Carl Sagan On Marijuana 3
eldavojohn writes "BoingBoing is reporting that, allegedly, Carl Sagan wrote a piece for 'Marihuana Reconsidered' under the pseudonym Mr. X that appears to look fondly upon the science of trippin' balls. Puff the Magic Sagan's full piece can be found here. It opens with 'It all began about ten years ago. I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life — a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my social consciousness and amiability, a time when I was open to new experiences.' Too bad old Mr. Cosmos couldn't enjoy his latest vocals."
Extrapolating a little (Score:2)
Written in 1969: " ... it would be impossible to grasp the total content of an image with the information content of an ordinary photograph, say 10^8 bits, in the fraction of a second which a flash occupies."
Assuming uncompressed 24-bit color bmp:
100,000,000 / 24 = 4,166,666 pixels
So, mentally, he was shooting with a 4.2 megapixel camera
100,000,000 bits / 8 = 12,500,000 bytes
1.25e7 / 1024 = 12207
12207 / 1024 = 11.92
11.92 MB file
He doesn't state what fraction of a second this "flash" occupies, but