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Carl Sagan, in memoriam

Dec 20, 2006 12:52

Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Carl Sagan, the great science popularizer. Bloggers around the world are posting entries in honor of Sagan today. Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan, makes an announcement in his blog. Official organizer Joel Schlosberg announces day of blog posts.

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Cosmos anonymous December 21 2006, 08:07:20 UTC

I didn't "go for" Cosmos, probably because I was already a cynical teenager and thought all that soft-focus american stuff was beneath me. However I did get a big kick out of Sagan's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (in 1977, according to Wikipedia). I also heard him talk about Nuclear Winter at Cambridge. I don't know how well nuclear winter bears up as a theory today - probably the end of the Cold War has diminished interest in it - but I can't say I ever understood the excitement about it. I already had just about grasped that global thermonuclear war would be a bad thing, so the prospect that the barren radioactive wasteland which would follow would also be frozen solid didn't seem that significant.