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Presiding over the skies of Earth at the time of the origin of life was a huge Moon, its familiar surface features being etched by mighty collisions … - Carl Sagan
" "Presiding over the skies of Earth at the time of the origin of life was a huge Moon, its familiar surface features being etched by mighty collisions and oceans of lava. If tonight´s Moon looks about as large as a nickel at arm´s lenght, that ancient Moon might have seemed as big as a saucer. It must have been heartbreakingly lovely. But it was billions of years to the nearest lovers.
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival.
И накрая най-външната част, която живее в трудно примирие с по-примитивните участъци на мозъка отдолу, е мозъчната кора, развила се преди милиони години у нашите предци примати. Мозъчната кора, където материята се превръща в съзнание, е мястото, от което се отправяме на всичките си космически пътешествия. Тя съставя повече от две трети от мозъчната маса и е царството на интуицията и критичния анализ. Тук се появяват идеите и вдъхновението, тук четем и пишем, тук правим изчисления и композираме музика. Кората регулира нашия съзнателен живот. Именно тя отличава нашия вид и е седалище на човешката ни природа. Цивилизацията е продукт на мозъчната кора.
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