Memory Lane

I grew up to Carl Sagan's documentaries. This particular one spawned a story about one of my friends on a long trip with his family. He was trying to explain to his step mom that the concept of multiple dimensions. She could not get past the fact that the little paper cut outs representing the flat land creatures had some height. My friend said "Yes, but ignore that for sake of example." but she could not ignore it. She cloud not conceptualize a two dimensional creature.

Half the funky stuff I talk about on this blog had it's seeds planted in one of the PBS documentaries I watched as a kid.