Posted on 03/14/2014 10:51:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Agree
unwatchable.....my first hint should have been zer0 opening for Tyson....
here is a post I posted elsewhere on the topic. What I learned from watching Cosmos
I learned that Seth MacFarlane produced a lemon
I learned that starting the show with the POSOTUS made me want to turn it off immediately.
I learned that 400 years is not enough time to forgive the now scientifically up to date Catholic Church...but lets bash the Church anyway....
and I learned that Neil Degrasse Tyson who I usually like to listen to on other TV science programs was told by the producers (I assume the aforementioned Seth MacFarlane ) to get emotional and hammy and ruin the show for everyone. (critics wont criticize, because Tyson is a gentleman of color and like the POSOTUS he is above criticism)
BTW, the photography and space shots were pretty and I may give it one more chance....
Agree
And I think the emphasis on Bruno was because he’s so little known, compared to Kepler and Galileo.
[1. Venus Was Not Caused By Global Warming
Tyson assures us right away that we are to “question everything” so we have to ask why he thinks Venus is the way it is due to the greenhouse effect — which is another way of saying global warming. Venus is almost 900 degrees Fahrenheit and the clouds are sulfuric acid. Even the most aggressive climate change models and their 20-foot ocean rises don’t predict that for Earth, no matter how many Chevy Volts we don’t buy. ]
Venus is hot because it lack plate techtonics so it resurfaces itself every 100 million years or so as there is no outlet for the core heat in the planet until it all belches forth. Also this action causes a LOT of outgassing which is WHY it has such a dense atmosphere over 100X as much pressure as earth.
Also the Sulfur Dioxide clouds in the upper atmosphere actually Reflect somewhere upwards of 90% of the light and heat FROM the sun...
If Venus had an atmosphere that was our pressure and still had the same percentage of CO2 in it’s atmosphere and had a dead core... IT would most certainly be FROZEN!!!!
They should have picked Rodney McKay....
Fans of Stargate will get this...
3. There Is No Sound In Space
There can be as space is not actually “empty” there are atoms here and there... sound propagation is very slow and drops off very sharply though....
Nice pictures and mostly speculation and theory, not enought facts for me to watch.
The multiverse has been around for quite some time. It originates in the so-called “Many Worlds Interpretation” of quantum physics first described by Hugh Everett in 1957.
I hear this guy getting talked up in lefty circles.
What’s their infatuation with him? Is it the hyphenated name cool factor ?
That and other things. I got this guy pegged a long time ago, before he started to parade around with Bill Nye and kiss Obama's cheeks.
I started to watch it, and by the time the Bruno segment finished, I had to turn it off. It was so obviously agenda driven with a total disregard for the truth. Even Sagan would have been ashamed of it. The men with crosses on their hats looking like they came out of Disney cartoons running around and burning people were just too much.
Especially when that was completely bogus, totally out of the imagination of the atheist writers. It was just anti-Christian hate.
I hate to say it, but I think he has the same qualifications as Obama.
He’s leftist and he’s the right color. He’s the left’s very own “token”. Darn competence and truth.
[ I started to watch it, and by the time the Bruno segment finished, I had to turn it off. It was so obviously agenda driven with a total disregard for the truth. Even Sagan would have been ashamed of it. The men with crosses on their hats looking like they came out of Disney cartoons running around and burning people were just too much. ]
They are certainly not honest in that while there was persecution by christians there was a lot of other pwersecution going on... The arabian islamic “Father of optics” was jailed for instance....
There were also a lot of texts from greek and roman era concerning science that were saved by monks and copied meticulously as well which was important after the islamics burned down the library at alexadria...
Instead of portraying religion in that era as completely evil they should have portrayed it as a doubledged sword which is MUCH closer tot he relity..
#6 We have NINE planets and not 8 and then some!
Mickey
Rodney blew up a solar system!
Rodney blew up a solar system!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3-r5rsUSI
Way to make all the little children cry Neil....
My biggest complaint was the “dumbed down” graphics, particularly of the asteroid belt and the Oort Cloud, and also Saturn’s rings. They’ve got a lot of nerve talking about “hard science” in the face of this kind of childish imagery.
I actually quit watching at that point, but then with all the buzz, I wanted to see the Bruno sequence. Fortunately it’s available ON DEMAND from Comcast, so I watched it last night.
I was wondering about the “dream sequence” because I had never heard of search a thing, but today I found what I think must be the basis for it. There is a “sonnet” at the beginning of Bruno’s “Infinite Universe” dialogue, and it ends:
Wherefore I give my steady wings to Sky,
Fearing no crystal barrier or glass;
But, splitting heavens, to the Infinite I pass;
And from my globe to others rising high
Through empyrean fields, further I wind:
What others see from far, I leave behind
... so I think they were within artistic license. The “dart and wall” imagery was from Lucretius.
In the end, this was about the best thing in the show, as the other stuff seemed rather pedestrian to me.
Spot on. Even the Low Information Voters can comprehend the compression of all suspected history since the Big Band into a single year.
However, what I would like to see is putting all of the recorded climatological data used to “prove” glo-bull warming into that same time compression model. Perhaps when people realize that we’ve been tracking these patterns for maybe the last millisecond or two of recorded time, we “doubters” might get the credibility we are due.
FOX is just as far left as the rest of them
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