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COSMOS
Post by Hutch   » Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:24 am

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Anyone else watching it? I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a worthy successor to Carl Sagan (and if you've ever had the pleasure of hearing him speak in person, you won't forget it--I haven't).

Unabashedly pro-Science, and showing the wonders not just of our 'pale blue dot' but of the Universe in it's majesty.

So far (3 episodes), I am impressed (albeit they took some liberties with the depictions of Bruno and Hooke)/
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Re: COSMOS
Post by MaxxQ   » Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:45 pm

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Hutch wrote:Anyone else watching it? I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a worthy successor to Carl Sagan (and if you've ever had the pleasure of hearing him speak in person, you won't forget it--I haven't).

Unabashedly pro-Science, and showing the wonders not just of our 'pale blue dot' but of the Universe in it's majesty.

So far (3 episodes), I am impressed (albeit they took some liberties with the depictions of Bruno and Hooke)/


I'd like to see this, but I don't have a TV. Don't want one either. Is there anywhere I can watch online, for free? Don't mention torrent sites either - I don't do torrents.

If not, then I suppose I'll have to wait for the DVDs.

Edit: Never mind. Just mentioned it to my sister, and it turns out she's been DVR-ing it.
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Post by Ensign Re-read   » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:27 pm

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Hutch wrote:Anyone else watching it? I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a worthy successor to Carl Sagan (and if you've ever had the pleasure of hearing him speak in person, you won't forget it--I haven't).

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Yup. Been watching it, with my daughter, in as much as she is able to stay awake that is...
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BTW, check this out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6cnp1kZBY

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Post by thinkstoomuch   » Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:03 am

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Thought there would be more comments for this. Then again I thought the topic would get posted before this. <shrug>

I have been watching it and am impressed. A for real science program in prime time on FOX of all places. (Home of the Simpsons. :shock:

Though I tend to disagree with some of his characterizations and directions he takes things but he is a captivating speaker working at spreading thought instead of useless stereotypes (mostly).

Not exactly what I was expecting but good nonetheless.

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Post by MaxxQ   » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:11 am

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I finally caught up with the episodes. It's good, and I like how Tyson is adding in a few callbacks to Sagan, but what I miss the most is the music Carl used in the original. It was because of Carl's use of artists like Vangelis, Vivaldi, and Synergy, as well as some traditional music from Japan and other places, that I came to discover and like them. The new version seems to be using the usual "score" music, and while it's good, it's not something I can get excited over.

I love the style of the animated sequences, and I liked the almost Connections-like episode dealing with Halley and Newton.
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Post by cthia   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:03 pm

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I only saw the first episode although I have the others on DVR. My niece and I are waiting to watch them together, yet I cheated and watched the first.

I loved it. I only wish the first episode would have been a special two-hour version, so perhaps a little more time could have been spent on planets, objects that are relatively close whose knowledge of has increased considerably for us. It felt just a bit rushed.

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