. Met with him a couple of times and honestly, both times he was a snotty dick. And his office was a cluttered mess. He drove around in a sports car with a vanity plate but I forget what it said, probably COSMOS.

Cosmos was an important part of my upbringing

R29 how was he a dick?

I'm sure he had a big ego.

Ego schmeego. Did he have a big dick?

he was married several times, so yea

R31 It was a long time ago. You know ho you just remember generally that you didn't like someone. I mean it was in the 70s.

*how

I had to drop his class (don't remember why) and his attitude was like, "You DARE to drop MY class?"

His class was sort of like a show. The Carl Sagan Show. It wasn't really a class. It had nothing to do with the course, you were only tested on the reading, so you could have skipped the class and just read the textbook. He was applauded after every lecture.

for all the Carl Sagan lovers (like me) in this thread

Oh, thanks. This is great