A video in honor of the late Carl Sagan, whose 74th birthday would have been yesterday.

nytemare

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Mon Nov-10-08 05:07 PM
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A video in honor of the late Carl Sagan, whose 74th birthday would have been yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0

RIP, Carl. We miss you more than words can say.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Mon Nov-10-08 06:36 PM
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1. I do miss the good doctor

He had a marvelous way of putting the vastness of the universe into words that we could not only understand, but relate to and think deeply about.

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nytemare

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Mon Nov-10-08 06:55 PM
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2. He helped me to see the joy and complexity of everyday life.

Whenever I look at the stars at night, I think about the fact that life didn't exist on the Earth when the light leaving that star left on its journey to be seen by my eyes. Also, that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth's beaches.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Mon Nov-10-08 08:36 PM
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3. I think the most fascinating thing I got from him was the relative timeline

� that if the universe were formed at midnight on Jan. 1, life on Earth didn't come along until about 11:52 p.m. the following Dec. 31.

The math is not within my immediate grasp, but I'd imagine that puts my generation's birth at somewhere around 11:59:55.

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pokerfan

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Mon Nov-10-08 10:56 PM
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5. Even less than that

Assuming 13.7 billion years for the age of the universe, then five seconds would be 2,175 years.

The time it takes to paint a single television frame (1/30 sec) would be 14.5 years.

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Taverner

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Mon Nov-10-08 08:38 PM
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4. RIP CARL

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DarkTirade

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Mon Nov-10-08 11:50 PM
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6. Aww man, I just remembered...

Edited on Mon Nov-10-08 11:51 PM by DarkTirade

I had the whole Cosmos series on my harddrive that went kaput. :banghead: I was only about halfway through it.

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nytemare

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Tue Nov-11-08 07:20 AM
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8. Looks like Google video has them.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=carl+sagan+cosmos&emb=0&aq=0&oq=carl+sagan#

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DarkTirade

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Tue Nov-11-08 08:48 AM
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12. Nifty, thanks! That'll save me a lot of time.

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nytemare

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Tue Nov-11-08 09:33 PM
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16. No problem!

I don't think there is a single gothy type human who doesn't love Carl Sagan!

:D

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BrklynLiberal

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Tue Nov-11-08 01:14 AM
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7. I enjoyed his show very much. It taught me so much...I also was impressed by that timeline..

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sarge43

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Tue Nov-11-08 07:36 AM
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9. A remarkable man, very much missed.

"This is what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of evolution."

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BlueJazz

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Tue Nov-11-08 07:48 AM
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10. I absolutely Loved the Man. He embodied all the traits that make it ...

...bearable to put up with all the "Not so nice" people in the world.

If Aliens had transported Carl to their Planet in order to see what Humans were like, their response
would have been .."What a wonderful, caring, Intelligent Species"

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BlueIris

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Tue Nov-11-08 08:36 AM
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11. Got to love the Carl Sagan.

Edited on Tue Nov-11-08 08:37 AM by BlueIris

One of my math teachers in high school named his son Brandon Carl after Sagan.

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Submariner

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Tue Nov-11-08 09:23 AM
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13. Miss ya Carl

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FKA MNChimpH8R

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Tue Nov-11-08 03:45 PM
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14. "Cosmos" was one of the greatest things

ever done on television. He was a titan and is greatly missed.

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Forkboy

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Tue Nov-11-08 03:47 PM
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15. One of the very few true "heroes" I've ever had.

His works have had a major impact on me and how I think. I wish the earth had a billion more like him.

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realisticphish

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Tue Nov-11-08 11:16 PM
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17. my favorite skeptic

and one of the nicest and smartest men to ever live. A real natural-born educator

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