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[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Billions and billions of THC molecules, winding their way within veins, passing through the violent pumping whirlpool of the heart, then thrust out with great force via the arteries and capillaries of the circulatory system, carried along by red blood cells, pushed upwards against the force of gravity, towards their final destination in the cerebral cortex, where they take one final step through the blood/brain threshold and into the roiling soupstuff of consciousness...

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

It's soothing to read it in his voice.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

I'm terrible at impersonations. Suddenly Carl Sagan's voice is coming out of my mouth.

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and Billions, and ..... Uhhhh.... .........Billions. Duuuude

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

...but you must first invent the universe

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Yes, that's what the drugs are for.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 36 points 11 months ago

Was Carl Sagan a stoner? Or do I just not know what "baked" means?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 58 points 11 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration

He was "prolific."

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 79 points 11 months ago

Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

I believe the kids today call this "based AF."

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 11 months ago

Also, baked AF.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

"basked AF"?

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

basking in something, certainly

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

I would love to see Carl Sagan and Samwise Gamgee hanging out, smoking some of the Hobbit's leaf and snacking on some potatoes.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

With Gandalf having a chuckle at his theories on cosmology.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I too find that music and sex improve the experience of potatoes.

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

He was so baked, he called baked potatoes as potatoes

[-] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

He loved baked beans, maybe?

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It isn't meant literally. It just means he comes off as mildly baked. I also have mildly baked syndrome and people occasionally ask me for drugs, even though I barely touch coffee.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was thinking the other day that Bob Vila should be in this pantheon, too.

Edit: And James Burke and Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Norm Abraham too, his safety speil is etched into my brain

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

Be kind to your tools? Or to old houses?

I live by both of these, and it has worked out well for me!

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

be kind to your wood

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Hah! Very punny!

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 13 points 11 months ago

If I ever start a religion, those will be the five pillars and the "saints" who embody them.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Humanist maybe?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

[-] midimalist@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ayy, that's my phone wallpaper!

edit: I made it because I was looking for amoled-friendly DE wallpaper :D

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

How did this ppl (or others like them) not spontaneously become some default universal role models and some sort of standard we judge ourselves, others, and humanity as a whole is beyond me.
Even from a completely selfish pov each of us would want at least the majority of other people to be like them. That's how you get (ever) nice(er) things.

I mean, I know the answer why that's not the case (they can't be monetised as efficiently as "starts"), but still.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

For many of us they are/were.

Also, on the topic of PBS potheads:

[-] androogee@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago

I was gonna be like, "remember when that Carl Sagan remix went viral a couple years ago?"

But apparently it was uploaded 14 years ago so I'll just

🙍🧑‍🦳💀🪦

[-] Femcowboy@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Was Steve Erwin really kind to animals? Didn't he wrestle them son's of bitches?

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ikr? He had a beef with every crocodile he could laid his hands on.
They were on a walk with tv crew when Steve saw a crocodile. He said „that motherfucker” and before everyone knew he jumped and got the creature in chokehold until the tv crew managed to separate them. Croc barely made it out alive to his wife and kids.

Live footage NSFL, graphic

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Everyone thinks Australia zoo was for the preservation of animals, when it was really Steve's own personal fight club.

I worked there in the 90s and the amount of times I had to physically pull him off of animals throughout the day was ridiculous, I kept telling him, Steve its a fucking emu... It isn't trying to steal your wife mate!