The Painting that Inspired Sagan’s Cosmos This painting, by artist Jon Lomberg, was the inspiration for Carl Sagan’s “spaceship of the imagination” in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. It was designed to invoke the seeding of stars like the floating dandelion seed, and that shape became the craft that carried us through the greatest science film series ever made. (via Symbiartic)
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The Painting that Inspired Sagan’s Cosmos

This painting, by artist Jon Lomberg, was the inspiration for Carl Sagan’s “spaceship of the imagination” in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.

It was designed to invoke the seeding of stars like the floating dandelion seed, and that shape became the craft that carried us through the greatest science film series ever made.

(via Symbiartic)

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com

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