How We Got to Now, on PBS

[WhatsHisNuts]

Anyone else watching this? I bought the book, but then found that the TV version is playing on PBS. If you liked the recent reboot of Cosmos, you'll love this!

Three episodes have aired thus far. If you have Roku, you can watch all three episodes on the PBS channel.

 

[Hashish]

Hopefully, it isn't as rife with inaccuracies as the reboot of Cosmos was. Carl Sagan would have been disgusted by Neil dumbAss Tyson. Dude cares more about being a celebrity than actually educating people. But what can you expect when something that originally aired on PBS is remade by FOX? :nono:

 

[Skulnik]

Hopefully, it isn't as rife with inaccuracies as the reboot of Cosmos was. Carl Sagan would have been disgusted by Neil dumbAss Tyson. Dude cares more about being a celebrity than actually educating people. But what can you expect when something that originally aired on PBS is remade by FOX? :nono:

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson - Apollo 40th anniversary 2009.jpg
Tyson hosting the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, July 2009


Born
October 5, 1958 (age 56)
Manhattan, New York City, United States[1]

Residence
Manhattan, New York City, United States

Fields
Astrophysics, physical cosmology, science communication

Institutions
Hayden Planetarium, PBS, Planetary Society

Alma mater
Harvard University (A.B.)
University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)
Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)

Influences
Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein

Notable awards
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2007)

Spouse
Alice Young
(1988?present; 2 children)

Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl dəˈɡr?s ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly radio show Star Talk. In 2014, Tyson hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) television series.[2]

 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson



Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson - Apollo 40th anniversary 2009.jpg
Tyson hosting the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, July 2009


Born
October 5, 1958 (age 56)
Manhattan, New York City, United States[1]

Residence
Manhattan, New York City, United States

Fields
Astrophysics, physical cosmology, science communication

Institutions
Hayden Planetarium, PBS, Planetary Society

Alma mater
Harvard University (A.B.)
University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)
Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)

Influences
Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein

Notable awards
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2007)

Spouse
Alice Young
(1988?present; 2 children)

Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl dəˈɡr?s ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly radio show Star Talk. In 2014, Tyson hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) television series.[2]

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson - Apollo 40th anniversary 2009.jpg
Tyson hosting the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, July 2009


Born
October 5, 1958 (age 56)
Manhattan, New York City, United States[1]

Residence
Manhattan, New York City, United States

Fields
Astrophysics, physical cosmology, science communication

Institutions
Hayden Planetarium, PBS, Planetary Society

Alma mater
Harvard University (A.B.)
University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)
Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)

Influences
Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein

Notable awards
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2007)

Spouse
Alice Young
(1988?present; 2 children)

Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl dəˈɡr?s ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly radio show Star Talk. In 2014, Tyson hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) television series.[2]

So....you're saying he's qualified. LOL

 

[kickserv]

Hopefully, it isn't as rife with inaccuracies as the reboot of Cosmos was.

Such as?

 

[kickserv]

Neil dumbAss Tyson.

Yep, what an idiot. Not many humans beings dumber then Neil, every time I listen to him the thought that crosses my mind is how dumb he is.

 

[kickserv]

Dude cares more about being a celebrity than actually educating people.

Yep, when he was teaching at those Ivy League schools it was all about the celebrity. Amazing he even found his way to the classroom, ya know with him being such a dumbAss and all.

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Hopefully, it isn't as rife with inaccuracies as the reboot of Cosmos was. Carl Sagan would have been disgusted by Neil dumbAss Tyson. Dude cares more about being a celebrity than actually educating people. But what can you expect when something that originally aired on PBS is remade by FOX? :nono:

Why is he a dumbass and what were the inaccuracies? Carl Sagan would have loved it.

If you're mad about the way religion was portrayed, get used to it. The world is evolving and it isn't going to start reverting back to ancient ways of thinking.

 

[Hashish]

I'm not surprised that you like it, kickserv. You don't even read and you love MacFarlane.

Sagan would not have loved it.

Here is a look at the NUMEROUS errors in just the first episode. :facepalm:

http://marktrapp.com/blog/2014/03/15/history-science-cosmos/

I stopped watching after the first episode because I knew I would learn nothing and I was getting so pissed off about the misleading science and FLAT-OUT LIES. The show was all about flashy graphics and Tyson's ego. Maybe the show did some good by inspiring some young people to get into science, but I wonder if that outweighs the damage it did by spreading more scientific inaccuracies. There are tons of people like kickserv out there who don't read and get all their science education from the mainstream media. The level of scientific illiteracy is shocking, and crap like this doesn't help. :nono:

And, yes, Tyson isn't really stupid. He actually is a really smart guy. That just makes it more inexcusable that he allowed this farce that masquerades as education to be created. That makes him a dumbAss in my book.

 

[kickserv]

And, yes, Tyson isn't really stupid. He actually is a really smart guy. That just makes it more inexcusable that he allowed this farce that masquerades as education to be created. That makes him a dumbAss in my book.

Ok fair enough.

 

[kickserv]

Why is he a dumbass and what were the inaccuracies? Carl Sagan would have loved it.

If you're mad about the way religion was portrayed, get used to it. The world is evolving and it isn't going to start reverting back to ancient ways of thinking.

Yes...and Yes.