If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, t… - Carl Sagan

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If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

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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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The family tree of each of us is graced by all those great inventors: the beings who first tried out self-replication, the manufacture of protein machine tools, the cell, cooperation, predation, symbiosis, photosynthesis, breathing oxygen, sex, hormones, brains, and all the rest-inventions we use, some of them, minute-by-minute without ever wondering who devised them and how much we owe to these unknown benefactors, in a chain 100 billion links long.

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Saat ini kita tahu ada 8 planet (plus Matahari, jadi 9 benda utama di pusat sistem kita). Tapi orang zaman kuno tidak tahu itu.

Alasannya sederhana: teknologi dan perspektif.

Berikut adalah 7 benda langit yang mereka maksud, dan mengapa hanya tujuh:
Orang zaman kuno hanya bisa mengamati langit dengan mata telanjang. Dari perspektif mereka di Bumi, mereka melihat ribuan titik cahaya (bintang).
Namun, mereka menyadari ada tujuh di antara titik-titik cahaya itu yang "berperilaku" aneh. Sementara bintang-bintang lain posisinya tetap (membentuk konstelasi seperti Orion atau Scorpio), ketujuh benda ini bergerak atau "mengembara" di antara bintang-bintang tetap itu.Inilah ketujuh "pengelana" itu:
Matahari
Bulan
Mars
Merkurius
Jupiter
Venus
Saturnus

Ketujuh benda inilah yang paling terang dan terlihat bergerak dari hari ke hari, sehingga dianggap istimewa dan memiliki kekuatan dewa. Kata "planet" sendiri berasal dari bahasa Yunani planētēs, yang artinya "pengembara".

Lalu, Mengapa Benda Lain Tidak Termasuk?

Bumi: Orang kuno tidak menganggap Bumi sebagai planet. Bagi mereka, Bumi adalah pusat dari segalanya, tempat mereka berpijak. Mereka melihat benda-benda langit bergerak mengelilingi Bumi, bukan Bumi yang bergerak mengelilingi Matahari.

Uranus & Neptunus: Keduanya terlalu jauh dan terlalu redup untuk bisa dilihat dengan mata telanjang. Uranus baru ditemukan pada tahun 1781 dan Neptunus pada tahun 1846, keduanya setelah penemuan teleskop.Pluto (dan planet kerdil lainnya): Jauh lebih kecil dan lebih jauh lagi, baru ditemukan pada abad ke-20.
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Konsep "7 hari, 7 planet, 7 dewa" sudah ada ribuan tahun sebelum kita tahu tentang Uranus dan Neptunus."

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