"...No matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. Our potential for tenacity and optimism continues..." ~ Rod Serling

what the symbols on the voyager golden record mean ✨

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Carl Sagan on star wars in 1978.

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️

Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.

"Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium

"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness." -Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned that the US was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez argue that what the astronomer feared is now coming to pass.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me). www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

"The bamboozle has captured us.”

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces.

Happy Birthday, Ann Druyan! 🎉 Born June 13, 1949, she’s an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, producer, and science communicator who helped shape how millions of us see the cosmos. Let’s take a moment to celebrate her legacy. 🧵

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Figuring out what is really going on - Cliques - YA SF - Fighting the power Try @nicksagan.bsky.social's Idlewild nicksaganprojects.com/works-2/nove... An amnesiac young man has to navigate a peculiar high school with the knowledge that somebody just tried to kill him.

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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

Carl Sagan's insights were far ahead of his time. 🎥 : made from em_curr (Tiktok)

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

“For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.” - Rod Serling

“In the last few millennia we have made astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.”

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. - Carl Sagan

"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

Sign our letter to urge Congress, President Donald Trump, and key officials to reverse this arbitrary decision. These letters have proven effective, helping us to save countless space missions, now lets save jobs. It takes less than 30 seconds to sign. Please share! www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️