Carl Sagan was the world's first mainstream media super scientist, capapble of breaking down complex ideas for the common folk. But what made him tick? Billions and billions of great ideas.
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Man. It also made him beloved beloved end of I think, one of like the precursors to what we do. In fact, here there's a quote on him being and explain her well yeah I thought was very goal, which is the gps turn him ever, but it's a pretty it's a good turn: science, a cleaner air. He said, I think, I'm able to explain things because understanding was an entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly. I had worked to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out.
The very brilliant ones figured out so fast. The sun's familiarly never see the mechanics of understanding, so I really identified without, like man, that's kind of what we do. You know we worked really hard
understanding this concern on exports- and he was
expert on one thing. He covered a lot of that's what made him unique right, a lot of different facets of science, which you don't see it
No, you don't mean it does pop up here and there. But if you, if you think about the people who are like I chaired diamond, is a really good current example, Neil Tigranes. No,
just in time. Ok, Jerry Diamond man. I don't even remember what his trained in he's just such a generalist, yeah but heroic guns, germs and steal that guy I'm a gallop will rubber Bork beard and goodbye
One near the grass Thyssen is definitely become one, although he still very much and asked her physician, right, yeah, but easy sort of talked about a lot of times in terms of being like say again and not just because he rebooted cosmos, which was second show. But oh yes, he's just the face of science. Like he's the go togae sure I mean like he was the obvious choice for cars most because he was already so much
exciting, following in those footsteps for sure there's other guys like Brien Green, is a science explain her bill, nice science explain or yet left. I'm there definitely out there for sure. But you can you make a good point. A second was one of the originals. If not the original
the idea that he was somebody who was willing to draw parallels from different disciplines,
in science are bring them together to create something approachable for people.
The current invigorate people's love of science. It's amazing, yeah, Maiden beloved it also, maybe
bill, not revile, though this is not the right word, but whose definitely criticized in scientific, its establishment in parts for sure some people in the scientific establishment, loved him and somewhere like
not doing much. Real research are now you're, just sort of a face guy
and am I poohpooh that entirely and say that he did a lot for science and the people like hammer are necessary and I value their work
taking a stand, her man Cross Higgins, amazing he's one of my heroes. I watched gospels. When I was ten years old, I have never seen a man. It was good
I mean it show that had tens of millions of a viewer
no millions and millions yeah circulating Sagan yeah, and you know what he is. He told Johnny Carson. He never said
in billions. In what he said, millions upon millions right
I never heard it there's a super cut on Youtube of all of his billions, millions,
billions from plasma right got to do with it like a pop music bed,
and is there a glorious dawn?
I remember the name of it. There's one. There is a video of a song somebody created with him. A super code of him is called glory stones pretty great,
Well, I never heard billions and billions in their there's a lot of millions and millions and trillions of those words, but he said I never specifically said billions and billions, and I couldn't I didn't hear at either so he's a misunderstood team
it became living. Carson did at first. Maybe I'm sorry I've done. Then that became the thing.
And Billy AIR Ghip Ghisizzle
little dude for sure and a lot of ways in earth easily parity, but he also seem to have a fairly good sense of humour about himself, at least and in general, who smoke grass. He thought grasses far out.
Then we d vaulted back in time of that year.
The mirror Wanna rats making a contemporary. He was on the pot. Yet he did he liked to smoke weed and dumb. In fact, to have a quote here for a man, he wrote an essay,
coral read, and while this payment model-
He wrote an essay know about that. What's your favorite, I landed in January the person it's, although cook a ring cricket
it was pretty get. No I've never seen him more interested in what we're talking about it's funny in college. We still have a saying it's, not a matter of which album are we going to listen to next, its which pavement album array and listen to next is put
t shirt ass anyway, Sagan wrote. An essay marijuana reconsidered in here is one of his quotes. Me said the cannabis experienced is greatly improve my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before the understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high, sometimes
carries over to an I'm down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse. Is that cover the fog doing Carl Sagan Slick harmony
but he yeah I mean that's, not it doesnt defined him or anything but yeah. He liked it yeah. Partly. I should get out a little tape quarter and talk about the financial turtleneck here with nothing else. There was the Sixtys and Seventys Association in. I think that anything, maybe even in the nineties, developments through so arm listless, I guess,
go back to the beginning, return some pretty good teasing here right. Yes, I know what you're talking about a human being, there's no place better to start at the beginning than with their birth. Nineteen. Thirty four Brooklyn New York yeah.
