Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Carl Sagan owned a Porsche

Out of the billions and billions of cars to choose from, he chose this red dwarf.


Source.

See his Porsche 914 here.

2 comments:

  1. As both a Sagan and Porsche fan, I don't know how I've missed this connection. It's a comforting thought, that a man who understood more about the universe and intricacy of life than most of us, still enjoyed the lesser things in life despite science being such a humbling and perhaps even cynicism-inducing experience.

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  2. The Carl Sagan Porsche was orange and not red.
    I shot that picture in 1977 at the University of Arizona.

    The image reproduced a slight shift in colors from the photograph after I scanned it for my web page.

    Original full size image here:

    https://al-paslow.smugmug.com/Other/Carl-Sagans-Porsche-at-the/i-BzBzbTM/A

    Al Paslow

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