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Hey, don't you still have that memory card anyway? ;-)
Sure, take it to PSG and get some good pics of what I'm missing.

Glad to know another fan of Contact; everybody loves HHGG, but Contact doesn't get enough attention.

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Yes I still have it. I'll take all sorts of crazy pictures for ya. Sorry you wont be there.
I'm not just a fan of Contact, I'm actually a big fan of Carl Sagan. When I was um, 12 I think, my older brother got me a copy of Pale Blue Dot for my birthday (fostering a growing interest in astronomy). I've been hooked since.

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I like Sagan's other stuff too (I grew up in the era of "Cosmos"), but somehow the novel stuck with me better than the nonfiction. Too bad it's the only novel he wrote.

Heh, I just realized, I remember when Pale Blue Dot came out and I saw it in one of the OSU bookstores when I was buying books for class. But I never read that one; all his books I've read are older than that. In fact Contact may be the latest of his books that I've read. (Others include Broca's Brain and The Dragons Of Eden.)

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Pale Blue Dot is good. Its about the past, present, and future of our civilization. Mostly future though.
Like Hawking and Kaku, he takes complex and involved subjects and makes them accessible to the lay person.
That reminds me of how I like to tease Brian..."When I was three you graduated High School." ;-) Just Kidding....kinda.

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