But we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever
Carl Sagan Carl Sagan was born on November 9th
1934 in Brooklyn New York the first of two children
Seconds interest in astronomy began early on
And when he was five his mother sent him to the library to find books on the Stars
Soon after his parents took him to the New York World's Fair where visions of the future pigment his interest further
He also quickly became a fan of the prevalent
1940
Science fiction stories in pulp magazines and was drawn in by reports of flying saucers that suggested
extraterrestrial life
Seguin graduated high school in
1951 at age 16 and headed to the University of Chicago
Where experiments he conducted drove his fascination with the possibility of alien life
in
1955
Seguin graduated with a BA in physics when he took his master's a year later
Four years later
Saved and moved to California after obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics
Landing at the University of California Berkeley as a fellow in astronomy
There he helped a team develop an infrared radiometer for NASA's Mariner 2 robotic probe
The 1960 found Sagan at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Where his work centered on the physical conditions of the planets?
Particularly those of Venus and Jupiter
In
1968
Sagan became the director of Cornell University's laboratory for planetary studies and three years later
He became a full professor
Working again with NASA Sagan helped choose where the Viking probes would touch down on Mars
And help craft the messages from earth that was sent out with the Pioneer and Voyager probes sent beyond our solar system
While Stalin is thirty
Began speaking out on a range of French issues issues that would gain a much attention such as the feasibility of interstellar flight
The idea that aliens visited the earth thousands of years ago and the creatures resembling gasbags live high in Jupiter's atmosphere
He also testified of the Congress during this period about
UFO which had captured the minds of the newspaper reading populace and proposed terraforming Venus into a habitable world
In
1968 now well-known quantity in the scientific realm
Sagan briefly served as a consultant on the Stanley Kubrick film
2001 a Space Odyssey
although a clash of personalities
ensured the gig was short-lived in the 1970 and
1980 Sagan was the most well known scientist in the United States helped in no small part by the books. He wrote
Works such as the cosmic connection an extraterrestrial perspective
1973 other worlds
1975 the dragons of Eden speculations on the evolution of human intelligence
1977
Pulitzer Prize winner and his 1985 novel contact made into a film starring Jodie Foster in
1997 all grabbed the attention of the scientific community and general audiences
In
1980 Sagan co-founded the Planetary Society an international nonprofit
Organization focusing on space exploration and also launched the hugely influential TV series cosmos a personal voyage
Which he wrote and hosted
He also wrote a companion book of the same name to accompany the series
Another of his famous works pale blue dot a vision of the human future in space
1994
Was the sequel to cosmos and was inspired by the famous pale blue dot photograph which shows up as a mere speck in space
Satan uses the volatile one probe photos and leaping off point to discuss humanity's place in the vast universe and his vision of the future
Sagan used his status both as a celebrity and scientist to further his political girls
And he undertook a campaign for nuclear disarmament and was a vocal opponent of President. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
In
1983 he co-wrote a paper that introduced the concept of nuclear winter followed the next year by his co-author a book
The cons and the dark the world after nuclear war
Over the course of seconds career, he was honored several times notably receiving mass as distinguished Public Service Medal
1977
1981 and the National Academy of Sciences public welfare medal
1994
dozens of others
He died of pneumonia the complication of the Boomer disease in the Ella dysplasia on December 20th
1996 at age 62
18 years later
Cosmos was brought back to TV
This time with Neil deGrasse Tyson taking on hosting duties and getting a whole new
generation of viewers excited about what lies beyond the boundaries of Earth's
atmosphere
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