Neil DeGrasse Tyson's _Cosmos_

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

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

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

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

WS so many times holy shit

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

drill datass tyson

How televised science should be done:

Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish

not presenting this as truth but

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

Sorry, Isaac Newton, you're a shitbird.

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.

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

lol

hahaha

that is hilarious!

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

it's an imagination ship

his actorliness kind of gets in the way of this show sometimes, for me.

http://i.imgur.com/k9ucmnk.gif

a+

lol

Last night was a treat, I thought.

The Cannon and Payne story was great.

i didn't know millipedes used to be the size of alligators. cool.

One of my favorite things about NdT is how reliably in your face he is about "we are being stupid to still burn fossils for energy when there's a huge star with all the energy we will ever need!" Thought he nailed it particularly well towards the ending of last week's installment.

I haven't been impressed generally with this series so far -- I prefer nature docs to astronomy/physics/engineering/tech programs -- but the one a couple weeks ago about how there would be no trace of life (much less civilization) left after the Solar expansion thing was really chilling and mind-spinning.

how there would be no trace of life (much less civilization) left after the Solar expansion <-- this is like the #1 thing that has plagued my mind since I was a kid

I do love that after the sun expands and kills the inner planets, it shrinks back down to dim little luminous ball the size of the earth for eternity...like a little old man.

this is like the #1 thing that has plagued my mind since I was a kid

you are alvie singer

http://theweek.com/article/index/261042/why-neil-degrasse-tyson-is-a-philistine

don't find the argument compelling, agree 100% with the conclusion

Curtis White's _The Science Delusion_ from last is all about this, the weird borderline-ascetic scraping away of anything not hard sciencey, and putting physics at the top of everything, since physics came out WWII as the victor. White makes the point that the vast majority of science giants until the mid-century had a richer background(and a bit of philosophy mixed in), like Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Spinoza, etc.

It's a book with great points, although White's style is a bit too pointedly cranky at times

Don't forget Bertrand Russell! Lived through WW2 too!

did the original Cosmos feature as many tellings of mythological tales as this one does?

I thought the episode from two weeks ago was the finale, and aside from some eye-rolling utopian daydreaming, it would've made for a very strong ending.

i'm behind and just watched the one from a few weeks ago about plate tectonics and pangaea and mass extinctions and the like. i thought it was the best one of the series so far as it cleverly and simply presenting information that can be confusing in the wrong hands. the fact that it had the fewest animated sequences didn't hurt either

man this show really delivered imo. Newfound respect for NDT. I got kinda teary at the inclusion of Sagan's "pale blue dot" monologue in the finale. Is there gonna be season 2?

No, this was it -- and yeah, thought it ended on just the right note. Also, I like how in the original series it was essentially just the final episode that was the 'downer,' for lack of a better term, while here that feeling was woven through the series but not emphasized at the end.

For people wanting further science/cosmology type tv, there is an excellent old Martin Rees series called What We Still Don't Know. Rees makes intelligent tv that wouldn't alienate older kids or non-academic types, he makes complex concepts like dark matter/dark energy interesting and with very tidy but minimal visual effects and non of that irritating, doe-eyed "isn't it amaaazzing!" Brian Cox type shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqArGW6k5gc

martin rees is the best

his book 'our cosmic habitat' is my default astronomy/cosmology book recommendation

I got kinda teary at the inclusion of Sagan's "pale blue dot" monologue in the finale. Is there gonna be season 2?

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:31 AM

I think I got something in my eye during that too.

Oh, NDT is touring early next year: http://www.neildegrassetysonlive.com/

jesus

what a nob

But you're the opening act!

It's not like NdT hasn't already been doing live engagements for years and years. This is just the first time more than a few thousand people might be interested.

lol

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/475811925880610817

Surely the cover art for my nonexistent album of love songs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BppsbLcCYAAnQaW.jpg

Dude's funny, sorry caek.

his palling around w Dawkins is too bad but eh we all make mistakes