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RE: Cosmos
March 25, 2014 at 11:58 am
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So far it looks like I am wrong.
It appears I have overestimated how much many people who are atheists care about science.
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RE: Cosmos
March 25, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(March 25, 2014 at 11:58 am)futilethewinds Wrote: So far it looks like I am wrong.
It appears I have overestimated how much many people who are atheists care about science.
I am not a particular stickler for science. Never have been. The same goes for mathematics. English and the humanities were always more my style.
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RE: Cosmos
March 25, 2014 at 12:03 pm
I LOVE science, but NDT is tackling the crowd that knows very little about science. I will watch Cosmos soon, for sure, because MMmMmM Dr. Tyson... and science...MmMMm.
But I have read quite a few books on astrophysics and astronomy, made for non-science people or science people just delving into those particular topics, so I know I'd be going into this without learning anything new except a little thing here and there.
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RE: Cosmos
March 25, 2014 at 12:05 pm
(March 25, 2014 at 11:58 am)futilethewinds Wrote: So far it looks like I am wrong.
It appears I have overestimated how much many people who are atheists care about science.
Of course the science is fascinating! But, so far it's stuff I already know. Now, before this, I'd never even heard of Giordano Bruno! I didn't know about the conflict between Hooke and Newton. To me that's just as much fun to learn about as the cosmology
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RE: Cosmos
March 25, 2014 at 12:36 pm
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I watched the first episode, and I like it, my gripes are, too little science (suppisedly gets better in the second, which is the first real topical episode), music not very memorable, much references to the old cosmos which the target audience will nit know nor care about
Found the ship of the imagination tacky in the old cosmos, still do in the new one.
I love watching NdGT, he was a great choice, and the anti dogmatic religion thing is fine by me as well.
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RE: Cosmos
March 26, 2014 at 11:12 am
Somewhat related, though slightly off topic question:
I've seen it three ways in this thread, so which is it?
NDT?
NGT?
NdGT?
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RE: Cosmos
March 26, 2014 at 11:22 am
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(March 26, 2014 at 11:12 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I've seen it three ways in this thread, so which is it?
NDT?
NGT?
NdGT?
All of the above!
I am watching it, and I love it. Carl Sagan was one of my heroes, he originally got me excited about science. His books "Cosmos" and "The Varieties of Scientific Experience" were monumentally important to me. NDT's passion is very contagious. You can't help but to get as excited as he does about the power of the molecule or the majestic simplicity of evolution. I think he does a fantastic job, especially considering he's on a major network instead of PBS.
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RE: Cosmos
March 26, 2014 at 11:59 am
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(March 25, 2014 at 11:22 am)Chad32 Wrote: I haven't been watching it. Maybe I should. I don't know.
You should. Everyone should.
(March 25, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Psykhronic Wrote: I LOVE science, but NDT is tackling the crowd that knows very little about science. I will watch Cosmos soon, for sure, because MMmMmM Dr. Tyson... and science...MmMMm.
But I have read quite a few books on astrophysics and astronomy, made for non-science people or science people just delving into those particular topics, so I know I'd be going into this without learning anything new except a little thing here and there.
The second episode was on evolution, so I think you could learn something.
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RE: Cosmos
March 29, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Yes Ive been watching. I even managed to get a couple guys at work into it.
The first episode is definitely my favorite. I love the stuff about space and the universe and all that. The first 20 minutes of the first episode was incredible.
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RE: Cosmos
March 29, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Yes - been watching it (3 episodes thus far). Its good but it is not as earth shattering as the original was. Whether that is because I was very young when I saw the first series or whether its genuinely not quite as good is hard to tell. Obviously the special effects are better. I do like NdGT, as others said he's got that infectious kind of enthusiasm, but there was only one Carl Sagan (and I think NdGT would agree with that - he'd met him according to one of the personal anecdotes in the first(?) episode).
Certainly one of the better TV programs I've seen in a while.
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