Comments on: A True Story http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442 Now living at http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/ Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:55:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Blake Stacey http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26759 Blake Stacey Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:09 +0000 http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26759 Well, as Borges said, "I have always imagined Heaven to be a kind of library" (or words to that effect). Well, as Borges said, “I have always imagined Heaven to be a kind of library” (or words to that effect).

]]> By: Scott Hatfield, OM http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26661 Scott Hatfield, OM Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:07:51 +0000 http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26661 I may have mentioned this before, but one of the most powerful dreams in my life found me in a library discussing Sagan's impact with....Sagan....who was of course very dead not just at the time but in my awareness. That is, in my dream, I knew I was talking to someone who was dead and I assured Dr. Sagan what a powerful and positive impact his work had on folk like me. (wistfully) I'd like to have that dream again. Or, to put it another way, I hope to have that conversation again. I may have mentioned this before, but one of the most powerful dreams in my life found me in a library discussing Sagan’s impact with….Sagan….who was of course very dead not just at the time but in my awareness. That is, in my dream, I knew I was talking to someone who was dead and I assured Dr. Sagan what a powerful and positive impact his work had on folk like me.

(wistfully) I’d like to have that dream again. Or, to put it another way, I hope to have that conversation again.

]]> By: The algorithm http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26640 The algorithm Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:59:57 +0000 http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26640 Yays, for the content and the stylistic hat-tip. Yays, for the content and the stylistic hat-tip.

]]> By: Josh Charles http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26456 Josh Charles Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:43:50 +0000 http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=442#comment-26456 Nice! I laughed so hard my office-mate was looking at me strangely. Well, she does that anyway, so it's hard to tell the causation in this situation. Very similar in style to an xkcd comic. In fact, since I didn't read carefully at first, that's what I thought it was. Nice! I laughed so hard my office-mate was looking at me strangely. Well, she does that anyway, so it’s hard to tell the causation in this situation.

Very similar in style to an xkcd comic. In fact, since I didn’t read carefully at first, that’s what I thought it was.

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