His mother was Rachel. Was a garment industry manager, an appeal,
The figures over dad was a lawyer
mom was overbearing. Yes, Mama's overbearing,
my dad was a ukrainian immigrant Samuel. We worked as a garment industry manager is in nineteen thirty four, they private higher women's jobs like that right, which is really thinking so.
And we were it's not like. We ve met the lady or anything in income report. This is over buried. The idea that she's overbearing comes from this long standing image of her. If she had very high hopes in high expectations and aspirations for car very well may have made the man
moved in New Jersey after a little while and I was voted the classic
in railway high school, and I thought this is interesting in this, but articles this new Yorker, which we welcome,
Carl sagan- truly replacement- lithuanian Smithsonian Jaw are combined- is great article that Madame they
crackdown nineteen, fifty three, a questionnaire from high school that he had to fill out on his own character, traits and Sagan said he gave himself low marks for vigorous.
What sports an average rating for emotional stability and the highest ratings for being dominance in reflective Congress that use that vigorous Psmith now worked out millions of vigorous. So that's not just a piece of paper. They dug up chocolates from his archives,
which are actually sold to the library of Congress by his widow. What is his widows?
and Andrea in one of his while his yet his widow right, but he was married three times: racket
and an sold the papers are supplied the papers.
An honorary him. I guess to the Library of Congress and Library of Congress got that money from South Macfarlane, yet it basically Seth Macfarlane bought Carl Sagan papers and donated them to the Library of Congress. Yes,
why political, that's what it's called these Seth Macfarlane collection of the car
in an end during archive had put his name on there
I mean the sure- why not you know? No, it's fine, he's he's a huge fan of
and hearing one who rebuild a cosmic right in genuinely like a mean, I I gotta say like whatever you have to say about certainly violent. There is plenty to say nothing about it. I've Macfarlane he'd, he is, he proved himself the true fan of cancer, you and a rich guy soothing. I've always liked-
have any better say about what have you seen american dead
regarding the that actually took her family guy. It's definitely two totally different gotcha,
seven hundred and ninety eight boxes of stuff archive old material, I'm the guy love to log.
Every conversation ever had in every thought that ever entered his brain, mainly through cassette tape right, but I guess that was transcribed by other folks. Yeah, apparently that some jaw comeback says that his his writings thou so conversation because you didn't write, he dictated into addictive phone and then it was transcribed basically basically use like
Hunters Thomson of science, yeah hundred t had like the real real headway around his neck. When one
hi, I'm marijuana, dizzy, Buzz, killed the type and actually that's why you would bring a hundred Thompson hundred Thompson loved ass. You know who else loved ass it to me.
Larry, you know who hung out with Timothy Leary Carl Sagan Mere Timothy layer was trying to get.
Hindu, advise him on how to build ace in interstellar. Arc gives Leary just totally
stop, it is time we should do is show him. Oh yeah, I'm surprised we haven't had a crazy. Let's do it. Man
so we do want, unlike the merry pranks, there's a whole. Thank you basically redo thing, the electric collate acid test of the big it up.
But Leary, I'm at a mental institution, because he'd been part of the bunch acid, I think, had a visitor and Carl Sagan Frank trick of the famous Drake
vision and they came by to say hi in and lives. Like certainly goes to help me design as an like this to close the stars too far away you cook. Yet this is in work. Then lyricist
he said that they had some sort of neural blockage. That's why they couldn't. He could yeah man, so that was Carl Sagan. Timothy, very sorry, but I think this
in touch on shore, they did so young Sagan is his like any changes. When he goes to the world's fair in nineteen thirty nine, he was just five years old, you, member, whose worlds fair that was now
such gaga any Berneselis, oh yeah, that was the one while the one they changed. Everything, including Carl Sagan, by the two big. What saying,
Those are the world's fair and it was sort of a great time to be a young kid interested in science because in the late thirties and fortys and fit these, it was like that everyone is captivated by the future.
