and this has been remade because??? follow the moneyThe new host is noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who holds his own against Carl Sagan, as an overall charming, congenial unofficial spokesman for science, astronomy cosmology and now host of the rebooted "Cosmos". Although I really doubt he's ever going to utter the term billyuns and billyuns...
The premiere of Cosmos will re-air tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel and include some extra material on the making of the show. Check out some real science.
YouTube:Official Trailer:Cosmos Reboot:Fox
Last night, 13.3 million tuned in to the launch of ABC’s ”Resurrection,” a show about the dead returning to life, while the “The Walking Dead,” another show about the dead coming back to life (with a lot more bloods and guts), aired in the same time-slot. The ratings haven’t been made public yet, but the number certainly surpassed 10 million viewers (the ratings-powerhouse manged to surpass the closing ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics by a large margin) Whereas, Cosmos held the third ranking with just 5.8 million total viewers.
“Cosmos” space ping
Bammy has squandered Trillion$ and Trillion$.
Didn’t have time to catch it last night. I was too busy eating squirrels.
and this has been remade because??? follow the moneyTurned it off when they let Zer0 do the intro.
I saw only a few minutes, so perhaps I am unfair — but what I saw was a lot of Church bashing and a lot of untruths about the suppression of science.
Good science stuff on the Science channel right now.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman but good anyway.
Freeper summary: Obama intro, blech!, host has long history of opposition to religious faith and organized religion, lengthy distortion of Enlightenment history and false account of life of Dominican monk Giorando Bruno, attacking the Catholic church as brutal and opposed to science. Bruno was executed because he was a pantheist, etc., not because he said stars were other suns. Interesting graphics between the indoctrination sessions. Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s bitter philosophy, widely available on Youtube, is now being unleased on the minds of Americas youth every week.
Personally I don’t expect any show about ‘science’ on TV to be of the slightest usefulness, or entertainment.
I have generous cause for that expectation.
“Co-executive producer of the Cosmos series, Seth MacFarlane ...”
LOL!
phhhhtttttt
I didn’t even care about the ‘original’ show. The tedious Sagan made it impossible to watch beyond the first three minutes
Science is all settled, so why bother?
So, modern science is a process of consensus building, right? If we vote on a scientific principle, then it is true and cannot be challenged.
Therefore, if 900 out of 100 scientists believe that we can turn iron into gold, it must be true, correct?
I never did like that the scientific method was systematic in its observation, measurement, and experiment and the formulation, testing and modification of hypothesis.
Hypothesis: The world is heating up.
Observations and measurements: hidden e-mails and an unwillingness to share data, testing of different environments and comparing them to each other as though they are the same;
Experiment: Done completely with computer models with inadequate, incomplete and incorrect data as input.
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“Galileo, its time for lunch!” OK, Mom! I’ll be right there!”
Carl Sagan was IMHO, the Mister Rogers of Science -- maybe somewhat enlightening for people who were mostly ignorant of science, but he used that platform in his Cosmos series to push his far left political views. At that time, Sagan was pushing fears of a New Ice Age due to all that Capitalistic pollution. ;~))
I have no doubt the "New Cosmos" will push the current hard left scare story of Global Warming due to Capitalistic pollution just as hard as Sagan pushed the new ice age crap back in the 80s.
It would be nice to have just a science program that stuck with science without the partisan politics thrown in.
Probably too much to ask for anymore.
Carl Sagan opposed the War In Iraq because it would alter the word’s weather. He used science for political ends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
I thought the show was very well produced. I can’t wait to see the other 12 episodes. Makes me want to go back and watch the old version of the show too.
We need more science for the masses.
Watched the first 20, and fell asleep. Tyson is annoying. Is he a REAL astrophysicist, or an AA prop?
I watched some of “Cosmos” the first time around. Sagan was a pretentious leftist wimp. Most of the show was him saying “Look how smart I am.”
True science is honorable and worthy of respect because it allows the facts to speak and humbly accepts facts that destroy erroneous theories.
However, as government grows bigger and intrudes more into our lives, ideology takes over for economics and logic when it comes to even personal decisions. And thus in this era, we have “science” that is dishonorable lies. We have very smart people groveling at the feet of the government source of their next grant. We have ideology determining scientific truth.
Science, especially ecological and climate science is horribly corrupt. The only interest that I have in it is to see how they have made fools of themselves this week, and it would only be sad except some of this folly and madness seeps into government policy. We are, for example, headed for a collapse of the electric grid at the moment when we need it most (probably on the coldest night of the year), because government climate policy has force a lot of coal-fired power plants to be shut down. People will die due to lack of power more surely than they will die of global lukewarming.