I agree. In a later episode he goes into greater detail about the destruction of the library, and that really ticks me off when I hear it.
“Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.” 
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
There was a female mathematician!!
Sagan sounds like he took the destruction personally. Passion is awesome.
It happens nowadays, Fundimentalist of all sorts around the world are still at it, so I feel that passion too.
The Beatles were just bigger than Jesus. Those guys (and woman) were before Jesus. :rolleyes:
Why didn’t they just burn all that to DVD?
Rachel Weisz!! KITTEH!!
DVD is so yesterday. Flash drive baby.
Definitely a cautionary tale for routine backups.
I love the way Sagan talks.
Kepler dreamt of going to the Moon. Keep dreaming buddy.
Arguably, if you really want it to last, bronze tablets are the way to go. 
Another idea that has not been learned throughout the ages.
yeah, we escaped the dark ages! it was touch and go for bit, but we made it through in the end!!!
Or stone. That’s why the Ancients left all of their stargate information on stone tablets instead of flash drives.
But then you’d get titles like “What I smoked up” by Ptolemy
It was probably covered in one of the lost scrolls. 