Right. There's this idea sides could do anything yeah anything in very soon. Would those really exciting- and it was just a great time to be to be into it. It says that the what's his name open, homer now. I will, however,
No, I'm talking about the article roll back, you'll get Oppenheimer this guy here, I'm the I'm become the second
tat in the article. He makes a great point about just at that time period and dumb how it
oratory. Everything was really from then like through the nineteen seventy seven. There was a great like forty year period in sight,
were. Basically there was funding and like any means possible, we can do anything we want until they started. As you know, I guess disprove things here, Mr Ryan, actually with interest
There is a corresponding boost in technology from the air to allow people to point out that all the stuff from about nineteen seventy five on is actually built on the backs of the stuff that was built in the forty years before that Roma nineteen. Thirty, five, nineteen, seventy five yet in every sense, Arafat, a technological
So it's really interesting. You don't think what you like more now I mean we have iphones down it's like yeah. I funds are out there, a combination of different stuff that was first discovered or indeed,
forty or more years ago, and basically everything's like that, we were in a slump right now.
It was not only a time where they thought sides could do anything sight was doing just about anything air and we consider platter
Damn here the author described him. I thought it was great description. Sagan as a nuanced referee, because really cool thing about Sagan was he was very grounded in science in proof and facts, but he wasn't. He wasn't just a square and a sceptic Hilda
the sceptics in square yeah, but he was also like he wanted to find life on other points.
Sure- and he didn't shut things down now. He was all about the discussion of everything as long as you still did the research and were grounded, in fact, as more effect, and he did not believe in. U S house, he D did not think that you are foes were extraterrestrial spacecraft, but in nineteen sixty nine he mounted a conference on Ufos
in which everyone apparently had their say all sides yeah. I wasn't like we're mounting a conference,
You are foes, you'd come so the rest of us can put
your ideas and beliefs. It was common carrier, your position on it at that,
normous I'm dead in and of itself is worth remembering. The person for this is nineteen, sixteen I'm afraid even become like.
Household name or anything like that,
Think we do that and we still get emails,
I want today for people that said it is dangerous to eat
mention other schools of thought, that's dogma,
yeah, and I just I don't agree with an automatic unclose minded and don't even break don't even emails with that crap you just don't don't even bother cause we're gonna we're going
fond of you on ask the Yankees s night
our shows about, even if we don't believe something we like to throw all sites out there, because I think the discussion is healthy, no matter what share this is me
even though we are marking crop circles. We still like talked about crap circles. Did we not soliloquy this pretended like there wasn't? Such a thing is crap circles that right and we have Carl Sagan thank for laying
golden path in front of us, so I dont think right. I don't want to do that. We have and we need to mere ok.
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So we ve been beating around the Bush here every let's talk about my really we ve been getting into it, but it's a sock about some of the things that say again.
He wasn't just some Johnny come lately. He had degree upon degree
Thank you. How you'd billions whether undergrad agree had his masters. He had his phd, he was, he was
well versed in a lot of rounds of science, but his big thing was astronomy. Right here do two degrees in underground masters in physics and then a doctor in astronomy, and he did a little stand at Harvard think it tenure cities like I'm out of here having corner
like you come to us, yes, and we will treat you like a god and they did and he set a limit Coronel instead of his own
right. The laboratory for planets hurt for planetary studies. Yes, in he's just that was when he really started to get going, needs doing some work for NASA at the time
while doing I assaulting he did that throughout its own career formulas, that kind of stuff shit when NASA's picking your brain about like the APOLLO mission, you you're doing pretty well for yourself yeah scientist, but so he had this this
this potential to to really go a silence. He is he wanted you with the stuff and he didn't
ways and a lot of ways with his consulting with NASA, but he also cannot push NASA into humanity's direction, is well yeah like the Voyager discs. That's it that's a really great example of it,
like he talk NASA India, including discs on Voyager one in two of the golden record, yeah yeah, better their basically like here, some stuff that represents humanity and earth
a pretty much like. If we ever do fine life on earth, we need to have some
offer them to represent us related elsewhere. You mean yeah yeah, what I say: life on earth yeah, there's life on earth is pretty much documented, his life out there
extraterrestrial life. He said we needed to present ourselves in, but earth is like and what humans are like. So
clear. Two hundred and fifteen images representing the diversity of life
and then sounds basically like his wife. Literally, this is pretty out there.
