If you are ever wanting something good to watch, The Royal Institute’s youtube page has a large array of information, right down to Carl Sagan lectures from 1977. Well worth checking out.
https://www.youtube.com/TheRoyalInstitution/videos
#Sagan #CarlSagan
Carl #Sagan on Military Spending and Climate Change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C6co5qXEE4
Happy 35th Anniversary to the image that forever shifted our perspective. And thank you, #CarlSagan. The #PaleBlueDot reminds us of our shared fragility and unity on this tiny speck suspended in a sunbeam. I’ll never tire of sharing this vision of humility and hope, until we truly grasp its meaning.
@wonderofscience first captured by Voyager 1 in 1990 at a distance of 6 billion km #CarlSaganWasRight #sagan
4-min clip from the 1997 Robert Zemeckis #film 'Contact' based on the 1985 #novel by Carl Sagan.
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jody Foster) enters the great #gyroscopic #SpaceTime #machine, opening up a #wormhole #portal. #Gyroscope devices have factored heavily in #SciFi #movies & #books, going all the way back to #HGWells & #AlfredJarry, pre-1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBY3cVyeyA https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
"The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be."
Um die Worte von Carl #Sagan zu benutzen: "Die Erde ist eine sehr kleine Bühne im riesigen Theater des Kosmos. [...] Unsere Anmaßung, unsere eingebildete Wichtigkeit, die wahnwitzige Vorstellung, dass wir im Universum einen besonderen Platz einnehmen, wird von diesem schwachen Lichtpunkt in Frage gestellt. Unser Planet ist ein einsames Körnchen im großen Dunkel des Weltalls.
Carl Sagan's guidelines to practice science
Thinking tools -
The Baloney Detection Kit: How to Think Sceptically and Bust Bullshit
https://themindcollection.com/baloney-detection-kit/
#science #philosophyofscience @philosophy @philosophyofmind @philosophie @science@newsmast.community @science@beehaw.org @science@lemmy.ml @science@lemmy.world @science@kbin.social @Scientits #thinking #criticalthinking #philosophy #astronomy #sagan #carlsagan #thinking #thinkingtools #authority #experts #fallacy #scepticism #correlation #stoicism #epistemology #research #researchmethodology
It quite obviously has been going on for quite some time.
#Sagan
#DeepThoughts
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous
presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
This is brilliant and is absolutely true regardless who said it.
#Sagan
Here is Carl Sagan unveiling the Pale Blue Dot image on June 6, 1990 and eloquently describing what that image meant for humanity.
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQ1PtkZvGU
#palebluedot #voyager #sagan
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I'm looking for other #CarlSagan fans as I think #Saganism is a concept that has legs, and I highly doubt I'm the first person to think of this, because 'Saganism' being easily mistook for 'Satanism' is just too much #fun.
UPDATE: 
this account agrees https://mastodon.social/@Saganism 
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@Saganism)
Can all y'all do me a favor and boost this post, and/or boost any of these 3 hashtags when you encounter them:
Feel free to skip doing this for my own posts. I follow the hashtags and am seeking connection with similar thinkers, not amplification of my own thoughts. Though you're welcome to boost those, too. I don't want this to feel like an influencer ploy.
Not #Satanism
Not not #Satanism
#PleaseBoost this post (plus the hashtags as described above)
a man.
Carl Sagan.
i still remember his Cosmos.
“It began the way many discoveries do — a tickling of curiosity in the back of someone’s mind. That someone was astronomer and communicator Carl #Sagan.”
an experiment of how to “sniff out” life on planets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03230-z
also
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-carl-sagan-truly-irreplaceable-180949818/
also
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-is-carl-sagan
and more…
Carl Sagan (Happy Birthday) chaired the committee that selected the contents of the Golden Record carried by Voyager.
The record contains images, natural sounds, music and greetings in 55 languages.
Sagan wrote - The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space, but the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this planet.
@breadandcircuses
Carl Sagan (Happy Birthday) in 1985: ... without changes in the rates of fossil fuel-burning and “infrared-absorbing” gases released into the atmosphere, there will be “a several-centigrade-degree temperature increase” on average “by the middle to the end of the next century.” Given the potential effects of such a rise, “if we don’t do the right thing now, there are very serious problems that our children and grandchildren will have to face.”
https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/carl-sagan-warns-congress-about-climate-change-1985.html
#Sagan
Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan, who would be 89 today.
Sagan famously wrote about the 'Pale Blue Dot' - "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
Voyager 1 took the image of the "Pale Blue Dot" on Feb 14, 1990, from 6 bil km away, minutes before its cameras were shut off forever.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited
#palebluedot #Voyager #Sagan
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