Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show (October 1980)

[@sciwiz57]

It would be interesting to hear Sagan’s opinion on how science has been perverted by politics and on the attempt to silence critics of the main media’s bias as far as climate change and the COVID disaster. I wonder if he would fall in line with Neil Tyson ,Lawrence Krauss , and others or would he be outraged at the “suppression of contrary opinions “ (his words) that indicate a very unhealthy trajectory for the future of science.

[@gasaholic47]

He basically predicted these attitudes in his book, "The Demon Haunted World."

[@mcpappysgolden]

Well, if you know anything about Sagan, you know that he was a great champion of free inquiry, and that he loathed any mechanism which sought to suppress it. The problem in America is that not enough kids were, or are exposed to champions of science and critical thinking like Sagan. In fact, concomitant with the original airing of "Cosmos," Reagan was busy dismantling America's public education system, thereby helping to pave a path toward anti-intellectualism, anti-free inquiry, and demagoguery.

[@Dillinger86]

I love that this even comes with the original commercials

[@wolvsbain]

obviously this would be the top comment

[@oogityboogity6644]

I know I felt nostalgia

[@Planckepoch592]

Johnny Carson was a worthy interviewer. He truly is interested and respects Carl.

[@mcpappysgolden]

"King of the night!"

[@RichardWright-fc5oh]

He respected everyone. He is missed

[@FlyingArchitect]

I very much enjoyed Carl Sagan's talks and especially his series Cosmos. Marking the ten year anniversary of his death, his wife Ann Druyan wrote one of the most beautiful letters to him. It was a loving letter, written from the perceptive of an astrophysicist and amazing in my opinion. The following is an excerpt: “Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”

[@Minecraftandcompany]

Flying Architect. That’s beautiful. Wow. Thank you for sharing that.

[@MrJonh95]

HEY!!! I dont pay internet for you to make me cry you dingus.

[@victoriamendoza901]

@@MrJonh95 I'm happy you paid your internet 🤣.

[@Drimirin]

Haunting and beautiful.

[@goodegggreg8189]

thank you. Very inspired couple.

[@formerastronaut]

40 something years later and that simple 40 second animation is still one of the best things ever put on television.

[@tweetieindiana]

He was one of my favorite people. He sure opened my eyes about the Universe. RIP.

[@frankteng]

I literally just came home from purchasing cosmos from Barnes and nobles, and I come home to see this on my recommended.

[@RobCLynch]

The best part about Carl Sagan videos is that you can watch them a year later and never get bored.

[@JP5466]

I have all the original Cosmos shows on VHS... I taped them off PBS (WHYY Channel 12) in 1980. I was totally fascinated with this show and Carl Sagan back then... I was 13 years old. That show came out at the most perfect time in my life and opened my mind.

[@jamiemcgill67]

Same here. I immensely regret that I did not major in Astronomy in college. My interest in this subject was off the charts.

[@js2010ish]

Really a breathtaking experience. I wish the youtube versions werent taken down.

[@kevinbarnard3502]

One thing I loved so much about the man and his books and Cosmos was not that they taught things and provided information about things, but that it makes one ask, "But, what about," or "But, what if...", causing one to, hopefully, ponder and think on their own.

[@mcpappysgolden]

This is so great - commercial breaks, the band playing on the breaks, etc. Amazing! Thank you for posting this!

[@guileweaver1574]

The Universe - chaotic & undecipherable. The Cosmos - ordered & understandable. Thanks Carl.

[@DemocritusWept]

Sagan would be weeping right now. I’m weeping with him.

[@Comezehere]

Why dude?. Everything is fine. And you are awesome

[@ronbo11]

Kream Machine thanks for this post. Sagan was always one of Carson's favorite guests and when The Tonight Show was in its full 90 minute configuration there was more time to discuss more profound topics like those here. I also truly enjoyed the long musical interludes when coming back from commercials when you could hear the amazing Tonight Show band in all its glory. Carl Sagan was and will always be a hero of mine and it is so great that he can be seen on KZbin like this.

[@gg5115]

Depended on your market whether you got the long interlude or not. In Memphis that was time enough for one or two really short local commercials.

