Which has prompted me to start re-watching his landmark PBS show Cosmos (all episodes are available via streaming on Netflix!), a program I loved as a kid 30 years ago. Finally, something on Public Television that wasn’t for “babies” or confusing as Monty Python, which I would come to enjoy several years later.
Ask Somara about the Valentine I gave her using the man’s name in a pun.
He could be a humorless and often egotistical guy but Dr. Sagan did a lot more positive things for me to beat out his shortcomings. I gained a better understanding and interest in Science through him. Not enough to earn a degree yet I do better than most with the green board spots in Trivial Pursuit.
I know he was critical of contemporary Sci-Fi such as Star Wars and Star Trek yet if he were alive today, what would he say about Stephen Hawking’s recent comment regarding an encounter with aliens. Those who aren’t familiar, Hawking said Earth would get a clobbering equal to the Spanish’s first encounters with the American Indians. I think he’d agree since centuries of technological advancement is a mere blink in the Universe’s 13-14 billion-year history.