Cosmos, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson - In which we learn that FOX is not the same as Fox News

syndalis

SteevL wrote: »

I really would like to have a look at a non-light polluted sky again one day. The only time I ever got to see something close to that was when I visited the Grand Canyon with my family around 1985. I had never seen so many stars in my life.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota for me.

there are wilder stretches of the badlands out there where there are probably less than 5 people per square mile living there, and you can see the bands of the milky way on a clear enough night.

It's majestic.

Dedwrekka

syndalis wrote: »

SteevL wrote: »

I really would like to have a look at a non-light polluted sky again one day. The only time I ever got to see something close to that was when I visited the Grand Canyon with my family around 1985. I had never seen so many stars in my life.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota for me.

there are wilder stretches of the badlands out there where there are probably less than 5 people per square mile living there, and you can see the bands of the milky way on a clear enough night.

It's majestic.

I like that Dr Tyson, as a kid, went to the Hayden Planetarium and his reaction was, "That's a beautiful lie. There aren't that many stars in the sky"

davidsdurions

Our family reunions happen in north eastern Montana on the old family farm. Extremely sparse but with running water! Telescope is coming with me this year without fail.

Brainleech

It the south Pacific ocean it's the thing of wonder to see the night's sky
And I did like how they showed the Toucan and other constellations in the show

N1tSt4lker

Zilla360 wrote: »

The Ender wrote: »

One of his journals is basically nothing but symbol-based coded messages. That he wrote for himself.

Eh, it's not that weird. I did that when I was nine, making up ciphers and gibberish alphabet substitutions, all thanks to 'My First Spy Kit'.

I...may have learned Tolkein's elvish alphabet in order to write secret messages in my journals, just in case.

a5ehren

syndalis wrote: »

SteevL wrote: »

I really would like to have a look at a non-light polluted sky again one day. The only time I ever got to see something close to that was when I visited the Grand Canyon with my family around 1985. I had never seen so many stars in my life.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota for me.

there are wilder stretches of the badlands out there where there are probably less than 5 people per square mile living there, and you can see the bands of the milky way on a clear enough night.

It's majestic.

Here's a light pollution map for North America.

And here's the approximate scale (they don't exactly align, but it's close enough). If you get to a dark enough area, the light from the Milky Way is enough to cast shadows during a New Moon.

jefe414

Welp no stars for me. Go CT shoreline!

Shadowfire

That map is pretty far off, at least for the northeast.

SteevL

Yep. I'm in south Florida. Not a good place for stargazing!

SteevL

I watched last night's episode live and enjoyed it. Was that Patrick Stewart as William Herschel?

I liked the part where he mentioned "some people believe the universe is only 6,000 years old" and then goes on to show how that would eliminate a lot of the light from the stars we can observe.

Dedwrekka

SteevL wrote: »

I watched last night's episode live and enjoyed it. Was that Patrick Stewart as William Herschel?

I liked the part where he mentioned "some people believe the universe is only 6,000 years old" and then goes on to show how that would eliminate a lot of the light from the stars we can observe.

The only right way for science to teach the controversy is to give the assertions and then show their results using data gained through scientific study.

A big effects budget just helps drive it home.

Johnny Chopsocky

Highlight of this week's Cosmos: Neil Degrasse Tyson taking three minutes out of his show to bury Young Earthers so deep they couldn't even hear him drop the mic afterwards.

syndalis

Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »

Highlight of this week's Cosmos: Neil Degrasse Tyson taking three minutes out of his show to bury Young Earthers so deep they couldn't even hear him drop the mic afterwards.

Second Highlight: Captain Picard talking about space and time travel.

Whole show was aces this week.

maximumzero

This was my tweet at the commercial break when Neil entered the black hole:

https://twitter.com/mjallemand3/status/450450192773677057

TexiKen

The revised light speed bike was pretty weak. First off a female driver, she probably crashed into a few planets and caused the asteroid belt. And then her little lip stud, what is this MTV.

Too many times it seemed like Tyson was trying to imitate Gus Fring (ha tyson chicken, get it?!)

But I am glad we got space stuff as opposed to boring Earth stuff.

SteevL

maximumzero wrote: »

This was my tweet at the commercial break when Neil entered the black hole:

https://twitter.com/mjallemand3/status/450450192773677057

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

chamberlain

SteevL wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

This was my tweet at the commercial break when Neil entered the black hole:

https://twitter.com/mjallemand3/status/450450192773677057

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

Did they kill him or spawn a whole new universe filled with Neils?

Nocren

N1tSt4lker wrote: »

Zilla360 wrote: »

The Ender wrote: »

One of his journals is basically nothing but symbol-based coded messages. That he wrote for himself.

Eh, it's not that weird. I did that when I was nine, making up ciphers and gibberish alphabet substitutions, all thanks to 'My First Spy Kit'.

I...may have learned Tolkein's elvish alphabet in order to write secret messages in my journals, just in case.

Brittainna runes for me.

Bursar

chamberlain wrote: »

SteevL wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

This was my tweet at the commercial break when Neil entered the black hole:

https://twitter.com/mjallemand3/status/450450192773677057

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

Did they kill him or spawn a whole new universe filled with Neils?

Is this a Jonathan Lethem reference...?

KingofMadCows

maximumzero wrote: »

This was my tweet at the commercial break when Neil entered the black hole:

https://twitter.com/mjallemand3/status/450450192773677057

Well, due to the time dilation, we'll still die long before he does.

Mazzyx

I am enjoying this week a lot. Neil is in his zone with the stuff being covered. This is his bag.

But every time they do the beach cartoons all I hear is this...

