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Sean Carroll is the closest we have to Carl Sagan right now

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judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  02/26/21
he sucks
floppy garnet property
  02/26/21
He's the best we've got. I'm listening to his podcast where ...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  02/26/21
Faith and Begorrah! c'mon, man, stop the flame. Nobody thi...
Trip Filthy Stead Karate
  02/26/21
Not saying he is. Like Carl Sagan he's a science communicato...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  02/26/21
I'm just joshin' -- never heard of the guy but usually thes...
Trip Filthy Stead Karate
  02/26/21
He's a ginger nut
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  02/26/21
he's a mensch and I'm going to send him a crank letter very ...
galvanic coffee pot mexican
  01/27/26
He fell off a cliff since I made this thread. I hope he goes...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
tbh I'm just listening to his old quantum lectures right now...
galvanic coffee pot mexican
  01/27/26
He's very bitter about getting denied tenure at University o...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
lol I had no idea. well at least johns hopkins has DAT lay p...
galvanic coffee pot mexican
  01/27/26
Is he there now? He went to Villanova for UG, and I recall h...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
no wonder he's so relatable, I went to UCSC and was on a lev...
galvanic coffee pot mexican
  01/27/26
brian cox is the GOAT. brian greene is awesome too degr...
Aqua turdskin stage
  01/27/26
Greene is a joke. There's no one good in this field right no...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
disagree. his latest JRE appearance was 180, especially the ...
Aqua turdskin stage
  01/27/26
Wikipedia now calls him a "theoretical physicist,"...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
dat (as far as I know!) https://x.com/i/status/13468592...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
Neill deGrasse Tyson is and it isn’t close Carroll ...
diverse fantasy-prone theatre
  01/27/26
Carl Sagan was a boomer dipshit that reinforced the delusion...
doobsian death wish
  01/27/26
Name someone better
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
The evo-devo guy?
Poppy marvelous factory reset button giraffe
  01/27/26
I always enjoyed how he demolished William Lane Craig htt...
Disturbing hissy fit market
  01/27/26
Yeah he's on the same debate circuit as Richard Carrier, and...
judgmental circlehead volcanic crater
  01/27/26
The reason being that both are 180 and pwn the shit out of f...
Disturbing hissy fit market
  01/27/26


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Date: February 26th, 2021 12:48 AM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater



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Date: February 26th, 2021 1:47 AM
Author: floppy garnet property

he sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42011607)



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Date: February 26th, 2021 4:07 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

He's the best we've got. I'm listening to his podcast where he interviews contemporary thinkers and he's operating at a very high level. He dominates many of his guests by dropping hints that he's at least as well read as they are about certain topics. Like he knows the limits of their knowledge and he pushes them there and keeps them there throughout the whole show. He is also a big classicist and has done his homework on ancient history. He seems pretty based tbh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42014705)



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Date: February 26th, 2021 4:11 PM
Author: Trip Filthy Stead Karate

Faith and Begorrah!

c'mon, man, stop the flame. Nobody thinks someone named Seán Ó Cearbhaill is some kind of physics master

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42014726)



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Date: February 26th, 2021 4:13 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Not saying he is. Like Carl Sagan he's a science communicator first and foremost. The people who are the best at the science side of things are weird shut-ins who no one would ever put on TV. SC comes across as more of a polymath than a specialist in any one field.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42014736)



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Date: February 26th, 2021 4:17 PM
Author: Trip Filthy Stead Karate

I'm just joshin' -- never heard of the guy but usually these dudes are named something like "Mike Cohen" or "Ethan Sandberg"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42014758)



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Date: February 26th, 2021 4:18 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

He's a ginger nut

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#42014763)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 6:17 PM
Author: galvanic coffee pot mexican

he's a mensch and I'm going to send him a crank letter very soon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624724)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

He fell off a cliff since I made this thread. I hope he goes out like Scott Adams, deathbed conversion livestreamed from hospice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624740)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:04 PM
Author: galvanic coffee pot mexican

tbh I'm just listening to his old quantum lectures right now, but I still like his "natural philosophy" concept and being both a popularizer and a serious representative of the field. but he's always been an annoying NPR lib in many ways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624925)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:10 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

He's very bitter about getting denied tenure at University of Chicago. He did a podcast episode about it and I thought it was a one-off, but I've since heard him mention it multiple times. When I first noticed him he was a CalTech, and it wasn't until much later that I realized it was only a contract gig

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624931)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:19 PM
Author: galvanic coffee pot mexican

lol I had no idea. well at least johns hopkins has DAT lay prestige does it not?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624966)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:21 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Is he there now? He went to Villanova for UG, and I recall him saying it flat-out sucked and all his classmates were dullards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624968)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:41 PM
Author: galvanic coffee pot mexican

no wonder he's so relatable, I went to UCSC and was on a level of my own there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625027)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:06 PM
Author: Aqua turdskin stage

brian cox is the GOAT. brian greene is awesome too

degrasse tyson had the hardest fall from grace courtesy of rogan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624926)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Greene is a joke. There's no one good in this field right now and the next great genius probably won't be American

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624934)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: Aqua turdskin stage

disagree. his latest JRE appearance was 180, especially the quantum computing black hole holograph segment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625089)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:24 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Wikipedia now calls him a "theoretical physicist," but I've heard him insist loudly that he's a COSMOLOGIST, not a physicist. He claimed this was another reason he never got tenure. He said physicists only dabble in cosmology and don't take it seriously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624975)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:26 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

dat (as far as I know!)

https://x.com/i/status/1346859219236970496

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624978)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:28 PM
Author: diverse fantasy-prone theatre

Neill deGrasse Tyson is and it isn’t close

Carroll is fine but not on the same level

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624981)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:28 PM
Author: doobsian death wish

Carl Sagan was a boomer dipshit that reinforced the delusion that Joseph Campbell and telescopes gave boomers a license to indefinitely exploit their children

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624984)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:31 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Name someone better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49624995)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:42 PM
Author: Poppy marvelous factory reset button giraffe

The evo-devo guy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625032)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:54 PM
Author: Disturbing hissy fit market

I always enjoyed how he demolished William Lane Craig

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/02/24/post-debate-reflections/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625049)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 7:57 PM
Author: judgmental circlehead volcanic crater

Yeah he's on the same debate circuit as Richard Carrier, and probably for the same reason

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625058)



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Date: January 27th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: Disturbing hissy fit market

The reason being that both are 180 and pwn the shit out of fundamentalists

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2most#49625087)