Nick Sagan

"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."

-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.

In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned that the US was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire.

Near the start of their new book, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez argue that what the astronomer feared is now coming to pass.

NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me).

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He was wonderful. So smart and so kind. Missing him here, too.

One of my all-time favorites as well. I remember my mom reading me The Dark is Rising when I was very young and from there I devoured Over Sea, Under Stone and all the rest. It’s been years, I should revisit it sometime.

"The bamboozle has captured us.”

Mitchell & Webb! Hadn’t seen this before.

That roar-scream definitely turned heads in the arcade. Audio from that time stays with me — the pew pews of Defender, the Tocatta & Fugue of Gyruss, the way too loud Separate Ways song suddenly blasting from Journey, etc.

I remember the Commodore 64 and the TRS-80 but never got to play around with either. I had friends with Apples who were critical of the TRS-80 but I don’t remember what their complaints were. Might just have been brand loyalty.

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces.

This is very cool and I wish I could tell her.

As for actually going on the bike ride myself, I appreciate the offer but I was pretty crash-prone even back in my heyday.

Sinistar! “I hunger!” That sure takes me back.

I forgot Isaac did those TRS-80 ads! Yeah, I can only guess he wasn’t that partisan or it never came up in their conversations.

AirHeart’s entirely new to me. I was a Brøderbund fan, playing many games of Choplifter, Karateka and Lode Runner but this title escaped me. Looks fun and I dig the graphics. And it’s by the Choplifter creator? Appreciate you putting this on my radar.

Because of the Codename Sagan dispute? Yeah, it’s funny in retrospect. We were fond of Apple, so the way it turned was a surprise. I appreciate where Dad was coming from — advertisers so often wanted him to endorse their products and he’d refuse on principle, turning down many lucrative offers.

If I’m not mistaken, that was back in 1977. It had a four digit serial number, so it was one of the very early models.

Happy Birthday, Ann Druyan! 🎉

Born June 13, 1949, she’s an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, producer, and science communicator who helped shape how millions of us see the cosmos.

Let’s take a moment to celebrate her legacy. 🧵

I love this and I had absolutely no idea.

Hi there — ah, this takes me back. Dad introduced me to computers at an early age. I was 6 or 7. Somewhere in storage is my original computer — an Apple ][. Pre-disk drive, playing software from cassette. I remember being enthralled by games like Beneath Apple Manor and Breakout.

Deeply appreciated and thanks for all your work on the translations.

Cover of Nick Sagan's idlewild. A bronze outline of monarch butterfly, with holes where the spots would be is on a black background. a black circle with a halo around it ( like the sun during an eclipse) is in the center. Cover text reads Nick Sagan "The kind of book you simply don't want to stop reading" -Neil Gaiman idlewild

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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

Carl Sagan's insights were far ahead of his time.

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

“For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.”
- Rod Serling

“In the last few millennia we have made astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.”

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. - Carl Sagan

"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan