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Carl sagan is awesome
- 1. Carl Sagan Is Awesome And other facts
- 2. This is Carl Sagan
- 3. Awards
- 4. Famous Quotes “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” “In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” “Billions and billions.”
- 6. Science!
- 8. That’s you and everyone who’s ever been
- 12. Hey Aliens, What’s Up?
- 13. Can you tell it’s from the 80’s?
- 14. An Introduction
- 16. Books!
- 17. Hard Time This guys been arrested TWICE
- 18. Why He Hates the Bomb Nuclear winter Drake Equation Fermi Paradox
- 19. So What?
- 20. This is Rubbish
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- This is about Carl Sagan because last semester I realized few people know who he is and in my attempt to explain I realized I didn’t know much about the man himself. So here’s a quick summery.
- This is Carl Sagan. His picture is big so that you know what he looks like for future notice. He wrote and narrated an award winning television show in the 80’s and then promptly wrote a book about the show which also won awards. He also wrote a fiction book on the first human contact with aliens which was made into a movie. It’s called Contact or “that movie where you never see the aliens.”
- In case you aren’t impressed here’s a list of his awards. He’s been declared the “99th Greatest American” from the Discovery Channel. He also won a Pulitzer Prize and two distinguished service awards from NASA. So that’s pretty cool.
- The first refers to his ideas on UFO and abduction stories. The first line in his book Cosmos.Never actually said it but was attributed enough to him on TV that he eventually embraced the phrase.
- Science, he did it. That’s him standing next to a model of Viking I. While working on robotic space missions from NASA he was busy predicted things that they would discover. Such facts include Venus is hot and dry, Venus’s ‘green house effect’, windstorms on Mars. During the cold war he coauthored the paper that hypothesized a global Nuclear Winter after nuclear war. So that’s pretty impressive.
- This is a picture of us from the edge of our solar system. After Voyager’s primary mission was complete we turned the camera back on ourselves. Without Sagan we might never had this picture. He refers to this picture and its humbling effects a lot in his work.
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- That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives...To me it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve an cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
- Other who worked on Voyager worried that the picture would destroy the camera because of the intensity of the sunlight. Instead we got this family portraite of the planets in our solar system from this unique perspective.
- Remember the plagues attached to Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and the Voyagers that were intended to be a universal message to extraterrestrial life. That was Carl Sagan. He pitched the idea to NASA and designed the plates with another scientist. He also helped write the Arecibo message which had a similar purpose and was radioed into space. He was kinda keen on looking for other life in the universe.
- Carl Sagan is best known for popularizing science and for explaining it in a way that everyone could understand. He is created Cosmos which explained everything from the origin of life to our place in the universe. It’s was seen by over 500 million people and is the most watched show in PBS history. It also won a Peabody and an Emmy. It was pretty successful.
- He expanded on the series by writing the book Cosmos which became the best selling book ever published in the English language. He also wrote The Dragons of Eden which won a Pulitzer. He also wrote Contact, which eventually became that pretty popular movie with Jodie Foster that won a Hugo Award (and award for Science Fiction novels).
- Sagan accomplished getting arrested twice in the same day for trying to climb a fence at the place where this stuff happened. Why? Because at the same time Russia was using the anniversary of Hiroshima to declare a wish to create a nuclear bomb free world, the Regan administration dismissed the idea. So anti-nuculear activists protested at the Nevada Test Site.
- So why did he hate Nuclear Bombs so much he was willing to join and protest and get arrested. Well he did help write that paper on the consequences of nuclear war resulting in an apocalyptic winter. Also because of an equation that says there should be tons of life in the universe and a theory that says the reason why our skies aren’t full of alien probes is because advanced civilization tend to destroy themselves a lot. Sagan worried that the nuclear bomb would be the our reason.
- Lots of dead people are impressive and important. The difference between Carl Sagan and everyone else is his love. He loved his work, loved his audience, and he loved science. He proved that science was romantic and history was mysterious. In an age where science was racing dangerously forward he was able to bring understanding to a whole generation. He is the reason for all of my optimism and faith in people.
- My explanation is still terrible. There is no way to simply convey Carl Sagan. You have to hear the way the he talks, the way that he conveys ideas to truly understand his effect. I implore you to find him on youtube and just listen to part of his show. That’s the only good way to understand.