[@helisoma]

This interview gives a precious glimpse of Sagan just prior to the release of Cosmos...thank you Johnny and thank you so much for posting this! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I was there watching Cosmos when it debuted and Carl inspired me to pursue a career in science that i continue with today. God bless his memory and legacy 🙏🏻

[@F1fan4eva]

Such a sober conversation between adults without the constant penchant for innuendos, cheap jokes, distracting audience claps and laughter every alternate sentence. They also don't seem to want to try and one up each other. I now know why my grandparents and parents say, "Back in the good old days." Where did we take that misstep?

[@ankitshah785]

@f1fanforever you stole words from my mouth. 100% agreed. What a marvelous, engaging exchange.

[@ericellis3506]

Well said.

[@propofolkills44]

We fell for Pillsbury Fudge Brownies

[@cheyennereynoso4116]

That was one of the best interviews with Carl Sagan.

[@Sam-hj8hy]

I really wish Carl was still around. He would have loved to see the advancements science has made in the discovery of exoplanets.

[@dcamron46]

And he would've been depressed to see what has happened to our politics and education.

[@mchlbk]

@@dcamron46 And he would be absolutely appalled but by our lacking response to climate change.

[@willmpet]

He realized that they would be made!

[@willmpet]

How wonderful to see him!

[@topdog5252]

Imagine his reaction to LIGO

[@riisx]

This book blew my mind when I read it for the first time as a teenager back in the late 80's

[@djgene5621]

Wow Johnny seemed to know quite a bit about the subject! I'm impressed!

[@MarkSeibold]

Carson was also an amateur astronomer, and had a nice Questar telescope that he showed one night on the set.

[@harryrenner4016]

He also had the same backgrounds in education. it wasn't just a fluke.

[@bruns.like.spoons9251]

I LOVE that you found and posted this video. Thank you.

[@michaellonergan2698]

This is what I loved about Carson. He was not only a brilliant comedian, but also incredibly intelligent. He was an amateur astronomer with several telescopes. The closest of today's late night talk hosts would have to be Stephen Colbert, who regularly has scientists on his show.

[@TheRealGnolti]

This was network television, ca. 1979. What I like about Johnny Carson is that he is just one mic and a suit away from being a representative human of his era, and clearly there were still a lot of humans who were actually attracted to knowledge and ideas for their own sake, not because the subject could be packaged as STEM or pointed to new ways to make a fortune. For lack of a better phrase, these were two guys talking. I wish I could have been there. It should also be noted that Carson minored in physics at Nebraska UNL.

[@Karemaker]

George, when were you born may I ask? Thanks.

[@TheRealGnolti]

@@Karemaker The Nixon era.

[@Karemaker]

@@TheRealGnolti So you were a young boy during this era of the show? I'm considerably younger than you, so I want your perspective on how culture has changed. Have we lost civility since these times?

[@TheRealGnolti]

@@Karemaker Yes, I would have been a kid, probably old enough to understand some of the above clip without paying attention to all of it. I don't know how old you are, but I distinctly remember when there was a reasonably homogeneous set of civil norms among people, perhaps because there were only one or two ways of interacting with another person, by face or by phone (and the latter was basically an extension of the former). With the internet, and wireless media in general, you've had a Cambrian explosion of interactive mediums, and a fractured set of norms. The other factor has been political dialogue. In the 1990s, certain politicians upped the ante on confrontational rhetoric, which was adopted and exploited for talk radio. I remember this period distinctly. A society that can no longer debate critical social issues at a representational level will no longer be able to do it among individuals. I'm not sure a Carl Sagan could emerge today--the climate is inhospitable.

[@Karemaker]

@@TheRealGnolti Thank you so much for this insight. I really appreciate your reply. I hope that one day we will have established the same civility in our online communication as we do in our face-to-face communication. I can even notice the difference when speaking to generations who grew up before the advent of online communication. They seems to more often act as though they would in real life. In other words, it's so commonplace to be insulted and berated here online, but does it happen while you are out and about in your local town? Not at all (Or I hope not, lol).

[@FowCowMow]

Johnny Carson was so genuinely interested in this stuff. Really cool

[@tlpricescope7772]

Cosmos was the mother of all science programs in television. It was infinitely popular.

[@harryrenner4016]

It was so great to see Carl Sagan on the tonight show. because Carl Sagan and Johnny Carson both had the same backgrounds in education. so they could carry on long highly intellectual conversations. and the bonus was the audience and the veiwers at home. would get an educational lesson and not even know it. such a shame that doesn't happen today.

