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11-22-2009, 06:36 PM
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What an inspiration. Any other fans out there in the cosmos? |
11-22-2009, 07:19 PM
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SETI.
Contact.
Awesome.
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11-22-2009, 07:42 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | He's a truly inspirational figure- I really would have loved to meet him. Here's a thread I made about the Cosmos series I made a while back: http://talkbass.com/forum/showthread...ghlight=cosmos |
11-22-2009, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler  Here's a thread I made about the Cosmos series I made | I wish to submit my belief that the "R." stands for "Redundancy." 
Anyway, topic. He was a remarkable man. Definitely check out some of his works when you find the time. |
11-22-2009, 07:53 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | I've got the Cosmos series on DVD. My father is a science/tech geek (he's a Mech Eng that designs actuators for Aerospace and Robotic applications in the NASA and .mil realm)... growing up in the 70s in my home, Carl Sagan was (and still is) an inspiration. |
11-22-2009, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | 'Billions and billions'.... great stuff, I do really miss this guy's TV shows.. alot |
11-22-2009, 08:24 PM
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11-22-2009, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Metro NYC | | | Very much. Bit of a Physics-head. Brian Greene, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking fan. Wonder if CERN will help us define the standard model further. I think I have some Cosmos VHS tapes around. Had an undergrad research work on the magnetostatic effect in yttrium iron garnet. A quantum electron spin effect. Oh the old days!!
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11-22-2009, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by James Hart | Can't go wrong with that... nice find.... |
11-22-2009, 09:28 PM
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11-23-2009, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by foderaman77 Very much. Bit of a Physics-head. Brian Greene, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking fan. Wonder if CERN will help us define the standard model further. I think I have some Cosmos VHS tapes around. Had an undergrad research work on the magnetostatic effect in yttrium iron garnet. A quantum electron spin effect. Oh the old days!! | Don't forget Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate and bongo player.
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11-23-2009, 09:07 AM
| | | | His message is as relevant today as it was when Cosmos first came out. Amazing man. |
11-23-2009, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Don't forget Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate and bongo player. | did you watch the second link I posted? He costars in it with Sagan (and some others) |
11-23-2009, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Rockville, MD | | | Thank you so much for posting those links, James. It made me realize how much I miss listening to him. Besides, it was very interesting how they made it into song. |
11-23-2009, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Don't forget Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate and bongo player. | More my kind of guy and a better mind than Sagan's.
I watched Sagan one in a TV interview once and was astonished to find that he was the most arrogant, obnoxious a-hole I had ever seen on TV to that point, which was really saying something.
Overrated self-promoter, one of the 20th Century's great egos, according to some I've heard who worked around him..
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11-23-2009, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Bongolation More my kind of guy and a better mind than Sagan's.
I watched Sagan one in a TV interview once and was astonished to find that he was the most arrogant, obnoxious a-hole I had ever seen on TV to that point, which was really saying something.
Overrated self-promoter, one of the 20th Century's great egos, according to some I've heard who worked around him.. | ??? I dunno about that, a lot people love in the industry love Sagan....Richard Dawkins for example frequently pays homage to Sagan.
...got a link to this video? |
11-23-2009, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk Richard Dawkins for example frequently pays homage to Sagan. | Maybe because his ego is on par with Sagan's 
I agree with Bongo, but I'm completely OK with him having an ego. |
11-23-2009, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand | | | Such a great speaker. A local radio station played parts of his last lecture. I was transfixed! |
11-23-2009, 04:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Sagan is my favorite author and there isn't a book of his that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed.
My most favorite book by any author is his Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Sure he had a big ego. But it ain't bragging if you can do it. 
And speaking of big egos, Isaac Asimov once said that Carl Sagan was the only person he ever met who was smarter than he was.
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