One of my son's professors is...

Relax. A slimy outer-space creature would be more likely to recoil in horror or revulsion at our likenesses. “Yow! Monsters!” and so forth.

I have a cousin who used to be married to Adrienne Barbeau’s half-brother. I met him once, 30 years ago, but not Adrienne. He and my cousin divorced long ago.

That’s all I’ve got.

At the time some people did object to sending “porn to the stars,” which Sagan found hilarious. He was more concerned that the aliens would think that one sex of humans was distinguished by having asymmetric arms, since only the male has his right arm raised on the plaque.

Hey, speak for yourself, pal! I think hideous space creatures will find me quite attractive. Earth-chicks don’t seem to, so aliens are my last hope.

, I just hope they don’t try inserting their filthy appendages into my wrong orifices. :frowning:

When I was an undergrad at University of Nevada, Reno, My creative writing professor was Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

I wish I would have kept my assignments with his comments on them.

Maybe not intimately, but I used to babysit for the kids of a woman who’s mom painted Einstein’s portrait. It was weird when the kids pulled out a box of family snapshots, and there were all these pics of Einstein, like he was one of the family. Plus my younger sister worked with Einstein’s grandson. He had the exact same hair – must have been a strong genetic trait!

Our son is taking the intro class. There was an article in the school paper last year that said he taught two classes; I forget what the other one is. It says a lot for the Ithaca film that someone with his experience is teaching an intro class.

When you click on the wiki link, it says, “Not to be confused with Nick Saban”. Yeah, no kidding. :rolleyes:

My seventh grade history teacher was the mother of Steven Van Zandt, “Little Steven” of the E Street Band.