Neil DeGrasse Tyson's _Cosmos_

jesus

what a nob

But you're the opening act!

It's not like NdT hasn't already been doing live engagements for years and years. This is just the first time more than a few thousand people might be interested.

lol

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/475811925880610817

Surely the cover art for my nonexistent album of love songs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BppsbLcCYAAnQaW.jpg

Dude's funny, sorry caek.

his palling around w Dawkins is too bad but eh we all make mistakes

Dude's funny, sorry caek.

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aim high, right?

wow caek is such a science hater nagl

glad I wasn't the only one getting choked up at sagan's pale blue dot segment

I was at Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 2010 and there was a youth group in the crowd evangelizing. When this one girl asked me why I was no longer a believer, I told her she should the text of "Pale Blue Dot" and consider how exactly unimportant we are. Then I slammed another hurricane.

*should read

Hearing the Sagan PBD segment kind of shows that NDT doesn't really rhapsodize well.

This was great but I was hoping there would be more new stuff, felt like a lot of retreading stuff form the original series, only with extra "SCIENCE only deals with FACTS" stuff that Sagan never cluttered up his series with.

feel like the cultural climate re: science is p different now than it was in the 70s tho. I don't agree w Tyson's narrow focus (surprise surprise) and am more sympathetic to Sagan's mythic stoner manner but Tyson isn't entirely wrong to be aggressive about scientific principles.

Yeah, sadly shit needs to be said.

Anyone following any of this?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/09/17/if-we-cant-trust-neil-degrasse-tyson-who-can-we-trust/

I thought it was going to say that he beat women or was a nazi. At least it's better than that.

This must mean that science was wrong after all and creationism is right, right?

famous big talker loose with his words, quelle scandale

This is stupid

Next scandal: NDT tells homeless guy he doesn't have any change when he actually DOES have some.

Yeah, this is dumb

there are pedants on the internet?

just want to tip my hat to caek for the ascent of man recommendation

👍

Watching these w my 7yo daughter. A+

One weak part is the "what's inside a black hole" segment which I believe got most of its crazy ideas from Lee Smolin.

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i h8 science

Welcome to Rationalia! https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/reflections-on-rationalia/10154399608556613

https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/763037582372507649

I love Neil. I really wish he'd stop frittering the day away on social media and get back to narrating the basic concepts of existence to me in dulcet tones.

^^^

or competing in dance competitions

this dude's version of cosmos sucked

the only thing i liked about it is the illustrations make the concepts a little more accessible to the average person

The concept of Rationalia began when Taylor Milsal insightfully mentioned at a cocktail reception of the Starmus Science Festival in Spain's Canary Islands (July 2016) that, perhaps, a new virtual country should be created: "Rational Land", containing member states that, by and large, embrace rational thinking in their conduct and policies. This idea was prompted by how much irrational conduct currently drives world politics. We discussed what might be charter municipalities, biased of course towards those for which we were most familiar. This list began with the big cities London, Paris, and New York. The countries Switzerland. Denmark. The states of Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California. The conversation spread rapidly through the cocktail party. Each person adding a bit here and there to what Taylor started.

worst party ever

it's a pity for NDG that Auguste Comte and Jeremy Bentham (to name a couple of philosophers) thought of this stuff 150 years ago

So turns out, we got second season incoming next year

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

https://imgur.com/59QM45S.jpg

just wondering what a non-arbitrary cosmological event would be

Solstices (June 21, December 21), equinoxes (March 20, September 23), perihelion (Jan 3), aphelion (July 4). Dates sometimes off by a few hours, as there are 365.242199 days/year.

The Gregorian new year happens to correspond to when the sun is transiting Sagittarius, interposing itself between the Earth and the galactic core, but it only makes a close path, getting to within about 3° of Sagitarius A* on December 18-19.

looking forward to his #metoo moment

why are you looking forward to news that neil degrasse tyson harrassed women

he has a reputation in the astronomy community that deserves to be better known

is one reason you're okay with the Defense Dept's Space Force because you're cozy with the US Defense Dept and serve on one of its boards https://t.co/ejBu0r9njP https://t.co/s2ysy7wK1i

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 20, 2018

oh no they've got to Neil! Summon Sagan's ghost!

xp he did have a metoo moment

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2017/10/neil-degrasse-tyson-accused-of-rape/

this show is great, Tyson's role in the broader culture is a good one

No it isn’t