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[edit] Carl's grandmother's name
I'd like to mention that, according to the first chapter in Pale Blue Dot, Carl's grandmother's name was Chaiya, and that her name was anglicized to Clara.
"She disembarked in New York, was reunited with Leib, lived just long enough to give birth to my mother and her sister, and then died from "complications" of childbirth. In those few years in America, her name had sometimes been anglicized to Clara. A quarter century later, my mother named her own firstborn, a son, after the mother she never knew."
177.40.151.233 (talk) 20:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Sagan "Pray to the Law of Gravity" quote - is there an actual source?
All over the Internet I find Sagan's quote "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard" etc, ending up with an elipsis and the phrase about praying to the law of gravity. I have yet to find a definite citation for this quote, and what (if anything) was omitted at the point of the elipsis. This Wiki article (my current version, June 2011) shows reference "38" which links to a website containing a mere copy of the same paragraph, without any further reference at all. 71.131.178.32 (talk) 14:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC) LPMeissner@msn.com [Later:] Somebody thinks it might have come from http://css.peak.org/newsletter/1997/aug97/sagan.html but that link no longer works. 71.131.178.32 (talk) 20:41, 12 June 2011 (UTC)LPMeissner@msn.com
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http://www.corvallissecular.org/newsletter/1997/css1997_08.pdf link works - see page 5. But already with the ellipses and no source citation except for attribution to Carl Sagan – among a whole page of Sagan quotes mostly with definite sources. 71.131.178.32 (talk) 20:52, 12 June 2011 (UTC)LPMeissner@msn.com
[edit] Contact
i think the following line (in Scientific Advocacy section) is misleading and therefore should be rewritten:
"Sagan also wrote the best-selling science fiction novel Contact, but did not live to see the book's 1997 motion picture adaptation, which starred Jodie Foster and won the 1998 Hugo Award."
As the related article on Contact says, Sagan was involved in the film's production. Actually the film idea came first, he wrote the treatment (with wife?) and then wrote the book when the film didn't get made in the 1980s. I leave it to others more familiar with the article and subject to consider how to better phrase this context. I also think the article would do well to better represent the book and movie as they meant a lot to Sagan, apparently. Thanks. -Anon98.92.. 98.92.183.217 (talk) 02:43, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- Rewrote sentence - mentioning wife and earlier screen treatment. --GroveGuy (talk) 04:09, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Carl Sagan Day
...Is November 9th. We already have Darwin Day, so we should also have Carl Sagan Day. See http://centerforinquiry.net/carlsaganday for details. Urhixidur (talk) 15:10, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
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