Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988

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Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988

 
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    Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988 2014/07/30 11:52:02 (permalink)
    When I get a free hour I'll have to check this out! 

     
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    Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988 2014/07/30 13:30:49 (permalink)
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    Should auld acquaintance be forgot--hey, who the hell are you guys?  
     
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    Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988 2014/07/30 13:42:15 (permalink)
     
    I love watching old footage of Carl Sagan, and I've read a few of his books. The guy was a natural teacher who always seemed happiest when others were learning from him.
     
    If you haven't already done so, I can heartily recommend reading his wonderful The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (@Amazon: US | UK) - it's a fascinating and engrossing read from start to finish.
     

     
    It's such a shame that we didn't often get to watch or listen to the man himself over here in The UK.

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    Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988 2014/07/30 15:17:37 (permalink)
    Got it playing in the background.  It became apparent that I don't really have to watch the video after a bit.
     
    I'm finding it very interesting how far we've progressed since this was made - heck, even the Hubble telescope hadn't been launched when this was made...
     
    I also find it humorous that Carl never said "Billions" which, I'm guessing, was to make the numbers more accessible to laymen.  Naturally, I found it interesting that, since this video was made, the U.S. debt went from "mere" billions to tens of trillions - an amount that is vastly outside of the common person's understanding.
     
    The program Arthur is running is called "Fractint" and I used to have a company where we used that program to create posters and videos of fractals being color-cycled (the "black hole" animation you saw).  These were sold to some nightclubs in the late 80's.  Some of the poster fractals took over a week to create on the PC's of that time...
     
    Hawking has a funny sense of humor.

     
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