Carl Sagan
Coverage of Carl Sagan in the Nexus archive.
- Is Life Just Different?
In 1993, a team led by Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that life exists on Earth using data from the Galileo spacecraft, which had observed the planet three years earlier during its journey to Jupiter. The study highlighted life's transformative power as detectable through remote observations.
- The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys | David Smith
The article critiques Donald Trump's speech, contrasting his self-perceived mastery with Carl Sagan's perspective on Earth's insignificance. It references Trump's legal issues, boasts about Iran, and highlights his aide Stephen Miller's claim of 'divine providence' for Trump's 250th-anniversary presidency.
- MORNING GLORY: Is there anyone smart enough to put guardrails on AI?
The article references Charles Krauthammer's 2011 essay on the Fermi Paradox and the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence, linking it to modern concerns about AI risks. It discusses the AI arms race, historical 'AI winters,' and the role of John Ellis's newsletter in summarizing AI developments, while citing the Institute for Jungian Studies on societal anxiety.