We are machines constructed by nucleic acids to construct more nucleic acids... sounds a lot like Dawkins.

Humans evolved to trust a small select group of individual, but as we live in a world community, a biologically diverse community, and eventually an outer space community, we must evolve culturally to see appreciate our differences.

One letter complained about sending pornography into space, a follow up letter made fun of the ignorance. Carl Sagan laments the failure of the plaque designers to make the two figures ethnically ambiguous.

Carl Sagan describes everything that went into the symbolism of this message sent to the stars.

In which people see what they want to see, hopes and fears.

Sociology is too complex to accurately predict how we should manage our society; we need to conduct experiments in order to determine the best path forward. In America, the States could serve as such laboratories.

The possible life that could evolve in other environments is an imaginative treasure chest.

(TODO: The wheeled organisms described here appear in the Amber Spyglass by Pullman)

As it is, not as we wish it to be.

The competition against other militaries unites them against the public. Space flight would move them into a peacetime occupation.

It's the first step in realizing our place in the bigger picture.

Very similar to it as Carl Sagan describes the planet.

How the low gravity and tiny size of Mars' moon would affect the game.

Space Exploration only happens to one generation, and when it did, there were people alive for whom the planets were only distant untouchable points.

Every frontier is explored, there is only one place to go for adventure and that is outward.

Europe spent as much money proportionally to discover America as it would cost us to venture to Mars.

As it has 80,000 years until it reaches the nearest star, we will overtake it, which will be like Columbus being overtaken by an aircraft carrier.

We need to understand animal minds as practice for understanding alien ones.

Because it would ruin the premise of his film 2001.

This might be the original source of this quote.

Jazz-band radio broadcasts are our first emissaries into space, now nearly 100 light years out.

Distressing some that it is not a dialogue, but the wisdom of the ancient Greeks is a monologue as well.

The number of bits communicated in our radio broadcasts is quite enormous, conveying a great deal of information about our culture.

Just as human culture is undergoing a process of homogenization, culture of the Milky Way will eventually undergo the same.

At best, aliens advanced enough to be gods could only exist at a galactic level.

A strange conceptual idea, that implies our own Universe is a Black Hole as well.

Carl Sagan tells the story of our Universe's history as a fairy tale.

Carl Sagan's account of the history of our Universe continued.

From molecules competing for materials, to life, all the way up to humans.

Carl Sagan describes some of the amazing things science and astronomy have discovered in our universe.

A hypothetical sphere surrounding a star, harnessing all of its power.

The dolphin began to experiment with him during a game of catch.

At one house a second, it would take Santa three years to visit all the houses in America alone.

Two poems inspired by the Pioneer 10 probe. Surely the first of many.