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Stargleamer

(2,205 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:21 PM 13 hrs ago

It's as if Carl Sagan in 1995 was predicting how things would be in 2025. . .

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It's as if Carl Sagan in 1995 was predicting how things would be in 2025. . . (Original Post) Stargleamer 13 hrs ago OP

Damn. He nailed it. underpants 12 hrs ago #1

He died a year later at the age of 62. We lost a brilliant, perceptive, forward think man that day. patphil 11 hrs ago #2

Yes, we did. We are far worse without him Deuxcents 11 hrs ago #3

Apropos, there's another prescient book from a few years later... keep_left 10 hrs ago #4

Pale blue dot... Godot51 10 hrs ago #5

underpants

(186,611 posts)

1. Damn. He nailed it.

Reply to Stargleamer (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:37 PM

12 hrs ago

patphil

(6,940 posts)

2. He died a year later at the age of 62. We lost a brilliant, perceptive, forward think man that day.

Reply to Stargleamer (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:11 PM

11 hrs ago

Deuxcents

(19,694 posts)

3. Yes, we did. We are far worse without him

Reply to patphil (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:20 PM

11 hrs ago

keep_left

(2,412 posts)

4. Apropos, there's another prescient book from a few years later...

Reply to Stargleamer (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:18 PM

10 hrs ago

...The Twilight of American Culture (1999) by Morris Berman, which bolsters much of what Sagan argues. The Berman work won a number of book awards and has been discussed here from time to time. It's worth a read.

Godot51

(287 posts)

5. Pale blue dot...

Reply to Stargleamer (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:18 PM

10 hrs ago

We wallow in our insignificance.

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