Chilean Expedition to Carl Sagan's Grave 2000

Thanks to Chilean SAS contact Patricio Elicer we get to see one of the earlier pilgrimages to Carl's resting place from 2000. The first-ever pilgrimage on YouTube posted is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwgYS-QAxSA

This was the 2nd trip Patricio Elicer and friends made, and as you can see they found it this time.

Note the 2 carved stones on Carl's headstone. Symbols or something.

This isn't the first Carl Sagan pilgrimage on YouTube, but it is the earliest one sent to the SAS to date.

See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwgYS-QAxSA

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[GaboBB1]

"Mr. Sagan was as magnificent as the universe" Neil deGrasse Tyson

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@GaboBB1

Interesting quote. Where can can one find it?

[acfemf]

That is so profoundly sweet, so moving. I met Sagan in the mid 80's. He came to our local university during his non-nuclear proliferation activities. I must have been 14 or 15. There were only about fifty people. The magnitude of the experience has increased as I have grown older and come to realize the gift of that moment.

We lost him too soon. I am comforted knowing we will all someday become food for stars again.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

If you search Youtube for: Sagan Ithaca

you'll find other graveside visits by those touched by Carl Sagan.

I'm glad you mentioned the cold war. Personally, i think that's one of his greatest gifts to us- that he used his scientific credibility & celebrity to go straight to the public, warn them of the insane course we were on, and get them to pressure our "leaders" to do the sane thing & back away from the nuclear brink.

Lauren Becker has a lovely essay online called "The Gifts of Carl Sagan"

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@acfemf

Only 50 people? Shocking.

[s1v]

I love this man. I find it rather disrespectful that you stood on top of his grave. It's disrespectful to stand on top of anyone's grave.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I can assure you that the guys who shot this video meant no disrespect. They came all the way from Chile - TWICE.

[ooglebydoogleby]

how imesurably greater was what he gave to the world than all the false prophets. he lives on in the minds of those who ask questions and strugle for answeres.

[nikotina2003]

Here's a human translation:

Actually I've seen it several times, it always moves me. I am grateful for having seen Cosmos as a child; it brought to me so many good afternoons by the TV in the 80's. I am already 40 and I am keen on astronomy. I am here thanks to him. Greetings to all the chilean friends. How wonderful it is to remember our beloved professor Carl Sagan, the most important man in my life right after my father he's like my second father.

Greetings to Chile, kisses!

[Netanel17]

Didn't know Carl Sagan was Jewish. I was surprised to see Hebrew letters on his parents' headstone.

<3 Sagan

[GaboBB1]

@SaganAppreciationSoc @SaganAppreciationSoc "Interestingly, when I applied to Cornell, my application dripped of my passion for the study and research of the Universe. Somehow the admissions office brought my application to the attention of the late Dr. Sagan, and he actually took the initiative and care to contact me. He was very inspirational and a most powerful influence. Dr. Sagan was as great as the universe, an effective mentor."

[charlesdarwinxxx]

carl sagan was NOT charles darwin or albert einstein.

COSMOS: TV DVD WEB will be seen by 3-6 billion people.

Digital forever. cosmos will be by billions billions billion of people.. Now & future.

RIP. carl sagan. Digital carl sagan live forever.

[dietermauer]

@s1v I dont think so, carl never had any deeper feelings for predetermined patterns of cultural behaviour.

He always knew, that all these things like dogmas, (graveyards) for example, are man made illusions, with no meaning.

Once you are dead you are dead. And dead means the end of everything. There is no stepping on his graveyard, theres just a random space, where he happens to be entombed.

[AZmodelnumero18532XT]

*Plays military trumpet*

Dun-dundunnnn

Dun-dun-duuuuun!

He went way too soon. If he had just stayed eleven more years, I could have met him. He died near to my birth time.

[edgarrg94]

nunca devio morir xDD

[onassisfoto]

que emocion haber estado por lo menos cerca de ese gran maestro que fue Carl Sagan que fue mi gran inspirador en la ciencia y astronomia que tenga la proteccion de Dios donde quiera su alma que este, y que bueno que fueron chilenos como yo que pudieron visitar y darle sus respetos