Tag Archives: Carl Sagan

Wanderers by Erik Wernquist

June 12th, 2015 | Space

Wanderers by Erik Wernquist

Wanderers is a beautiful short film by Erik Wernquist. The visuals depict humanity’s future expansion into the Solar System replete with colonies on Mars, astronauts floating through Saturn’s rings, and humans hiking across Europa’s frozen oceans. Erik’s renderings are stunning. As Phil Plait pointed out at Slate:

“Nothing in there is impossible; no faster than light travel, no wormholes. Even the space elevator shown towering over Mars and the huge cylindrical rotating colony in space (did you notice the Red Sea in it?) are problems in engineering, not physics. We can build them.”

Humanity has an exciting future ahead. I hope our species can work toward this reality.

-RSB

Pale Blue Dot Animated Video

December 10th, 2012 | Space

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

This is a new animated video of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” speech by Joel Somerfield (from the animation studio, Order, in East London).  It’s a moving speech and the style of the video does it justice. I’m not sure it beats out Reid Gower’s video of “The Frontier is Everywhere,” but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. It should be said, however, that a few of us are living in space right now.

-RSB

‘A Glorious Dawn’ – Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking

September 28th, 2012 | Brain, Space

Good Morning!

This song came out a few years ago from the Symphony of Science group (the same group that brought us ‘The Garden of Your Mind‘), and it is a dandy.  Most of the footage came from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe series.

These are 2 great scientists who were tremendously influential in the communication of science, so it’s great to see them remixed together for this video.

Special thanks to reader, Jess Jae, for passing this along!

-RSB

 

Star Size Comparison

May 30th, 2012 | Space

 

It’s always nice to gain a little perspective, and while not many can truly grasp how small we are in the universe, videos such the one above, created by YouTube user morn1415, certainly help.  There’s also a version in HD.

He claims to have taken his inspiration from “Cosmos” by Carl Sagan – always a good sign.

-RSB

Cosmic Pioneer Posters

May 1st, 2012 | Space

These gritty, space-inspired posters are from artist Megan Lee.  Each image portrays an iconic “rock star” of science with a symbol that represents their accomplishments.
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From Megan:

“My biggest obstacle when making a new print for someones is reading and sifting through the accomplishments they are known for and turning that into something I can represent artistically. And make it look plain cool. I always want my work to be something I’d love to have on my own walls. I have to do a lot of research and studying in order to decide what I’m going to create for a particular person, and I find that the more difficult it is to figure out exactly what I want to design, the more I end up learning.
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I like how she kept them nice and simple.  Head to her Etsy store for more.

-RSB

[via Quantumaniac]

Scientists and Their Drugs – Quiz!

March 8th, 2012 | Brain

I have figured out how to create a quiz for the site.  Try your hand at the first ever RobotSpaceBrain Quiz! It is rather hard, or at least it was for me, even after I created it.  If you can get half of them, I’m impressed.
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 As a note: of course these famous scientists may have experimented with many drugs; however, these are the drugs for which they are MOST famous.

The scientists include: Sigmund Freud, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Thomas Edison, Paul Erdos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, John C.
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Lilly, Kerry Mullis, and Carl Sagan.

Have fun!  You can find the quiz here.

-RSB

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