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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Thank you! This is so inspiring!!! I knew Carl briefly. We were working on the same problem about Titan's atmosphere. He was a great guy. Soooo enchanting, almost mesmerizing. And a real visionary.
AstroLou
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Apr 29, 2018
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Wow! Really awesome you worked with him. I spent one summer doing research at Cornell in 1993 and missed meeting him by just a few minutes one day - or so I was told. He definitely inspired me to study astronomy. I was in grad school when he died.
@LaMariposa I bet he would be thrilled and proud to know he inspired you to study astronomy. Nice to meet a fellow star gazer! What excites you most about the heavens?
@AstroLou It's kind of a funny story. When I was in undergrad, I really disliked my Interstellar Medium course - the professor was awesome but I just didn't get it. Well, it grew on me. I am fascinated with HII Regions, SNRs and super massive stars like Wolf Rayet stars. My first love in science was Chemistry but I was never as good at it as I was with Physics or Astronomy. So my research leaned toward chemical abundance studies and the effects on star formation. My thesis was on low surface brightness galaxies - they simply should not exist due to extremely low star formation rates. But I abandoned science research to do education. So yep, that's probably more than you wanted to know! LOL I can talk anyone's ears off re: astronomy.
I can't resist a Carl Sagan voiceover ?
CraeftSmith
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Apr 29, 2018
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He will never be topped (in my book). He was a fabulous communicator, great spokesperson for science and reason. 
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