Cosmos

[BigRedRage]

I can't watch shows like that in syndication really. I like to watch them from the beginning.

I went the same route after getting netflix, now I like everything to be in order by 9pm shows while going to bed I deal with it

I have problems trying to watch how I met your mother on netflix now due to seeing sporadic episodes on wb61 before they switched back to king of queens.

I have to like start an episode, watch a few minutes and determine if I have seen it yet, its too much work and I end up watching something else.

 

[Finito]

It's not that I care that science is on tv.. I care what day it is on.. I used to enjoy watching FOX on Sundays.. I don't care about this show and it kills Sunday TV for me.. I watched the first 10 - 15 minutes or so of the first night this show was on, and was completely bored and irritated..

They show the 8pm shows at 6 now so you still get the same programming

 

[NJCardFan]

Fox the corporation only gives a crap about money. When the corporation split, 20th Century Fox and Fox broadcast network were placed in the entertainment wing. Want to guess where they placed Fox News? That's right folks, with the entertainment division.

And I bet you think MSNBC is sound, unbiased journalism.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

And I bet you think MSNBC is sound, unbiased journalism.

Objectively, no. In comparison to Fox News, absolutely.

 

[NJCardFan]

Objectively, no. In comparison to Fox News, absolutely.

Cite examples from unbiased sources. I love how it enrages you little lefties. MSNBC absolutely manufactures news and yet you see no problem.

 

[BigRedRage]

Cite examples from unbiased sources. I love how it enrages you little lefties. MSNBC absolutely manufactures news and yet you see no problem.

i dont think dcr falls in line with the democratic party specifically...

 

[BillsCarnage]

MSNBC absolutely manufactures news...

They all do some extent. And I don't know if I'd call it "manufacture" vs enhance. Anything can be news.

They all are in the business of attracting eyeballs and ears (earballs). News is drama and drama sells big time in today's society.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

i dont think dcr falls in line with the democratic party specifically...

I consider myself left of center. I don't consider myself a 'little leftie'.

 

[puckhead]

I consider myself left of center. I don't consider myself a 'little leftie'.

Then why are you so enraged?

 

[BigRedRage]

I consider myself left of center. I don't consider myself a 'little leftie'.

We have plenty of hard lefties, never saw you way over there so was just throwing it out there.

 

[BigRedRage]

Just saw episode one on Hulu. Pretty good. Almost lost me with the flying thumb drive for the first twenty but after that it got good. The cosmic calendar explanation was really cool

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[Matt L]

I really am enjoying Cosmos the television show

 

[BigRedRage]

so I was talking about the calendar perspective in episode one in the lobby at work

Someone behind us says "cosmos?" I say yes. Crazy, we are the last 30 seconds etc etc.

He says, well, thats all a theory.

I say Dan, its scientific theory, not just theory.

He says no, there is scientific fact and scientific theory, that is theory.

It is sad what the churches tell people. Dan is the guy who burned the dude at the stake for saying the earth revolves around the sun. It is amazing whow with overwhelming evidence, people can still be so closed minded. amazing.

He was visibly upset about it, said he enjoys the show but basically that it is fiction.

As mind blowing as the cosmos themselves are, its far more mindblowing that someone can learn it and dismiss it as fiction in todays society.

 

[BillsCarnage]

Just saw episode one on Hulu. Pretty good. Almost lost me with the flying thumb drive for the first twenty but after that it got good. The cosmic calendar explanation was really cool

Sagan used this example in the original Cosmos. A lot of this is just being updated from the original with new visuals and info that we've gathered over the last 25 or so years.

Still a cool series none less. If you like this kinda stuff, check out Brian Cox's The Wonder of... series

While Degrass gets all the publicity, Brian Cox is much more like Sagan when describing the universe, imo. It's a different kind of passion and how he breaks it down.

 

[BigRedRage]

Sagan used this example in the original Cosmos. A lot of this is just being updated from the original with new visuals and info that we've gathered over the last 25 or so years.

Still a cool series none less. If you like this kinda stuff, check out Brian Cox's The Wonder of... series

While Degrass gets all the publicity, Brian Cox is much more like Sagan when describing the universe, imo. It's a different kind of passion and how he breaks it down.

thats the cool thing about science is you can study it for years but if you look back 20 years later, most of what you thought you knew was not correct. The updates are accepted

 

[DemsMyBoys]

thats the cool thing about science is you can study it for years but if you look back 20 years later, most of what you thought you knew was not correct. The updates are accepted

Absolutely. That's one of the reasons I'm watching it.

