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	Carl Sagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sagan hypothesized that a comet approached so close to Earth in antiquity that the jets of gas streaming out of it were visible, bent by the comet's rotation.
		Sagan is regarded by most as an atheist or agnostic, observing statements such as: "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous.
		Sagan was a significant figure, and his supporters credit his importance to his popularization of the natural sciences, opposing both restraints on science and reactionary applications of science, defending democratic traditions, resisting nationalism, defending humanism, and arguing against geocentric and anthropocentric views.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_sagan (2793 words)

	CNN - Carl Sagan dies at 62 - Dec. 20, 1996
		Sagan died of pneumonia at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he had a bone-marrow transplant in April 1995, a center spokeswoman said.
		Sagan began researching the origins of life in the 1950s and went on to play a leading role in every major U.S. spacecraft expedition to the planets.
		Sagan made his mark early with research showing that Venus is scorching hot and Mars is a cold desert.
	www.cnn.com /US/9612/20/sagan (572 words)

	Carl Sagan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan was Editor in Chief of ((Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned) Icarus (a professional journal concerning planetary research) for 12 years.
		Sagan hypothesized that a ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit) comet approached so close to Earth in antiquity that the jets of gas streaming out of it were visible, bent by the comet's rotation.
		Sagan has been widely portrayed as an (Someone who denies the existence of god) atheist or (A person who doubts truth of religion) agnostic, citing quotes such as: "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carl_sagan.htm (2664 words)

	Carl Sagan - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan was among the first to hypothesize that Titan and Jupiter's moon Europa may possess oceans (a subsurface ocean in the case of Europa) or lakes, making them habitable for life.
		On the one hand, there was general support for his popularization of science, his efforts to increase scientific understanding among the general public, and his positions in favor of skepticism and against pseudoscience.
		Sagan's scientific approach to the question, "was the universe created?" is critically analyzed by Bohlin from his Christian perspective.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Carl_Sagan (1738 words)

	Carl Sagan
		An astronomy professor at Cornell University since 1968, Sagan received a bachelor's degree in 1955 and a master's degree in 1956, both in physics, and a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960, from the University of Chicago.
		Among Sagan's numerous awards in literature, science and education, he was the recipient of the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Sagan, the Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, died at age 62 on Dec. 20, 1996, in Seattle, Wash., after a two-year battle with a bone marrow disease.
	www.heroism.org /class/1980/sagan.htm (430 words)

	Sagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A respected astronomer and dogged critic of pseudoscience, Carl Sagan is best known for his enthusiastic efforts at popularizing science and famous for allegedly saying billions and billions of stars...
		A Sagan is a humorous unit of measurement equal to at least 4,000,000,000.
		Note that though many believe Sagan was famous for using the phrase billions and billions, he claims he never actually did, having used instead the simpler phrase billions of stars...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sagan (175 words)

	Cornell News: Carl Sagan, Cornell astronomer, dies today (Dec. 20) in Seattle. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Carl Edward Sagan was born Nov. 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, N.Y. At Cornell since 1968, Sagan received a bachelor's degree in 1955 and a master's degree in 1956, both in physics, and a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960, all from the University of Chicago.
		Sagan was elected chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, president of the Planetology Section of the American Geophysical Union and chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		Sagan is survived by his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan; his sister, Cari Sagan Greene; five children, Dorion, Jeremy, Nicholas, Sasha and Sam; and a grandson, Tonio.
	www.news.cornell.edu /general/Dec96/saganobit.ltb.html (1248 words)

	Akamai: Paul Sagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan was elected to the Akamai Board of Directors in January 2005, and he became CEO in April 2005.
		Sagan was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc., a division of Time Warner, and worked in that role until 1997.
		Sagan is a Trustee of Northwestern University and a graduate of the University's Medill School of Journalism.
	www.akamai.com /en/html/about/management_ps.html (419 words)

	Scientific American: Explorations: Carl Sagan: 1/97
		At the time of his death, Sagan was David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, where he had held a professorship since 1971.
		Sagan was an avid proponent of space exploration who contributed to most of the unmanned missions that explored our solar system.
		Sagan's prose was utterly unlike the rote descriptions of the planets (complete with tables listing mass, density, period of rotation and so on) that I had read in various astronomy books for young readers.
	daphne.palomar.edu /mlane/SAGAN/sagan_mem.html (1062 words)

	September-October 99 Sagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan projected onto his critics the "desperation" he increasingly felt, as space exploration slowly exposed the bleak reality of the inner solar system: wastelands of baking rocks, not nurseries for exotic biota.
		The myth that Sagan was a closeted UFOlogist persisted past his death: in 1997, the short-lived TV series "Dark Skies" depicted Sagan as one of its characters.
		Sagan's willingness to join in the UFO show sent a clear signal: he might be a new boy at Cornell, but he wasn't toning down his act.
	cornell-magazine.cornell.edu /Archive/Sept.1999/SeptSagan.html (5109 words)

	ginenthal on sagan
		Sagan is quite correct to "ridicule" the idea that a planetary-scale atmosphere will be dispersed and appear as a comet's tail; a planet's atmosphere is gravitationally bound, and dust and vapor boiling off of comets is not.
		Sagan is perfectly correct to say that others had expected venus' surface to be hotter than an earth-like planet with earth-like atmosphere would be at that distance from the sun.
		Sagan the Scientist: "[Sagan's] thesis has some peculiar biological and chemical consequences, which are compounded by some straightforward confusion on simple matters he seems not to know25 [in the early history of the Earth that...
	sheol.org /throopw/ginenthal-on-sagan.html (2635 words)

