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10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan
Neatorama —
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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 ...3 hours ago -
Einstein on Galileo’s contribution
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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 ...18 hours ago -
Pale Blue Dot
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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 ...1 day ago -
GWC Podcast #193
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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 ...1 day ago -
Carl Sagan day and a Cosmos coincidence
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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 ...2 days ago -
jean-luc showed up in support of gores latest book
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[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 ...2 days ago -
As Space Collision Threat Looms, Pentagon Upgrades Its Monitoring of Satellites
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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 ...3 days ago -
The Making Of: "Colliding Galaxies Explained"
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Starring Felicia Day (This is really funny)... Hat tip: Geeks are sexy. Read the comments on this post...4 days ago -
Carl Sagan Is T-Pain, Gets His Own 7″ Vinyl Single
Synthtopia —
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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 ...4 days ago -
What Do Jack White, Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan Have in Common?
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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 ...4 days ago -
Troubles Corner: Suggestions to Improve the Study
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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, ...5 days ago -
WirelessTech Taking a Toll on Earth Science and Astronomy
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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.5 days ago -
Celebrate Carl Sagan Day!
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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 ...5 days ago -
An even better magic trick
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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, ...6 days ago -
Significance versus insignificance (your worldview matters!)
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The Bible tells us that God made mankindmale and femalein 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 ...6 days ago -
An Alternative Dark Matter Theory
Mystic Medusa —
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“…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 ...1 week ago -
On second thought
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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, ...1 week ago -
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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 ...1 week ago -
Carl Sagan
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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 ...1 week ago -
This Makes Me Happy — SkyWatch Friday
Potted Frog —
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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, ...1 week ago