I was talking with my brother about it. We were talking about the science films we saw in school in the early 60's. I said, "Looking back, they did a good job of teaching science to a bunch of 10-year old's. Some of those films were really good." He said, "They were. They were produced by Cal Tech."

Lucky us!

 

[BigRedRage]

Watched episode 2 last night. The girls pester me as they dont find it entertaining but I turned it up louder and sent them away.

Great episode. The DNA stuff is interesting, how all life has very similar basics in the DNA strains. The Grizzly to polar bear stuff was cool too. I like the thoughts on ice age cycles and etc. We may speed up warming but warming is inevitable and they made some good points about it especially with how the polar bear may go extinct once the earth reaches full heat again prior to the next ice age.

The development of eyes was interesting as well, some of this stuff makes me want to get online and find out if it is a loose theory or something we know as true. They seem to "know" more than I thought we knew. I am trying to mad dash to the ghosts in the sky episode but they made me stop watching TV after that episode. Hopefully I can do ep. 3 tonight or tomorrow.

Sincerely,
Tree man

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Watched episode 2 last night. The girls pester me as they dont find it entertaining but I turned it up louder and sent them away.

Great episode. The DNA stuff is interesting, how all life has very similar basics in the DNA strains. The Grizzly to polar bear stuff was cool too. I like the thoughts on ice age cycles and etc. We may speed up warming but warming is inevitable and they made some good points about it especially with how the polar bear may go extinct once the earth reaches full heat again prior to the next ice age.

The development of eyes was interesting as well, some of this stuff makes me want to get online and find out if it is a loose theory or something we know as true. They seem to "know" more than I thought we knew. I am trying to mad dash to the ghosts in the sky episode but they made me stop watching TV after that episode. Hopefully I can do ep. 3 tonight or tomorrow.

Sincerely,
Tree man

 

[ajcardfan]

Watched episode 2 last night. The girls pester me as they dont find it entertaining but I turned it up louder and sent them away.

Great episode. The DNA stuff is interesting, how all life has very similar basics in the DNA strains. The Grizzly to polar bear stuff was cool too. I like the thoughts on ice age cycles and etc. We may speed up warming but warming is inevitable and they made some good points about it especially with how the polar bear may go extinct once the earth reaches full heat again prior to the next ice age.

The development of eyes was interesting as well, some of this stuff makes me want to get online and find out if it is a loose theory or something we know as true. They seem to "know" more than I thought we knew. I am trying to mad dash to the ghosts in the sky episode but they made me stop watching TV after that episode. Hopefully I can do ep. 3 tonight or tomorrow.

Sincerely,
Tree man

There are tons of scientifically reviewed articles on eye evolution.

IIRC the number of different eye variants is around 24 to 30 for animals. And, in animals that exist today, you can find examples from nothing but a flat patch of cells that can do nothing more than tell light from dark to camera eyes that have two foveas for extremely sharp focus of images.

Darwin feared eye evolution would be so difficult that it would destroy his hypothesis of natural selection as an agent for evolution. But, it turns out that there were many, many paths to good vision. Darwin was frickin' amazing. To this very day, people are still getting PhDs testing predictions he made in writing 150 to 135 years ago or so.

 

[Gee!]

remember when the dude said the earth was flat and everyone beilved it?

 

[BigRedRage]

remember when the dude said the earth was flat and everyone beilved it?

Yeah i was like 14

 

[BigRedRage]

ep. 3 was sooooo boring IMO. That could have been explained in 5-10 minutes.

 

[Russ Smith]

ep. 3 was sooooo boring IMO. That could have been explained in 5-10 minutes.

I have been trying to watch it but I guess I just don't like the host/narrator guy enough. The information is great, but the way he says it is kinda boring to me.

I'll eventually watch the whole thing I'm sure, but I'm having trouble getting through an entire episode in one sitting right now.

 

[BigRedRage]

the first two had slow spots but were really good and kept me engaged, this one was very difficult to get through.

 

[BigRedRage]

ep.4 ghosts in the sky:

Pretty cool. Could we be inside of a black hole? space is wacky.