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Carl Sagan on Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -1979



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Carl Sagan speaks about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Cosmos series, episode 12 "The Enciclopaedia Galactica"


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You have it the ... ( 11 months ago by prayfertrey)
You have it the wrong way round. I never said, "few idiots". Neither did Sagan. Smart ppl. are vastly, vastly out numbered by average and below average bears.
"It is unfortunate that the people who know best how to run the country are too busy cutting hair and driving cabs." - George Burns
My mistake, "dumb" ... ( 11 months ago by IntelligentHoodlum)
My mistake, "dumb" people. And privileged people usually take advantage of opportunities when presented w/them--so I dont disagree that there are few "smart" people.
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -Stephen Jay Gould
(to your original ... ( 11 months ago by IntelligentHoodlum)
(to your original reply to defdeezy's human rights post):
To say that most humans don't have problems with slavery or aren't interested in human rights is ludicrous. The slavery abolitionist movement--people just kind of did that for fun? Same with the civil rights movement or the womens suffrage movement--those were just lackadaisical occurrences?
History shows that ... ( 11 months ago by prayfertrey)
History shows that those movements are mostly confined to the middle/upper middle class. Why isn't it typical for ppl. to think about it? Why isn't there a common objection to wage slavery? Why is 90% of tv programming painfully insipid and fatuous and lowest common denominator? Why do politicians manipulate as oppose to communicate? You need to ask the whole world why they think most folks are just wondering through life waiting for next wks episode of their fav tv program.
I'm sure we haven't ... ( 11 months ago by prayfertrey)
I'm sure we haven't "arrived"; which is beside my point, dude.
yes, i agree with ... ( 11 months ago by defdeezy)
yes, i agree with you here.
This guys knew ... ( 10 months ago by bloodstone1445)
This guys knew something :)
How do we say " ... ( 10 months ago by XmegaPresident)
How do we say "fundamentalist, creationist and conspiricy theorist? = DRMABUSA.
Ok, lets say that ... ( 10 months ago by EthanJM)
Ok, lets say that the average person was as smart as carl sagan. That would mean that there would be a few out there vastly outnumbered by the average folk as smart as carl sagan. The fact is, people are very smart, that is all I am trying to say.
Then why is 90% of ... ( 10 months ago by prayfertrey)
Then why is 90% of commercial tv programming painfully insipid? Why do tv commercials and advertisements talk to people like they're emotional robots and childish idiots? Why do politicians manipulate emotionally, instead of communicate to the intellect? And why does the average bear stand for it? And why is the most popular use of YT looking at videos of Paris Hilton?
Array ( 9 months ago by novan3)
OMG..WOW!!! <<<----Not @ the possibile existence of extraterrestrial life, that's pretty obvious, but @ the unnaturally borderline self-mutilation inducing monotone voice of the narrator. OUT OF THIS WORLD!
You're not a good ... ( 9 months ago by Blacksun1942)
You're not a good person.
Though SETI and ... ( 9 months ago by anotherfinemess962)
Though SETI and SETI@home in a planet grid level is a very ambitious notion, its a very primitive technology that we have been using for the last 100 years out of the millions years of the excistance of possible planets out there.
Just think of some ... ( 8 months ago by foxbat68)
Just think of some of the junk these other planets, light years away, will have been receiving from us. Pop Idol, Big Brother, Iraq War coverage....my god! No wonder they don't bother getting in touch.
Array ( 7 months ago by UnevenMatrix)
OMG. WOW!!! <<<---- @ the jackass. The man was WAY smarter than you, and my personal hero... So stfu...k pumpkin? Jealousy? Is that why people make fun of other people...? I don't get it, but whatever... Anyway... he may not have had the "nicest" voice... but what does that have to do with anything anyway? It's not the delivery system that matters... it's the message.
tou·ché ( 7 months ago by novan3)
tou·ché
Well they either ... ( 7 months ago by curlyrocks1)
Well they either would have 1 of 2 thoughts
1: let's go help these people overcome there fucked up leaders and achive peace cuz things there are fucked
or 2: ohh new sorce of slaves
I doubt slaves. ... ( 5 months ago by Reido2828)
I doubt slaves. were to lazy to work hard
1 is not a prime ... ( 5 months ago by k3lp00)
1 is not a prime number as far as I know. But other than that I am a fan of Carl Sagan. Had similar ideas to me although I do not think that there are millions of civilizations in our galaxy...maybe 5-10 in my opinion.
I'm not sure why ... ( 3 months ago by plevyman)
I'm not sure why you got voted down for correctly pointing out that 1 isn't a prime number.
I really like Carl Sagan, but I think even here he understates the problems of the size of the cosmos and another question (which no-one ever thinks about) which is the amount of time a civilization would have to stick around for us to meet them. Human civilization has only existed for about 10,000 years, that's 1/500,000-th the age of the earth. Even if aliens existed, do they exist *now*?
I do not know ... ( 3 months ago by k3lp00)
I do not know either why they voted me down...a bunch of ignorants they are :D
well I think that the lifespam of a civilization depends on several issues.The industrial revolution which we are in recently. So far as a civilization manages to expand to other planets it gains great survavibility. Because from that point on there is a little possibility for a disaster to happen on all of the colonized worlds at the same time.
If the question of ... ( 1 month ago by LastCynicStanding)
If the question of why we are watching him instead of you ever comes up you now have your answer.
I do. But what ... ( 1 month ago by k3lp00)
I do. But what exactly is your point?
It takes a really ... ( 1 week ago by Kaarel314)
It takes a really long time to get a message 200 lightyears away. So we must wait until it gets there and they send an answer back. So we should start waiting after several hundred years. I dont want to wait several hundred years.



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