The Pale Blue Dot was made as a tribute to Carl Sagan "as the final project for the Animation 01 course at Ringling College of Art and Design." Read the rest
Cool collaborative student animation of Sagan's "The Pale Blue Dot" speech
Carl Sagan + Grand Theft Auto
YouTuber Duggy made this machinima using narration from Carl Sagan and scenes from Grand Theft Auto V. Read the rest
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
Did you know Carl Sagan designed a game?
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us writing on witch folklore, the intimate language of games, and a lost design doc made by Carl Sagan.
"I faxed Carl Sagan"
Here's a great story from the science storytelling project Story Collider and physicist David Morgan. Morgan starts telling a story about how Sagan influenced him to become a scientist and how the beginning of that career was tied up with an attempt to get in touch with Sagan — pre-ubiquitous e-mail — in the year 1995. Read the rest
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: The Meat Planet (with pork volcano)
"A giant planet with a liquid interior full of liquid beef and pork, into which a thousand earths would fit."
When Neil deGrasse Tyson met Carl Sagan
This is a seriously incredible story. If you did not already kind of love Carl Sagan, and think of him as a sort of benevolent hippie grandpa, you totally will now.
And the message here is seriously spot-on: The best way to honor the people who helped you realize your dreams is to help somebody else realize theirs.
Via Joanne Manaster
Indigenous Americans and Carl Sagan agree: We are star stuff
In the language of the Diné (what the Navajo call themselves), the word for "star" is "sitsoi yoo." But that word means more than just "star." According to Nancy Maryboy of the Indigenous Education Institute, sitsoi yoo means something closer to "my ancient relation from which I came," a reference to a traditional Diné belief that humans were born from stars. Remind you of anything?
I'm currently attending the 6th Science Center World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Tomorrow, I'll be talking about how science museums are failing adult visitors, but I've also gotten the chance to sit in on several really interesting panels. The anecdote above comes from a panel on Indigenous Astronomy, which I hope to write some more about in the future.
Image: Sergio Eguivar — Buenos Aires Skies, via Astronomy Picture of the Day