A mere one had anything to do that. I think, sir, you
wife, Anne she created her own sounds for the project. Basically, she meditated and then thought told the story of the universe, my thinking it with her brain.
In those brain ways
translated into music. And
said my mind, also wandered to my love, my husband, so that was translated, so they blasted. That was her message that they buy some space, which is pretty far right, but but also messages of love.
Romance Brittany. He wasn't afraid to show his tender side. No! No! No, you definitely wasn't. He was a vulnerable in the water voice an end,
also on those disks, there's a believe edgings of a man and a woman. I think it's etched on the disk and there, like laser disk size, their super retro, her and made of gold, which is pretty cool and others to basically depiction of where it is in the milky way believe. So. It's basically saying we're here, fear refiners yet and then, of course, Voyager Wine, a belief, got lost and awakened and became sentient and then became a guide to some beef.
Remembering, I think STAR Trek won the first, the first movie. I never saw a feature you never signing the STAR Trek movies, dude. I've never seen one episode of the tv show I've never seen one episode of next year.
In Vienna, the Only STAR Trek thing I've ever ingested was our apologies to wear weakened by the way was that first move
that J J Abrams did. I saw that I saw the second one of that. I also saw Think STAR Trek. Maybe one too
and three reining in one of those there's this God V Ger whose, like this artificial intelligence,
finally meet leisure and realise that the
boy, is
blotted out, it's really.
Major wine, the space probe while sprinkle those pretty meeting
I'm not a tricky by any means, but yeah there's still entertaining. Let us never got into it. I was always a star wars, guy, not that there are mutually exclusive, but didn't grab me. You know who would have predicted that we go off and a star Trek Tina get in the car saying that, although I think I've told the story of working on a commercial
In January, you have didn't he like up Ben you of recurring pretender received, and that was part of a generous t. J Hooker could happen here. He was great values autumn. He lobbying we examine how young man you can tell I go where is it like a suit yeah? He was. He was often very nice guy, so on board. You not track again here Sagan. Besides he, there was actually
of asthma affect the idea of the greenhouse effect, is rooted partially in his work yet mean
that had been around since the late nineteenth century, but he looked like a planet like Venus and said you know I'd venuses, really hot, and I think why,
because the greenhouse effect and then because of that work people started thinking. Well, maybe earth has a greenhouse effect going on to write, really opened the door for that line of thought. You did man, these correct, earthly, desert greenhouse effect in its problem.
Eric correct another one that is widely cited for is the faint young young sign paradox. I dont know if they, if he was the one who first pointed this out or if he just kind of built upon it in its
that fully solve. So he and George Merlin,
this out, I'm pretty sure yeah. So the idea is that earth early on its history was a ball of ice, but problematical ie there
there is also some liquid water on earth to it wasn't all eyes. This doesn't make much sense, because the sign as it stands now is just about enough to keep earth.
From being frozen ball of ice. But back then, when earth was
firstly, for his ball. Vice the sun was only at like seventy percent of its luminosity rumour city luminosity, one of those luminosity right sure that it is today- and so it doesn't make sense of this- should be any liquid. Water on earth is called the faint young son paradox and I believe they figured out or the second and more.
