The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After a while, you get use… - Carl Sagan

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The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After a while, you get used to it. It becomes pretense no longer.

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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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Native Name: Carl Edward Sagan
Alternative Names: Sagan Carl E. Sagan Carl E Sagan C. E. Sagan C.E. Sagan C E Sagan C. Sagan C Sagan Sagan C Sagan C. Sagan C. E. Sagan CE
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Qlobal qızğın silahlanmanı dünyadan kənar və qərəzsiz müşahidəçiyə necə izah edə bilərdik? Ən son sabitliyi pozan tədqiqatlara- qatil peyklərə, dəstə silahlara, lazerlərə, neytron bombalara, qanadlı raketlərə, - və orta ölçüsü olan ölkə ilə müqayisə edilən ərazilərin yüzlərlə maketlərin arasında əsl qitələrarası ballistik raketlərin gizləndiyi təklif olunmuş poliqon transformasiyasına necə bəraət qazandırardıq? Hədəf almış on minlərlə döyüş başlıqlarının sağ qalma ehtimalımızı artırdığını cəsarət ilə iddia edə bilərdikmi? Yer kürəsinin kuratoruna hansı hesabatı verə bilərdik? Biz nüvə dövlətlərinin dəlillərini bilirik. Millətlərin adından kimin danışdığı bizə məlumdur. Bəs insan növünün adından kim danışır? Kim Yer kürəsinin adından danışır?

I say you don't need any more proof. There are proofs enough already. Cygnus A and all that are just for the scientists. You think it'll be hard to convince ordinary people that you're telling the truth. I think it'll be easy as pie. You think your story is too peculiar, too alien. But I've heard it before. I know it well. And I bet you do too.

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