Carl Edward Sagan ( /ˈseɪɡɪn/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He advocated scientifically skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Ukrainian Jewish family. His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine; his mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, a housewife. Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, "the mother she never knew." Sagan graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1951.
It's 1977, and Stephen Hawking is eager to learn about the opposite sex. Will the help of Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein be enough?
Plot
After a widower scientist accidentally sends a death ray to a planet of super advanced aliens, a femme fatal alien secret agent is sent to Earth to reverse the ray within 48 hours, if her super alien powers and complete lack of understanding human culture don't give her away first.
Keywords: 13-year-old, 1980s, alien, answering-the-telephone, arm-wrestling, bach's-toccata-and-fugue, backflip, bicycle, black-woman, blinds
She's gorgeous, and she's never been kissed. Needless to say, she's from another planet.
A million lightyears from home, she's found a husband, a stepdaughter and a dog. When she finds out about sex, she may just stay for weekend.
Man's closest encounter
Alien leader: Earthmen will fall to their knees, betray their country and give way valuable real estate for a desirable woman.
[reporting to her father that her stepmother is more than she seems]::Jessie Mills: I saw her drink the battery juice from your Honda!
Ron Mills: BABY!
Lucas Budlong: Thinks he's cute, doesn't he?::Ron Mills: Yes, but I was mother's favorite!
Ron Mills: Oh, that was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.::Ron Mills: [off his girlfriend's look] I mean, uh, ehh, second most beautiful... Third... A dog!
Celeste Martin: [after changing to new dress in Dr. Mills' car] Is this acceptable?::Steven Mills: Is the drool apparent?
Steven Mills: Would you mind if I kissed you?::Celeste Martin: Does it hurt?::Steven Mills: Not the way I do it.
Steven Mills: I think... I think...::Celeste Martin: What?::Steven Mills: Would I scare you... if I told you I love you?::Celeste Martin: Not unless you hit me at the same time.::Steven Mills: I'm serious.::Celeste Martin: So am I!
[on Ron's braces]::Celeste Martin: Ooh, mouth jewelry!
Steven Mills: If you want my secrets, you'll eat my sandwich!
I'm not in pictures that your parents took
I'm not described in your stack of holy books
I wasn't born in your seven day
I'm not the monster your fathers made
Can't break my bones if you can't pronounce my name
I'll elude what your top thinkers might conceive
Your "wanted" sketch doesn't resemble me
I don't want blood or your charity
You won't believe that your maker thought me up
Your common cold is my Trojan horse defeat
And my fine cuisine is your world catastrophe
I might be dormant on your ocean floor
Or in the margins of error you ignore