#carl-sagan — Public Fediverse posts
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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@Nigel_Purchase #CarlSagan explains why: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: #Science as a Candle in the Dark -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116539320800773903
So what’s in there? The short answer is “not much”. We should remember the words of #CarlSagan: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
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Können wir bitte Leute mit Hirn als Verantwortliche haben und nicht solche, die "die besten Wörter" haben oder die sich hinstellen und tönen, dass das Klima gefälligst nicht der Wirtschaft im Weg zu stehen hat? So jemand wie Carl Sagan? Wäre irgendwie schon fein.
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@pauleric70
Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.😢 #NASA #CarlSagan
https://bsky.app/profile/pauleric70.bsky.social/post/3mkr6zanao222
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - #CarlSagan , “The Demon-Haunted World: #Science as a Candle in the Dark”
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Great answer by Carl Sagan on the question whether he is a 'socialist'
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zqWS3yaZdr4
#socialism #socialcapitalism #democracy #freedom #carlsagan #tedturner
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Of course, the dearly missed Carl Sagan shows up to triage the situation for the audience (https://youtu.be/piImm6Q9NGY?si=Q0kzQn5VCOZw9vIx)
#MusComEnt #EarthDay #TheEarthDaySpecial #CarlSagan -
I often go back to this excellent series when I'm needing some hope for humankind. Happy Earth Day, all. 🌎
"How perilous our infancy.
How humble our beginnings.
How many rivers we had to cross to find our way." -
There’s some strobing and some uneasy footage in this month’s #LaEsoterica. If this isn’t for you I can recommend checking out the entire “Cosmos: A Personal Odyssey” (1980) series for free here (https://archive.org/details/cosmos_1980)
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First up is the opening segment of the final episode of Carl Sagan’s legendary “Cosmos: A Personal Odyssey” series (https://youtu.be/3QgIQzDqXmo?si=tuWvn-VRcJq0Tuip)
#LaEsoterica #EarthDay #CarlSagan #Cosmos -
The Environment, Politics, and Carl Sagan
Two 1-act plays about Dr. Sagan's 1985 presentation to Congress:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=26&id=558
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Carl Sagan is dead since 1996 - 30 years! Let this sink in.
Carl Sagan on Military Spending and Climate Change
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116364441348826860
Carl Sagan, on Cosmos (1980), partial transcript from clip below:
"And the world impoverishes itself by spending a trillion dollars a year in preparations for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists in the planet, in military endeavors...We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers, we know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?"
