I’m an amateur astronomer too. I posted on another thread that the original Cosmos made me fall in love with astronomy, I begged my parents for a telescope. Then a trip to Hayden planetarium. I read all I could, and also fell in love with the golden age of ScienceFiction,
All because of a TV show. I can’t see this one inspiring kids like that. There was something about Carl Sagan that seems to be missing with Mr. Tyson.
“All because of a TV show. I can’t see this one inspiring kids like that. There was something about Carl Sagan that seems to be missing with Mr. Tyson.”
I said goofy before, but quirky-goofy. Sagan seemed fascinated by the new discoveries that were made possible by better equipment. There are no really new discoveries, just endless empty galaxies. All created, by the way, from a simple collision of a few inert gasses.
This guy is a radical atheist whose only purpose is to try to make people believe that science is something more than people recording observations of things that already exist. And it’s worse because he’s only reporting on observations that someone else made using equipment that someone developed and acting like that makes him exceedingly sciency.