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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

    So what’s in there? The short answer is “not much”. We should remember the words of #CarlSagan: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

    #UFO #UAP #SETI

  2. “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”

    #Histodons #USpol #Resist #8647now #25thAmendment

  3. 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 (archive.org/details/cosmos_1980)
    #CarlSagan #science #art #SciCom #EarthDay #Cosmos

  4. "Podemos escapar ilesos por algum tempo, porém mais cedo ou mais tarde essa mistura inflamável de #Ignorância e #Poder vai explodir na nossa cara." - #CarlSagan em "O mundo assombrado pelos demônios" (1995) -

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    RI @ethosmanifesto - #Frases -

  5. "Podemos escapar ilesos por algum tempo, porém mais cedo ou mais tarde essa mistura inflamável de #Ignorância e #Poder vai explodir na nossa cara." - #CarlSagan em "O mundo assombrado pelos demônios" (1995) -

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    Via ‪@sagan.bsky.social‬ - ou -

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    RI @ethosmanifesto - #Frases -

  6. #APasionArte: Un pequeño punto azul 🚀 🛰️🌎 letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.b Te invito a escuchar el episodio en el que nos basamos en la fotografía más lejana de nuestro planeta, #PaleBlueDot con textos de #CarlSagan y música de #Ligeti, #Khachaturiam, #Ostrzyga, #TomasMarco y #Holst

  7. Carl Sagan is dead since 1996 - 30 years! Let this sink in.

    Carl Sagan on Military Spending and Climate Change
    youtube.com/watch?v=4C6co5qXEE4

    #ClimateChange #MilitarySpending #CarlSagan

  8. Furchen im Acker der Religionen

    Anfangs sind vielleicht nur winzige erste Blätter neuer Keimlinge sichtbar. Später dann voll ausgewachsene Ackerpflanzen und ihre im Sonnenlicht reifenden Früchte. Zum richtigen Zeitpunkt dann, wenn mit Glück und vielleicht viel Geduld und Ausdauer alles gut gegangen ist, eine reiche Ernte. […]

    atheistisch.at/2026/03/31/furc

  9. Il cielo è di tutti https://edu.inaf.it/rubriche/lo-spazio-tra-le-pagine/il-cielo-e-di-tutti/

    Tra Voyager 1 e Gianni Rodari, per riflettere su come il cielo e la terra – e le meraviglie che portano con loro – siano davvero patrimonio comune.

    #CarlSagan #concorso #GianniRodari #GruppoStorie #poesia #scuola #Voyager @astronomia @astronomia
  10. A timely reminder from the immortal #CarlSagan of how absurd it is that we cause so much suffering to control this infinitesimal fragment of the universe.

    #palebluedot

    youtube.com/watch?v=sb4WhNvLRF

  11. They say buying and reading books are two different hobbies. If so, I like both, but inevitably end up with books sitting on my shelves for years before I get to them.

    These are the top 5 books I own that I really want to get around to reading.

    esraye.com/2026/03/17/5-books-

    #books #bookstadon #booksbooksbooks #scifi #fantasy #sherlockholmes #thehobbit #carlsagan

  12. A quotation from Carl Sagan

    History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to us all. We must not let that happen again.

    Carl Sagan (1934-1996) American scientist and writer
    Cosmos, ep. 13 “Who Speaks for Earth?” PBS TV (1980)

    More about this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/82424/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsagan #cosmos #antiintellectualism #censorship #culturallegacy #culture #destruction #fear #greed #library #museum #power #treasure #vandalism

  13. As I listen to the news of the recent global escalations, I pause from my glass of #duvel and my copy of Contact by #carlsagan to consider the following:

    Sagan would be utterly disappointed by the state of our planet. Within Contact, he describes a planetary collaboration of unprecedented scale. The Soviets and the United States, along with many other nations, assemble to address a nascent phenomenon - the arrival of a message from another world.

    We can do better

    #science #politics #peace

  14. Episode 3 of COSMOS by Carl Sagan is still remarkably relevant today.

    It clearly explains why astrology is not science, and why evidence, skepticism, and scientific thinking are essential in a world full of strong claims and weak proof.

    Watch here:
    youtu.be/_ukdRg3yz2M?si=sfbTGi

    #Science #CriticalThinking #ScientificLiteracy #CarlSagan
    #Science #CriticalThinking #CarlSagan

  15. My new #BookAtBedtime is going to be #Comet by #CarlSagan and #AnnDruyan. This book was published to coincide with the return of #HalleysComet and it was a Christmas present for me in 1985. The truly shameful thing is that it has sat unread on my shelves for over four decades. Well, my father’s no longer around and I ought still to apologize to him but at last I’m going to read it. For goodness sake, it’s a shorter time to the #comet's next appearance than the last time!