Does anybody know if this is even notionally accurate? Did Venus really go through a phase of temperatures where earthtype life could have developed? Or did they just make this up?
And what further proves the point is that Tyson totally ignores the most effective energy source on earth, nuclear power.
The very first episode was so bad, I turned it off and never watched another one.
It’s a shame because Sagan’s Cosmos was a delight.
We neglected to watch most of the series. Just didn’t get around to it, but after the first few, it was obvious indoctrination 1984 was in place.
That ridiculous cartoon in the first episode about how evil the Church was (complete with dark shadowy figures with bright yellow prominent crosses) told me all I need to know.
“Those windmills anchored to the ocean floor are extremely expensive to build and maintain, and provide comparatively little energy. And then only when the wind is blowing. That doesn’t mean we should ignore these technologies. We can and should seek to innovate. Unless we get some radical tech breakthroughs, however, wind and solar simply cannot, and will not, replace hydrocarbons for most energy uses anytime in the near future.”
I first got a major glimpse of these stupid things in PA, appallingly within sight of the United 93 site (just weeks before they dedicated the official memorial, which I wanted to avoid).
Last week, we drove through southwest-central PA in a slightly different area around Altoona - yikes! Monsters everywhere on the mountains! Even my husband (native) was kind of disgusted by the mere look of them. “What the...hell...?”
Scary is that they loom large over everything, much like Big Brother. Again the 1984 feeling.
I knew that the series was intellectually dishonest from the very first few seconds of Episode One, when we were subjected to the smarmy mug of the “Lyin’ King”.
As a publicity-seeking, self serving, narcissistic, duplicitous and opportunistic azkizzah, Tyson would make a better politician than a scientist.
Just my humble theory, based on observation, and replicated on hundreds of “science” shows.
We choose to go to do ... things ... because they are hard.”
Quite possibly to most asinine statement ever made by an American politician.
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Stopped watching after the first episode. Didn’t learn any science I didn’t already know, but I did learn that DeGrasse Tyson *really* doesn’t like Catholics.
I found it offensive that this crap was foisted upon the airwaves with the Cosmos title.
I didn’t organize any boycotts or try to get the series pulled from our airwaves, only deleted the recording from our DVR and removed any future episodes from scheduled recording.
Keep in mind that Tyson was primarily the “presenter” of COSMOS and that the primary writer was Ann Druyan, who was Sagan’s and Stephen Ster’s co-writer on the original series (and is also Carl Sagan’s widow).