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In preparation for Cosmos... I found this
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05-03-2014 4:50am#1Ann Druyan about her husband Carl Sagan.
One of the most tear inducing, beautiful meditations on love and humanity/human experience i've ever read.
I can hear Vangelis in the background
http://i.imgur.com/C8bDq.png
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”27
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Patrick Stewart (and others :pac:) are to be narrating some parts of this series
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-gets-ready-for-cosmos-trip-narrated-by-actor-haluk-bilginer.aspx?pageID=238&nID=63280&NewsCatID=3740 -
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I can kind of see the spirit of his point. Haven't seen the show but the carbon cycle on Earth is a huge thing. If you understand photosynthesis then the rest of the cycle particularly the degassing of CO2 is easily conceptually understood. Or at least most people can be given a very nice accurate conceptual image of what's going on. If they don't understand photosynthesis it's far far harder to explain the carbon cycle.
That would be my guess as to what a science communicator would mean. As I said, haven't seen the show so he may have meant something entirely different but it's what would mean sense to me.
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