	Carl Sagan Moral Law and Afterlife
		Sagan is hardly the only one who brushes off Christianity (and most other religions) with the assertion that it is simply wishful thinking.
		Sagan contemplates the universe and concludes how insignificant man is when compared to such immensity.
		So the question for Carl Sagan as his own death draws near is not whether belief in the afterlife is comforting (or whether it fits ones brave self-image).
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/2964/sagan.html (3018 words)

	Carl Sagan - Even stars can die...
		Astronomer Carl Edward Sagan, a gifted storyteller who extolled and explored the grandeur and mystery of the universe in lectures, books and an acclaimed TV series, died Friday the 20th after a two-year battle with bone marrow disease.
		For his work, Sagan received numerous awards, including the NASA Medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and (twice) for Distinguished Public Service, as well as the NASA Apollo Achievement Award and the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Sagan's last book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, was published by Random House in March 1996.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/8165/sagan.htm (828 words)

	Carl Sagan
		Sagan was among the first to hypothesize that Titan and Jupiter's moon Europa may possess oceans (a subsurface ocean in the case of Europa) or lakes.
		Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name - other projects had names like "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience.
		Sagan married three times; the famous biologist Lynn Margulis (mother of Dorion Sagan) in 1957, artist Linda Salzman (mother of Nick Sagan) in 1968, and author Ann Druyan (mother of Sasha and Sam) in 1981, to whom he remained married until his death.
	www.crystalinks.com /sagan.html (1517 words)

	Carl Sagan Page
		Sagan was cofounder and President of The Planetary Society, a 100,000-member organization that is the largest space-interest group in the world; and Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
		Sagan served as Chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, as President of the Planetology Section of the American Geophysical Union, and as Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		Sagan's last book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, was released by Random House in March 1996.
	www.mediamasters.com /sagan.htm (489 words)

	SPACE.com -- Seeking Contact: Carl Sagan Center To Focus On Life In The Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		As currently envisioned, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos will consist of a trio of high-tech laboratories, with the potential to add a fourth at a later date.
		Sagan, who was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, died 5 years ago last month.
		Sagan dreamed "that we, as a civilization, would turn our genius to the deep questions of life in the cosmos," she added.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/sagan_seti_011213.html (852 words)

	Carl Sagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan, who was, among many other things, an FAS Council Member, used his influence as a scientist, and as a public personality, to importantly advance a number of goals shared by FAS members.
		Carl Sagan is certainly the most visible spokesman of the scientific community of the planet Earth.
		Professor Sagan's efforts to sensitize his fellow Earthlings to the nature of their cosmic condition, coupled with the psychological relationship inspired by television, have given him unprecedented influence.
	www.fas.org /sagan.htm (339 words)

	The Planetary Society: Tribute to Carl Sagan
		He was a consultant and adviser to NASA beginning in the 1950s, he briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets.
		A Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Sagan was the author of many bestsellers, including Cosmos, which became the best-selling science book ever published in the English language.
		Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark was released by Random House in March 1996.
	www.planetary.org /html/society/tributes (555 words)

	CSICOP / News / In memory of Carl Sagan
		Carl Sagan, one of the world's greatest popularizers of science, died today at the age of 62, after a long battle with a bone marrow disease.
		Sagan was one of America's pre-eminent scientists, educators, skeptics and humanists.
		The award is in recognition of an individual who throughout his or her life has shown outstanding commitment and ability in communicating the achievements, methods, and issues of science to the public.
	www.csicop.org /articles/sagan.html (918 words)

	APOD: December 26, 1996 - Carl Sagan 1934-1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Among his many activities as a scientist, he contributed to the discovery that the atmosphere of Venus is prohibitively hot and dense, and found evidence that Saturn's moon Titan contains oceans stocked with the building blocks of life.
		Sagan was an outspoken proponent of the search for extra-terrestrial life, including sending probes to other planets and listening with large radio telescopes for signals from intelligent aliens.
		Sagan's outstanding ability to explain allowed almost a billion people to better understand the cosmos in which they live.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap961226.html (135 words)

	CNN - The summer of Sagan - July 14, 1997
		Though astronomer Carl Sagan died last December, his presence is still keenly felt -- both in science and in science fiction.
		Sagan and Ann Druyan, his wife and a frequent collaborator, worked with the film's creators for two years prior to Sagan's death.
		Sagan was also a prolific author, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his "Dragons of Eden" in 1978.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9707/14/carl.sagan.legacy (511 words)

	Sagan, Carl Edward on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan is best known, however, for his research on the possibilities of extraterrestrial life (see exobiology), including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
		A New Sense of the Sacred Carl Sagan's "Cosmic Connection".
		Sagan's faith in science pays off: `Cosmos' guru is kinder to doubters after cancer bout.(Culture, Et Cetera)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sagan-C1a.asp (485 words)

	Nick Sagan Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sagan captures perfectly the voice and actions of a rebellious, extremely intelligent teenager...
		Sagan seems to delight in changing the rules just when you think you've got the hang of them.
		Sagan's characters are well defined, each has a unique personality that is striking and memorable, resonating in my mind long after the book was finished...
	www.nicksagan.com /idlewild.html (1645 words)

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