Cosmos
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True, but his lab coat will never hang from the rafters. He may have a lot of accomplishments but he's never looked better than average or been more than a role player in the realm of science.
I think NDT is awesome as the narrator. As a science teacher, my student always liked watching him on the nova science videos because for some reason they just seem to understand him and relate to him.
NDT has a podcast called starTalk radio. In February he posted a conversation with god (the guy who runs the god twitter account) and it is possibly one of the funniest things i have heard...
http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-god/
NDT has a podcast called starTalk radio. In February he posted a conversation with god (the guy who runs the god twitter account) and it is possibly one of the funniest things i have heard...
http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-god/
We had it on for a bit last night, our 11yr old was interested. All I want to know is did Edmond Halley really say, "hells bells!"? They had the caricature of him as a young kid looking through is telescope and he exclaimed "hells bells!". He used the same phrase later. Historically accurate or no? :spinny:
True, but his lab coat will never hang from the rafters. He may have a lot of accomplishments but he's never looked better than average or been more than a role player in the realm of science.
Yep. Never could hit the three when we needed it.
I guess I'm a little confused by this. Don't get me wrong, I know who he is, but I don't think he's any kind of model human being necessarily. His biggest contribution to every day life is being on the forefront of getting pluto demoted to dwarf planet status.
I mean yeah, I'm all for people knowing science and about the Universe, but really, in every day life, knowing how a galaxy is formed is probably less important than knowing what kind of psychopaths roam the earth.
sorry, I guess the comparison just seems lame to me. It's not like he's this person who is solving all of life's problems.
Put it this way...I'm guessing our society would be a lot better off if we revered people like NDT and Stephen Hawking than the pop stars like Paris Hilton and Justin Bieber.
No one has mentioned Neil's greatest contribution to mankind...well message boards anyways...
Seriously? I always assumed this was Stanley from The Office.
Well, if we want to tally up the total man hours wasted paying attention to these two, they have cost us countless lives over many years already. They must be stopped!
True, but the quote was about Mass Murderers, not complete waste of human time. IMO, there is a big difference between knowing the names of mass murderers and knowing what Paris and Justin did last night.
I get the context of the original quote, I just think it was a bad reference to make. Making the reference to Paris and Justin originally would have made a lot more sense and a stronger point, imo.
In this week's show he mentioned that the horizon is just an optical illusion, but didn't explain. I wanted to learn more.
There are a lot of times when I find myself wishing he would provide more details about particular topics and that's my biggest gripe with the show.
He said there is actually no edge there after he said it's an optical illusion. I think that is all they meant by it.
I thought the episode on evolution was well done. I particularly liked the part where they traced how eyes evolved and talked about how fluid filled eyeballs are perfect for underwater where they evolved but are a actually less then ideal on land because of what happens when light passes from air to liquid.
I think their hope is viewers, particularly younger ones, will get just enough to whet their appetite and look into some of this stuff on their own. I think that's the context of the mass murderer quote as well, the world would be a lot better place if more people were science literate, and there isn't any reason that can't be just as interesting, and yes entertaining, as every sensationalized murder trial that gets 24 hour news coverage.
