Carl Sagan Blog-a-thon

Carl Sagan

Billions and billions are expected to participate. Bryan & Dave say,

The Carl Sagan Blog-A-Thon commemorates the 10th anniversary of Dr. Sagan's death (December 20): Link. In conjunction with the blog-a-thon, we created celebratingsagan.com as a place for people who don't have their own blogs, but would like to participate. Aside from testimonial we have received original art and songs from worldwide Sagan fans who range from students to professors and pilots to musicians.

Also: Novelist and screenwriter Nick Sagan is one of Carl Sagan's sons, and he has a blog: Link.

Update: Nick Sagan tells BoingBoing,

For more information on the subject, here's Cornell University's Chronicle Online on the blog-a-thon. Here's what I've said on my blog.

Nick is a grown-up now, but here's what he sounded like as a kid:

Audio link.
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At age six, Nick Sagan's greeting, "Hello from the children of planet Earth," was recorded and placed aboard the NASA Voyager Interstellar Record. Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights, sounds and music, the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft have since left the solar system; they are now the most distant human-made objects in the universe.

Apart from being a great scientist and educator, Carl Sagan appears to have been the Coolest Dad Ever. (tip of the hat to Boing Boing for the fact)

My personal encounter with Carl Sagan happened on Jan 5th or 23rd, 1987 when I had the honor of being arrested with him and his wife at the Nevada Test Site. Also arrested that day was Lester Grinspoon. Robert Blake. Martin Sheen was scheduled to be arrested but, that morning on"Good Morning, America" He announced that he was going to be arrested at the Nevada Test Site, later that day. When he crossed the Nye county line he was arrested on conspiracy charges.

This was my first Big time Anti-Nuclear Protest "The Test Ban Caravan" which was put on by "The American Peace Test"

After a large rally, we were told to let the celebrity's get arrested first, the the regular folks, but I was feeling antsy and ending up being the seventh person arrested, we spent several hours getting processes at the Beatty,NV High school multi- media room and as one of the first got to spend time with Carl and his wife and had interesting conservations for a few hours. I remember asking if he ever thought of running for President and he just laughed. This is my favorite memory of Carl Sagan.

This incident was the turning point for me to become a full time Anti-Nuclear Activist, with in a couple months I was involved full time in anti nuclear activities (I was pro solar)and in next year moved to the "On going Anti-Nuclear Peace Camp" where I lived and was arrested multiple hundreds of times, as were many others and spent some of the best times of my life. Thanks Carl for the memories that you unlocked in my mind, and thank you for the goodness that you did for the whole human race, with your life work and Television series. Thanks for all that you have done and the sparks of inquiry you put in many people's mind. Thanks, gregor