This week, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is determined to get cute with its episode title: "Sisters of the Sun" is about our sun's stellar sisters -- all the other types of stars out there -- but the episode is also about the women at Harvard who, in the early decades of the 20th century, made key discoveries about those stars, what they're made of, and how they'll eventually die. Also, this week's episode reprises a line of old-school Carl Sagan narration that has become something of a nerd touchstone -- which we'll get to later.
Almost makes me feel sorry for the Xianists who refuse to believe in Science and all its wonder, preferring to wallow in their self-righteous....oh fuck it, they're the ones who want to deprive kids of the opportunity to learn about Science so I don't feel sorry for their sorry ignorant asses AT ALL.
1. Being a scientist/engineer before I became a corporate weenie, and despite knowing how unrealistic it was, I have always regarded "We're taking over this conversation now" as one of the great movie lines ever.
2. I have known for some time who Henrietta Swan Leavitt (no relation) was. Both she and Hubble should have gotten a fucking Nobel.
3. I'm ambivalent about the use of autotune to actually be entertaining.
Did anyone else think that this episode had considerably more commercials than usual?
looks like Sterling got blackballed
I don't think white dwarfs do that.
Almost makes me feel sorry for the Xianists who refuse to believe in Science and all its wonder, preferring to wallow in their self-righteous....oh fuck it, they're the ones who want to deprive kids of the opportunity to learn about Science so I don't feel sorry for their sorry ignorant asses AT ALL.
1. Being a scientist/engineer before I became a corporate weenie, and despite knowing how unrealistic it was, I have always regarded "We're taking over this conversation now" as one of the great movie lines ever.
2. I have known for some time who Henrietta Swan Leavitt (no relation) was. Both she and Hubble should have gotten a fucking Nobel.
3. I'm ambivalent about the use of autotune to actually be entertaining.
Wouldn't it be something to actually have that view?