Carl Sagan
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5 Quotations from Carl Sagan
| astroengineering n. | 1973 Cosmic Connection xxiii. 162 It is not out of the question that a more wholesale rearrangement of our Solar System will begin, first slowly and then at a more rapid rate—astroengineering projects to move the planets about, to rearrange their masses for the convenience of mankind, his descendants, and his inventions. |
| Dyson sphere n. | 1966 tr. I. S. Shklovskii & C. Sagan Intelligent Life in the Universe 472 How thick would the shell of a Dyson sphere be? [Ibid. 473] An extraplanetary civilization surrounded by a Dyson sphere would be a very powerful source of infrared radiation. |
| elsewhen n. | 1985 Contact (1997) 322 The Machine goes somewhere, she thought. It was a means of conveyance, an aperture to elsewhere…or elsewhen. |
| saucerian n. | 1973 Chauvinism in Cosmic Connection: Extra-Terrestrial Perspective 43 John Carter could love Dejah Thoris, but, despite what Edgar Rice Burroughs believed, their love could not be consummated. And if it could, a viable offspring would not be possible. Likewise, the category of contact story, now quite fashionable in some UFO enthusiast circles, of sexual contact between human and saucerian—most recently described in a weekly newspaper headline with the modest title ‘We Sexed a Blonde from a Flying Saucer!’—must be relegated to the realm of improbable fantasy. Such crossings are about as reasonable as the mating of a man and a petunia. |
| solar sailing n. | 1973 Cosmic Connection xxiii. 162 Solar sailing, the use of the pressure of sunlight and of the protons and electrons in the solar wind for tripping through the solar system. |