How many of you knew that tomorrow is Carl Sagan Day?

I LOVED that guy.

http://www.biography.com/people/carl-sagan-9469191

(Happy Birthday, Carl! We miss you!)

:p

I do now!

Yay

November 9, but not the same year .

When I taught at Ithaca College so many years ago, I used to eat at a Japanese Restaurant TOO frequently and hung out with the owner and his family. Carl would come in occasionally and we, and often others, would hang after closing and talk..and talk, and drink sake.(I forget if he drank also) . Of course Carl did most of the talking. :>
He was/is a treasure..

at the top of a beautiful waterfall (Ithaca falls I think).

Ithaca Falls is where Fall Creek goes over...
I never went to his house.
Ithaca is one of my favorite places...

Thank you Carl...

Very cool. He introduced me to a lot of interesting scientific thinking as a young man.

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's, or grandchildren's time, when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few; and no one representing the public can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas, or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline,unable to distinguish what's true, and what feels good, we slide, almost imperceptibly, back into superstition and darkness".

I'm not suggesting this has come true, but one could make a hell of a "slippery slope" argument...