Cosmos Reboot: Running Discussion Thread

Lol....dog cartoons? Please....

Dont get me wrong, there's some good stuff too but the presentation is brutal. Scaring off wolves with torches, cartoons, etc. Rough.

Well Seth McFarland is involved, so a cartoon dog isn't really a stretch. I expect full blown musical numbers before long.
Regardless, I am going to try to watch all the episodes I miss one way or another.

He really seemed to be pussy-footing around evolution, trying not to piss off the fundies.

I don't see how.
He left no room for dirt-man, rib-lady, and talkie-snake.

Yeah, no pussy footing at all. He said that evolutionary theory is the same as the theory of gravity, that it is a scientific fact. That's pretty direct.

Yeah, I guess. Maybe I thought he was just being too nice about it.
"Listen up, you superstitious worshippers of a bronze age fantasy..." would have worked for me.

So @evenflow , did your FOX affiliate show last night's episode at all?


If Exxon executives were watching, they're probably planning a space mission of their own to Titan.

Great. The people who brought you "The Family Guy" and "Star Trek: Enterprise" give you a science show on Fox--starring fat old Lando Calrissian.

Finally saw it last night. Underwhelmed.

I cant wait for him to tear up as he tells us we need to

You're not the only one. Cosmos ratings were lukewarm at best, spread out over 10+ outlets. On the other hand, Resurrection dominated last week and handily won this week as well. Bummed Almost Human is likely to get the axe though. That's actually a good show.

Don't forget that Brannon Braga is also responsible for the TNG episode "Genesis" and most of Voyager. We're lucky it didn't talk about humans evolving from lemurs and spiders and eventually becoming lizards.

Indeed. I knew that the episode was gonna be about evolution, so when they ran a promo for the next day's morning show at the top of the hour I said, "This might be longest promo ever......"

That said it went off without a hitch. I know why the commercial breaks are the way they are, but man they're jarring.

not a big fan of the cartoons either, but this series is designed for total beginners and even children. the cartoons are quite clever. they allow to convey basic facts without spending a hollywood sized budget while keeping the stuff accessible to generation ADHD.

he basically said exactly that. only in a nicer way - well done!

And for that matter, the Big Bang theory was developed by a Jesuit priest.

Yep.
And the church tried to capitalize, and twist it into God evidence, and he got pissed, and told them not to.

Sure it does. Until it goes the way of Steady State.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/s...e-buttresses-landmark-theory-of-big-bang.html

And actually, it's a ridiculous theory. All the energy and matter ever present in the universe was contained in an infintesmally small point. Yet that just *popped* out of nowhere. Singularity? Suuuuure...

Sweet! Popped out of nothin too!

Incredulity isn't an argument.
You have nothing to contribute.

I just can't wrap my mind around this: where did the energy in the singularity come from, if nothing yet existed?

^^^

That's why many people turn to the idea of a creator -- they can't get their mind around how it could just happen on its own. But then, where did the creator originate? What was before that? The idea does not solve the problem.

Turtles. Its turtles all the way down.

And where exactly was this singularly located? Every time I see this on SCI channel it shows the bang. Which part

And where did this, ahem, "potential" come from? Boil on the buttocks of an adjacent universe, perhaps?