This always reminds me of a New Yorker cartoon from around 1980, that showed "Billions and billions of Carl Sagans."
-- Jonathan Sherwood Sr. Science & Technology Press Officer University of Rochester 585-273-4726 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > > #1: There's a story that was often told around Cornell back when I worked > there in the late '80s, that Sagan was giving a lecture on predicting the > future. Come question-time, some wise-ass undergrad asks him if there will > be "billions & billions" of whatever the heck he was talking about. > As the story goes, Sagan (not missing a beat) immediately responds "you > know, if you're really forward looking, you should be thinking trillions." > > 2010/2/1 Alicia Henn <[email protected]> > > Apparently, there is a unit of measurement, proposed humorously, called the >> Sagan. It is the smallest unit that can be "billions and billions" - 4 >> billion or 2 billions plus 2 billions. But there is a new Sagan unit. now >> proposed, which I think merits some attention, as he didn't actually say >> "billions and billions". He did say "billions upon billions", which >> mathematically, is a whole different kettle of stars. >> >> >> http://blog.circuitmonkey.com/2009/12/25/yet-another-sagan-unit-measurement/ >> >> One attoSagan person, >> Alicia >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
