{"id":23176,"date":"2012-08-07T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hangingfire-carl-sagans-message-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:47:32","slug":"hangingfire-carl-sagans-message-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hangingfire-carl-sagans-message-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syVD6blTXN8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hangingfire.tumblr.com\/post\/28928759967\">hangingfire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Carl Sagan\u2019s message to Mars, recorded a few months before he died. Transcript via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5932534\/carl-sagans-message-to-future-explorers-of-mars-will-cold+clock-you-right-in-the-touchy-feelies\">io9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Carl Sagan. This is a place where I often work in Ithaca, New York near Cornell University. Maybe you can hear, in the background, a 200-foot waterfall right nearby, which is probably \u2014 I would guess \u2014 a rarity on Mars, even in times of high technology.<\/p>\n<p>Science and science fiction have done a kind of dance over the last century, particularly with respect to Mars. The scientists make a finding. It inspires science fiction writers to write about it, and a host of young people read the science fiction and are excited, and inspired to become scientists to find out more about Mars, which they do, which then feeds again into another generation of science fiction and science; and that sequence has played major role in our present ability to get to Mars. It certainly was an important factor in the life of Robert Goddard, the American rocketry pioneer who, I think more than anyone else, paved the way for our actual ability to go to Mars. And it certainly played a role in my scientific development.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why you\u2019re on Mars. Maybe you\u2019re there because we\u2019ve recognized we have to carefully move small asteroids around to avert the possibility of one impacting the Earth with catastrophic consequences, and, while we\u2019re up in near-Earth space, it\u2019s only a hop, skip and a jump to Mars. Or, maybe we\u2019re on Mars because we recognize that if there are human communities on many worlds, the chances of us being rendered extinct by some catastrophe on one world is much less. Or maybe we\u2019re on Mars because of the magnificent science that can be done there &#8211; the gates of the wonder world are opening in our time. Maybe we\u2019re on Mars because we have to be, because there\u2019s a deep nomadic impulse built into us by the evolutionary process, we come after all, from hunter gatherers, and for 99.9% of our tenure on Earth we\u2019ve been wanderers. And, the next place to wander to, is Mars. But whatever the reason you\u2019re on Mars is, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re there. And I wish I was with you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Scuse me. I\u2019ve got something in my eye. Allergies. Yeah. Allergies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hangingfire: Carl Sagan\u2019s message to Mars, recorded a few months before he died. Transcript via io9. Hi, I\u2019m Carl Sagan. This is a place where I often work in Ithaca, New York near Cornell University. Maybe you can hear, in the background, a 200-foot waterfall right nearby, which is probably \u2014 I would guess \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-61O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23177,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176\/revisions\/23177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}