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• 10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking Lander. Photo via Wikipedia I miss Carl Sagan . Sagans enthusiasm for science and his knack for translating difficult scientific concepts into simple explanations that many can understand, made him a popular figure. He was an ambassador for ...
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• Einstein on Galileo’s contribution

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 492
  Some religious apologists just can’t leave Galileo alone. They are unhappy about the fact that most people accept that the Church behaved badly in sentencing Galileo for heresy. (He got house arrest for the rest of his life and bans on his books, one of which was suppressed for 200 years). So in a manner which ...
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• Pale Blue Dot

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 113
  I discovered over at Mike Brotherton’s blog that today, 11/7/9, is Carl Sagan Day , and Mike makes some interesting observations about Sagan and Richard Dawkins and the public’s attitude towards their atheism.  For awhile, Carl Sagan was the face of science to the general public, sort of like Stephen ...
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• GWC Podcast #193

  
  Galactic Watercooler — Authority: 117
  This week: Ann Druyan and Nick Sagan give us a unique and heartfelt look into the origins of Cosmos and Contact — and what esteemed scientist, citizen, father, and husband Carl Sagan was really like. SETI @ Home chief scientist Dan Werthimer explains humanity’s actual plan for how to deal with the discovery of an ...
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• Carl Sagan day and a Cosmos coincidence

  
  Jonstraveladventures — Authority: 115
  I was due to post an advert for a monthly event here in Santiago, part of the International Year of Astronomy, which has been going on for a few months and is due to continue into next year. Every month in Pub Fuco Lois the landlord has cleared the way for a showing of an episode of Carl Sagans Cosmos. I attended the ...
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• jean-luc showed up in support of gores latest book

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 443
  [click image] ...which completely upstages anything Gore had to say, for sure... and no contest on whose picture graces this post either. For any of you out there seriously looking for my wealthy socialist gentleman for me, THIS is my man. I want him to be Jean-Luc Picard. Perhaps even Patrick Stewart would ...
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• As Space Collision Threat Looms, Pentagon Upgrades Its Monitoring of Satellites

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 438
  Space Junk An artists impression of space debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S. government wants a better surveillance system to keep track of the thousands of space junk pieces. ESA By Jeremy Hsu on the Popular Science website The U.S. Air Force has upgraded its ability to predict possible satellite collisions, as ...
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• The Making Of: "Colliding Galaxies Explained"

  
  Greg Laden's Blog — Authority: 630
  Starring Felicia Day (This is really funny)... Hat tip: Geeks are sexy. Read the comments on this post...
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• Carl Sagan Is T-Pain, Gets His Own 7″ Vinyl Single

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 542
  Click here to view the embedded video. Third Man Records has announced the 7-inch release of John Boswell’s A Glorious Dawn on November 9th. A Glorious Dawn , embedded above, is an arrangement of Carl Sagan’s words from Cosmos , AutoTuned. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John ...
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• What Do Jack White, Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan Have in Common?

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  Third Man, that’s what. Jack White ’s record label has announced plans to release what may be the most geek-tastic 7” single of all time: “A Glorious Dawn.” For those uninitiated into the ways of dorkdom, let me fill you in on this little treasure. It is composer John Boswell ’s Auto-Tune-aided ...
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• Troubles Corner: Suggestions to Improve the Study

  
  GabiJack.com — Authority: 103
  A few days ago, my friend Chris Thompson, founder and owner of Appian Way Technologies , took a look at my model of the safety latch and suggested the following changes in order to improve the simulation study. First of all, he added small fillets to the areas of the latch where stress concentrations are expected, ...
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• WirelessTech Taking a Toll on Earth Science and Astronomy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless...is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.
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• Celebrate Carl Sagan Day!

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 726
  Our Pale Blue Dot (Image via NASA - public domain) You know a person is famous when they are auto-tuned posthumously into a geeky internet music hit ! This year, in honor of what would have been his 75th birthday, a great group of sponsors will be hosting the first annual Carl Sagan Day on November 7th . The ...
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• An even better magic trick

  
  Prospero's Books — Authority: 106
  Ive been listening to Peter Mayers song Holy Now : When I was a boy, each week On Sunday, we would go to church And pay attention to the priest He would read the holy word And consecrate the holy bread And everyone would kneel and bow Today the only difference is Everything is holy now Everything, ...
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• Significance versus insignificance (your worldview matters!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  The Bible tells us that God made mankind—male and female—“in His image” (Genesis 1:26, 27). This gives us humans a special significance in the cosmos. However, modern secular (godless) thinking minimizes this significance. As Voyager 1 reached the edge of our solar system in 1990, astronomer Carl Sagan asked NASA ...
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• An Alternative Dark Matter Theory

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 484
  “…The theory of Dark Matter tells us as much about the modern unconscious as about the cosmos. Jung noticed that whatever we suppress gathers in the unconscious and throws a ’shadow’ over the world. Dark Matter is precisely the shadow of the imaginative fullness we have denied to our cosmos. The daimons we ...
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• On second thought

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 138
  I agree with Justice Scalia.  In regard to the Christian cross at the Mojave National Reserve, which honors war dead from World War 1, he had said, "I dont think you can leap to the conclusion that the only war dead the cross honors are the Christian war dead." In regard to the case  itself, Salazar v. Buono, ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Geckofeeder — Authority: 126
  Blogger: One Cʘsmos - Post a Comment : "Anonymous Mind Parasites said... " Whew, thank you from the depths of the horizontal/vertical axis!Like cockroaches and sunlight youve had us running for cover for years. In the beginning we didnt mind surrendering a few of our more obvious brothers and sisters but ...
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• Carl Sagan

  
  Vearpothesis — Authority: 106
  It was unfortunately, only recently that I discovered Carl Sagan; earlier this same year, in fact. Since, I have watched his famous series: Cosmos, read two or more of his books, and otherwise studied his myriad contributions to space exploration. The man immediately became one of my personal heroes. And the more of ...
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• This Makes Me Happy — SkyWatch Friday

  
  Potted Frog — Authority: 113
  It was 19 degrees this morning which means these wonderful cosmos are now gone, but through September and most of October, they just make me happy. click photo to enlarge To see LOTS more terrific sky pictures or to find out how to participate in this meme, head to the SkyWatch blog . Posted in flowers, sky, ...
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