[@davemardon6756]

I have my copy of COSMOS sitting in my display case. Loved the show and even now I watch the DVD series.

[@villings]

watching lots of Sagan at Carson videos thanks for this upload

[@neohumanist8181]

Johnny Carson had a mean side (or so it seemed to me in his treatment of some of his colleagues) but he also had a thoughtful, serious side, a willingness to give a man like Sagan the attention he deserved. To see these interviews now (I was unable to do so as a child during the 1970s) gives me a new respect for him.

[@RebSike]

You know where I can see this "mean side"? I've never noticed it before.

[@Jinka1950]

Johnnys mean side came out when he drank.....so says his closest friends and colleagues. A well known fact ....

[@anthonyjona7779]

@@Jinka1950 That’s why he stopped drinking.

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

@@RebSike u could always sense it by him trying to hold laughter from something he showed as bad. Incredibly great actor. To see his acting, check him with Uri Gellar. U can see him struggling with a guest like Lucille Ball. There was an episode with him and Buddy Rich where Rich shot every conversation tactic of his down which destroyed the interview, but of course he was kidding and brought it back up with Carson

[@eriksmith33]

Love these two wonderful gentlemen and love the vintage commercials

[@theheavyweight2008]

Absolutely incredible that a late night tv show would even have a scientist as a guest

[@augustinemmuogbana3382]

Carl is the best of all times. To get this kind of guy again will take billions of years. My entire lives work is to be like him.

[@alanho6814]

Why am I nostalgic towards an era I had never experienced?

[@F1fan4eva]

Alan Ho class. Class is timeless

[@villings]

because you live a sad, pathetic life?

[@alanho6814]

​@@villings I think it's classical conditioning that I'm taught directly or indirectly if I see a clip like this I'm supposed to feel nostalgic. I mean if you show patriotic songs to isolated tribal people they probably wouldn't feel patriotic, to them those are just weird exotic music.

[@67lionsoflisbon37]

Certain things leave a mark on your memory. I remember sitting watching Cosmos on BBC1 when broadcast. Years later i bought the boxset. Re-Watched. Just a brilliant programme. His voice. Made for teaching.

[@arunramji]

Never skip the ad while watching , it is a beautiful opportunity to time travel to 70s

[@mchlbk]

Ads are cancer. Always were.

[@kjc0517]

Man that brownie commercial was legit brutal. That crapped on betty crocker hard 😅

[@patbrennan6572]

there is one sad aspect to this wonderful post, only 24,796 views.

[@Bdmaurice]

Double that now and not slowing down!

[@set.adrift.somewhere]

This was where "billions and billions" was coined. When asked about it, Carl Sagan admitted in one of his lecture's Q&As that it was Johnny Carson who actually said it, not him.

[@aron7973]

Hold on, so you're telling me commercial breaks were only 2 commercials back then? This must be what old folks mean by "the good old days."

[@Atanu]

This interview was done shortly before the Cosmos TV series debuted in September 1980.

[@Whatserface1234]

Thank you for keeping the commercials!

[@vegasraiderspetef9883]

the commercials are hilarious and cosmos was groundbreaking

[@gokurocks9]

"tHeyrE mOIsTeR tHaN mINe"

[@dr.lairdwhitehillsfunwitha67]

He was my hero.

[@swclar99]

Loving this for the commercials too...

[@bartmacaluso]

Carl Sagan will not punish you for discursiveness. Neil Degrasse Tyson will! This is what kept Johnny asking questions, Carl Sagan was not just a profoundly good man but a profoundly smart man who could turn lead to gold. Penny for your thoughts :)

[@ernestclayton8550]

Agreed! Mr Sagan was a unique combination of intelligence, persona and was extremely well spoken! Aspects of a great teacher! The world needs more like him! Easy to listen to, even for the novice!😁

[@heatherdawn4875]

I remember my whole family sitting down to watch Cosmos every week. I have the DVDs of the original series and still love to watch it. Now my grandson has discovered the music from Cosmos and was asking me about the series just a few days ago!

[@anonymousmobster2444]

Not sure he was a great guy. He cheated on his wives a lot...

[@earstoheareyestosee9254]

Johnny’s powers are impressive

[@mrfafaa96]

Love these two together : )

[@fernandocarrazzoni]

If a video of Carl Sagan on Johnny Carson's show was not awesome enough, we have the ads.

[@truck9moon100]

What i would'nt give for a brownie from the 70's.

