I really don't care about anything beyond the moon or how some theories came to be.
And now I need to know how to ignore people on CF . . .
I really don't care about anything beyond the moon or how some theories came to be.
And now I need to know how to ignore people on CF . . .
I've got it DVRed. I really found the one on Halley very interesting. I did not realize how instrumental he was in getting Newton's Principia Mathematica book published. Or how many ideas he came up with that we still use today.
I really don't care about anything beyond the moon or how some theories came to be.
And now I'm really hoping that the ME in your name doesn't mean we hold the same degree from Iowa State.
To paraphrase a line from the show.
It's sad that we can name every mass murderer in the U.S. but don't know who Neil DeGrasse Tyson is.
Close...that quote was from NDGT, but it was someone else named in the quote...a scientist mentioned in the show, embarrassingly, I'm proving the quote, because I can't remember who it was, the wife and I were watching while booking travel arrangements, so I wasn't paying full attention...
On a funny/related note...has everyone seen the slow motion NDGT video? Pretty funny, he sounds/looks stoned:
[video=youtube;jSHNyppwS5w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHNyppwS5w[/video]
I think he knew that NDT was talking about someone else, but it fit the situation perfectly.
And it was Hook.
Dangit...I almost said that, but after looking it up, wasn't sure. And *hooke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke
It's sad that these days people (me) can't even spell his name right. (And don't know his first name)![]()
In pretty sure Tyson has about 2 or 3 PhDs and 40ish honorary degrees
In pretty sure Tyson has about 2 or 3 PhDs and 40ish honorary degrees
Alma mater Columbia University (MPhil, PhD)It's sad that these days people (me) can't even spell his name right. (And don't know his first name)![]()
Not to mention a tiger and a bunch of heavy weight belts.
I watched the original Cosmos with Sagan when it aired and it still blows me away. I'm a little underwhelmed with this version, but they need to find the lowest common denominator for the complexity of the material.
Also - saw a Sagan lecture (I think at ISU) and as he was doing a slide show he noticed many, many people taking flash photographs. He paused and gently reminded the photogs the slide show only works in the dark (or something to that effect).