“Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we’ve projected our earthly hopes and fears. However, in our time, we’ve come to find that the real Mars is a world of wonders. […] We have sifted the sand of Mars, established a presence there, and fulfilled a century of dreams.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos: Part 5 – Blues For a Red Planet
this was so sweet i just had to turn it off and go to sleep
sometimes i just get really emotional about cosmos and carl sagan
and by sometimes i mean like every second of every day idk help
Sagan was such an awesome guy.
Get ready for the return of the Sagan-started, ever-popular television show Cosmos, coming in 2014, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson! Image Credit : Penny4NASA via Milky way scientistsArriving on Fox and National Geographic channels in spring 2014 as part of a 13-episode series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” builds off Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking series of a similar name (subtitled “A Personal Voyage”) seen on PBS more than 30 years ago.
There’s a lot of geek cred behind the refreshed “Cosmos,“ as Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan, who played a major role in the production of the original series, serves as an executive producer and writer for the new episodes. Astronomer and original writer Steven Soter makes a return, too.
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