What's with all these thirty somethings who don't know who Carl Sagan is or about his show Cosmos.
Mar 9, 2014
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I know who Sagan was, of course, but I didn't ever watch Cosmos. My TV watching was pretty limited when I was younger, we didn't have many channels, and somehow that one never made it in.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Thirty-somethings would have been pretty young when Cosmos aired. I know who he was and have a vague recollection of Cosmos, but I was 3 years old at the time it first aired. When he died I was a teenager. And the most important parts of his scientific career were well before I was born.
- John (bird whisperer)
Who is Carl Sagan?
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
A lot older than 30, and while I knew who Carl Sagan was, we tried a bit of the original Cosmos and couldn't handle Sagan's speaking style. NdGT is much better. (I also appreciate the irony of the new Cosmos being on Fox--even though apparently some creationists are convinced it's on PBS, the new 18-minutes-of-ads-per-hour PBS, I guess.)
- walt crawford
Walt: did you see where an Oklahoma station ran a news promo during the 15 seconds that evolution was mentioned in Cosmos? http://www.rawstory.com/rs...
- bentley
I didn't; wonder what kind of "editing error" that station will use if there's an episode that actually deals with evolution? Maybe a sudden power outage? (Fortunately, my view of Oklahoma will always be based on Tom Paxton, therefore favorable...)
- walt crawford
I really did feel pretty bad for that Bruno guy though. How much can one Star Gazer stand. Obviously a heck of a lot.
- macgeek61