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  1. 06-30-2009, 09:48 #1
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    From Reddit this morning, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot video. I sure do miss him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buffo View Post
    From Reddit this morning, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot video. I sure do miss him.

    Adam

    google "powers of 10 movie", you'll find you have frames for it on your pangolin disk. Its similar in concept.


    At where I used to work, we measured "unreality" in "Sagans" , as he was not well liked outside of the astrophysics community. It was a log scale measured 0-1 with .1 being the odds of meeting a extraterrestrial entity and 1 being finding life on another planet without the aid of a ETE. Usage: "That project proposal has a .7 Sagan problem with it".

    This did not go over well with my former boss, as Sagan was two classes behind him in school and he knew him.

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    Yeah That book is in my top 10.
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