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jonathan
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Joining the Universe

LectureLive EventMIT — The Worlds of Philip Morrison Symposium/ Philip Morrison's 70th Birthday Symposium (Day 2)27 September 1986Cambridge, MA — Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCarl SaganSpeakerPhilip MorrisonOther#harvard#biology#nasa
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Sagan's hour-long keynote tribute lecture at the Worlds of Philip Morrison Symposium (Day 2), surveying the Copernican perspective and Morrison's contributions to physics and SETI.

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jonathan
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Why We Should Go to Mars

LectureLive EventAmerican Astronomical Society / Library of Congress (Sagan Archive)29 October 1988Austin, TX — American Astronomical Society meetingCarl SaganSpeaker#unitedstates#war#nasa

Sagan's lecture at the American Astronomical Society Austin meeting, arguing a joint US-Soviet Mars mission could help avert global conflict; touches on H.G. Wells, Percival Lowell, and science fiction's framing of Mars.

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