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QUESTION: Summarize the Article (one paragraph). Why does Carl Sagan organize his calendar the way it is presented in the article? How does our history compare to the history of the Earth?
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Carl Sagan oranizes his own calander of earths time so it can seperate both humans and earths differences. Our history is only a small part of earths history and is shown in much smaller numerical values than earth itself.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan classifies the calender of the events that have taken place over time in chronological order. He does this by placing the Earth and humans into two seperate groups. He organizes his calender the way it is presented in the article. Sagan wants to be able to seperate the human events and the events of the earth. Carl Sagan compared our history to the world's history, because he wanted to distinguish how our history is affected by the earth's history.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan places all the events that have happend over time in numerical order. he puts people and earth into two different groups, because he wants to separate earths events from human events. our history is only a small portion of earths history so Carl Sagan wants to see how our history affects earths.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his own calendar differently than we organize our calendar. He puts humans and the Earth into separate groups. The events of humans and the events of the Earth are divided in Sagan's calendar. Our history compares to the Earth's history because of how our history affects the Earth's history. Carl Sagan sees these differences, and therefore classifies his calendar in a different way.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calender the way it is presented in the article is diffrently than we organize our calendar. He puts the events of human and the events of earth into seperate groups. Comparing our history to the history of the earth, it is clear to Sagan that depending on our human individual sensitivity of mankind, it can show what happens on and near earth.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calendar differently than our normal calendar. His calendar is organized by events in Earth's time. So 1 year in his calendar is thousands of years in ours. For instance within 2 days on his calendar the Paleozoic Era ends, the Mesozoic begins, the Triassic Period occurs and the first mammals are found. This all in 2 days on his calendar occurs over thousands of years in ours.
ReplyDeleteCarl sagan arranges his calendar like in a timeline.car sagan arranges his calender different then others. He wants the events of mankind and the earth in separate groups.He compared humans history to the earths history. He wanted to show how our history affects the earth's history.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calendar like most calendars, in the order in which the events occurred. Carl Sagan, however, didn't create a calendar of human history, but rather Earth's history. Sagan made this calendar to seperate events in human history and events in Earth's history. The goal of this was to show how Earth's history affected, and still affects, humans but also to show how human history affects the Earth.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calendar antithetically. Our history is like the same as earths history because we are the cause and earth's history is the effect. Mr. Sagan puts humans and earth in separate groups. Mr. Sagan's calendar is numerical order also.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan believes because of Big Bang the universe had begun or been discontinued. That all the earlier history has been destroyed. That every 24 days of our cosmic year would correspond with billion years of Earth history. Carl Sagan organizes his calendar the way it is presented in the article because to show you the history of Earth during the cosmic year. Our history compares to the history of the Earth because the start of Earths history statrs our history. The history of Earth is that it goes through the process that every life form has to go through or has gone through.
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Carl Sagan organizes his calendar the way it is presented on the calendar because he separates humans and the earth at different times (earth being older then humans because he states we humans are young). Sagan also believes in the Big Bang Theory which may be the running of the universe or a discontinuity.He compares our history to the history of the earth by telling us his the affect on earth.
ReplyDeleteSagan organizes his calendar in a different and chronological order of events that have taken place in the likes of Humankind. The history of Earth compares to the history of mankind because currents events that have happened in mankind are known to be a special event that also happened on Earth. Such as, “The Big Bang which took place on January 1st. January 1st is known on Earth as New Year's Day, (when earth has finally made another year.) Our history compares with mankind history because the dates are based on events that happened on Earth, while, mankind history are events that helped to shape and form the World. Carl Sagan organizes it this way because it’s a simple way to demonstrate current periods of the past which shaped the world.
ReplyDeleteThe main thought process in the passage from The Dragons of Eden is that humans are so young when compared to our ancient earth. Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar started with the big bang (a period in time which earth formed) and ended with the start of the Pleistocene and Holocene period also known as the period of the first humans. We are just starting our second Cosmic Year. The Cosmic calendars and the Julian calendar are laid in the same format, January first through December thirty-first. I feel Carl Sagan did that so the readers will understand the big picture. We were in so little amount of it only one and a half hours in the whole year; our recorded time is less then ten seconds.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organize his calendar the way it is presented in the article because it makes it easier for him to understand what happend during history.It also is easier to know what happend chronologically in a few minutes or seconds without reading a book or something.
ReplyDeleteOur history compares to the history of the earth by showing what happend during what year and on what date, our history started a very very long time ago when the earth history started about a 46 billion years ago.
Carl Sagans calendar is apparently completely different from our own. His calendar is one of which is unusual and utterly unique. It is quite clear that just one year in Sagans calendar is equivalent to approximately a thousand years compared to our calendar. His point was announced to me in a way like no other! You see, he created this calendar that displayed all of Earth's history, but each bit of that history involved us, humans. We created that history. Carl Sagans just demonstrated to me what is written in a textbook- how we all build history as the years pass and the thing is he did it all through a calendar!
