It's been 25 years to the day since the world lost the great Carl Sagan. A man who created a "message to the universe” on a gold record to be carried by the Voyager spacecraft. Though it has been over two decades since Sagan died in 1996 from bone marrow disease, we are still thankful for the lessons he taught us and the legacy he left behind.
It's been 25 years to the day since the world lost the great Carl Sagan . A man who created a "message to the universe” on a gold record to be carried by the Voyager spacecraft. Though it has been over two decades since Sagan died in 1996 from bone marrow disease, we are still thankful for the lessons he taught us and the legacy he left behind. In a 2014 story, Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, recalled a porter from Union Station in Washington, D.C.
, refusing to accept payment from Sagan, saying, "You've given us so much." Sagan taught us many valuable lessons about the universe and even made some uncanny predictions about the future. Here are four things we thank him for. Two of today's most popular scientists, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, each claim Sagan as their inspiration. How would you like to have Carl Sagan as your astronomy professor? For Nye, this was reality. While Nye was studying at Cornell University in the late 70s, Sagan was his astronomy professor. Nye learned much about the universe from Sagan, saying that his lectures were like Cosmos episodes
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