Thanks for the heads up Ed, I'd love to get the dvds and watch at my leisure. There has been so much information packed into each episode I only take a couple thoughts away with me after the hour. Sagan also wrote a companion book to his series and I have checked with Barnes and Noble and there doesn't seeem to be such a book for this one. Too bad. The book expanded on the subjects presented in each episode. Seth, the week before 5/25, there was a blurb at the end of the show saying the next episode would air in two weeks. Think the race pre-empted the airing of episode 12, which aired last night. The final episode airs next week. Whatever will I do on Sunday night between 7 and 8? A tip of the hat to Fox for airing all 13 episodes. 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.
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.
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