{"id":28164,"date":"2010-08-13T03:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/was-thinking-tonight-about-the-greatness-of-carl-sagan-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T03:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:34:27","slug":"was-thinking-tonight-about-the-greatness-of-carl-sagan-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/was-thinking-tonight-about-the-greatness-of-carl-sagan-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Was Thinking Tonight About the Greatness of Carl Sagan | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R7n71pm0K04\">opening lines of <em>Cosmos<\/em><\/a>:<\/p><p>The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.<\/p><p>Our contemplations of the Cosmos stir us.<\/p><p>There&rsquo;s a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice&hellip;<\/p><p>A faint sensation, as if a distant memory of falling from a great height.<\/p><p>We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.<\/p><p><\/p><p>(Fully 30 years ago. And yes, I know that with our modern sensibilities, it feels a little bit cheesy&hellip;but <em>still<\/em>. You know you love it.)<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3CgJw7ErCd1vnu1Em__PZDXXLtw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/78cf0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3CgJw7ErCd1vnu1Em__PZDXXLtw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/78cf0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/78cf0_kGIvcxCWUJ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening lines of Cosmos:The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.Our contemplations of the Cosmos stir us.There&rsquo;s a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice&hellip;A faint sensation, as if a distant memory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/was-thinking-tonight-about-the-greatness-of-carl-sagan-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}