Cosmos

[JohnT]

Anybody watch Cosmos last night??

I though it was fantastic. Very well done.

I fondly remember the original series by the late, great Carl Sagan. I was a little disappointed that Mr. Tyson did not use the same first line.. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

We nerds love this stuff. Someone actually came up with the "big bang" apple pie recipe. I tried is a number of years ago and have to say that it is pretty good, but takes too long to cook (about 14 billion years)..

Tee Hee..

 

[jswordy]

I give kudos to Fox for putting a science show on a popular network again. Alas, I am too enmeshed in my Netflix to view commercial TV at present.

 

[cmason1957]

I am sure this will be on Netflix before the end of the year.

 

[Norske]

Loved it and plan on watching or taping each episode.

 

[Elmer]

Watched with my kids.
Great show.
neil degrasse tyson is great at explaining science!

“I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.” -neil degrasse tyson

 

[JohnT]

I agree. I especially liked how he got it all correct.
This show is Nerd-Candy if ever I saw it!

I do like Tyson, but I am a little put off by him for his spear heading the movement to downgrade Pluto from a planet.

 

[Boatboy24]

I do like Tyson, but I am a little put off by him for his spear heading the movement to downgrade Pluto from a planet.

Poor Pluto. I wonder what it ever did to him.

If anything should be de-planetized, its Uranus. (said the proctologist to his patient)

 

[Elmer]

I agree. I especially liked how he got it all correct.
This show is Nerd-Candy if ever I saw it!

I do like Tyson, but I am a little put off by him for his spear heading the movement to downgrade Pluto from a planet.

I am no longer defending Pluto. I have jumped on the "dwarf planet" bandwagon.

pluto is so small,
"how small is it"
pluto is so small it cannot clear other objects out of its path.

If a planet can not defend itself, or its people, I surely will not stand up for it!

 

[JohnT]

Yes, but Pluto has 5 known moons (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra). Surely that must count for something....

 

[corinth]

Nerd?
Lemme see, horn rimmed glasses held together with tape. plastic pocket protector with a pen and a pencil. My slide rule in my pocket with pants legs two inches above my ankles and a slightly used pair of old keds.
Nope, not me.

http://www.keds.com/store/SiteController/keds/viewallkeds/cat610201/cat2060415/subcategory
Coirinth

 

[Elmer]

Yes, but Pluto has 5 known moons (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra). Surely that must count for something....

But the moons are less than 100 miles wide.
So they are small meteors more than anything!

 

[JohnT]

But the moons are less than 100 miles wide.
So they are small meteors more than anything!

does size matter?

Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both bigger than the planet Mercury. If size matters, then they should both be considered Planets and not moons.

 

[cmason1957]

To be considered a planet, they must orbit a star (in our case the sun), be massive enough for its own gravity to make it round, and has cleared its neighborhood of smaller objects. At least most astronomers accept this definition.

Moons orbit planets.

 

[tonyt]

Loved it and plan on watching or taping each episode.

Taping. Really taping. Do you use Beta or VHS? Have you not evolved at all.
Just kidding.::

 

[sour_grapes]

I give kudos to Fox for putting a science show on a popular network again.

Agreed! Especially considering what percentage of their viewership actually believes in science.

 

[JohnT]

Agreed! Especially considering what percentage of their viewership actually believes in science.

I remember when I was a small lad. The weekends were always closed out by great wholesome on Sunday nights. shows like "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom", "The Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau", or even "The Wonderful World of Disney"...

Ahh the good old days! Cosmos Brings me back to that. A great TV show to help close out the weekend. Cudos to Fox!

 

[Elmer]

does size matter?

Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both bigger than the planet Mercury. If size matters, then they should both be considered Planets and not moons.

but moons orbit a planet.
Therefore if both Ganymede and Titan are orbiting a planet, they themselves can not be a planet.


And as far as Fox putting Cosmos on network TV, the program itself was produced by Seth Mcfarlane, who created/produces/voices family guy.
He makes a ton of money for that network, so I have to imagine they are indebted to him and any of his pet projects.
But good for all those involved.

 

[JohnT]

Not a bad episode last night. Covered evolution rather well.

 

[jswordy]

Series has apparently been cancelled? Not enough viewers.

 

[JohnT]

Series has apparently been cancelled? Not enough viewers.

Where did you hear this from? I though the series is doing well.