Cosmos coming back with NdG Tyson!

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Post by hadespussercats » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:08 am

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Animavore wrote:When did the dumbing down of American science documentaries begin anyway?

I don't know, but I've recently learned that the so-called "History Channel" has become little more than a 24 hour one-sided bible documentary station. My mother-in-law has it on all day to help reinforce her beliefs, because if it's on the History Channel it must be true.
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Post by Cormac » Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:23 am

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Clinton Huxley wrote:I bet Brian Cox is fuming...
Cox doesn't have near the personality of Tyson. Give him a dozen years or so to season and he can take a shot at a 3rd gen Cosmos.
Maybe if he wasn't Northern... :ask:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:23 am

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Post by Robert_S » Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:08 am

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drl2 wrote:
Animavore wrote:When did the dumbing down of American science documentaries begin anyway?

I don't know, but I've recently learned that the so-called "History Channel" has become little more than a 24 hour one-sided bible documentary station. My mother-in-law has it on all day to help reinforce her beliefs, because if it's on the History Channel it must be true.
Bible "history" or Nazis. Or Ancient Egypt woo. Crap, basically.
A few years back it was all US Civil War and WWII. So I predict a program on how the ghost of Lincoln helped crack the Enigma code soon.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Cosmos coming back with NdG Tyson!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:37 am

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hadespussercats wrote:
drl2 wrote:
Animavore wrote:When did the dumbing down of American science documentaries begin anyway?

I don't know, but I've recently learned that the so-called "History Channel" has become little more than a 24 hour one-sided bible documentary station. My mother-in-law has it on all day to help reinforce her beliefs, because if it's on the History Channel it must be true.
Bible "history" or Nazis. Or Ancient Egypt woo. Crap, basically.
A few years back it was all US Civil War and WWII. So I predict a program on how the ghost of Lincoln helped crack the Enigma code soon.
Bah, Einstein cracked the Enigma code. He simply went into the future...
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Post by hadespussercats » Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:16 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Robert_S wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
drl2 wrote:
Animavore wrote:When did the dumbing down of American science documentaries begin anyway?

I don't know, but I've recently learned that the so-called "History Channel" has become little more than a 24 hour one-sided bible documentary station. My mother-in-law has it on all day to help reinforce her beliefs, because if it's on the History Channel it must be true.
Bible "history" or Nazis. Or Ancient Egypt woo. Crap, basically.
A few years back it was all US Civil War and WWII. So I predict a program on how the ghost of Lincoln helped crack the Enigma code soon.
Bah, Einstein cracked the Enigma code. He simply went into the future...
We watched a "Top Shot" marathon yesterday (not a bad show, even if you're not a gun nut.) They had some promo about Aliens and the pyramids or something.

I wish I could remember who it was who went on the rant: "Oooh, people could never have built the Pyramids... WHY NOT? It's a PILE OF ROCKS!"
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Post by Robert_S » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:16 am

hadespussercats wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Robert_S wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
drl2 wrote:

I don't know, but I've recently learned that the so-called "History Channel" has become little more than a 24 hour one-sided bible documentary station. My mother-in-law has it on all day to help reinforce her beliefs, because if it's on the History Channel it must be true.
Bible "history" or Nazis. Or Ancient Egypt woo. Crap, basically.
A few years back it was all US Civil War and WWII. So I predict a program on how the ghost of Lincoln helped crack the Enigma code soon.
Bah, Einstein cracked the Enigma code. He simply went into the future...
We watched a "Top Shot" marathon yesterday (not a bad show, even if you're not a gun nut.) They had some promo about Aliens and the pyramids or something.

I wish I could remember who it was who went on the rant: "Oooh, people could never have built the Pyramids... WHY NOT? It's a PILE OF ROCKS!"
IIRC, It all started with a contractor insisting that it couldn't be done with today's technology. If the interviewer would have offered more money for the job, I'm sure it would have become more possible.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:53 pm

Pensioner wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I bet Brian Cox is fuming...
Cox doesn't have near the personality of Tyson. Give him a dozen years or so to season and he can take a shot at a 3rd gen Cosmos.
Maybe if he wasn't Northern... :ask:
Rather a gritty northerner than some shandy drinking southern fop, begad!
True that, he would have done a better job if he had worn a flat cap and had a Ferret under each arm and a tattoo of a white rose on his knuckles.
You two want to tell Phil Harding to his face that he's a shandy drinking fop? :what:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:55 pm

Harding? Needs a haircut. Damned disgrace.
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:01 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Harding? Needs a haircut. Damned disgrace.
Pfft! Listen to you Northern namby-pambies with your "haircuts"... :roll:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:02 pm

Regarding the pyramid construction, a group of students from Indiana University built a section of Cheop's Pyramid in a quarry just to see how hard it was. They did a respectable job in one week, with just fifty kids. Ten thousand workers would have buzzed through that job.
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Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Harding? Needs a haircut. Damned disgrace.
Pfft! Listen to you Northern namby-pambies with your "haircuts"... :roll:
Yeah, well at least we don't have indoor lavatories, like you effete milksops.
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:04 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Harding? Needs a haircut. Damned disgrace.
Pfft! Listen to you Northern namby-pambies with your "haircuts"... :roll:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:04 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Harding? Needs a haircut. Damned disgrace.
Pfft! Listen to you Northern namby-pambies with your "haircuts"... :roll:
Yeah, well at least we don't have indoor lavatories, like you effete milksops.
Who the hell would want an outhouse indoors? :shock: :FBM:
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