#cosmos a spacetime odyssey
Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves… what difference does that make?
Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you’re willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That’s fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of these into my heart and my mind, I’m uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it’s real, that it’s not just something happening inside my own head! Because it matters what’s true, and our imagination is nothing compared with nature’s awesome reality.
- Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, Episode 13: “Unafraid of the Dark”
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Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves… what difference does that make?
Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you’re willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That’s fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of these into my heart and my mind, I’m uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it’s real, that it’s not just something happening inside my own head! Because it matters what’s true, and our imagination is nothing compared with nature’s awesome reality.
- Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, Episode 13: “Unafraid of the Dark”
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“To make this journey, we’ll need imagination, but imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.”
These are just a few of the beautiful visual effects from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
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“To make this journey, we’ll need imagination, but imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.”
These are just a few of the beautiful visual effects from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
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Neil deGrasse Tyson throwing shade in “Sisters of the Sun”
The number of men who hired women, used women, and then took credit for the work and discoveries THEY made is rampant throughout history and disgusting.
Boom.
While this is true and important, I’d like to point out that their names aren’t featured on this post.
Cecilia Payne (who discovered the chemical composition of stars and that they consist largely of hydrogen)
Annie Jump Cannon (developed the first catalog for the spectral characteristics of stars)Are you kidding me they have action movie names? And textbooks had the audacity to not teach us about them?
Ha ha I drew those glass plates and the wooden things they slide into. Memories.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson throwing shade in “Sisters of the Sun”
The number of men who hired women, used women, and then took credit for the work and discoveries THEY made is rampant throughout history and disgusting.
Boom.
While this is true and important, I’d like to point out that their names aren’t featured on this post.
Cecilia Payne (who discovered the chemical composition of stars and that they consist largely of hydrogen)
Annie Jump Cannon (developed the first catalog for the spectral characteristics of stars)Are you kidding me they have action movie names? And textbooks had the audacity to not teach us about them?
Ha ha I drew those glass plates and the wooden things they slide into. Memories.
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