Carl Sagan: Scaling Heaven

June 17, 2011

Callum Sutherland is at it again. Just see if you can resist watching this:

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.

Answering that question had to have been awkward.

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