For any fan of Carl Sagan out there, first of all, you are not a nerd, at least not in the negative sense of the word. Second of all, watch the above music video. It’s an excellent tribute to the elegant simplicity with which Carl Sagan conveyed complex and controversial ideas to the general public, as well as one of the few opportunities you’ll ever get to hear Sagan and Stephen Hawking autotuned.
Also, if you haven’t seen Cosmos, definitely check it out. For a film-series made in the early 1980s it is both groundbreaking and mind-blowing, as well as available to “watch instantly” for anyone out there with Netflix (or streaming online here). When rabble like this is going on (not like it ever isn’t, but I think giving out free copies of “The Origin of Species” with a 50-page foreward by Ray Comfort, a man who pointed to bananas as the “atheist’s nightmare” and irrefutable evidence of a Creator, may be going a little bit too far), it is the contemplative wisdom of intelligent, humble, communicators like Carl Sagan that we need the most.
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