[@garyhuffford6085]

I would want a brownie from the 70s , they might be stale by now !😛

[@99dynasty]

Great stuff. I think the podcast movement is bringing back this kind of relaxed, teased out, style that has been replaced with mainstream media’s dogma and hyperbole.

[@emotiveenergy4598]

This seems to be the Tonight Show of September 26, 1980, since Johnny plugs Sagan's new PBS series called Cosmos, plus Steve Martin is on the show.

[@gregmckay666]

So funny how he "hoped" that people would end up seeing Cosmos even though it was on PBS. It turned out to probably be the most-watched science program ever.

[@gammkrab]

The commercials is hillarious

[@markdeadman1884]

@@anikdey “It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers.” ― Abbe Diaz

[@markdeadman1884]

@@anikdey lol, I am an English teacher, that's why I stick up for non-English speakers writing in their second or third language other than English. Didn't want to offend you (!), just a gentle nudge. All is good.

[@markdeadman1884]

@@anikdey Does it? I want it back!

[@markdeadman1884]

@@anikdey It's not fair to say Neanderthals were babbling and drooling, and as a European I have at least 2-3% Neanderthal DNA! All valid points you raise, although I think rules are everywhere and it is difficult to escape these rules. Rules are meant to be broken, and breaking them is often experimental in the first place. Babies don't abide by language rules specifically, it takes experimentation, much the same as a second language learner, to become better. But enforcing rules is akin to a classical musician performing, we often expect no mistakes, whereas we should treat language more like jazz. There are no mistakes on the bandstand, only new opportunities. I would rather promote Jackson Pollock than Picasso, as I think he broke art apart more than Pico, breaking more rules. But, liked reading your thoughts very much, just busy enforcing rules at school!

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Carl Edward Sagan (Nueva York, 9 de noviembre de 1934-Seattle, 20 de diciembre de 1996) fue un astrónomo, astrofísico, cosmólogo, astrobiólogo, escritor y divulgador científico estadounidense. Inicialmente fue profesor asociado de la Universidad de Harvard y posteriormente profesor principal de la Universidad de Cornell. En esta última, fue el primer científico en ocupar la Cátedra David Duncan de Astronomía y Ciencias del Espacio, creada en 1976, y además director del Laboratorio de Estudios Planetarios.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

The good old days then intelligence was still valued in mainstream television. It's hard to imagine having this kind of discussion in any modern talk show in mainstream television. This is just another example of idiolution in progress.

[@njabraham85]

I like a Carl Sagan interview before I've seen it

[@2minello]

Such an awesome dude! Today's audience wouldn't have the attention span

[@mikek5958]

They'd be too busy on facetiming on TikTok.

[@gregmckay666]

Johnny always made fun of Carl Sagan by saying "Billions & Billions" as though Carl had ever said that but he denied ever saying that on his show. It turns out, it was a quote from Johnny Carson himself. Listen at 11:50 and see for yourself. BTW, Johnny was an avid amateur astronomer himself and truly loved his visits with Carl Sagan.

[@psxisnotps1]

sagan addressed this topic and named a book after it. extraordinary read.

[@simonrandall5471]

I hear now there are over one TRILLION galaxies.

[@jmorris023]

Those three housewives were definitely making pot brownies.

[@js2010ish]

:)

[@jeffreyfletcher1780]

Give me some of those Pilsbury Deluxe Fudge brownies

[@frankscott1708]

the 40 year old commercials are a kitschy treat as well

[@Coast-n7x]

An example of ad free TV. "We'll be right back" 🤯

[@simonrandall5471]

He almost said "billions and billions".

[@s4lroachclip]

got here from an article about solar sails. The problem I see with going outside our solar system with them is that there won't be any sun to power the sails, the next source of power would still be so far away the spacecraft would be in total black nothingness, dead.

[@dmarshall5148]

Gonna have to get one of those Ultrex razors.....

[@terrencekramer]

As people continue to sell out the natural world and their own future for a quick buck, I long for Carl Sagan's calm rational voice based in science inviting us to live up to our own intelligence. Miss you Carl

[@audigit]

Sagan handled this very well

Even the commercials were better then..lol...

[@chriso3780]

Where did you get this OP?!? 1 min of the band before the comebacks .. Awesome!!! COSMOS is the BIBLE!! THX OP!!

