{"id":6532,"date":"2010-11-09T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2013-08-12T00:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:20:58","slug":"happy-carl-sagan-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2010\/11\/09\/happy-carl-sagan-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Carl Sagan Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which has prompted me to start re-watching his landmark PBS show <em>Cosmos <\/em>(all episodes are available via streaming on Netflix!), a program I loved as a kid 30 years ago. Finally, something on Public Television that wasn&#8217;t for &#8220;babies&#8221; or confusing as <em>Monty Python<\/em>, which I would come to enjoy several years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ask Somara about the Valentine I gave her using the man&#8217;s name in a pun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He could be a humorless and often egotistical guy but Dr. Sagan did a lot more positive things for me to beat out his shortcomings. I gained a better understanding and interest in Science through him. Not enough to earn a degree yet I do better than most with the green board spots in Trivial Pursuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know he was critical of contemporary Sci-Fi such as <em>Star Wars<\/em> and <em>Star Trek<\/em> yet if he were alive today, what would he say about Stephen Hawking&#8217;s recent comment regarding an encounter with aliens. Those who aren&#8217;t familiar, Hawking said Earth would get a clobbering equal to the Spanish&#8217;s first encounters with the American Indians. I think he&#8217;d agree since centuries of technological advancement is a mere blink in the Universe&#8217;s 13-14 billion-year history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which has prompted me to start re-watching his landmark PBS show Cosmos (all episodes are available via streaming on Netflix!), a program I loved as a kid 30 years ago. Finally, something on Public Television that wasn&#8217;t for &#8220;babies&#8221; or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2010\/11\/09\/happy-carl-sagan-day-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro","category-sci-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12928,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}