I don't understand this messaging. Carl Sagan said basically the same thing, except listening to him and the way he said it left me with a sense of awe and appreciation, not nihilism.pic.twitter.com/P79LzS06VW
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I don't understand this messaging. Carl Sagan said basically the same thing, except listening to him and the way he said it left me with a sense of awe and appreciation, not nihilism.pic.twitter.com/P79LzS06VW
Because NDT is legitimately condescending and frequently shows he's incapable of sharing the broader perspectives Carl found through science. It's the difference between a romantic pale blue dot and "AKSHULLY the earth from space isn't *pale blue* it's more *cornflower blue*"
Science as a candle in the dark vs science as a bare bulb in an interrogation room calling you out on pedantic technicalities
NDT is a brilliant astrophysicist, and he's a great science communicator, but he lacks something of the warmth and wonder that Sagan had. So much of Sagans writings were lonely but only through the perspective that that loneliness should hold us all together.
I think this is a good framing.
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