Neil DeGrasse Tyson's _Cosmos_

the mass-extinction from an asteroid impact theory/discovery came after the original cosmos iirc

Yeah the Chicxulub crater wasn't properly identified until later in the 80's.

I hope stephens hawing comes flying in and rides of degreaasee toes and laughs

I much prefer NDT to the simpering contemptible shit Cox, he is very likeable and doesn't make me want to kick the tv.

gr80 otm, i think the alvarez paper is like 81 and the putative crater was known to an oil company in the late 70s, but the story didn't come together in public/become accepted until well into the 80s

i don't like any of these dudes except jacob bronowski

caek i love when you get all astronomist

in all seriousness, any one who liked the og cosmos and would like something similar to it, but about technology, and british, watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man

ha ty xp!

Are there any pre-Cosmos Carl Sagan-hosted space specials out there?

huh

The 13-part series was shot on 16mm film. Executive Producer was Adrian Malone, film directors were Dick Gilling, Mick Jackson, David Kennard and David Paterson. Quotations were read by actors Roy Dotrice and Joss Ackland. Series music was by Dudley Simpson with Brian Hodgson and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Additional music includes, amongst others, music by Pink Floyd. Apart from Bronowski, the only other named person appearing is the sculptor Henry Moore.
Malone and Kennard later emigrated to Hollywood, where they produced Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Jackson followed them, and now directs feature films.

pink floyd in sagan's cosmos too

final scene of the ascent of man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltjI3BXKBgY

"One Of These Days" was used in Cosmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtj9kwQCltQ

I need to watch The Ascent Of Man. hfs at ending.

James Burke's Day The Universe Changed fits in here too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed

I'm enough of an old-timer to have a Mariner 9 picture of Mars autographed to me by Sagan himself so I'm way biased on this and will sound like a fucking middle-aged hippie.

I want to like the new series, but I wish they had gone in a different direction with the soundtrack. What carries a love of my love for the original series was just how iconic and future-ahistorical the soundtrack was and the new corny Disney-one makes Tyson more nerdy than cool-nerdy.

I think it's a triumph that MacFarlane and Tyson were able to just get this on broadcast television for 13 weeks. Sure, the score may be a little hokey, but I'm willing to live with some production concessions made for the suits just to be able to witness this.

o.g. score is ace, though. that's otm.

I guess I just wanted the music to be something more than just filler out of a KOMPACT5 library. One thing I love in o.g. is that when things go all powers-of-ten on you, Vangelis' "Alpha" is going to kick in.

I watched some PLanets show from bbc with the littlun last night and it was grand to see her wide eyed - space is neat

Elvis otm. You cannot top that Vangelis track.

have posted this link many times to several threads but it belongs here too: http://cosmic_voyager.tripod.com/cosmosindex.htm

I keep thinking about the lot of the string theorists. Trapped in futile bullshit for decades. I would never do that.

Why is all including NDT so hostile towards string theorists? Just curious.

I had the same question as Evan and found this article:

http://io9.com/5890789/the-trouble-with-string-theory

also this xkcd posted in comments there:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17hipu0tf2q1spng/original.png

Before I jump into that article... How did they stumble on that initial idea?

Was it really a (mostly) random conclusion they're working backwards from?

Saw the stream of the new episode 1. The music is the least of the problems here; at best, I want to believe that its depthless tone is an intentional choice to reach a much larger audience than Sagan did with version 1. I want to support the project, I hope it does well, I might make it through one or two more episodes, but I also want to believe that even the most CGI-saturated 8 year old would still prefer the original show, even today, I just do.

Your probably wrong. 8 year olds would like neither.

whoever just ilxmailed me, the answer is kinda. i work in astrophysics.

I much prefer NDT to the simpering contemptible shit Cox, he is very likeable and doesn't make me want to kick the tv.

i am on record as having issues with cox but dear god ndt is irritating.

the crap effects didnt help him.

I find it difficult to dislike ndt, sure he isn't for everybody but he is more of a working presenter than Cox who seems like an overindulged solipsistic little shit, gurning away at himself in a mirror for a good living.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2wegmz8.gif

Daughter's initial skepticism was overcome within 5 minutes so I am into this

Her first comment: "why isnt he wearing a spacesuit?"

i thought i was watching a science show. and then he got into a space ship.

it's an imagination ship

right. that does make more sense because i was watching it on my imagination tube.

when he called it that, this was all i could think of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTn7xtVsE6U

How could you not like NDT? The man is a national treasure.

call it an exchange rate issue so

the dizzying intellectual heights of NdGT

http://storify.com/erinleeryan/monday-night-aas223

this is def aimed at kids right? and adults who like kids shit of course.

also that is the terriblest powerpoint by NDT altho i a gen a fan of his i guess?

it's aimed at ppl who fucking love science

And imagination-based spacecraft

it's cute that you guys have so much confidence in the average adult's scientific knowledge in 2014

i dont mean in terms of content! a lot of the stuff i saw in the evolution episode was like cliff notes and cool efx version of some intro college classes i remember. i mean more in presentation, it definitely seems like "what are we gonna do to hook tweens man, SPACESHIP"

i haven't seen it but i can't imagine there's any amount of dumbing down and spazzing up they could do to this thing that wouldn't have it blow my mind this thing is on network tv in 2014

however briefly

i think its def cool that its on too! i just think its target demo is older kids and their parents m/l.