Veevee

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

DanHibiki

Mazzyx wrote: »

I am enjoying this week a lot. Neil is in his zone with the stuff being covered. This is his bag.

But every time they do the beach cartoons all I hear is this...

Bullock: Son, can you keep a secret?

me: RUN BOY! RUN AWAY!

but that was only because I just watched American Dad a split second before I switched to Cosmos.
Patric Stewart is awesome and should be in everything.

Wraith260

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

it gets repeated on National Geographic on Monday nights. maybe see if they show it with fewer ad breaks. anyone watched the repeat that can comment?

Veevee

Wraith260 wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

it gets repeated on National Geographic on Monday nights. maybe see if they show it with fewer ad breaks. anyone watched the repeat that can comment?

Well, see, second problem is that I work Sunday-Thursday until midnight. I do have access to a tv, but I can't put my undivided attention to it since I'm, well, at work and this show deserves undivided attentions. Yesterday was just the last day of a stay-home vacation.

It's less about the commercials that stop me, but I just really wanted to bitch about them. Because, god damn FOX.

Mill

I've been enjoying this series for the most part. I'm hoping it gets enough views that we get a season two. Yeah, some of it is dumb down, but they have to do it for this time slot in order to hook people. I'm willing to dumb down things, if that's what is needed to spark greater scientific interest in people that don't normally pay attention to science (hell, for entry level, things need to accessible and only fools think it's a good idea to drive people because they refuse to dumb things down).

As for last week's episode. I can't really fault them with Hooke, that was the only description we had of the man and given that he is still given credit for his discoveries, it's probably safe to say the dude really was an asshole.

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

I take it you don't have a means to record this? Also the commercials on Hulu aren't too bad, I say they are still god awful, but I don't recall having to deal with 3 different commercial breaks, each being 3+ minutes long, in the same show.

a5ehren

Wraith260 wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

it gets repeated on National Geographic on Monday nights. maybe see if they show it with fewer ad breaks. anyone watched the repeat that can comment?

Same number of breaks in the same spots. Just different ads and one break is filled with utter fluff behind-the-scenes stuff about how awesome everyone is.

Mild Confusion

This sums up my feelings rather well.

Veevee

Mill wrote: »

I take it you don't have a means to record this? Also the commercials on Hulu aren't too bad, I say they are still god awful, but I don't recall having to deal with 3 different commercial breaks, each being 3+ minutes long, in the same show.

No, I don't have a DVR or anything like that, so I've been doing naughty things to watch it. Maybe I'll go the hulu route next week.

Nightslyr

Somewhere, Kirk Cameron is weeping while in the fetal position.

That makes me happy.

Elendil

i don't see what y'all are so confused about

god put all the incoming light 6000 light years away to make the universe look like it was older than 6000 years old

So It Goes

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

go to fox.com like two days later, the full ep with no ads if you have ad blocker (or maybe there just aren't any!)

SanderJK

Elendil wrote: »

i don't see what y'all are so confused about

god put all the incoming light 6000 light years away to make the universe look like it was older than 6000 years old

Ah, the troll god interpretation.

Usually combined with 'he did it to test your faith' or 'The devil did it to make you doubt god'

Wraith260

a5ehren wrote: »

Wraith260 wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

it gets repeated on National Geographic on Monday nights. maybe see if they show it with fewer ad breaks. anyone watched the repeat that can comment?

Same number of breaks in the same spots. Just different ads and one break is filled with utter fluff behind-the-scenes stuff about how awesome everyone is.

well that sucks.

So It Goes

guys

open this link in chrome with adblock on

enjoy full episode with no ads

http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/211631683935

Veevee

So It Goes wrote: »

guys

open this link in chrome with adblock on

enjoy full episode with no ads

http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/211631683935

That is amazing in it's simplicity, which means I would never think of it. Thanks!

HappylilElf

So It Goes wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

go to fox.com like two days later, the full ep with no ads if you have ad blocker (or maybe there just aren't any!)

It def still has ads sans ad blocker.

Brainleech

It's the same three ads played in a different order for me each break
Kind of annoying but a stupid game of which one comes first

davidsdurions

HappylilElf wrote: »

So It Goes wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

go to fox.com like two days later, the full ep with no ads if you have ad blocker (or maybe there just aren't any!)

It def still has ads sans ad blocker.

Brainleech wrote: »

It's the same three ads played in a different order for me each break
Kind of annoying but a stupid game of which one comes first

Wraith260 wrote: »

a5ehren wrote: »

Wraith260 wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

Yesterday was the first time seeing the show as it airs on FOX, and I'm never doing it again. The amount of commercials, especially in the 30-45 minute span where there were 3 3 minute+ breaks. I'll buy it on DVD blu-ray, even though I don't own a blu-ray player at the moment, before I ever try and watch it as it airs again.

I understand why it happens, which is why I'll show my support by buying the series, but come on FOX

it gets repeated on National Geographic on Monday nights. maybe see if they show it with fewer ad breaks. anyone watched the repeat that can comment?

Same number of breaks in the same spots. Just different ads and one break is filled with utter fluff behind-the-scenes stuff about how awesome everyone is.

well that sucks.

SIG has laid this out there already, but I get the feeling people are having a difficult time reading the thread or something?

So It Goes wrote: »

guys

open this link in chrome with adblock on

enjoy full episode with no ads

http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/211631683935

Or do some people have something against google or ad blocking? If so, watch the ads without complaint? If not, there's nothing stopping you from never seeing those ads again, we have the technology!

Veevee

To be fair to wraith, he posted before SIG. However, I can confirm there are no ads with adblock on