9 November 2014
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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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It’s the anniversary of the birth of Carl Sagan (1934- 1996), the American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science 
communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is perhaps best known for presenting the TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been described as “a watershed moment for science-themed television programming”.