Said a well is the greenhouse effect. You don't think they ever fully settled on that still its outstanding, they didn't, you might be accommodation than some other stuff
what does he do? He looked at them, tighten sun and moon at one point in and said you know what I think, there's organic molecules up there and that's why it looks red and he was right here. He went terror yeah so immediately he was afraid to throw a wacky hypothesis out there in that,
did not do him any favours in the scientific community either. No, because there is a definite arrogance associated with throwing out the hypothesis
and not doing the work, leaving it to other people to do the work. And then you still get the credit for throwing hypothesis out there
in other words, one of the main reasons. Why say him is highly criticised by some people in the scientific community. Yet
Some in this miss only in article may say their sort of an unwritten rule among scientists. Thou shalt not speculate. Thou shalt not talk about things outside your immediate area of expertise at the big one, the heat
and dressed, he was all over the place and thou shalt not horse around. On late night tv talk Shepherd with Carson yeah. He was on Carson two dozen times over a couple of decades in was like assets, were the near the rest ice and use the go to
when any one in the press needed anything for television? He was the guy
and only thing had anything even remotely do aside, even if I had to do with,
and somebody wanted Sciences
of theology go to Carl Sagan yeah, it's from savings over his point of view he's just furthering science. What's the problem from the other scientists point of view, it's like
makes it look like Carl Sagan is trained in everything from the astrophysics which he was there, the ology in biology.
Topology in every ology, between many isn't that true there, some professional jealousy to enough, I think, come out is like he's get now. The press and of other folks are stuck in a lab doing what they think is the real work.
So I can get it away, but I do think that people like the Mayan Thyssen and then say Gunnar hugely necessary. You know you gotta face out their furthering it here.
Yeah. Then you gotta have a media outlets parade magazine to put that face on those who go to for sure I was he in their lot. Oh yeah
It was this. The Sunday insert right yeah here and there was a kind of the big joke. Thirty stop publishing an academic journals and started published
parade magazine here, and if you remember in our nuclear winter episode and yet he was dead, he completely and think of that. Now he is furthered it. He was part of a group that that was organised. That basically said like, if you guys start setting off nuclear bombs. It's not gonna, be this thing that is an
there's going to be the thing called nuclear winter and they hadn't done all the science. Yet before he went and wrote an article on parade magazine and told the world,
nuclear winner and in the opinion of the scientists who was working,
really undermine their case because it insatiable it yet
but it also did was it got year, your average Joe thinking about nuclear war and the cold war, and maybe we shouldn't be zooming toward our own demise right at a hundred miles an hour agree. Then that's the big back and forth about segments legacy there
area than the actual work he did to bear any mention of theology. He was famously spiritual agnostic. He was a spiritual agnostic is how he D find himself here. He didn't
but others is eight years and the reason why true two seconds own
own way was that he could not scientifically prove that there was not God. So he said, how can I call myself an atheist yet which is on its political and actually he's the guy supposedly that coin the term extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. That's what I hear that go back to him, so he looked like sceptics, love the dude. Oh yeah he's the father of the sceptic, but I think he
I think it gives sceptics the good name, sure it s you, Anna people, if you want to prove your bones to how hard core sceptical you are criticised, Carl Sagan in the sky
the community area. You can really show that Europe Super sceptic right. Yeah Sagan was a milk toasters as far as
still he I guess you'd involves other lines of far right but still require proof, but he wouldn T shut it down right out of the gate, so
We will get back to Carl Sagan right after this,
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I truckers were back yes, so there is one thing that Carl Sagan he put poke fun it himself
He never abandon. It. Was this idea that, possibly maybe just maybe there was intelligent life out there
and I m- I want there to be for sure he helped disprove urge said the conditions against life being out there for sure like, for example, he suggested that on Mars, the shifting features of Mars,
results of the storms and it turned out. He was right, but those does storms also basically said: there's probably not life on Mars, just
For that reason alone, this horrible death storms right
and he actually did you wanna Pulitzer Prize for some of his work. Nicky wrote more than a dozen books
one of the things he wrote was contact the novel, not you know he was totally decipher and wrote in the movie contacted Mokanna Hand, jury foster those based on his novel and, of course, that movie was about sending signals and outer space trying to find life. So,
You could tell the go. It was something he loved to talk about right about oh yeah, but he also Loveday like actually that this kind of research, which
Curly oppositely, like Seti, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is, is evidence based in science based search for extraterrestrials right. Yes, that was that's Carl Sagan through and through that
totally him. He was. He wanted to believe and extraterrestrial life, but he needed proof to believe in it really yeah just couldn't make that jump to just saying. Yes, they exist without any proof yeah. Exactly so is right in books he's NASA's picking,
Brain he's all over the place, and eventually we talked about his tv show
debuted on why actually debuted nineteen eighty one yeah, I thought eighty, the eighty yeah yeah. I think I was nineteen eighty, so it must have been nine years old
for those ten month. Was it
but he originally was. The tv series are gonna be called man in the cosmos, but he thought that success than he was a feminist. So he sat down. He proposed a couple more titles, one was called their terrible, php r e with some subtitle and then the other was cosmos with the subtitle,
and he spent three years around the world filming this thing right yeah. I guess it was what it does not look around four seasons and seasons. It was like
the single run of shows on PBS that television event, yes, a tv event exactly one or the other.
