{"id":85,"date":"2013-02-17T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/carl-sagan-astronomy-and-the-zen-pencil\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:35:55","slug":"carl-sagan-astronomy-and-the-zen-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/carl-sagan-astronomy-and-the-zen-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan, Astronomy, and the Zen Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Pale-Blue-Dot-2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Pale-Blue-Dot-2.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>We presented Carl Sagan&#8217;s beautiful &#8220;Pale Blue Dot&#8221; quote<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/pale-blue-dot.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> back in September 2011<\/strong><\/a><strong>, along with a nice video. This week a friend in Kathmandu sent me a link to a web site called The Zen Pencil. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpencils.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> This fellow<\/strong><\/a><strong> takes great quotes and draws cartoons to accompany them. I liked his cartoon for The Pale Blue Dot:<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpencils.com\/comic\/100-carl-sagan-pale-blue-dot\/\"><strong>http:\/\/zenpencils.com\/comic\/100-carl-sagan-pale-blue-dot\/<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We presented Carl Sagan&#8217;s beautiful &#8220;Pale Blue Dot&#8221; quote back in September 2011, along with a nice video. This week a friend in Kathmandu sent me a link to a web site called The Zen Pencil. This fellow takes great quotes and draws cartoons to accompany them. I liked his cartoon for The Pale Blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/carl-sagan-astronomy-and-the-zen-pencil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carl Sagan, Astronomy, and the Zen Pencil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}