[@swabby429]

The space with the screen card and band music is where local station affiliates cut away to their own commercials, if they had any scheduled.

[@westonlong]

id be fascinated to know what Carl Sagan thought of how deeply Cosmos would effect my generation and myself, a person born 6 years after it aired.

[@rookerzzz]

Commercial at 6:42, Mark Frazier aka Frank from Samurai Cop!

[@TouhaiDensetsu]

Already practicing reaction faces for Amir Shervan.

[@rookerzzz]

@@TouhaiDensetsu haha, nice gem hidden in great vid with Sagan, what more can you ask for.

[@TouhaiDensetsu]

@@rookerzzz An unexpected cameo indeed.

[@ULTIMATEPATCHES]

What month/year is this from?

[@neilking2751]

Simple talk show no "stupid things"

[@Safwan.Hossain]

I'm just imaging how this interview would go today with let say, Jimmy Kimmel. Now I'm not gonna say he's a bad late night host. In fact he's a pretty funny guy himself. But that's the thing - it's always about HIM. He'll always try to be the focus of attention and makes a joke every 30 seconds. Carl's monologues wouldn't be as free flowing as they are with Johnny Carson, who very smartly times his questioning. Most of all, he really seems to care about this stuff. I guess Stephen Colbert would be one of the few people today who might properly handle these sort of interactions.

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

Colbert has the magic now. It seems like business has ruined everything. Everything has to do with attention span. Everything is noisy. Cavett, Griffin, Paar, Carson, all these guys seemed to have the liberty to relax and let the quietness do its thing. Its those little spaces.

[@charlesthomas7372]

If they only knew Ads were gonna be sentient then, they would have stopped making ads on air.

[@bornyesterday21]

It looks like Carl is wearing Hush Puppies.

[@kentborges5114]

SURE MISS CARL AND JOHNNY

[@VCYT]

'' a hundred billion stars ''

[@NxDoyle]

I don't for one second believe that Schick Ultrex gave more close shaves than Gillette's Trac 2. In fact, they should have done a brand comparison using those bushy 70's muffs.

[@johnpyle702]

"ICON"

[@kenhahn5544]

I was absolutely enraptured by Cosmos

[@epictetusofhierapolis4461]

Ah, beauty rest coils!

[@huyked]

16:06 That is interesting the show did this, to give a graphic and pause to feature the music? Very strange in comparison to today. Interesting nonetheless. I wonder why they chose to do this.

[@makahaj341]

I could be wrong but I suspect that in some markets there were commercials being played while the music was going on, and this gives all the stations a chance to come back to the show at the same time. It probably had to do with stations selling their air time. Stations either play their local commercials or they showed the feed of the graphic and the music. I recall the Carson show used to do this a lot, especially in the later part of the show. Remember this was late night TV, audiences were smaller then, and some stations would sign off until the next morning. These days it's all computerized, 24/7.

[@huyked]

@@makahaj341 Ah. Interesting. Thank you for taking the time to expand my knowledge on how things were done back then. Interesting how things change.

[@garyhuffford6085]

..and now the dinosaurs are all gone .

[@jpolar394]

This show was great. Espically during the commercial break where the band was playing. You would never see that on today's shows. The only things you will see is stupid lawyers, or some other actor that needs money in their old age like Tom Sellick, Marie Osmond, Joe Nameth selling worthless garbage. CARSON WAS THE BEST compared to the crap that's on today. TODAYS TV IS ALL CRAP. ITS NOTHING BUT WORTHLESS COMMERCIALS.

[@shaquadradeloiserussell8659]

I would love to build a time machine (that prevents us from aging) and take us all back to the 40's , up to 1999, and then just break the damn thing, so we have to live it over and over in an eternal loop, except on the next run, you have to live the lifetime on someone else's perspective. ...eventually through Ed McMahon, Steve Martin, Carl Sagan, and Johnny Carson's as well.

[@billb7735]

is that phil hartman in that commercial at 6:46?

[@richardgates7479]

Hurray for C-Band.

[@waynemiller6070]

12:45 this is where the religious "believers" feel that god created life on only OUR planet. How egotistical! And to take it one step further. THEIR god is the ONLY REAL god. To all you believers: I hope you picked the right one! Because god is vengeful and will have NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!

