Carl Sagan
Nacimiento : 1924-11-09, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1996-12-20
Historia
Carl Edward Sagan (9 de noviembre de 1934 - 20 de diciembre de 1996) fue un astrónomo, cosmólogo, astrofísico, astrobiólogo, autor, divulgador científico y comunicador científico en astronomía y otras ciencias naturales. Es mejor conocido por su trabajo como divulgador y comunicador científico. Su contribución científica más conocida es la investigación sobre la vida extraterrestre, incluida la demostración experimental de la producción de aminoácidos a partir de productos químicos básicos por radiación. Sagan reunió los primeros mensajes físicos enviados al espacio: la placa Pioneer y el Voyager Golden Record, mensajes universales que podrían ser entendidos por cualquier inteligencia extraterrestre que pudiera encontrarlos. Sagan argumentó la hipótesis ahora aceptada de que las altas temperaturas de la superficie de Venus se pueden atribuir y calcular utilizando el efecto invernadero.
Sagan publicó más de 600 artículos y artículos científicos y fue autor, coautor o editor de más de 20 libros. Escribió muchos libros de ciencia populares, como The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain y Pale Blue Dot, y narró y coescribió la galardonada serie de televisión de 1980 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage junto a su esposa Ann Druyann y el astrofísico Steven Soter. Fue la serie más vista en la historia de la televisión pública estadounidense, Cosmos ha sido vista por al menos 500 millones de personas en 60 países diferentes. El libro Cosmos fue publicado para acompañar la serie. También escribió la novela de ciencia ficción Contact, la base de una película de 1997 del mismo nombre.
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Self (Archive Footage)
In a last-ditch effort to save earth, a man sacrifices himself and is forced to relive a series of suppressed memories that become smeared by the detonation of a stellar bomb. This paranormal explosion of thoughts begin to blur the lines between reality and fiction; the only way out is forward.
Himself (archive footage)
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
Writer
In search of an answer to that seemingly simple question, Carl, a curious child, sets off on a great voyage of discovery. As one question is answered, more appear. Soon enough, where once stood but a curious boy, a great scientist will rise.
Voice
Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea with the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.
Self
TROM (The Reality of Me) is an unique free online documentary, since no one has thought of such a documentary from our knowledge. We want to show, as well as we can, the whole picture, an insight into our world, a perspective from which you must extract meanings in order to understand, and curiosity to progress, because there is a lot of such information we call “scientific”. Moreover, we present alternative and existing solutions to radically improve every one's life. If you've never questioned your lifestyle and are well adjusted to our current society, you will, more than likely, get a shock, but if you watch the whole documentary you'll understand why. All chapters and sub-chapters are connected and in order to understand you have to watch the whole documentary, in order.
Thanks
Documental sobre los efectos devastadores del cambio climático. El ex-vicepresidente norteamericano Al Gore muestra un contundente y preocupante retrato de la situación del planeta, amenazado por el calientamiento global provocado por las ingentes emisiones de CO2 por parte de la acción del hombre. Un documental cuya leyenda reza: "De lejos la película más aterradora que verá jamás".
Archive Footage
Carl Sagan did more to popularize science than any man on the planet, sharing his wonder and fascination with the mysteries of the universe with millions. He was the rarest of all creatures: the celebrity scientist. While some accused him of being a grandstander, none can deny that his approach to science helped introduce millions of people to the great wonders of the universe that fascinated him all his life. Carl Sagan played many roles: professor, working scientist, bestselling author and TV personality. In his classic television series, he brought science to the masses in an accessible, entertaining format. But he also performed groundbreaking research in astronomy, and was willing to risk his reputation to investigate the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Explore the remarkable life of this visionary scientist from his childhood to his death from bone marrow disease at 62.
Story
Eleanor Arroway perdió la fe en Dios tras la muerte de sus padres en su niñez. Sin embargo, Ellie ha desarrollado una clase distinta de fe en lo desconocido: trabaja con un grupo de científicos escrutando ondas de radio procedentes del espacio exterior en busca de señales de inteligencias extraterrestres. Su trabajo se verá recompensado cuando detecte una señal desconocida que supuestamente porta las instrucciones de fabricación de una máquina para reunirse con los creadores del mensaje.
Co-Producer
Eleanor Arroway perdió la fe en Dios tras la muerte de sus padres en su niñez. Sin embargo, Ellie ha desarrollado una clase distinta de fe en lo desconocido: trabaja con un grupo de científicos escrutando ondas de radio procedentes del espacio exterior en busca de señales de inteligencias extraterrestres. Su trabajo se verá recompensado cuando detecte una señal desconocida que supuestamente porta las instrucciones de fabricación de una máquina para reunirse con los creadores del mensaje.
Novel
Eleanor Arroway perdió la fe en Dios tras la muerte de sus padres en su niñez. Sin embargo, Ellie ha desarrollado una clase distinta de fe en lo desconocido: trabaja con un grupo de científicos escrutando ondas de radio procedentes del espacio exterior en busca de señales de inteligencias extraterrestres. Su trabajo se verá recompensado cuando detecte una señal desconocida que supuestamente porta las instrucciones de fabricación de una máquina para reunirse con los creadores del mensaje.
Himself (as Dr. Carl Sagan)
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
Guest
Updates a number of themes from the Cosmos television series. Turner and Sagan discuss issues that are vital to our survival: pollution, the greenhouse effect, and nuclear weapons. Dr. Sagan explains the benefits of our space program and the possibility of time travel.
Himself
In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Self - Moderator
A documentary exploring the possible ecological and atmospheric consequences of nuclear war, particularly as they would be expressed in a "nuclear winter."
Self
Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibility of it happening again causing an apocalypse (basically a meteor scare film) sprinkled with UFO conspiracy kooks, and other 'professionals', riddled with stock footage of all kinds, freaky moog music and sound fx, a Dr. Who rip-off end theme, Victor Buono as Homer the Archivist, a philosophical history recorder in a space ship with a HAL 9000 type talking computer named Ino, there's also another space ship with Egyptian looking aliens girls with pasties and see-thru blouses.
Self
Horizon investigates whether first contact with aliens has already occurred. The publication of 'Chariots of the Gods?' by Erich von Daniken is central to this documentary and some of von Daniken's claims of evidence of extra-terrestrial visitations.
Himself
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe.
Himself
An edited version of the 1970 German documentary "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (Chariots of the Gods), this examines the theory that aliens have landed on Earth in ancient times and were responsible for many of mankind's oldest mysteries.
Narrator
Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories, research, and discoveries.
Himself
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990.
