He labored over mission designs and planetary science for Venus and Mars in the 60s and 70s laying the groundwork for so much knowledge we take for granted now.
Yeah ... Here ! I like the topics & Tyson & That Lady is cool & two science friends that tried explaining Red Shift etc etc it's all good stuff
I've thought of him billions and billions of times...
@morphyms1817 said in #1:
> He labored over mission designs and planetary science for Venus and Mars in the 60s and 70s laying the groundwork for so much knowledge we take for granted now.
I remember that i really liked to read "A Pale Blue Dot" i should read it again ! Carl Sagan was a talented popularizer of serious, real, astronomy to the general public
I watched his science program Cosmos when it was first broadcast. We did not have cable then. I watched the telecast by an extremely poor tv station air signal. The visual reception was reduced to indistinct shapes, the audio was very good. And it was worth it to hear Sagan discuss the development of the scientific method and landmark achievements through the ages.
@morphyms1817
I also watched Cosmos and read his books.
Remember the Farside comic of Carl Sagan as a kid ?
Staring up at the stars and saying " There must be hundreds and hundreds of them"
I also like the one where the Greeks measured the distance around the Earth
#7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Yep that's the Greek 'Dude" 2200 Plus years ago & there are now dumb "flat earthers" @tpr
THE PALE BLUE DOT <333 MY FAV
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