Carl Sagan's Office Door

Another off the cuff video for you Carl Sagan fans. Carl walked these very halls of the Cornell University Space Sciences Building. The Mars Rovers are controlled from this building in Ithaca NY.

The current user of this office doesn't want people too know it was Carl's office. He doesn't want people to come as part of a pilgrimage. Too bad it's mentioned in one of Carl's biographies. ;-)

Wacky factoid: this is the 2nd take, but just as random and unplanned as the first. The guy who showed me the "secret office" didn't want to be in the video. Too fanboyish. So in the 2nd take he still wanders in repeatedly. :-) You had your chance buddy!

The can also view this in *higher quality* by looking for the appropriate link on this page. I recommend this.

We also availed ourselves of the tiny bathroom that we speculate was used by Carl (it's right near the Voyager model). As YouTube doesn't allow this kind of material, you'll have to use your imagination :-)
Suffice it to say, we mused about much that urinal might possibly fetch on ebay. ;-)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Carl
• Sagan
• Ithaca
• Cosmos
• Astronomy
• science
• atheism
• vegan
• contact
• space
• NASA
• Appreciation
• Society

[bethanysage]

hehe... watching a video of a door.. yes very pedestrian...but now I'm reading comments about a video of a door! What the hell is that called?! Oh BTW I Love Carl too :)

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@bethanysage

> What the hell is that called?

I don't know, but we have it.

[AtSwimTwoBricks]

That's right. I'm giving 5 stars for a video of a door.

I'm not ashamed...

[coozno1977]

Elevators? Where are the teleportation devices?

[guruartist]

The pilgrimage should be to the stars, where he is now amongst the Super-Novas... but this is a start...

[Beomene]

I've never been such a happy stalker in all my life. 302. 302! It's a new 42.

[NeapolitanDynamite99]

Just so you know, people who make a pilgrimage are known as pilgrims, not pilgrimagers. :)

[danschaoticmind]

I'd do a pilgrimage to his door just to leave a note saying "Thank you for the awe and chance to think critically. had it not been for you, I may never have known the joys of skepticism and wonder"

[johnnyklit]

lol this guy is wearing sandals...

[dudev]

@1971SuperLead

Vote Ficus 2012!

[loosekarrott]

i am hopinh there is an afterlife, just because sagan lived.

[reva12]

Hey thanks; I hope he is somewhere in an universe far far away and would be watching this a 100 or a 1000 years from now.

[1971SuperLead]

That Ficus tree is not happy!

[Jehovahology]

On that big elevator David Letterman from the Tonight Show can place 40 Santa Claus going to see Carl Segan's door :)