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Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 27, 2014 at 2:49 am
Heywood. Get over it.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 30, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Just watched ep 4. Watching NdGT shake on the way into a black hole was like an old Star Trek episode, watching Kirk, Spock & Uhura jiggle and shake.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 30, 2014 at 11:20 pm
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Wrote:The Crab Nebula is about 6,500 light years from earth. According to some beliefs, that's the age of the whole universe. But if the universe were only 6,500 years old, how could we see the light from anything more distant than the Crab Nebula? We couldn't. It wouldn't have been enough time for the light to get to earth from anywhere farther away than 6,500 light years in any direction. That's just enough time for light to travel through a tiny portion of our Milky Way Galaxy. To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7 thousand years old, is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy, not to mention the light from all the 100 billion other galaxies in the observable universe.

Hell fuckin' yeah. So much win.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 30, 2014 at 11:59 pm
Yeah...he really gave it to the creatards with that one.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 2:04 am
(March 30, 2014 at 11:20 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Wrote:The Crab Nebula is about 6,500 light years from earth. According to some beliefs, that's the age of the whole universe. But if the universe were only 6,500 years old, how could we see the light from anything more distant than the Crab Nebula? We couldn't. It wouldn't have been enough time for the light to get to earth from anywhere farther away than 6,500 light years in any direction. That's just enough time for light to travel through a tiny portion of our Milky Way Galaxy. To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7 thousand years old, is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy, not to mention the light from all the 100 billion other galaxies in the observable universe.

Hell fuckin' yeah. So much win.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 2:27 am
Tonight's episode made me a little teary eyed. So much fucking awesomeness. Yeah, yeah, call me a big pussy.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 3:28 am
Ugh, here in Oz we're a week behind, so I'm kind of excited for next Sunday now. Tongue
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 5:05 am
(March 31, 2014 at 3:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: Ugh, here in Oz we're a week behind, so I'm kind of excited for next Sunday now. Tongue

Free to air or on Fox?
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 5:08 am
(March 31, 2014 at 5:05 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:
(March 31, 2014 at 3:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: Ugh, here in Oz we're a week behind, so I'm kind of excited for next Sunday now. Tongue

Free to air or on Fox?

Fox: It's on Sunday nights at nine thirty, on the Discovery channel, if memory serves. Tongue
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 31, 2014 at 6:04 am
(March 31, 2014 at 5:08 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(March 31, 2014 at 5:05 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Free to air or on Fox?

Fox: It's on Sunday nights at nine thirty, on the Discovery channel, if memory serves. Tongue

NOT going to buy FOX JUST for Cosmos. Will wait until it comes out on DVD.
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