[@usefulidiom]

Harry. B. Renner. jr. Because God isn’t some cosmic Cop in the sky trying to order us around for his shameless pleasure. Humanity is evil (just look at the World now and throughout history) and if you notice God’s precepts are literally trying to save us from ourselves. “Thou shall not kill”, if we followed that how much better off would we be. “Thou shalt not commit adultery”...how many families have been destroyed because of that one? Drunkenness? How many lives has that one destroyed? If we could just stop and think for a moment about what they mean and their purpose instead of thinking we have all the answers then the human race would be a lot better off. In summary God doesn’t want to boss us around he is trying to save us from our own evil and corrupt desires.

[@stars6702]

1 branch led to the dinosaurs but is not our branch...the dude is a fking genious cause he was right we are a new specie on this planet 200k years old , rather young compared to our predecesors that evolved and moved on to other planets or dimensions, the polar bear is from another branch as well a few hundred thousand years before us like 500k older then us or so cayse they are the only beings on this planet that does not share our dna while everithing else starting with the plants have same DNA as we do and they are 200k years old like we are

[@gregmckay666]

That Ultrax Trac 2 razor is probably better than any of these stupid 4-5-6 blade razors they make nowadays.

[@salinagrrrl69]

Now 2023 black hOles are seen. I wish JC & Carl could have seen them. Not billions of galaxies but TRILLIONS we know now...20 Trillion that we can see....so far.

[@toonchi3357]

I wish i can time travel, we are at the end of this age, not the end of the world.

[@irvingkurlinski]

As humans, like other Great Apes may have risen through evolutionary time, it's a stretch to think it only happened once or at one time leading to today.

[@EtzEchad]

Not a bit of politics in this show.

[@jeshkam]

Take note Kimmel and Colbert.

[@keystonerecords4541]

Kos...or, some say, microKosm...

[@gringochucha]

Mr X

[@Alex_1729]

Oh god... commercials...

[@Alex_1729]

​@Harry. B. Renner. jr. OH god... you're and their... completely turned upside down. There aren't ads if you use uBlock Origin Extension in Chrome. And they're not even the same as TV commercials. On TV, it cuts your entire show for 5+ minutes. On the web, it just sits there silently, on the side. And if you have an adblocker, it's not even there.

[@Alex_1729]

@Harry. B. Renner. jr. Hmm, I've never heard of it. Not that it means anything if I've heard of it. Is it for mobile? Anyway, for desktop Chrome you want to use uBlock Origin. Last time I checked it was the lightest, and blocks almost every ad. Not sure for mobile, or even if they exist

[@Alex_1729]

@Harry. B. Renner. jr. It's different on mobile. You may be getting ads that were implanted there before you bought your phone, by your seller. They make deals with companies to show ads across your entire screen. Depending which country you're from, you're going to get more or less of these. If it's an iPhone you shouldn't be getting them. If it's an android, you may need a better ROM to install. I have no idea how would you get an ad while texting, never happened to me, regardless of the app I was using. So maybe it's because of the app itself. There is no way it's worse then TV, you must either have bad ROM (mobile operiating system) or your apps are some kind of alternative cheap version.

[@Atom.Storm.]

Carson was an ace interviewer, can you imagine Carl on Jimmy Fallon? AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA. Cringe.

[@victorvictor8587]

I Wonder if Carl Sagan was a Heroine Addict or Maybe Coke?

[@Thomas-cp6qe]

He supposedly said that whilst involved in a project he 'did marijuana' for a time. This heightened his ability to absorb and convey great ideas. Cosmos is an example. So floridly brilliant, so captivating, a vision that remains with you when the light has gone.

[@Roger8176]

I know he smoked weed. If I may ask, why do you wonder if he was on heroin or coke? Nothing against those things, but just wondering.

[@victorvictor8587]

@@Roger8176 Some of the More Educated Tend to Experiment with an Array of Drugs Especially Professors, What do you think the Chemistry Professors do with their Knowledge?

[@jorgejohnson451]

The tone of Sagan’s voice did not make for good television. You almost want shout: “SPEAK UP!”

[@noIMspartacus2]

Then watch "Network" again.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4PYhGaarbB-b7c

[@Sakuxxx1x]

WTF the razor commercial....why are there no razor blades on the market today which can push out stuck hairs ? lol ^^

[@F1fan4eva]

Sakuxxx1x harder to do on today's 3-4-5 blade razors. Besides, it was more of a gimmick. Nothing beats single blade safety razor!