[9thLife]

Seems like all of science’s children have gone off the rails.

[nickcarraway]

He says Stephen Hawking in behind 9/11?

[sasquatch]

Carl’s book ‘Billions, etc’ started out well and ended as a global warming advertisement. I lost respect for one who was not a bad author.

[Usagi_yo]

Carl Sagan was good until about 11 years old, then at around 19ish I fell in extreme like with Michael Cricton and Tom Clancy

[Telepathic Intruder]

"And the way it was reported in the media before it happened, that doesn't happen. You know?"

I remember 9/11, I was listening on the radio all day. Building 7 was mentioned because there was a danger of it collapsing. It had been burning all day and fire fighters refused to put it out because it had lost structural integrity. But when I mention that to a 9/11 "truther", they say I'm lying. So now I'm part of the conspiracy, apparently.

[Rome2000]

I was willing to cut him a break due to youthful stupidity but apparently this idiot is 55 years old.

[SkyDancer]

Pete Carol coach of the Seahawks is one also ....

[equaviator]

“Carl Sagan is arguably science’s biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason.”

Oh, come on! How long has he been dead? I think it’s more like “Carl Sagan WAS arguably science’s biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason.”

[hosepipe]

3D Life had to start somewhere FIRST?.... why not here..

What happens when 3D life becomes OBSOLETE... like; it was a TEST.. a phase.. a process..

[Gay State Conservative]

Color me stunned!

[Dutchboy88]

Actually, sonny boy thinks as logically as daddy...both are off the reservation.

[boomop1]

Morons run in the family.

[grumpygresh]

Let me be the first anti-government heretic on this post. If the government story on 9/11 is completely accurate, how do explain the building 7, collapse, the cell phone calls at 30,000 feet, and the airline stock puts before 9/11?

[mykroar]

Billyuns and billyuns of tiny muslims . . .

[fieldmarshaldj]

So he’s supporting Rand Paul for President, I take it ?

[Steve_Seattle]

The thing I don't get about the "controlled demolition" theorists is that they (usually) don't deny that the planes hit the building. But if the planes hit the building, wouldn't that in and of itself be regarded as an act of war, regardless of whether the buildings eventually collapsed?

If 9/11 was an inside job, why would the conspirators have had the planes fly into the buildings AND wired the buildings for demolition? The whole thing is nuts. My local public access TV channel is full of 9/11 crap, and I get livid listening to it. ("Then don't listen to it.") I just want to smack those people with their smug, slanderous paranoia.

[MHGinTN]

What is a 911 truther, specifically?

[Desron13]

"Carl Sagan's Son Is a 9/11 Truther..."

Yes, and I suspect he also blows bubbles in his own drool. Global climate change is of course his most fervently held religious belief when he's not busy molesting small animals or sacrificing his imaginary girlfriends to the god of pitter patter. Gee, what a surprise.

[matthew fuller]

"Carl Sagan is arguably science's biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason. "

Yep- he's in the same exalted class as the genius Al Gore.

[jmacusa]

Carl Sagans son is too f**king stupid to be an idiot. To explain again for the millionth time. The outside supporting steel columns for the the shape of the building itself, two hundreds yards by two hundred yards square. The floors were’’ carried off’’ that is to say, supported by light weight steel structures called trusses. These were welded to the outside steel columns and then anchored steel brackets fastened to the concrete core that housed the elevator shafts in the inside of this core which as ran through this core the buss ducts for the electrical systems as well as steam pipes and water pipes. Once your anchored the truss in a pattern creating a floor lay out you take large galvanized corrugated sheet ‘’pans’’, You weld these to the steel for lay out and pour the concrete floor and viola , you have a floor. Replicate this 110 times and you have a 110 story office building. To secure the four sided steel ‘’box’’, that is the outside steel columns the builders constructed a 9 ton steel ‘’cap’’. A steel structure looking some what like a steel horse but what this cap had wa a square shape and four ‘’legs’’ that held the steel columns in place. Explosive would not have bought down either of the buildings as they had floor space that was very wide and plenty of glass that would have dissipated the force of the blast. The ‘’controlled demolition’’ theory is total and complete bullsh!t. What destroyed the Trade center was heat. Heat weakend the trusses, softening to the point where the top ones snapped away from the outside steel columns and gravity took over.