Comments on: Your chance to lick Carl Sagan

By: ToSeek

ToSeek — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:51:50 +0000

I think any design involving Sagan should include the “Pale Blue Dot” image.

By: blu-ray-ven

blu-ray-ven — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:06:38 +0000

carl is an inspiration to me, with quotes like “we are a way for the universe to knwo itself”, bring a tingle down my back

i will be in ithaca during there ithaca festival at the end of may, date not yet set. i am a member of the sagan apreciation society (sas), we will have a 1st annual “Gathering”. my sister has siad she will come, so i hope more people will attend. see you there

By: bearcub

bearcub — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:06:47 +0000

After reading up on the requirements here:
http://www.usps.com/communications/organization/csac.htm
it looks like the May postage increase won’t be a concern. From the USPS website:

“Stamp proposals are to be submitted in writing to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee. This allows everyone the same opportunity to suggest a new stamp subject. Subjects should be submitted at least three years in advance of the proposed date of issue to allow sufficient time for consideration and for design and production, if the subject is approved. All eligible subjects are reviewed by the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee regardless of how they are submitted, i.e., stamped cards, letters or petitions.”

So if the stamp gets approved, we may not see it until 2011.

I hope it happens and am torn between the design that the BA posted and the one by Lisa Hutter and Chris Fix.

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:57:58 +0000

That meteor is about to annihilate the earth and he’s just sitting on his keister smiling.

By: bellavance

bellavance — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:06:44 +0000

Too bad he looks like a disco dancer.

By: Seonaid Barrett

Seonaid Barrett — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:17:45 +0000

That really stinks. Someone cool on a stamp, and they’ll be raising the rate weeks after it comes out.

Carl Sagan should have had a “Forever” stamp.

By: Hoonser

Hoonser — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:44:51 +0000

They should have one where he’s playing the electric guitar. Doesn’t matter that he didn’t play it. It’d just look cool.

Here in Canada we have a stamp with former Prime-Minister Robert Borden playing the electric guitar. Next to the robot fighting the cat it’s the most popular stamp we have.