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Carl Sagan Memorial Thread

An SI Board Since December 1996

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Emcee: Tom Smith	Type: Unmoderated

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78	Tom, I thank you for this labor of love, and completing the synopsis. I also en	IceShark	-	2/25/1997
77	He was a teacher here at Cornell--I regret I never took one of his classes	Kenan	-	2/25/1997
76	Tom and all, Very nice to see this memorial to Carl Sagan! May I also draw yo	Droog	-	2/24/1997
75	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 13 - Who Speaks For Earth?</b>	Tom Smith	-	2/13/1997
74	Scientists decode first transmission. What a coincidence! Here we are reading	Tom Day	-	2/12/1997
73	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 12 - Encyclopaedia Galactica</b&	Tom Smith	-	2/10/1997
72	<<Also I agree that we should relax the adversarial approach it benefits	Rich Genik	-	2/3/1997
71	Rich my statement contained absolutely no factual innacuracies that is all that	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	2/3/1997
70	Ignacio, I think if you'll look at my response to Tom, you'll see that	Rich Genik	-	2/3/1997
69	No it is you who is wrong. The Doppler effect is only analogous to the gravita	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	2/3/1997
68	Rich, Thanks for the info. I liked your description of how time may be multi-	Tom Smith	-	2/3/1997
67	YES! He does say trillions and trillions of comets. Let me know if you find &qu	Rich Genik	-	2/3/1997
66	Ignacio, This is not exactly true. Light is red or blue shifted exactly in the	Rich Genik	-	2/2/1997
65	No Tom gravity does not slow light down. This is a tricky concept but what hap	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	2/1/1997
64	Rich, Thanks for the interesting post. Re: the "billions and billions&qu	Tom Smith	-	2/1/1997
63	Tom, Carl was definitely a great man and I personally will miss him. As has bee	Rich Genik	-	1/31/1997
62	I just came across the following review of <i>Contact</i>: awa.com	Tom Smith	-	1/31/1997
61	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 11 - The Persistence of Memory</	Tom Smith	-	1/31/1997
60	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 10 - The Edge of Forever</b>	Tom Smith	-	1/29/1997
59	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 9 - The Lives of the Stars</b>	Tom Smith	-	1/27/1997
58	Fellows, Thanks for your comments on SOL and time travel. I still suspect it ma	IceShark	-	1/24/1997
57	<b><i>Cosmos</i>: Chapter 8 - Journeys In Space and Time</	Tom Smith	-	1/24/1997
56	In his lecture Thorne stated that contact is indeed roughly consistent with som	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	1/22/1997
55	Tom I have personally attended a lecture by Kip Thorne a physicist at Caltech o	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	1/22/1997
54	Patrick I am not talking about time travel as it is treated in countless sci-fi	Ignacio Mosqueira	-	1/22/1997

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