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Who watches Cosmos? If you don't, I think you should at least try it.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:29 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:29 am
Evolution thread got me watching it, I told my buddy he had to watch it, and I downloaded all the episodes and gave it to him, he now says schools should be required to show it to students.... And his 8 year old is LOVING it...
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Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:33 am to NATidefan
Good show but... and this is a weird complaint... he's spending too much time talking about Earthly stuff, in my opinion. I don't remember Sagan's version doing this. I'm sure it will move on to space travel, black holes, supernova, etc. eventually.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:37 am to NATidefan
Sagan's version was even better.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:38 am to finestfirst79
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Good show but... and this is a weird complaint... he's spending too much time talking about Earthly stuff, in my opinion. I don't remember Sagan's version doing this. I'm sure it will move on to space travel, black holes, supernova, etc. eventually.
I like that it does that... we know so much more about both space and earthly stuff now than we did back then... it's all part of our realm.. I love learning about stuff "out there" as well as stuff "right here".
SPOILER ALERT
Like the fact that a atom is the size of a huge church, but it's nucleus is the size of a grain of dust and the rest is just space... I never knew that...
Most people view an atom like this
Instead, you need to think of the protons and neutrons as a grain of dust... and the electrons as the big church surrounding it...
Lots of wasted space there.
This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 1:47 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:58 am to NATidefan
I bet alot of potheads tuned in this past Sunday.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 2:04 am to SparkyAvenger
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I bet alot of potheads tuned in this past Sunday.
Well my buddy is really smart, but he is a pot head.. but I don't know why the interest/focus on lead based gasoline in the last episode makes you think it was a draw to potheads... It was 4/20 but there's a bunch of other pothead shite too watch...
This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 2:07 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 6:42 am to NATidefan
I watch Cosmos and enjoy it much better than the Stephen Hawking show. It's too much sometimes..
Posted on 4/24/14 at 6:45 am to NATidefan
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Like the fact that a atom is the size of a huge church, but it's nucleus is the size of a grain of dust and the rest is just space... I never knew that...
it gets even stranger than that
Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:30 am to NATidefan
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schools should be required to show it to students.
They showed the original at my school in 7th or 8th grade way back when.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:22 am to Roger Klarvin
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Sagan's version was even better.
I agree. The new version seems to be dumbed down too much. Maybe it'll get better.
Also, deGrasse Tyson is a high talker. That's irritating. Sagan had some strange pronunciations but it was tolerable.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:30 am to NATidefan
There's a lot of good science and a sprinkling of bad history...like when he suggested "some scientists believe that lead poisoning caused the collapse of the Roman Empire" 
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Posted on 4/24/14 at 11:32 pm to Kentucker
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I agree. The new version seems to be dumbed down too much. Maybe it'll get better.
Unfortunately, I think it needs to be...
Posted on 4/25/14 at 4:38 am to KSGamecock
So the position of lead caused the Roman empire to collapse? I wonder where society would be now had they put their lead in other places.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 8:09 am to NATidefan
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Unfortunately, I think it needs to be...
Agreed, and given the complexity of the universe and astrophysics, it most definitely needs to be dumbed down.
Part of the reason Tyson is so popular is because he talks about science in a way that relates to the non-scientists and non-PhDs among us. I don't want an astrophysicist talking to me like I'm an astrophysicist.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 10:02 am to BurtReynoldsMustache
My bad, poisoning...lead poisoning.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 10:04 am to KSGamecock
It's a show for potheads but it's pretty entertaining.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 10:43 am to Feral
I wish it was less dumbed down. I appreciate the effort for accessibility and to the end of being educational to the laymen it's great.
For those of us with some background in physics it's a lot of what we already know.
For those of us with some background in physics it's a lot of what we already know.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 11:22 am to Duke
I think that's why Sagan's version had so much success attracting people to science. He presented the basics but then showed how awesome and challenging nature can be.
deGrasse Tyson is presenting at the eighth-grade level. Also, there's too much cartoon history. I hope the remaining episodes will include some knocks-your-socks-off physics to challenge youngsters to get involved with science. Otherwise it'll be a failure, IMO.
deGrasse Tyson is presenting at the eighth-grade level. Also, there's too much cartoon history. I hope the remaining episodes will include some knocks-your-socks-off physics to challenge youngsters to get involved with science. Otherwise it'll be a failure, IMO.
Posted on 4/25/14 at 11:30 am to Kentucker
I agree.
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