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...nuclear war for two weeks, until the Nuclear Winter grabs you," Carl Sagan told an overflow audience at the Institute of Politics forum last night...
...does it; Martina Navratilova explaining how she did it; Warren Beatty explaining why he did it; Ben Kingsley explaining that it was important; the cast of Torch Song Trilogy explaining how incredible it is; the cast of M*A*S*H explaining how remarkable it was; Carl Sagan explaining how many there are; Billy Martin explaining it was a mistake; George Steinbrenner explaining it was a misunderstanding; Larry Speakes explaining what was really meant; David Bowie explaining what he is; Mary Cunningham and William Agee explaining everything...
Anticipating Pioneer's wanderings into the cosmos, where it might be intercepted by intelligent beings, Sagan and a Cornell colleague, Frank Drake, along with Sagan's former wife Linda, an artist, created a gold-anodized aluminum plaque that was affixed to the spacecraft's side. The plaque shows a nude male and female, a representation of the solar system, plus other scientific clues that might help inhabitants of other worlds trace Pioneer's origins...
...mind and ended up blow-drying its hair. Trivializing disturbs him: "The rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
Percy's Cosmos is more challenging than Sagan's because the remote possibility of contacting extraterrestrials palls before a mankind that is alien to itself. Running off to the stars may be far simpler than exploring the black holes of human nature. Percy illustrates this best in a slice of imaginative speculation about four astronauts on an 18-year interstellar flight. The crew, three women and a man, practice "serial monogamy" and procreate. The 186,000-mile-per-second speed law is in effect, so nearly two decades in space amount to more than 400 years on earth...