VERY cool story, Carl. What a great experience to have had. Thanks! On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Carl Ericsson <ericssoncarl@yahoo.com>wrote:
Annnnnnnnnnnnnd… More words about Carl Sagan, and “Cosmos – Episode II, The Empire Strikes Back” ))) I’ll have to look into this… it would be great to see an updated version of “Cosmos”! So, so much has been learned since the original! I saw the series on PBS, way back when… and, I had the book (maybe I still have the book, sort of, stored in a box… somewhere that I used to live…). Great stuff! I’m a little apprehensive about any involvement by Fox… and, along with at least one other person here, I lament the treatment given to the TV series “Firefly”, which was a great show!) Probably, Fox executives will try to slip into the new “Cosmos” an attempt to blame Global Warming entirely on the Sun… ;) Also, I slightly knew Carl Sagan, in the early 1970’s. Then, I spent a lot of time at Harvard College Observatory’s “Agassiz Station”, on 600 foot high Oak Ridge (big for eastern Massachusetts…). Carl Sagan stayed there at the cottage a few times, along with other interesting astronomers. When I was 17, I spent two months living there… much to the chagrin of my school’s Headmaster. I did it of my own volition, and against his will!)) Anyway, Carl Sagan was pretty cool… perhaps a little full of himself, but he had enough reason to be!)) Still, the few times I had any sort of brief conversation with him, it was good. And, it was great to see him relaxing with a bunch of astronomers who were also relaxing, glass of wine in hand. I did see him give a talk on possibilities in exobiology, in 1970, and it was an honor to spend some time with him socially, two years later. Of course, as a 17 year old “pre-astronomer”, I was only on the periphery of his awareness!)) By the way… one of the visiting astronomers had a name for Agassiz Station… he called it: “The Urinal of the Gods”… )))