Joan, you hit the nail on the head. COSMOS (both the original and this one) was never intended to be merely a video astronomy course. Those desiring just black holes and galaxies are bound to be disappointed. It is so much more. The message then, as now, is that we are a part of the universe. As Carl Sagan said, we are here so the universe can know itself. We are as much a part of space and time as a billion-solar-mass black hole, or an icy ring orbiting a distant planet. Life is one of the more interesting properties of hydrogen, if you give it enough time and the right conditions. To fully appreciate the universe and our place in it, we have to shed old habits such as greed, ignorance and intolerance of new, sometimes uncomfortable ideas. The histories NdGT has presented give context to where we stand today on the topics, and how we got there. How inspired individuals have made a difference in how we see the universe, and our place in it, often to their own personal detriment. Good stuff. I plan to purchase the DVDs, will keep them next to COSMOS v1.0 Insurance against inadvertantly wiping them from the DVR (and no commercials to have to zap through!). On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:30 PM, CenturyLink Customer <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
I hope it has reached a wider audience and left many thinking about how everything fits together from the atom to a galaxy and our precious blue white piece of cosmic dust so important to the sentient life residing on it.