Tag: Carl Sagan
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Roaling on the River of Chocolate
“Don’t gobblefunk around with words,” Roald Dahl once warned. This is advice some seem to have ignored. As usual, the debate has quickly boiled down to a few inaccurate or incoherent points made by “both sides,” accompanying the cries of “but what about…?” I will preface the rest of this article by saying I don’t…
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Manufacturing Fear
On the NASA Voyager mission in 1977, Carl Sagan curated content for a golden record that was affixed to the space probe, which would eventually reach interstellar space. Hoping to share some details about our celestial neighborhood and the human experience, Sagan chose the material for the record should any spacefaring alien species intercept the…