Cosmos (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

[nyquillyn]

The last episode ("The Immortals") was awesome. I love the sense of wonder and hope that Tyson is able to project. It is very Saganesque.

[Alex]

the back half of season one is shaping up to be a hell of a finishing kick

[CopperTom]

http://time.com/118525/doubts-over-big-bang-discovery/
Not so fast...

[nyquillyn]

http://time.com/118525/doubts-over-big-bang-discovery/
Not so fast...

Yeah, that's the way science works. Your discoveries/findings have to withstand scrutiny from the scientific community. What's your point?

[bada]

Isn't it a bummer anytime there is a show on Venus? How cool would it have been if things didn't go wrong there and we had a sister planet we could go to and live on?

[ABNorman]

That whole Voyager/Pale Blue Dot segment was brilliant.

[hlniv]

That whole Voyager/Pale Blue Dot segment was brilliant.

Yes it was

Here is the full Carl Saga pale blue dot narrative with someone else's imagery. It's worth the ten minutes.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Yeah, that was a great way to close the series. I came to the show late but am glad I was able to watch the whoel thing.

[Bammer]

Why does he keep saying that Neptune is the outermost planet. WTF happened to Pluto and how come I never heard about it?

[Whitey McTeeth]

Pluto was voted out of the universe on the popular reality show "Who Wants to Be a Planet?" In 2005.

[Simple Torture]

If you're a fan of the dwarf planet Pluto, get excited for New Horizons, which will be there in less than a year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons

[Bammer]

SRSLY guys. I never heard the news that Pluto no longer counts as one of the nine planets.

This throws off the whole My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles thingy, aaannnnndddd it ruins a perfectly good joke from the movie Spaceballs.

I'm pissed.

[Simple Torture]

My very eager mother just served us nachos. Done and done.

[Simple Torture]

And Pluto's still a thing, so I dunno how that joke from Spaceballs is ruined.

[Bammer]

Between this and nobody explaining the Hunter Pence sign thing to me I'm about to start going somewhere other than RM for my news.

[Bammer]

And yes nachos is the correct call.

[Bammer]

And Pluto's still a thing, so I dunno how that joke from Spaceballs is ruined.

Why no longer considered a planet in our solar system. Why, Neil, WHY??????

[nyquillyn]

Watched all of this again recently. I'll stand by my assessment that it was as good as the original "Cosmos."