Anyone else seen it?
I've never heard of cosmos, kind of turns me off that it was made in 1980, I like all the cool simulations they do to help explain stuff which obviously won't be there in the old show is it still worth seeing?
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
Anyone else seen it? I've never heard of cosmos, kind of turns me off that it was made in 1980, I like all the cool simulations they do to help explain stuff which obviously won't be there in the old show is it still worth seeing? | ||
Kasto
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On March 10 2014 01:54 wei2coolman wrote: Can't wait for tonight's opening episode. Obama's supposed to do the intro into it, hopefully this show will reverse some of the anti-intellectual movement in America. just read about this ... they really building the hype to even have obama up on there | ||
Jockmcplop
United Kingdom8727 Posts
On March 10 2014 02:14 Assault_1 wrote: I watched The Elegant Universe and really enjoyed it, im about to watch the fabric of the cosmos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtVw7NMYoY Anyone else seen it? I've never heard of cosmos, kind of turns me off that it was made in 1980, I like all the cool simulations they do to help explain stuff which obviously won't be there in the old show is it still worth seeing? The best thing about Cosmos was that it was explained so clearly by Sagan that you didn't need cool simulations. Sounds kind of lame i know, but you'd understand if you watched it. Examples: | ||
Bayyne
United States1967 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
Good first episode though. Nice to see a channel like Fox would show it. | ||
Leporello
United States2845 Posts
Starting with the artificial evolution of dogs, to showing the immense yet imperfect complexity of the human eye, just frames the science in such a practical yet compelling way. It deftly plants the reasoning of evolution into the viewer's head, and then NDT nails it down with a hammer. "This is not a theory." Love that this series is happening. I know there are plenty of science-docs out there -- plenty of them with more raw information. There is no doubt more informative and in-depth docs on the topic of evolution, but I don't think there is any doc yet created that has done as good a job at advocating evolution or simply presenting the concept. I thought I'd mostly just watch this show for the theoretical astrophysics, the far-out "fun stuff", but the presentation is so well done that I'm just compelled by anything NDT wants to throw at me. | ||
wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
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ETisME
12082 Posts
On March 10 2014 01:54 wei2coolman wrote: Can't wait for tonight's opening episode. Obama's supposed to do the intro into it, hopefully this show will reverse some of the anti-intellectual movement in America. What anti intellectual movement? @@ Is it things like science should not be taught or something? | ||
wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On March 19 2014 14:35 ETisME wrote: Show nested quote + On March 10 2014 01:54 wei2coolman wrote: Can't wait for tonight's opening episode. Obama's supposed to do the intro into it, hopefully this show will reverse some of the anti-intellectual movement in America. What anti intellectual movement? @@ Is it things like science should not be taught or something? Just an American culture thing. Large sections of the country is high distrustful of science, and scientific education. That's why we still have like 50% of our population still not believing in evolution, and politicians who have no idea how the female reproductive system works. Here | ||
jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
On March 19 2014 14:54 wei2coolman wrote: Show nested quote + On March 19 2014 14:35 ETisME wrote: On March 10 2014 01:54 wei2coolman wrote: Can't wait for tonight's opening episode. Obama's supposed to do the intro into it, hopefully this show will reverse some of the anti-intellectual movement in America. What anti intellectual movement? @@ Is it things like science should not be taught or something? Just an American culture thing. Large sections of the country is high distrustful of science, and scientific education. That's why we still have like 50% of our population still not believing in evolution, and politicians who have no idea how the female reproductive system works. Here it could be worse, much worse. like racism and sexism in USA (it exists but tolerance/acceptance has been increasing), it could be (is) much worse somewhere else. i'm just glad we're slowly advancing in global scale compared to the medieval times and i dearly hope it continues to do so. | ||
deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
That and crowbarring in weed legalization in to the last episode was just gratuitous. Seth MacFarlane is really fucking up what should be an excellent educational program. | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41092 Posts
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BlackMagister
United States5834 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On April 01 2014 23:42 BlackMagister wrote: What episode did they talk about weed legalization or say go fuck yourself church? Every episode would piss off Creationist/Young Earthers including the recent very tame one where he talks about how small the observable universe would be if it was as young as fundamentalist believe because of how slow light travels relative to the size of space. Are you talking about when he says "Scientist don't go to Church banging on their doors to teach science" because that's still a really tame line. I don't disagree that creationists will find fault in the series, but some of the less informed ones and less fundamentalist Christians could be swayed by an even handed explanation of science's side in this debate. This series is not that. Look at the fucking episode title for christssake. Not to mention the first episode featured 15 minutes of talking about a guy condemned to death by the Church for his views on the universe. It goes well out of its way to demonize the church and the people in it where it's totally unnecessary to its stated goal of education. | ||
BlackMagister
United States5834 Posts
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Craze
United States561 Posts
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
its history, quiet difficult to bypass when telling history. | ||
zezamer
Finland5701 Posts
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