In 1966, Sagan was asked to contribute an interview about the possibility of extraterrestrials to a proposed introduction to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sagan "responded by saying that he wanted editorial control and a percentage of the film's takings, which was rejected."[7] In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Carl Sagan," in honor of the astronomerSee also:

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After a long and difficult fight with myelodysplasia, Sagan died at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Sagan was a significant figure, and his supporters credit his importance to his popularization of the natural sciences, opposing both restraints on science and reactionary applications of science, defending democratic traditions, resisting nationalism, defending humanism, and arguing against ...

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Additionally by Saturday, word of Walton's disappearance had spread internationally. News reporters, ufologists and the curious began travelling to Snowflake. Travis Walton’s family and friends began receiving all manner of prank telephone calls regarding the case. Among the visitors was UFO researcher Fred Sylvanus, who interviewed Rogers and Duane Walton on Saturday, November 8. While repeatedly expressing worry for Travis’s well-being (and criticizing what they saw as a halfhearted search effort by police), both men would make statements that wou ...

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At about 7.30pm, Peterson called police from Heber, Arizona, near Snowflake. Deputy Sheriff Chuck Ellison answered the telephone call; Peterson initially reported only that one of a logging crew was missing. Ellison then met the crew at a shopping center. They related the tale to him--all the men distraught, two of them in tears--and though he was somewhat skeptical of the fantastic account, Ellison would later reflect "that if they were ...

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On Monday, November 10, all of Rogers’s crew (except Walton, of course) took polygraph examinations administered by Cy Gilson, an Arizona Department of Public Safety employee. His questions asked if any of the men caused harm to Travis (or knew who had caused Travis harm), if they knew where Travis’s body was buried, and if they told the truth about seeing a UFO. The men all denied harming Travis (or knowing who had harmed him), denied knowing where his body was, and insisted they had indeed seen a UFO. Excepting Dalis (who had not completed his exam, thus rendering it invalid), Gilson co ...

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Just before midnight on Monday, November 10, Grant Neff reported that he answered his home telephone in Taylor, Arizona, a few miles from Snowflake (Neff was married to Travis’s sister Alison). The caller said, "This is Travis. I’m at a phone booth at the Heber gas station, and I need help. Come and get me." Initially, Neff says he thought the caller was another prankster. Before Neff could hang up the telephone, however, the caller spoke again, nearly hysterical and screaming, “It’s me, Grant ... I’m hurt, and I need help b ...

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Duane remembered Spaulding's promise of a confidential medical examination. Without having notified authorities of Travis's return, Duane drove him to Phoenix, Arizona, late Monday morning, where they were to meet with Dr. Lester Steward. The Waltons reported that they were disappointed to learn that Steward was not a medical doctor as Spaulding had promised, but a hypnotherapist. Spaulding and Steward would later report that the Waltons had stayed with them for over two hours, while the Waltons insist they were at Steward’s office ...

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A little after 6.00pm on the evening of November 5, Rogers and his crew finished their work for the day and piled into Rogers’s truck for the drive back to Snowflake. Shortly after beginning the drive home, the crew reported that they saw a bright light from behind an upcoming hill. They drove closer, and say they saw a large silvery disc hovering above a clearing and shining brightly. It was some eight feet high and twenty feet in diameter. Rogers slowed the truck to a stop, and then they claimed Walton leapt from the truck ...

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The case began on a Wednesday, November 5, 1975. Walton was employed by Mike Rogers, who had for some nine years contracted with the United States Forest Service for various duties. Rogers and Walton were close friends; Travis was dating Rogers's sister Dana. The other men on the crew were Ken Peterson, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Allen Dalis and Dwayne Smith; they all lived in the small town of Snowflake, Arizona. Rogers was hired to thin out scrub brush and other undergrowth from a large area (Over 1200 acres) near Turkey Springs, ...

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List of atheists - Living. Tariq Ali (1943-) - British author, filmmaker, historian, one of the founders of the New Left, and spokesman for anti-imperialism. Peter Atkins (1940-) - chemist, former husband of Baroness Susan Greenfield, professor at Oxford University. Sir David Attenborough (1926-) - British natural history presenter and anthropologist. Robert Bruce Avakian - American political activist, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Iain Banks (1954-) - Sc ...

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Narasimhaiah was born on June 6, 1921 in Hosur, a village near, Gouribidanooru in karnataka, India. His parents were poor, illiterate and belonged to a disadvantaged caste. Upon completion of elementary education, he left for Bangalore where he joined the National High School, Basavanagudi, in 1935. He received his B. Sc. (Honors) and Master's degree in Physics with first class from Central College, Bangalore (1946). The same year Narasimhaiah started his academic career as ...

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Klass graduated from Iowa State University in 1941, with a BS in electrical engineering. He worked for General Electric for ten years as an engineer in aviation electronics. In 1952 he joined Aviation Week, which later became Aviation Week & Space Technology. He was a senior editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology for thirty-four years. In 1973 Klass was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, recognized for his technical writing. He was also a member of the American Ass ...

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Klass was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is best known for his skeptical investigations of reports of UFOs. He published the bimonthly Skeptics UFO Newsletter for several years and wrote several books on the subject (see below). In his first book, UFO's: Identified, Klass argued that UFO reports were best explained as a previously unknown type of ball lightning. Though initially speculative and provisional, Klass thought that plasma was consist ...

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Books: UFOs — Identified, 1968, Random House, ISBN 0-394-45003-5 Secret Sentries in Space, 1971, Random House, ISBN 0-394-46972-0 LCCN 77143994 (about spy satelites) UFOs Explained, 1974, Random House, hardback ISBN 0-394-49215-3 Vintage Books paperback, ISBN: 0-394-72106-3 UFOs: The Public Deceived, 1983, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-322-6 UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game, 1989, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-509-1 The Real Roswell Cra ...

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By afternoon Monday, word of Travis’s return had leaked out to the public. Duane took a telephone call from Spaulding, and told Spaulding not to bother the family again. Clark writes that after this telephone call, "Spaulding became a sworn enemy in the case." (Clark 363) Among the other telephone calls after news of Travis’s return was one from Carol Lorenzen of APRO, a civilian UFO research group. She promised Duane that she could arrange an examination for Travis by two medical doctors--general practitioner Joseph Saults and pediatrician Howard Kande ...

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