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calander just like we do it goes in chronological order, but one of our days is like thousands of years. One of our months is over a million years on his calender. Within 2 weeks on his calender it says that we went through the paleozoic era and ended up discovering the first humans.During those 2 weeks mammals,worms,winged insects and amphibians were discovered.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calender differently then then we do today. Sagan organized his calender according to the Earth's history. Each month represents events that happened on Earth. However, in reality these events took thousands of years. We have written documents about the history of humans. Geologist provide information about the Earth by researching the Earth's surfaces. Sagan's calender shows us that the history of the Earth is so much older than humanity.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes the universe's time line into one year. This calender depicts a billion years into 24 days and 475 years as one second, starting with the big bang. Sagan organizes his calender in this way to contrast the time Earth and humans have been in existence to the time the universe existed. In this display, our complete history occupies one wednesday in the month of Earth's existence. Our history is almost nonexistent.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan's cosmic calender is organized by the Earths history rather than human history. The time difference between our calender today and his calender is enormous. One day on our calender is thousands of years already passed on his calender. The difference between our history and the Earths history is for example, the middle ages to the present took thousands of years as opposed to the cosmic year which only took one second for this period of time to occur. Events from the past are based on data on the ages of the planets, stars and the milky way.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why Carl Sagan organized his calendar the way it is described in the article is because he wanted to be able to fit all of Earths history up to now in one year. This way we would be able to to see all of time since the bing bang in a greater or bigger point view rather than just the history of mankind. By comparing Earth's history with that of mankind you will only find how little of an amount of time we have existed, compared to the immense amount of time Earth and the universe has existed.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan's calender is a calender much differnt then how we organize or daily lives. We count 1 whole day as 24 hours, unlike Sagan. Sagan's cosmic calander states that in 24 days we count 1 billion years and in one second that we count 475 years. starting from the Big-Bang theroy Sagan states that humans and the earth have two totally different ways to tell time.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan creates a cosmic calender that takes us through the history of the world, in chronological order. Sagan starts out from the very beginning with the forming of the Milky Way and and takes us all the way to the first humans, but this calender isn't like the calenders we have now, in just one day he covers over hundreds and thousands of years. Our history compared to the history of the earth seems very short,for example on Sagan's callender the development of the atmosphere took about 2 weeks but the comming of the first humans only took about a second. That is a HUGE diffrence.
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his calendar the way it is presented in the article because his calendar is arranged in order by the Earth’s history instead of the humankind history. The most helpful way to explain the cosmic calendar is to imagine that the universe's fifteen-billion-year lifetime is compacted into one year. Every single billions of years in the Earth’s history would come to about twenty-four days in the cosmic year and one second of the year is four-hundred and seventy-five whole revolutions of the Earth around the sun. The time difference between our calendars and his is really vast. So the last ten seconds of the cosmic year was crucially too long to mention about some of the things that have happened such as art, music, and literature and history on the Americans, French, Russians and the Chinese revolutions. Sagan wanted to distinguish how the mankind history is really affected by the Earth's history so he used the cosmic calendar.
ReplyDeleteOur history is compared to the history of the Earth because the history of the Earth started forty-six billions of years ago so our history was recorded what was done on what day, month, year.
Carl Sagan organized his calendar the way it is presented in the article because he wanted to show that there are two different ways of looking at the history of our universe. You can look at it in terms of billions of years, like us humans do, or you can look at it like a calendar, with January 1st being the Big Bang and January 1st of the next year being the present-day. It seems as if 1,000 years is a long time, but if you look at it on Carl Sagan's calendar, that is about 2 seconds. Carl Sagan also wanted to use a graphic way of showing us how insignificant our history is in the universe by comparing it to the rest of its history. Our history compared to the rest of the universe is VERY short. For example, the first humans were around at about 10:30 p.m on the last day of the year, meaning about only 1/5840 of the entire history up to now! The dinosaurs seemed so long ago, and yet, they disappeared only about 2 days behind us on the cosmic calendar out of the year. That shows how long the universe has been around compared to the human race!
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organized his calendar the way it is presented in the article because he wanted to show that there are two different ways of looking at the history of our universe. You can look at it in terms of billions of years, like us humans do, or you can look at it like a calendar, with January 1st being the Big Bang and January 1st of the next year being the present-day. It seems as if 1,000 years is a long time, but if you look at it on Carl Sagan's calendar, that is about 2 seconds. Carl Sagan also wanted to use a graphic way of showing us how insignificant our history is in the universe by comparing it to the rest of its history. Our history compared to the rest of the universe is VERY short. For example, the first humans were around at about 10:30 p.m on the last day of the year, meaning about only 1/5840 of the entire history up to now! The dinosaurs seemed so long ago, and yet, they disappeared only about 2 days behind us on the cosmic calendar out of the year. That shows how long the universe has been around compared to the human race!
ReplyDeleteI think Carl Sagan's trying to say that our personal lives are nothing compared to the rest of the world's history. Numerous events have happened in the past, and humans don't come to life until the final minute of the calendar. Maybe birthdays and personal anniversaries aren't that important after all. They are to us, but when compared to all of the world's history, a birthday only lasts a nano-second or less!
ReplyDeleteCarl Sagan organizes his own calendar differently than we organize our calendar. He puts Humans and the Earth into two different Groups. The events of humans and the events of the Earth are put in Sagan's calendar but he divides it in half. Our history is compared to the Earth's history because of how our history affects the Earth's history. Carl Sagan has seen these differences, and has organized his calendar in a different way.
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