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More from flickr
If you search flickr for just sagan and begin scrolling through the matching tags, the first thing you’ll learn is that there are a lot of cats named Sagan, or else one particularly ubiquitous tabby. Lost within a thousand photos of pets and children are a few that I’m partial to, like the graffiti posted here already, and the Dr. Arroway costume in the previous post. There’s also this one, a still from the video for White & Nerdy, I think. I want that t-shirt, Weird Al. I also enjoy the one below because DC is my hometown, and it’s always nice to see a Sagan quote on the street: 
More flickr later.
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Arroway Interpreted.
Mr. Atrocity at flickr asked us to post this interpretation of Ellie Arroway, the protagonist from Dr. Sagan’s only novel, Contact.
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Looking a Little Glum
I was fascinated. His voice, vocabulary, and delivery – they entranced me. Then, here he is, talking about “Comet Halley” and the like, when he starts leveling all of these unsolicited moral judgments. I was taken aback, and thought about crazy little science videos they used to make us watch in elementary school.
So here he is, talking innocuously about the history of man’s knowledge of the planet Venus. Throughout the show, he seemed to revel, not in the facts, but in past and future errors – he took a kind of delight, gave a kind of wry smile each time he was able to indulge a little prickishness into the learning.
I love how he anachronistically mocks ancient science.
I found out only later that this is Carl Sagan. He’s a gem.
Excerpted from kittenry‘s flickr page.
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