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    4 months ago

    Sagan as Tyson’s predecessor

    I assume they include Sagan as Sagan.

    He deserves to be in the image as much as anyone else in it, and definitely several orders of magnitude more than Tyson.

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      I’d agree with you, but much of the younger generation didn’t have the pleasure of growing up with him. Many youngsters only know him as the “pale blue dot” guy.

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        Those youngsters need Cosmos. And I mean Sagan’s version.

        James Burke’s Connections would be nice, too.

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          No joke. I’ll never forget when I saw the episode on how Eratosthenes correctly estimated the circumference of the earth with sticks and shadows. It completely blew my mind!