Neil DeGrasse Tyson's _Cosmos_

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i think its def cool that its on too! i just think its target demo is older kids and their parents m/l.

rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link

idk i think the spaceship is cool, it's just a clever means of getting ndt and the audience from the outer reaches of space and down to the molecular level w/o it coming off dry. they could have made it way cornier; it's not like ndt is hunched over a command console saying "activate science boosters" or anything

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link

btw i am not a tween

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link

yeah this whole endeavor is m/l Science + Wonder 101 but hats off to fox for producing it, even if it was likely just part of seth macfarlane'a contract negotiation

Clay, Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link

Uh you guys know the spaceship was in the original, right?

And wasn't the spaceship actually the little flower that Carl Sagan is admiring and lets go into the wind and it flies up into outer space? Or am I making that part up?

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 23 March 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link

Yeah, I was wondering if anyone complaining about the ship had remembered there was one in the original.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 March 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link

I mimed that scene to caek last night... was kinda drunk already

chinavision!, Sunday, 23 March 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link

has anyone else been pronouncing it Prince-a-PEE-a for all their lives? anyone? anyone at all?

seems to be a good deal of flexibility (prin-SIP-ee-uh in the US, prin-KIP-ee-uh in the UK, prin-CHIP-ee-uh for those to kick it old school) on the "correct" pronunciation, although i'm sure people occasionally get together and demand that their own regionally accepted way of pronouncing it is the only true way

love and light (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link

wasn't the spaceship actually the little flower that Carl Sagan is admiring and lets go into the wind and it flies up into outer space? Or am I making that part up?

Sagan is holding a dandelion tuft while narrating the intro and that "becomes" the ship of the imagination, yeah

cannot believe people are complaining about it if they've decided to reuse the idea

instant wrinkle filler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link

i hadn't the last few months of this thread until just now because i didn't get around to watching the first three episodes until last night, but anyone who is making fun of the ship of the imagination can go straight to hell

love and light (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link

High five.

Jeff, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link

the music is a little disappointing, but i can see why they did it. it's just kind of your standard cinematic imax style, seemingly designed to be ignored. that's the modern, focus group-approved way, i suppose. but i miss the 1980 gutsy approach of trying to make a memorable theme that you can hum along to - the Cosmos song!

love and light (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link

xxxxxxxxxxp I always thought it was prin-kip-ee-uh, though I may have just got that from In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. But I don't think there's ever been a time in my life when I had to pronounce it and I doubt there ever will be.

ruth rendell writing as (askance johnson), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link

I loved how he came out of the gate last night with a smackdown of young earth creationism. I almost heard half the nation changing the channel at the same time.

I'd never (or don't remember having) heard it put so succinctly: if the earth and the universe are only 6000-ish years old, and we have calculated the speed of light, how come we can see things that are further than 6000-ish light years away? The fact that we can means "all of creation" is at least as old as the most distant thing we can see.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link

having come from a Young Earth background when I was 15, the weirdest thing is they don't merely rely on the Bible for that nonsense. Our youth group leader showed us a video of a Christian scientist (don't remember their specialty, possibly biology), who taught us the following nonsense:

*About an inch of dust collects on the moon every thousand years. Because of this, they were expecting much more dust on the moon during our first moon landing, and there wasn't much there at all!

*Organic objects get worse over time - if you leave an orange on the table for too long, it will rot and grow moldly. Evolution tells us organic objects get BETTER over time! That is obv absurd, amirite?

*The sun gets smaller every year - if the world was 6 billion years old, the sun would have been too gigantic at its genesis for other planets to survive (or something, I can't remember the exact nonsense he spouted)

Also my church's preacher claims to have disproven Evolution using a slime mold experiment. Yes, a grey-haired, Allman Brothers loving Georgia preacher did what scientists could not during a retreat in Alabama.

Neanderthal, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link

I kind of admire but am also frustrated by the restraint and good taste they had in not having Patrick Stewart's animated character played up for laughs. Maybe in the James Burke Connections reboot...

Philip Nunez, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link

xp I grew up in the chuch too, but I don't remember a bunch of creation vs. evolution instruction. I do remember having it grilled into me that pre-marital sex was DANGEROUS AND HORRIBLE, though.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link

there were some folk in my youth group who took that to the next level and said sex itself was 'bad' and acted as if they'd only reluctantly participate when they got married.

meanwhile the guys in the group just whacked off a lot and lied about it

Neanderthal, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link

I'm quite enjoying these! They seem to be mixing in more live action stuff w the animated as the show goes on. Also the animation style in some of these really reminds me of South Park, with the 2d cutouts w paper textures. Tho that might just be the standard way to animation things these days...

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link

the second episode on evolution was flat out wonderful, and brought me around the focus of the new series. My patience is still tried by the animated historical segments, but that's nothing. Looking forward to every episode now.

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link

its the best animation seth mcfarlane has ever produced

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link

how come we can see things that are further than 6000-ish light years away?

We can't, we've just been fooled into thinking we can. That's the standard response, right?

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link

I think it will be the Blues For a Red Planet episode next week, so I can't wait for that one.

xelab, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link

xp my fave apologetic for that is that god created the world 6,000 years ago, but he created an older world w/ lots of history + stuff including a much older universe, dinosaurs, etc

Mordy , Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link

it's kinda like the "idk get the fuck out of here" apologetic

Mordy , Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link

god put dinosaur bones in the ground to fuck w/ godless scientists

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link

I found it very emotive the first time he mentioned that snowy night in Brooklyn and meeting Carl Sagan as an impressionable young man, 2nd time is fucking pushing it.

xelab, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link

how come we can see things that are further than 6000-ish light years away?

because god allows us to see a glimpse of the eternal paradise that can be yours for only $9.99

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link

I want to go visit the Halls of Exinction so bad

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link

http://vimeo.com/56160700

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link

http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vwGWK.jpeg

caek, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link

That is an awesome shirt. Damn, dude was ripped!

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link

He never mentioned he was a hot young dude when he met Carl Sagan }:-)

xelab, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link

The Sagan meeting happened when he was 17 or so. I'd bet that photo is from a few years later.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link

NGT was a competitive dancer in his college days which may account for that buff as hell physique

art, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link

WS so many times holy shit

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link

how many times do you ppl have to be told that this is not appropriate

recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link

drill datass tyson

rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Friday, 4 April 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link

How televised science should be done:

Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish

Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link

not presenting this as truth but

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlSHAv-CYAAPjuK.jpg

dan m, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link

Sorry, Isaac Newton, you're a shitbird.

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link

this guy needs to make a slow jamz album

The recent episode was cool, when they went inside the dew drop and he talked about that tiny species that can survive the vacuum of space. That's pretty mindblowing.

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link

https://24.media.tumblr.com/daa16a1cd6ff64cc5983a1e3a5df868c/tumblr_n3btn4J6RW1r0jlbgo1_400.gif
He looks like he's receiving the best head ever.

tsrobodo, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link

lol

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link

hahaha

balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link

that is hilarious!

xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link

When I was watching that live, I was like "um, this scene is making me uncomfortable" for some reason. Now I know the reason.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link

it's an imagination ship

xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link


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