Today on Far Future Horizons we present the twelfth episode of Carl Sagan’s highly acclaimed PBS documentary series – Cosmos: Encyclopedia Galactica. Are there alien intelligences elsewhere in the Cosmos? How could we communicate with them? Are UFOs really extraterrestrial starships visiting our world? The answers to these questions take us to Egypt and an … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the eleventh episode of Carl Sagan’s highly acclaimed PBS documentary series – Cosmos: The Persistence of Memory. In this instalment of Cosmos, the Brain is the focus of today’s fascinating portion of our journey with Dr. Sagan as he examines another of the intelligent creatures with whom we … Read more
To the memory of Carl Sagan, who fueled my love of science, and to Explorers of every age and epoch I dedicate Lang Kasranov’s fantastic documentary “Pale Blue Dot”. Journey with Carl Sagan as your guide, from humanity’s wandering and nomadic antiquity to the present day. Some time before he died in 1996, Carl Sagan … Read more
Carl Sagan with a mock up of the Viking Mars Lander Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fifth episode of Carl Sagan’s highly acclaimed PBS documentary series – Cosmos: Blues for a Red Planet. Percival Lowell Is there life on Mars? Dr. Sagan takes viewers on a tour of the red planet first … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fourth episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark television series Cosmos: “Heaven and Hell”. In fact, of all the thirteen episodes this has to rank as one of my most favourite . It was from this episode that I first learned about the eyewitness account of a lunar impact seen … Read more
Prior to his death, Carl Sagan claimed that science and science-fiction kind of do this dance with one another. Jules Verne invented an atomic submarine way before one existed. Michael Crichton took genetic engineering and gave us dinosaurs. William Gibson saw what was happening in the eighties and coined a term, “cyberspace”. You may have … Read more