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Frankie ✅The Time We Asked Carl Sagan to Nuke the Moon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYkSYZ6Hfg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYkSYZ6Hfg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carlsagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carlsagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kyleHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kyleHill</a>

MadeInDex 📰🌎⭐ Did you know we're essentially all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STARS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STARS</a>? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars!How does it feel to have stars for parents? 😋<a href="https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/</a> (You can skip to the last paragraph :)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarStuff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CosmicConnection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicConnection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humanity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/People" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#People</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Children</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atoms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/particles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#particles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stardust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stardust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Galaxy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Star" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Star</a>

SciPunkContact (1997) <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/contact?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contact</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/90s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#90s</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/movies?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gifs?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gifs</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/1990s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1990s</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/3danimation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3danimation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nasa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nasa</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spaceexploration?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceexploration</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifiaesthetic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifiaesthetic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sciencefiction?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/jodyfoster?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jodyfoster</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/carlsagan?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carlsagan</a>

Church of Jeff<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/carlsagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carlsagan</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®It’s happening in real-time. This is what time it is.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knowledge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a>

AthenaBook of the Week: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganRather than writing a traditional comment / review, I’d prefer to let Sagan’s own words speak for themselves. One particular passage stands out—not only for its brilliance but for how eerily prophetic it now seems. (Image 👇 )Sagan published this book in 1995.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a>

AthenaRe-reading Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World—a masterful defence of science, scepticism, and democracy. More relevant than ever in an age of misinformation. If more people embraced his message, we’d have less paranoia, less blind faith, and a world driven by reason, curiosity, and open inquiry.<a href="https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/reading-carl-sagan-in-the-age-of" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/reading-carl-sagan-in-the-age-of</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a>

Unofficial PetaPixel BotIconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo, Most Distant Portrait of Earth, Turns 35 <a href="https://petapixel.com/2025/02/14/iconic-pale-blue-dot-photo-most-distant-portrait-of-earth-turns-35/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://petapixel.com/2025/02/14/iconic-pale-blue-dot-photo-most-distant-portrait-of-earth-turns-35/</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/palebluedot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palebluedot</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/carlsagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carlsagan</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/voyager1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voyager1</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/voyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voyager</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earth</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a>

Reymond AguinaldoHappy 35th Anniversary to the image that forever shifted our perspective. And thank you, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaleBlueDot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaleBlueDot</a> reminds us of our shared fragility and unity on this tiny speck suspended in a sunbeam. I’ll never tire of sharing this vision of humility and hope, until we truly grasp its meaning.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Voyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Voyager</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sagan</a>

AthenaDecades before climate change dominated headlines, Carl Sagan warned us—drawing lessons from Venus’ runaway greenhouse effect to highlight the dangers of unchecked carbon dioxide emissions.Yet, nearly 45 years later his words remain a call to action:"The solution requires a perspective that embraces the planet and the future—because we are all in this greenhouse together."The Climate Historian on Youtube<a href="https://youtu.be/ekD8Osr8HJg?si=DH1VdvGZMPn297zc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ekD8Osr8HJg?si=DH1VdvGZMPn297zc</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateHistories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateHistories</a>

AthenaDecades before climate change dominated headlines, Carl Sagan warned us—drawing lessons from Venus’ runaway greenhouse effect to highlight the dangers of unchecked carbon dioxide emissions.Yet, nearly 45 years later, we’re still playing catch-up. And his words remain a call to action:"The solution requires a perspective that embraces the planet and the future—because we are all in this greenhouse together."<a href="https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/carl-sagans-warning-on-global-warming" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/carl-sagans-warning-on-global-warming</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateHistories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateHistories</a>

Shempa79<a href="https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JenLucPiquant</a> …a time ‘when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues’…A prescient warning from one of my early heroes. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a>

StanceOfMind<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quote</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quotes</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a>

MsMerope<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ai6yr</a> it's just depressing cuz some of us are at an age [old] where we probably won't live long enough to see the ship righted.Eventually, as <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> used to say "if we don't blow ourselves up..." justice will be served.Cuz as MLK believed " “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” [I'm wondering if I still agree with that.]

Spymistress ButtsEdit: sold!It's on A4-size heavyweight art paper. £40 GBP, worldwide postage included. DM me if you want it!<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Calligraphy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ArtPrints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtPrints</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDJust speaking as someone with 52 bookcases, who has spent a lifetime autistically escaping social interaction through their magic, I share the love of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> expresses here. They have the capacity to change us, make us better people, and they help us cope, too.

Alexandre Marcati"(...) The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#World</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

Alexandre Marcati"(...) when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... (...)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#World</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

Alexandre Marcati“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; (...)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

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