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Billions and Billions of Inspirations
As a young child I wasn’t encouraged to watch too much television, but “Cosmos” was one exception to the weeknight homework rule. One night a week my brother and I sat together on a couch in Rhode Island to marvel at the possibilities of outer space as presented by a certain turtlenecked professor. If the [...]
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 [...]
Arroway Interpreted.
Mr. Atrocity at flickr asked us to post this interpretation of Ellie Arroway, the protagonist from Dr. Sagan’s only novel, Contact.
Sagan in Graffitti, from flickr
Thanks, jschumacher.
Thanks, tangentilism.
SIRTF
Living as I do with a computer always seeming at an arm’s distance, it is no wonder that I find myself peering into the depths of the Internet, and it is also no wonder that I am constantly amazed by the diversity found within the pools of common interest that collect.
This project-in-Sagan has provided [...]
Looking a Little Glum
I was flipping through the channels on Dish Network, and found to my surprise that there were apparently some new channels. One, called The Science Channel, I decided to take a peep at. It was late at night, and I see this dude, pimped out in a turtleneck and coat, and featuring a classic late [...]
Sagan Memorial Station.
After landing on Mars on July 4, 1997, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft underwent a name change. Responsible for bringing the robot rover, Sojourner, to the red planet, the now stationary Pathfinder would heretofore be called the Sagan Memorial Station. Serving as a hub for the one-foot-tall rover, Sagan Memorial Station can be seen in this [...]
Don Davis
Don Davis, space painter, has some recollections on his site about his relationship with Carl Sagan, and how Carl had “a pivotal effect on the vitality and development of space art through the Cosmos experience.” It’s definitely worth reading. There’s also a lot of great photos on the page, like the one on the [...]
Golden Record
The image of the ‘golden record’ that was placed on both Voyager spacecrafts has come to represent many of the attributes, both cultural and scientific, that Carl Sagan spent his life promoting.
The 12 inch gold-plated disk contains a message, a telling of the human story. On it one can find the sounds from nature (from [...]
