by Jon Preston 41 Replies latest jw friends
If people are watching cosmos and not filled with awe, they are missing the message being presented and simply seeing cartoons and cgi about the night sky...
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
S&R right, but the heroes of advancement, victims of fanatical closed minds,-- are depicted as jokes, carricatures, not quite real humans -- again.
the cosmos is best seen without smoke and mirrors, and
the truth better sought after, if its not in a RELIGION that is a snare&racket.
I like it. It's kind of "science lite," but it's fun and entertaining.
The producers certainly do like bashing religion.
Cool! Illndeffo look into it!
If you could get off your kindergarten-teacher-level mentality of grading PEOPLE ore DE-grading people and concentrated on TEACHING
I strongly suggest you go to Coursera and take some online classes!
please tell us what earth-shaking science news, insights YOU LEARNED from the show so far.
You completely miss the point of the show if you think that is what it's about.
the cosmos is best seen without smoke and mirrors
Says the guy that has been caught pushing pseudo-sceince woo time and time again. Please stop bashing real science and learn something. Go yo Coursera and get educated for free.
I'm so sad I missed this conversation, maybe I can join now. Last time it was a lot of fun. I love the show because it explains things in details and gives insight about the historical background for different theories and concepts. Sure, it is not gonna help me to get my BSc but still I see it as a very productive way of recreation; I'm entertained but also learning something new. I wish I had professors in my college like Neil Tyson or whoever writes the script for the episodes.
Viviane, coursera.org is indeed an awesome website. I watched a few nanotechnology lectures a few months ago xD
prologos said: please tell us what earth-shaking science news, insights YOU LEARNED from the show so far.
From the original series with Carl Sagan, I learned from episode 1:
1) The same laws of physics apply throughout the Cosmos. The same elements exist as well.
2) The Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to have 400 billion suns.
3) The hottest stars such as red giants, do not last very long.
4) The Orion Nebula is 1500 light years from Earth.
5) On Mars, there is a volcano as wide as Arizona and 3 times higher than Mount Everest. This volcano has been named "Mount Olympus".
6) About the Library of Alexandria. It had 10 large research labs, botanical gardens, a zoo, astronomy observatory, a dissection lab. It was the first seriously and systematically collected knowledge of the world.
7) About Eratosthanes and how he figured out the Earth's surface was curved instead of flat.
8) About Hypatia of Alexandria.
9) 15 billion years ago the Big Bang occurred.
10) The sun and Earth formed around the same time, over 4 billion years ago.
9&10, the earth formed not the same time,
14 billion ears ago[When it ALL started is not 5 billion.when the solar system formed that is why Gen1:1 is wrong.
it took 10 billion years of exploding stars to cook the Dust, metal that the earth and WE are made of.
I am glad you learn from Television, I am too slow, I have to read it. someone suggested on this thread to sunscribe to Scientific Amercan instead, and I agree.
entertaining science is better than no science at all.
I am too slow
Agreed.
When and what channel is 'Cosmos' televised? I checked thru the Cox schedule and did not find.
Thanks.
