{"id":113,"date":"2009-09-27T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:28:00","slug":"a-still-more-glorious-dawn-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/27\/a-still-more-glorious-dawn-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/glorious-dawn.jpg\" alt=\"carl sagan glorious dawn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/glorious-dawn.jpg\" alt=\"carl sagan glorious dawn\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>My buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/vastandinfinite.com\/\">Gordon<\/a> tipped me to the song Glorious Dawn by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorpulsemusic.com\/\">Colorpulse<\/a> featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sagan\">Carl Sagan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc]<\/p>\n<p>After so many years since his amazing television show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage\">Cosmos<\/a>, it strikes me how much I like the way he thinks &#8211; how he imagines vistas of space and time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An still more glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise &#8211; a morning filled with four hundred billion suns: the rising of the Milky Way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How he synthesizes facts about the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the brain does more than just recollect: it intercompares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions &#8230;  the brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How he combines prediction and caution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And most of all, how beautifully he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.  Recently, we&#8217;ve waded a little way out &#8230; and the water seems inviting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I grow up, I want to be like Carl.  So check the video out on Youtube, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorpulsemusic.com\/youtube.html\">Colorpulse&#8217;s site<\/a> for more videos, or to Amazon for a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan-DVD-Set\/dp\/B000055ZOB\">Cosmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-The Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Gordon tipped me to the song Glorious Dawn by Colorpulse featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking: [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc] After so many years since his amazing television show Cosmos, it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,190,21],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","tag-pointers","tag-thank-you-carl-sagan","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}