Carl Sagan on the Bible, Aliens and Hollywood (The Experimenters)

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David Gerlach is the executive producer of "Blank on Blank," which
brings
new life to classic interviews, and the founder of Quoted Studios, a
nonprofit dedicated to animated journalism. This original text
highlights
the video about Carl Sagan that originally appeared at "Blank on
Blank."
Gerlach contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed &
Insights.

The incomprehensible vastness of the universe. The wonder of our own
place
in it all. Carl Sagan was able to explain the science of space in a
way
everyone could understand. Among his long list of roles and
accomplishments, the Cornell professor and NASA advisor is possibly
best
known for the 13-part television series which reached millions of
people
worldwide and sealed his place as celebrity scientist — "Cosmos."


Maybe he was teased a bit for his tendency to say the word "billions"
... a
lot. But Carl Sagan had this amazing talent for explaining the
scientific
wonders of the universe without losing the wonder. When he spoke about
the
science of space, he captured imaginations and held people in thrall.

As part of our special series, The Experimenters — where we're
uncovering
interviews with the icons of science, technology and innovation — we
found
this conversation between Studs Terkel and Carl Sagan in the Studs
Terkel
Radio Archive. Following "Contact," the book Sagan wrote with wife Ann
Druyan (and the major motion picture that followed it), Sagan spoke
with
Studs all about humanity's continuing search for intelligent life "out
there" — including how, for a long time, Hollywood just got the whole
story
wrong.

Additional episodes in The Experimenters feature Frank Lloyd Wright,
Temple
Grandin and Sally Ride. Learn more at BlankOnBlank.org.

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publisher. This version of the article was originally published on
Space.com.

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