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- monospaced0
@letterhead
The only thing in the trailer that is REMOTELY science fiction looking is the space-ship, and if this is anything like the '80s version, even that is based on rock-hard science. The rest of it is just visual explaining how the universe works, so nothing to do with movies, but more to do with documentaries (which this is, basically).
The space ship would be a reference to our humanity in the future, so yes, a little "fiction" for our imaginations. As we learn more about the cosmos, we naturally wonder how we would get there, and how our technology might help us. Anyway, that's my take on it. Here's a screenshot from the show 30 years ago where Carl Sagan is narrating on a fictional space ship:
- our spaceship of the imagination™scarabin
- hey, if anyone's going to imagine a realistic spaceship, it's going to be scientistsmonospaced
- all our best tech comes from sci fi. i can list a handful just from star trek alonescarabin
- werdmonospaced
- hey anyone remember that post here where somebody was going on about a disturbing dream featuring this exact image?uuuuuu
- ...image?uuuuuu
- http://www.qbn.com/t…
haha found ituuuuuu - almost exactuuuuuu
- y'know, scarabin, I didn't even realize that Sagan actually called it the Spaceship of the Imagination!monospaced
- I just made that up in my comment, so it's nice to know i'm not alone.monospaced
- letterhead0
looks cool. I have never watched the original but definitely look forward to getting into the series
- uuuuuu0
fuck you carl sagan
- letterhead0
Seth MacFarlane is the producer, thats funny
- monospaced0
- he already has his own show(s) about similar subjectsinteliboy
- +1
Dr Brian Cox is always fun to watch.Continuity - Yes, he has shows, and that's why he's ideal for Cosmos, among other reasons I listed alreadymonospaced
- It's his enthusiasm that makes him so good, very similar to Sagan's except more boyish.Continuity
- Yea but he pronounces 'saturn' like a compete bellendset
- albums0
needs more Beakman
or Nye
or Mr. Wizard
or Sagan hologram
- utopian0
Needs more J.J. Abrams Lens Flare Effects!
- monospaced0
"As we face an all-out assault on science and the principles that inform it — a dogma-driven, results-focused culture of denial and institutionally reinforced ignorance, as we strip science curricula from schools and research funding from budgets — we need Cosmos more than ever. Carl Sagan’s Spaceship of the Imagination isn’t just a convenient metaphor. It’s an ark, whose trajectory has the potential to change the course of our culture, and, possibly, our future."
- delusional much? this is so US centric, assault on science, wtf?GeorgesIV
- I haven't actually witnessed it myself, since i've been out of school for many years, but I know it's happeningmonospaced
- but there's nothing wrong with promoting science in the face of opposition, regardless of where it comes frommonospaced
- I wouldn't call her delusional, but yes it is a US centric perspective.monospaced
- they're talking about the religious, and yes they creep on science all the live-long daydoesnotexist
- detritus0
"As we face an all-out assault on science and the principles that inform it" - I'm so glad I'm not American sometimes.
- I really don't know, is this push toward creationism uniquely American?monospaced
- sharp as usualGeorgesIV
- Mono, I live in Italy where we have the vatican and we've yet to hear them even pushing creationism in the schools, so yeah, USA onlyGeorgesIV
- 1st comment was aimed at detritus :)GeorgesIV
- there is a pope, and he lives in rome.doesnotexist
- scarabin0
can we not make this an another anti-american thread?
ffs.
- something good happened, let's just enjoy it for a few minutesscarabin
- ++discoduro
- I never meant to.monospaced
- sing with me :)
http://www.youtube.c…GeorgesIV - science is a candle in the dark and we need all the illumination we can get, but the US isn't the darkest country in the world.scarabin
- but don't mind me, i just get tired of having the country shit on by people who base their ego on where they were bornscarabin
- I'm with you 100% scarabin.monospaced
- I'm not anti-American, Scarabin - I just meant I'm glad I don't have to deal with that shit here. My cuntry sux 2.detritus
- ah, you had a good point. was just cranky that dayscarabin
- _niko0
- this always amazes me... and here we are worrying about stupid shithektor911
- Giant JPEG is giant!Continuity
- im worried about this file sizemoldero
- sea_sea0
because love.
- monospaced0
- god made all that shit in 1 day
http://reactiongifs.…moldero - I wonder if FOX will put a disclaimer in saying that these are just theories, and that creation is legitmonospaced
- haha yeahmoldero
- seth macfarlane / FOXtoemaas
- god made all that shit in 1 day
- OP310
2 more days! http://fox.tv/1ov5ZGt
- monospaced0
I noticed that in the most recent trailer, they really emphasize the word "theory" when they say, "The theory of evolution." I wonder if that's a FOX thing, or if I'm just reading into the emphasis too much.
- in an interview with Ann Druyan, she said Fox didnt alter or make her change the script at all. Hoping thats trueOP31
- No it is Faux Fox News with their right wing religious slant on the news as it pertains to white christians.utopian
- yeah i have concerns about the fox-ization of science in this program as wellscarabin
- They're smart saying theory - a new, more plausible addition to the theory of evolution may spring up in 50 years.toemaas