Petition to put Carl Sagan on a stamp
The Sagan Appreciation Society is petitioning for the US Postal Service to issue a postage stamp honoring astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan.
I'm all for it, just as long as they ditch the profoundly creepy design under consideration.
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They should use the picture you've posted. That's a great photo of him. Happy, relaxed, and handsome.
They should use a scene from one of his 'Cosmos' Series episodes.
Yeah, agreed. That graphic is from an illustrator working for the skeptibunkeroids, as shown by the "lighting a candle in the darkness" illustration, which derives from one of his last books, the "demon-haunted world" or similar title.
Heh! Sagan was a known pothead (see K. Davidson's profile), so maybe the "candle" in the dark he should be illuminating with should be a fat joint. OK, not likely to happen under the USPO, I guess...
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"Billions and billions of stars...hey, don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me." Oh, wow--I can see the delta of Venus now! Ann, scoot over a bit. hehehehehehehehe.......
Katie--
They should use the picture you've posted. That's a great photo of him. Happy, relaxed, and handsome.
I agree. I hate that creepy "Science as a candle in the dark" treatment. It makes him look like a gnomish zealot.
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