Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[trousers]

Premiere's next week on Sunday March 9th. Friggin sweet.
COSMOS: A Spacetime odyssey

[Mel]

This will be a great show. I will buy the DVD set when the price comes down. It looks like they are showing it on multiple channels, no reason to miss it.

[trousers]

Yeah I think all of the non-sports FOx channels and Nat Geo are carrying it.
I've been waiting for this since it was first brought up.

[Mel]

I've seen Neil a few times on "NOVA". He has a great presence and speaking voice and real enthusiasm. This show is going to rock.

[trousers]

He has a podcast called Star Talk that is supposed to be really good. I've got a stack in i-tunes that I haven't had a chance to listen to.

[Chadanth]

Anyone else watching it? I think it's well done, maybe a little graphic intensive. Thoughts?

[mugofbeer]

I don't like him. He's the guy that killed off Pluto!

[Mel]

Hard to call on the first show but it has potential. Making the animation to look like wood carvings of that period was interesting. Need to turn down the background music a bit. But, I'm old and say that about a lot of things. The personal connection between Neil and Carl Sagan was a neat twist. Saw that Seth McFarlane was a producer and was worried that Brian or Roger would show up.

[Dustin]

Oh my god it was genius.

This was me the whole time:



I think this show is going to be a trailblazer and hopefully a catalyst for creativity in the younger minds of the world.

[ljbab728]

I enjoyed it greatly. He comes across as so likable and believable.

[mugofbeer]

It also held true to the first Carl Sagan episode of the cosmic day. Very impressed with Tyson's tribute to Sagan and how Sagan was his life inspiration going back to a day the two of them spent together when Tyson was 17

[Dustin]

I also like the fact that the president gave an opening message.

[RadicalModerate]

It also held true to the first Carl Sagan episode of the cosmic day. Very impressed with Tyson's tribute to Sagan and how Sagan was his life inspiration going back to a day the two of them spent together when Tyson was 17

My first year of college required me to take a Physical Education course.
I chose Scuba Diving. (in Colorado, in the winter).
Right after that, I walked across the street to the Astrophysics Tower to be lectured to by Kim Malville, an early Saganite.

I could have had and did have billions and billions of choices.
Those two mattered.
(I'm a bit older than Neil deGrasse Tyson,
yet not in the QuantumStringTheoryesque sense of Matter. =)

After class, we would watch Star Trek reruns on PreCableInternetTV.
(always hoping in vain that the light of James Burke's "Connections"
would suddenly appear and validate our observations of reality)

[Pete]

Loved it. Really look forward to the rest of the eps.

[Mel]

I want one of those ships of the imagination.

[OKCisOK4me]

I don't like that it and Resurrection are on at the same time but I choose this first.

[kelroy55]

I don't like that it and Resurrection are on at the same time but I choose this first.

I DVR'd resurrection

[RadicalModerate]

I don't like that it and Resurrection are on at the same time but I choose this first.

Easy Answer: Choose Not to Dislike. =)

dang . . . where did I put that App for Bumpersticker Glue?
all of this chance randomness is getting on my nerves.

(these variable, self-aware, bits of Star Stuff
need to be brought under control.
fer cryin' out loud. =)

[trousers]

It will be rebroadcast tonight on Nat Geo with "extra content". Whatever that means.
I missed it last night with Walkind Dead and True Detective both being on.

[RadicalModerate]

It will be rebroadcast tonight on Nat Geo with "extra content". Whatever that means.
I missed it last night with Walkind Dead and True Detective both being on.

Perhaps--in regard to "extra content"--the host of the show, magically combining Scientific Myth with History--will introduce the concept that the product, resulting from Big Bang Random Star Stuff from a Cosmos far, far away, with a different mindset--is still afforded the opportunity to choose? I'll be looking forward to the rebroadcast.

[RadicalModerate]

I want one of those ships of the imagination.

What? No eBay or Amazon? =)

p.s.: I remember two books from the pre-TV Saganite introductory astrophysics college professor lectures:
"StarMaker" (Olaf Stapledon)
[something by Fred Hoyle]
[and something by Teihard de Chardin called "The Phenominon of Man" or whatever. Can't really trust them Jesuits.]

Still . . . They were required reading that I chose to read. And might lend depth to the TV show.

[Pete]

That calendar used to illustrate time was pretty mind-blowing.

If the Big Bang happened at 12:01 Jan. 1st, then all recorded history would fit in the one second of Dec. 31st 11:59:59.


I really got into this stuff in high school and I love to try and get my mind around things like this -- and the billions of GALAXIES -- because it at once makes my troubles seem small and my existence rather insignificant.

[RadicalModerate]

And then They throw in "Daylight Savings Time" to confuse the issue. =)

[RadicalModerate]

That calendar used to illustrate time was pretty mind-blowing.

If the Big Bang happened at 12:01 Jan. 1st, then all recorded history would fit in the one second of Dec. 31st 11:59:59.


I really got into this stuff in high school and I love to try and get my mind around things like this -- and the billions of GALAXIES -- because it at once makes my troubles seem small and my existence rather insignificant.

Think of it like . . . Degrees of Infinity (e.g.: there are an infinite number of points on a line. there are an infinite number of points between any two points or sets of points on a line) . . . This rudimentary example leads to the obvious conclusion that each of us is, in reality, The Center of The Known Universe. (don't it? =)

[CCOKC]

I did not get to watch it because I work insane hours until April 15th but I intend to watch it when I get time. I am encouraged that people are liking it. I am a big fan of Neil Degrasse Tyson. I also applaud FOX and Seth McFarlane for taking on this project and bringing science to network television.