Carl Sagan's birthday
Apparently it's Carl Sagan's birthday. He would have been 80 years old today.
Sagan was a prodigious producer of scientific papers but was also a novelist and communicator of science to the general public. He is possibly best remembered for television programme Cosmos, which I grew up on. Cosmos was, as the name suggests, about astronomy - but lots else too, including observations about anthropology and technology.
Here is a link to a Wikipedia page about Carl Sagan. It's worth looking up this significant contributor to our civilisation.
I'd wish him a happy birthday, but he's gone. So I'll say instead: So long Carl, and thanks for all the science.
Sagan was a prodigious producer of scientific papers but was also a novelist and communicator of science to the general public. He is possibly best remembered for television programme Cosmos, which I grew up on. Cosmos was, as the name suggests, about astronomy - but lots else too, including observations about anthropology and technology.
Here is a link to a Wikipedia page about Carl Sagan. It's worth looking up this significant contributor to our civilisation.
I'd wish him a happy birthday, but he's gone. So I'll say instead: So long Carl, and thanks for all the science.
9/11/2014 6:13 PM
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