For this week's episode of Cosmos, "The Immortals," Neil deGrasse Tyson has got us thinkin' about bout eternity -- or at least the transmission of messages through time and space. (It's a nice tie-in to last week's episode, which closed with all that communications tech bringing the world together.) The episode begins with an animation of ancient Uruk -- Iraq -- and the Akkadian priestess
As if there wasn't already enough for me to find Neil deGrasse Tyson attractive, well, now that I've seen him standing on Mars without a space suit....
<i>And as we go to the first commercial break, we get a shaky shot (as if seen by a robotic probe&rsquo;s camera) of Neil deGrasse Tyson standing on Mars. Without a spacesuit, which we think is ill advised.</i>
So Neil deGrasse Tyson really <i>is</i> Dr. Manhattan?
I liked the background music while Tyson was talking about life travelling between planets - Ravel&#039;s &#039;Bolero&#039;, just as in <i>Allegro Non Troppo</i>. The coke bottle didn&#039;t appear, but I think that the spirit of the monkey was present.
When I read &quot;message in a bottle,&quot; I thought it was a Boehner post.
ps. my browser rejects gay marriage with wonkette.com
As if there wasn&#039;t already enough for me to find Neil deGrasse Tyson attractive, well, now that I&#039;ve seen him standing on Mars without a space suit....
*fanning self*
<i>And as we go to the first commercial break, we get a shaky shot (as if seen by a robotic probe&rsquo;s camera) of Neil deGrasse Tyson standing on Mars. Without a spacesuit, which we think is ill advised.</i>
So Neil deGrasse Tyson really <i>is</i> Dr. Manhattan?
Are robot sheep covered in steel wool?
Don&#039;t get up, I&#039;ll show myself out...
I liked the background music while Tyson was talking about life travelling between planets - Ravel&#039;s &#039;Bolero&#039;, just as in <i>Allegro Non Troppo</i>. The coke bottle didn&#039;t appear, but I think that the spirit of the monkey was present.
Like Woody Allen, I prefer to become immortal by not dying.