When anyone asks me who my personal hero is, Carl Sagan is always the first name that comes to mind.

Grateful that I had the opportunity to see him speak shortly before his death.

Cosmos made the the geek I am today.

Came to Fark for this.
Leaving happy.
RIP.

I guess technically, he's still on the Pale Blue Dot. Unless they shot him into space. Did they shoot him into space?

/didn't look

FYI: Hulu is showing Cosmos right now.

AdolfOliverPanties: I hope he gets billions and billions of presents.

This.

I remember when Cosmos first came out. My entire family gathered in our little television room to watch. We marveled together at the artistry and insight of the episodes. The theme music still brings tears to my eyes.

Dr. Sagan suffered the slings and arrows of the scientific community for daring to "trivialize" astronomy. We all reap the benefits of his daring. He made us fall in love with the universe.

Thank you and happy birthday, Dr. Sagan!

Miss this guy. Happy birthday dude.

Contact was preachy, snide, smug, garrulous and every time I look at the back cover I want to hit that guy. Oh and there are like 17 farking Mary Sues in that book.

All the love for this guy is completely lost on me.

And yeah I've read Broca's Brain, a Demon Haunted World, hell, even Contact.

And somehow I think you folks would be alot more judgement about his getting high every day if it was meth and not pot.

The need to get high every day/every other day is the sign of psychological problems/mental health issues, not something to be celebrated.

Does someone have the quote from him on how it is critical that we leave Earth since the sun will eventually devour the planet and everything we created here will be destroyed?

Nothing but respect and admiration for Carl Sagan... shame he couldn't have stuck around for a few more decades.

Happy Birthday, Carl! Sorry you're spending it in Hell.

/not really

Happy birthday, Carl Sagan, you're sorely missed.

More proof of who you farkers are. This guy was no one....period

Besides an irritating commentator for irritatingly inaccurate shows....of course. Lets play "I believe this" with Carl....

Friggin U'mens

lohphat: Solon Isonomia: Does someone have the quote from him on how it is critical that we leave Earth since the sun will eventually devour the planet and everything we created here will be destroyed?

We won't make it that far -- as more numerous we become, the stupider we get as a species.

If you think climate change deniers are a problem, wait until "red giant deniers" get started. They will thwart any attempt at doing anything until it's too late to leave.

Conservatives are self-destructive by design.

Maybe, but I'm still looking for that quote.

Anyone...?

Asside from everything else he did for humanity, he had great taste in cars:

rohar: Asside from everything else he did for humanity, he had great taste in cars:

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ummm...both cars ire seriously like him. Boring. How's that good taste?

RexTalionis: Kazaa: I guess technically, he's still on the Pale Blue Dot. Unless they shot him into space. Did they shoot him into space?

/didn't look

He's buried in Ithaca, NY. However, carried on the Voyager spacecrafts are two golden discs, both of which contain a brainscan of Ann Druyan (Carl's wife) thinking about her love for Carl Sagan.

Out there, somewhere outside the solar system, two golden discs containing Ann Druyan's love for Carl frozen in time are floating into the cosmos.

Wow really? That's beautiful

/where did all this dust suddenly come from?

douchebag/hater:
The need to get high every day/every other day Trolling is the a sign of psychological problems/mental health issues, not something to be celebrated.

Fixed that for you. Pathetic internet trolls like you make me weep for humanity.

Gestankfaust: rohar: Asside from everything else he did for humanity, he had great taste in cars:

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ummm...both cars ire seriously like him. Boring. How's that good taste?

Uh, model on the right won it's class at LeMans. What's yours done?

/seriously dig the Phobos license plate

Should be mandatory reading in high school.

The Pale Blue Dot plus Mogwai makes me shiver every time I hear it.

My dad gave his copy of Cosmos when I was 15 and I was hooked from that point on. His works have affected my life more than any other author, by a landslide. RIP Carl.

He died far too young. I have to wonder, though, how he would view the current state of things--with optimism or despair. Whenever I see some of the anti-science crap the Republicans spew....

The Demon-Haunted World was prophetic. He'd probably hate being called a prophet, though.

\hooked me on astronomy for life with Cosmos
\\got the series practically memorized

Due to some insane scheduling in earlier years, I found myself with only 12 hours of classes required for my final term. I took Sagan's introductory astronomy class strictly to hear him lecture. I still remember his comment on von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods": "Von Daniken sees extra-terrestrial intervention in everything he doesn't understand. Since he doesn't appear to understand anything, he sees them everywhere."

lohphat: Solon Isonomia: Does someone have the quote from him on how it is critical that we leave Earth since the sun will eventually devour the planet and everything we created here will be destroyed?

We won't make it that far -- as more numerous we become, the stupider we get as a species.

If you think climate change deniers are a problem, wait until "red giant deniers" get started. They will thwart any attempt at doing anything until it's too late to leave.

Conservatives are self-destructive by design.

By Rao, you're right!

Darth_Lukecash: He's dead. He doesn't celebrate his birthday anymore.

That won't keep certain folk from fellating his corpse, though.

2wolves: BroVinny: Darth_Lukecash: He's dead. He doesn't celebrate his birthday anymore.

That won't keep certain folk from fellating his corpse, though.

You sound upset that there are/were humans on this planet of more worth than thou.

I don't believe any individual is of greater or lesser worth than me. Get your story straight.

Are there really people so absolutely pathetic as to troll a Carl Sagan thread? Next people will be flaming Mr. Rogers remembrance threads.

lostcat: Cosmos made the the geek I am today.

/the stuttering geek you are today

2wolves:
Then please explain your bitter comment about necrophilia.

It just seems like a bunch of Sagan-worship going on. The man was brilliant, okay, but he wasn't without his flaws. Back about the time of the first Gulf War, Sagan came on the news saying that if Saddam set fire to the Kuwaiti oil rigs, that we'd all be plunged into nuclear winter or some such. Well, Saddam set 'em afire, and they got put out, and we're all still happily on the pale blue dot complaining about global warming.

I don't see anything wrong with honoring his accomplishments, but geez.

Twin 40s: Are there really people so absolutely pathetic as to troll a Carl Sagan thread? Next people will be flaming Mr. Rogers remembrance threads.

I've seen 'em, and gone to bat for Mr. Rogers in a few of such threads.

Fano: Twin 40s: Are there really people so absolutely pathetic as to troll a Carl Sagan thread? Next people will be flaming Mr. Rogers remembrance threads.

I've seen 'em, and gone to bat for Mr. Rogers in a few of such threads.

Yeah, just wait for the next thread. You hear the guy that wrote the hokey pokey died this week? I'm sure some heartless bastard will make fun of him too.

Fano: Twin 40s: Are there really people so absolutely pathetic as to troll a Carl Sagan thread? Next people will be flaming Mr. Rogers remembrance threads.

I've seen 'em, and gone to bat for Mr. Rogers in a few of such threads.

I would so white knight Fred Rogers. He was the man.