Rumi Nations

Sagan begins this episode talking about his childhood years in Brooklyn. He describes how as one grows up ANYWHERE, one's world keeps getting bigger. Sagan goes back to the Greek islands from 2,600 years ago where people first developed the scientific method. Sagan goes even further back in time to our hunter-gatherer ancestors and wonders if they ever wondered about the stars and how they would have reasoned. We are all children of astronomers of course, like Sagan has said in one of these episodes somewhere. It is awe-inspiring to realize that people made simple extrapolations and realized that those little points of lights in the night sky had to be like our sun and that there might be planets and life around those stars too. And here we are, more than 2,000 years on, and we are still searching for the answers to those questions posed a long time back. It's tough to find the answers to some questions. I was thinking of what questions I could pose today that humanity would st...