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BigMilan 4 days ago
One of my favourite people. I’ve read a few of his books (most recently the one quoted here), watched the cosmos show a number of times, and everything i could find on YouTube (tv appearances etc) I’m so glad he was much older than me and left behind material for me to enjoy. A wonderful inspiration to us all. View quoted note →
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jhog57 3 days ago
it all began when they have conditioned the public to accept disarming people on airplanes starting 1961 with the 9/11 being the manifestation of the high trust society complete and utter death
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weev 3 days ago
Sagan was no better than horoscopes and crystals. He was a media-anointed priest of an idolatrous Temple of Science, which is a process they repeat over and over. They choose an official "science priest" that has done little to no science at all, give him TV appearances, have him spew the politically motivated falsehoods of thieves and frauds 24/7 and berate anyone that speaks against them for being “against the science!” Sagan was the first priest of science, and they used him to push one of the first major alarmist climate hoaxes, nuclear winter. His career was ended when some clever actual scientist asked him -- "by the numbers in your model, isn't the amount of soot released into the air by the oil wells burning in the invasion of Kuwait enough to cause nuclear winter?" Sagan answered yes, and people started talking about this specific claim constantly. He gave TV interviews assuring people that we were going to see a global drop in temperatures as nuclear winter set in. > One of the major results of TTAPS' 1990 paper was the re-iteration of the team's 1983 model that 100 oil refinery fires would be sufficient to bring about a small scale, but still globally deleterious nuclear winter.[109] > Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and Iraqi threats of igniting the country's approximately 800 oil wells, speculation on the cumulative climatic effect of this, presented at the World Climate Conference in Geneva that November in 1990, ranged from a nuclear winter type scenario, to heavy acid rain and even short term immediate global warming. >When Operation Desert Storm began in January 1991, coinciding with the first few oil fires being lit, Dr. S. Fred Singer and Carl Sagan discussed the possible environmental effects of the Kuwaiti petroleum fires on the ABC News program Nightline. Sagan again argued that some of the effects of the smoke could be similar to the effects of a nuclear winter, with smoke lofting into the stratosphere, beginning around 48,000 feet (15,000 m) above sea level in Kuwait, resulting in global effects. He also argued that he believed the net effects would be very similar to the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which resulted in the year 1816 being known as the "Year Without a Summer". >Pre-war claims of wide scale, long-lasting, and significant global environmental effects were thus not borne out, and found to be significantly exaggerated by the media and speculators,[121] with climate models by those not supporting the nuclear winter hypothesis at the time of the fires predicting only more localized effects such as a daytime temperature drop of ~10 °C within 200 km of the source.[122] After Sagan destroyed his credibility by assuring us that a fire in some raghead country was going to lower the temperature of earth forever, they said "we need a new priest of science -- get a goy face this time!" That's how we got Bill Nye, the homosexual. They also began telling us that burning fossil fuels was going to superheat the earth instead of cooling it. When Nye lit his credibility on fire for the cause of sodomy, they said "get a schwartzer -- we'll call the deniers racist!" And that's how we got Black Science Man.
"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight." Sagan taught wonder as a discipline, not a sentiment. That voice is badly missed.