“BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE, THAN TO SIT AND CURSE THE DARK” —JOHN F. KENNEDY 1)Old proverb
By February 1995, I still did not yet believe that Dr. Sagan would have known about a potential “cover-up” dealing with enigmatic landforms on Mars (or elsewhere in the solar system for that matter). I was certainly aware of Dr. Sagan’s skeptical frame of mind but was also aware of his potential open-mindedness on the subject in general. Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan part 3: A “Candle in the Dark”→
A seed for the future. The “Ship of the Imagination” begins it’s cosmic journey in “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” from 1980 on PBS
The lost Library of Alexandria, pyramids on Mars1)For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: “Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980 , alien life in the universe, astroengineering projects of immense scale, the sheer immensity of the “Cosmos” and the concept of multi-verses, were just some of the ideas from Cosmos that inspired and expanded my mind in the year 1980. Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 2—“A Personal Voyage”→
For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: “Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980
