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I talked to Carl Sagan on the phone a few years before he died. One of the best 10 minutes of my life.

Since Hulu is a load of crap if you're outside of Amerricuh, here's that episode on YouTube. Link (new window)

/proxies are not for the lazy

billlllions and billllllions

The woman introducing the show seems to have missed that the cold war did advance science, just not the "happy science" that she seems to approve of.

Pale blue dot? I say this here is a marble!

Tr0mBoNe: Since Hulu is a load of crap if you're outside of Amerricuh, here's that episode on YouTube. Link (new window)

/proxies are not for the lazy

This.

And, here's the redneck version (new window).

Subby probably houlda double checked his typing.

houlda been a contenda

shenanigans.

carl's birthday is on monday. MONDAY!

Hey guys....

can we not say how old dead people would be on their birthday

they are dead

you stop aging when your dead

That's "Birthday", with a "B"

RickyBRicky: The woman introducing the show seems to have missed that the cold war did advance science, just not the "happy science" that she seems to approve of.

Orly? Does ARPAnet ring a bell?

Tr0mBoNe: Since Hulu is a load of crap if you're outside of Amerricuh, here's that episode on YouTube. Link (new window)

/proxies are not for the lazy

Cheers.

Also, Hulu, fark you.

karasoth: Hey guys....

can we not say how old dead people would be on their birthday

they are dead

you stop aging when your dead

Well, you certainly don't get any younger. Inanimate objects can be referred to by an age, why can't corpses?

"Thus would he sing and to thee, thou child with the eyes of passion
Watching his face in the dark, in the silent light of the stars, while he in his godlike fashion
Maketh his mock at the fears of men, nor spareth to lay the lash on. "

- 'The Wisdom of Merlin' by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1914)

karasoth: you stop aging when your dead

Um, I would argue that, without the biological processes staving off decay, the ravages of aging are much more pronounced on a corpse than a living body. You age faster after you die, or at least, more dramatically.

holy crap, i just googled him the other night to see what he died of.. wweeeiiiirrrrdddddddd. i think the aliens are definitely behind this coincidence!

karasoth: you stop aging when your dead

You stop celebrating birthdays...but not aging.

You know, I loved Cosmos and Sagan back in the day. Read all his books. Cried (real man) tears when he died. Still miss what he was and represented; no one has filled his shoes.

But Cosmos the TV show hasn't aged well. It's plodding, he tends to drone, there is empty rhetoric. Still good, but the flaws nag at me. Compare it with Connections by James Burke, produced around the same time with lower production values. You need to smoke crack just to keep up with that guy. I'm not even into history, but I watch that show I'm pumped.

I remember watching Cosmos with my dad when I was a kid. Good stuff.

"We are made of star stuff."


/Thanks Carl

feanturi: Well, you certainly don't get any younger. Inanimate objects can be referred to by an age, why can't corpses?

I think you take the age from the time the inanimate object obtained its current form. You don't date a coffee table by the tree THAT DIED to give you its wood.

I think the correct thing to say would be, "Carl Sagan's corpse is X years old today" -- taking X from the date he died.

Obviously, the rules change for Zombie Feynman.

Only legitimate use of the autotuner I've seen (new window)

92% of the universe is female.

/look at the night sky, where does it end?