Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014) Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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TheBigAristotle: Feb 8, 2007; I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.; Grimey Drawer

Oh, it's airing on ten networks, I'll just use Time Warner's streaming site

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Supreme Allah: Oct 6, 2004; everybody relax, i'm here; Nap Ghost

I do wish Obama would give NASA more money.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:02

Winkie01: Nov 28, 2004

Acquilae posted:

Freep meltdown in 3..2..

Lol Freep watching anything about science.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:02

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

This isn't up against much so if the ratings suck, well... you should have no more faith in humanity.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:03

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

Supreme Allah posted:

I do wish Obama would give NASA more money.

Budget is set by Congress :eng101:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:03

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Brannon Braga? Nooooooooooooooooooo................

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:04

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

Hahahaha Brannon Braga is an EP? Oh lordy.

edit: ^ :argh:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:04

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Voyager was pointing the wrong way relative to its motion, series is a disaster.

As someone that literally works on NASA budgetary stuff and knows how the hot dogs are made, NASA doesn't need more money, really. It needs to have a better idea how to use what it's got.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:04

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

I do like the upgraded Boba Fett spaceship.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:04

Supreme Allah: Oct 6, 2004; everybody relax, i'm here; Nap Ghost

Josh Lyman posted:

Budget is set by Congress

Thanks, Josh Lyman.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:04

TotalHell: Feb 22, 2005; _{Roman Reigns fights CM Punk in fantasy warld. Lotsa violins, so littl kids cant red it.}

I didn't realize Tyson had a future-tech spaceship.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:05

mikemil828: May 15, 2008; A man who has said too much

AwkwardKnob posted:

Yes, it's TV, but the original aired on PBS with no commercial interruption. Plenty of shows have done something similar, and I would have preferred it that way. What's weird about that? I am probably different than a lot of TVIV goons in that I literally loathe commercials and don't even watch live TV or have cable. Stuff like Netflix, Amazon Prime, or just good old fashioned piracy enable me to experience all the shows and documentaries I like to watch with no commercials. Frankly, I don't understand how the rest of you tolerate it otherwise haha

To be honest, it would be rather much to expect 220 channels across the planet to show this without commercial interruption.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:05

Mustache Ride: Sep 11, 2001

A Dyson sphere? Is this Science fact or Science Fiction, I'm confused

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:05

Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Hehe, like humanity is really gonna last for another 250million years...hehe :smith:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:06

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Mister Kingdom posted:

I do like the upgraded Boba Fett spaceship.

Its a shinier version of Padme's ship from the Phantom Menace. Or maybe Darth Maul's.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:06

You are a nerd: Apr 9, 2003; See?

Sash! posted:

Voyager was pointing the wrong way relative to its motion, series is a disaster.

As someone that literally works on NASA budgetary stuff and knows how the hot dogs are made, NASA doesn't need more money, really. It needs to have a better idea how to use what it's got.

It might not need more money to fund its current missions, but I think what they're implying is that with a bigger budget they could take on even more projects.

E: Even Neil couldn't get them to accurately depict the asteroid belt. Biggest pet peeve in public understanding of the solar system. I give up.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:07

Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

NASA deserves all the money they could possibly ever dream of and more. If the Apollo program wasn't suddenly shut down after the early 70s and we continued on with the NASA roadmap we'd have been on Mars by the mid 80s.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:08

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

#cosmos isn't trending on Twitter but #LongIslandMedium is :suicide:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:08

surf rock: Aug 12, 2007; We need more women in STEM, and by that, I mean skateboarding, television, esports, and magic.

Josh Lyman posted:

This isn't up against much so if the ratings suck, well... you should have no more faith in humanity.

Uhhh, it's up against The Walking Dead (insane rating juggernaut), Downton Abbey (sizable and loyal audience) and True Detective (early critical/cult hit). It could be worse, but that's a reasonably challenging set of competitors.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:08

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

You are a nerd posted:

It might not need more money to fund its current missions, but I think what they're implying is that with a bigger budget they could take on even more projects.

That's the problem though. If you want NASA to blow the doors off engineer and science again, NASA has to have one super-goal to accomplish. In the 60s, almost the entire agency was devoted to getting to the Moon. If I remember right, exactly two flights (two Mariners) were not lunar missions.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:09

GolfHole: Feb 26, 2004

This is a bad way to educate the uneducated.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:09

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

Josh Lyman posted:

#cosmos isn't trending on Twitter but #LongIslandMedium is

give it 5 minutes

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:10

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

It's nice that they found a way to re-use the Illusive Man office set from Mass Effect 3. Wouldn't want that to go to waste on a backlot somewhere.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:10

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

NASA deserves all the money they could possibly ever dream of and more. If the Apollo program wasn't suddenly shut down after the early 70s and we continued on with the NASA roadmap we'd have been on Mars by the mid 80s.

Not even close. We'd have killed a few crews and that would have been that. We couldn't have kept a crew alive for more than a few weeks at that point.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:10

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Do you know the odds of successfully navigating the Kuiper Belt?

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:10

Postal Parcel: Aug 2, 2013

Ahh, poor Pluto.
Demoted by the anti-Plutonian media

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:10

Ofaloaf: Feb 15, 2013

I wish they were using music that took more cues from old Cosmos rather than Hollywood orchestra, but eh.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Voyager was pointing the right way that time. Everything's back on track!

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Space blues are pretty rad

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

Postal Parcel posted:

Ahh, poor Pluto.
Demoted by the anti-Plutonian media

i never thought i would use this emote

:pluto:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Acquilae: May 15, 2013

Postal Parcel posted:

Ahh, poor Pluto.
Demoted by the anti-Plutonian media

It's sad how the de-planeting of Pluto was the last thing that caused a big reaction of astronomy by the general public :smith:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Sash! posted:

Not even close. We'd have killed a few crews and that would have been that. We couldn't have kept a crew alive for more than a few weeks at that point.

We'll we'd sure as poo poo have moon bases!

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:11

Old James: Nov 20, 2003; Wait a sec. I don't know an Old James!

Mister Kingdom posted:

Do you know the odds of successfully navigating the Kuiper Belt?

Approximately 3,720 : 1.

Edit: vvv This guy knows what's up.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:12

surf rock: Aug 12, 2007; We need more women in STEM, and by that, I mean skateboarding, television, esports, and magic.

Mister Kingdom posted:

Do you know the odds of successfully navigating the Kuiper Belt?

Never tell me the odds!

Fake edit: I'm actually curious, what are the odds?

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:12

Videodrome: Apr 5, 2003; All hail the new flesh!

Needs more Vangelis, and fewer commercials.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:12

You are a nerd: Apr 9, 2003; See?

Sash! posted:

That's the problem though. If you want NASA to blow the doors off engineer and science again, NASA has to have one super-goal to accomplish. In the 60s, almost the entire agency was devoted to getting to the Moon. If I remember right, exactly two flights (two Mariners) were not lunar missions.

Who says they have to blow any doors off? There are an untold multitude of smaller projects like bigger and better space telescopes, potential Earth impactor monitoring, and space-based satellite monitoring of any number of things that they'll never get around to with present budgeting.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:12

Caddie: Feb 11, 2008; by Hand Knit

I always knew that when Neil Degrasse Tyson was taking a break from guesting on the Daily Show that he was orbiting Earth in a cloaked penis shaped spaceship.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 02:12