[MarkL]

Sagan was so over rated on so many different levels.

Carl Sagan was able to make science (somewhat) popular to the masses, but it seems he was also somewhat full of himself.

When he learned that Apple had internally named a PowerMac project "Sagan," he demanded they change the name, so they did - To "Butt Head Astronomer." At that point he sued them, and lost. Twice.

Mark

[Calvin Locke]

I knew a Cornell grad in the mid-80s. He said Sagan alienated a number of people in the physics/astronomy department by misrepresenting their work in his own political lurchings.

Probably having to do with his nuclear Winter crap.