Things said, which I never knew was he wrote along with the sun now is the sun has a byline? I guess Jimmy thing. Tat, second, is, is five kids, I think total, but one of his sons became a safe. I write or another and became more besides writer her. So basically, he split into two year actually never thought about it
I should like to to us that exists that he wrote the entry for life. Oh yeah, for Encyclopaedia Britannica like this is what life is. He was fairly energetic, dude for sure, yet disabled.
Many did cosmos and his mid forties just out of nowhere lot accomplish reported. They really.
It is like the Cyprus Hill of of science, hey. Maybe they put three elms and I for five years, a lot of work and then retired thinking did not retire know he did not. Sir. He worked up until his death in nineteen. Any
yeah. He dies after battling bone marrow disease for about a year or so to two years I think is closer his diagnosed with that any needed a transplant and his sister stepped up and volunteered to give him a donation and death
and apparently it wasn't quite enough because he died of infection and after
about a year and a half after the transplant yeah just sixty four years old news to wait, wait, you're young! There really is in fact yesterday that they were, according MRS November tenth
yesterday was it would have been as eighty four sport there. Oh yeah you'd implanted nope, while very impressive to speaking to me from billions of light years away
That's funny that you say that, because somebody wrote to him,
How do you know that there is not a heaven and down? He had this really great response. He remembered his archives use of paragraphs. We kept a lotta correspondence from it. They found em in this embark article there's a citation of a letter that he wrote to somebody in dumb. He says thanks for your,
nothing like the christian notion of Heaven has been found out to about ten billion light years. Then imprint Zizi puts one my ears, almost six trillion miles best wishes and the point is like he. He he took the time to write the letter back to this guy
he would engage, rather than just ignore the letter entirely ere he entertained.
An indulgent people's ideas enough that he would engage us. Somebody didn't even know about whether there's heaven or not miss this was sent them the year. He died actually out through his writing this from a sick bed. While that's all some
As far as whether not bothered him whether or not he was how he was thought of in the scientific community
the kind of all came to a head and ninety ninety two he was on a list to be included,
as a nominee for the National Academy of Sciences.
In the end he was not included and it bothered him. He gonna brush off to the people in public
saying that United think I would get in any way, but his widow said quote: it was painful. It seem like an unsolicited slight income,
and the nineteen eighty four? They ended up, giving him an honorary metal which was nice, but that was definitely a big sting.
The other National Academy of Sciences said no you're, not a member here who now one of us. They basically said that the actual research that you did wasn't strong enough, which are its think. It sounds like a definite calculated slight near these included. In my book
yeah fishermen, so my head is off the user forever. You anything else, no man, I d this money to make a great documentary a movie about the guy here stirring asked in Carl Sagan
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county of Ben Wilson for a couple of months after my brother turned me on to the show, since I have been completely obsessed and have been able to stop listening, I'm on track to become a nurse, so I can get enough of anything science or biology relate
I want to thank you for a couple of things: I'm in a base level, anatomy class right now and the rigour mortified can save my behind
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