NASA Plans "Carl Sagan Center" To Study Cosmos

FortKnox writes: "According to Y!, there will be a new NASA center, known as The Carl Sagan Center, that will study the cosmos, specializing in searching for life. Comprised of 3 (maybe 4) high tech labs, it will also include an exhibit area with an auditorium. Dedicating the center was one of the last things done by Goldin. The article has a great (brief) history of Carl Sagan, and everything involved in the center to be built."

Comments

What a great idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

They could have billions and billions of visitors every year!

Re:What a great idea!

[igorwawrzyniak]

They could have billions and billions of visitors every year!

Hope they will be charging 10$/visitor.Now that US government decided that money are better spent on Tomahawks than space probes, they need some other sources of funds.

Carl Sagan...haha

[shaka999]

Anyone else remember his comments after the Gulf war. Iraq had ignited many wells in Kuwait. I remember Sagan predicting the whole earth would be stuck in a senario similiar to a nuclear winter.

I lost the little respect I had for him after that.

Will there be weed?

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering that Sagan came up with his "billions and billions of galaxies" while stoned in the shower, I just have to ask if we'll be able to pick up some really good Purple Kush buds so we can explore the cosmos as well...

Sagan deserves a memorial.

[banks]

Carl Sagan was one of the greatest popularizers of the science of astronomy and cosmography. His efforts, while not always rigidly scientifically valid, were some of the strongest towards the popularization of true science in the modern world. Anyone who doubts his dedication should read his work In the Demon Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark. One of my favorite books. I like to give it as a present to psuedoscience beleivers.

Re:Sagan deserves a memorial.

[Cy Guy]

Actually there is already a memorial to Sagan in Ithaca: The Carl Sagan Memorial Planet Walk. It consists of a model of the solar system laid out over downtown Ithaca. The sun is 30cm across and is featured prominently on the Ithaca Commons, a downtown shopping district. Pluto is close to the foot of Cayuga Lake at the Ithaca Science Center, over a kilometer away. At this scale the Earth is just a 1/10th of inch across, but they mount the planetary models so that they can be viewed through a magnifying lens.

If NASA really wanted to memorialize Sagan with a new research lab, then at least one of the buildings should be at Cornell where he spent his career, even after he could have left little Ithaca behind and gone to live in DC, or LA, or work at the JPL.

Revisionist history

[tbone1]

Unfortunately, his estate has sued over the use of his name, so NASA has renamed it the BHA Center.

Sagan Cosmos and Good Bud Centre

[Anonymous Coward]

This actually isn't meant as a troll.

I'd like to see them sell good bud at the centre where you can sit under a big planetarium-type thing, maybe with a good laser show, and chill. I'm sure Sagan would have been behind something like that!

Of course, it would have to be in europe or in canada, as the USA is way too worked up about weed.

here here!

[Anonymous Coward]

He most certainly does.

"Pale Blue Dot" is another great book of his where he eloquently argues for what I agree should be man's future and against idiodicy like "papal infalibility"!

Hmmm...Miss Cleo has a commercial on...time to turn the tv off...*sigh*...