A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11.

— Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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