Carl Sagan predicting our current "Celebration of Ignorance"

[MagaSmash]

[GPV]

1. He was wise as well as intelligent.

[Skittles]

2. celebration of ignorance

and if you're like Carl and you actually can see it with your own eyes, it is very disturbing indeed

also I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Star Wars ridiculous!

[Casady1]

3. When I first came to the south

I thought this is the only place that is proud to be dumb.

[Skittles]

12. I was stationed in Texas in the military while still a teenager

I remember seeing a bumper sticker that said, "If you ain't Texan you ain't shit".....when I actually could talk to a driver sporting that tag I asked him, do you realize you are saying IF YOU ARE TEXAN YOU ARE SHIT? No, he didn't get that....at ALL.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[PJMcK]

4. Star Wars is a fun movie

But it is ridiculous. Dr. Sagan made excellent points about the “humans” and the unlikelihood that white, English-speaking aliens would be humanoid. And I agree, Chewbacca deserved a medal, too. But why did they even have a celebration? The rebels won a battle, not the war or there wouldn’t be a sequel.

But the science of the film is all wrong. Spaceships are not like fighter jets. Orbital trajectories do not resemble a dogfight between a Sopwith Camel and a Fokker tri-plane. Also, when the spaceships jump to light speed, who cares? The speed of light is far too slow to traverse a galaxy. If your X-Wing was at that speed, it would take over four years to travel from Earth to the nearest star, Alpha Proxima. Further, lightsabers make no sense whatsoever.

It’s a cowboy movie that’s a lot of fun but it’s intellectually vapid.

Still, The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the series.

[Rebl2]

8. I agree

with his point about only white people in the movie.
I am not a fan of Star Wars movies, but the fact is it was a movie-entertainment. It wasn’t a documentary including scientific information, it was fiction and fantasy.
I liked Carl Sagan because he was so intelligent, but not as movie reviewer.

[Skittles]

13. I thought everything about it was over the top silly

I do like Star Trek though.

[Timeflyer]

5. Hail Sagan!

[2naSalit]

7. K&R

[burrowowl]

9. The stultification of USA and UK has been going full force since

Raygun and Thatcher along with the finacialization of the economy. Sartre talked about it in 1968 or 9 in l’esprit, etc. even Mexican cab drivers know what neoliberalism means along with laissez-faire capitalism. In the U$A capitalism good, communism socialism bad. Yesterday a budding nurse was telling me how even though our healthcare delivery system sucks but we need the capital competitiveness to innovate, I explained European countries and Cuban do very well with development and that much of our pharmaceutical research is done by the NIH paid for by taxpayers and exploited by guess who? Many new treatment developments come from overseas, we are lagging in r&d.

[Deuxcents]

10. I have long admired Carl Sagan and was a faithful audience for his Cosmos series..

He left us far too soon 🥲

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. Even though this looks like predictions

It was already happening in the 90's. He was good at predicting the end point though.