A Scientific LOVE Story

As I promote LOVE...I'd like to show some insight into the life of a pronounced "Athiest" cosmologist. Carl Sagan's (deceased in 1996) most recent wife, Ann Druyan.

She was the creative director of the Voyager Interstellar Mission (1977 space program that sent 2 spacecraft beyond the gravitational field of our own solar system...only the 2nd mission to do so at the time) Upon Druyan's shoulders was the project of summarizing the human experience for potential extraterrestrial interception. A "mix-tape" of the human experience.

Well, here's a link directly to a summary of the story. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123534818

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record)
-The Golden Records also carried an hour long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, the wife of Carl Sagan. In the Epilogue of the book Billions and Billions, she describes the experience:
"Earlier I had asked Carl if those putative extraterrestrials of a billion years from now could conceivably interpret the brain waves of a meditator. Who knows? A billion years is a long, long time, was his reply. On the chance that it might be possible why don't we give it a try?
Two days after our life-changing phone call, I entered a laboratory at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and was hooked up to a computer that turned all the data from my brain and heart into sound. I had a one-hour mental itinerary of the information I wished to convey. I began by thinking about the history of Earth and the life it sustains. To the best of my abilities I tried to think something of the history of ideas and human social organization. I thought about the predicament that our civilization finds itself in and about the violence and poverty that make this planet a hell for so many of its inhabitants. Toward the end I permitted myself a personal statement of what it was like to fall in love[6]."-

Significance? Well, Druyan had the opportunity to LOVE one of our most encompassing cosmological minds. Sagan. Instead of promoting the cosmos and our intellectual understanding...she ended on a mental statement of LOVE.

No matter WHAT we think we are doing or WHY we believe we are doing it or HOW we believe we should do it...we do EVERYTHING because we LOVE something. It can be a person, idea, experience or anything that creates an emotional attachment to what we do. Carl Sagan was in LOVE with the universe. It is very easy to see when we revisit his work. Perhaps this is why he was so capable of giving such an eloquent expression of it's vast complexity yet divine balance. Athiest or not, Sagan was driven by LOVE.