c/carl-sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator.
…the chemistry is more or less correct. Tonight or I forget, maybe tomorrow night is the 50th anniversary of the famous Orson Welles war of the worlds broadcast in 1938, which panicked millions of Americans who had not yet made the distinction between media…
…people who raced in their cars to the mountains, abandoning wives and children and other useful revelations of character. And Orson Welles himself who was in his early twenties when he produced this thing, was astonished at how many people took seriously…
…when he produced this thing, was astonished at how many people took seriously what he had imagined as a Halloween Fantasy. Now, the Orson Welles Radio program was based upon an h g wells novel, also called the war of the worlds and that in turn was…
…on the extraterrestrials what we're worried about about ourselves, and for good reasons, for perfectly good reasons. Just as the Orson Welles 1938 broadcast about alien invasion was a concern about what was happening in Europe and that's why the resonance…