“Well, this is one of *those* topics, but for a different (though obvious) reason. “
Schadenfreude would work better were the dirty rotten bastard still alive. If it weren’t him there would have been another who’d have made life difficult for non-uniformitarians. It can’t be long before you find a reason to dig Sagan up so we can mock him instead. I’d like that even more.
My favorite recollection of Sagan was an old “educational” video of a young Sagan who kept confusing red shift and blue shift. He hadn’t quite got the rote memorization, editing out of the past, and plagiarism down that served him so well later in life.