I, too, got a bit emotional. The juxtaposition of Neil's passion and Carl's poetry ... What a way to end the series.
Cosmos - With Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Indianapolis is going smarter...
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indianapolis-police-rolling-out-50-hybrid-cars
88 MPG isn't bad at all...
The 2014 Ford Fusion advertises 100...
http://www.ford.com/cars/fusion/tri...05424&ef_id=U5DlPAAABIkKDnYh:20140606222144:s
The technology is getting there...
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I haven't seen the finale yet. I will catch it tonight.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indianapolis-police-rolling-out-50-hybrid-cars
88 MPG isn't bad at all...
The 2014 Ford Fusion advertises 100...
http://www.ford.com/cars/fusion/tri...05424&ef_id=U5DlPAAABIkKDnYh:20140606222144:s
The technology is getting there...
Break...
I haven't seen the finale yet. I will catch it tonight.
Hopefully Neil will go back to PBS and resume that special NOVA offshoot.
PBS also needs to grow a pair
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/citizen-koch-documentary_n_3727038.html
I just wish Neil had spent more time on the next cosmic calender
PBS also needs to grow a pair
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/citizen-koch-documentary_n_3727038.html
I just wish Neil had spent more time on the next cosmic calender
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It was a fitting sendoff. I really hope this isn't the last we see of intelligent, accessible, science programming any time soon.
Yeah, hopefully this demonstrates that such a show can be viable - and that someone else will pick up the torch. As much as I'd love another incarnation of Cosmos, I'd also love to hear a different perspective. I don't know how he'd be as an on-screen personality, but I really enjoy Brian Greene's ability to convey complex ideas in his books. His style would seem a decent fit (again, provided it could be adapted for the screen).
Oh, Greene has done two TV miniseries based on his books, The Elegant Universe in 2003 and The Fabric of the Cosmos in 2011. He's a decent presenter, but more in the direction of Bill Nye than Carl Sagan. He's also done TED talks (whatever those are) and talk-show appearances. He's a pretty well-established science popularizer by now. Just look him up on YouTube and you can get samples of his delivery.
^ Ah! I had no idea ... Thank you for that!
Join the club.
Seriously, you guys don't watch 'Through the Wormhole'?
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I watched the last episode.
The best part was when Carl was talking.
Yesterday's XKCD is oddly relevant to the topic at hand in this thread:
http://xkcd.com/1379/
ALT Text: "The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That's only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal."
They have their own discussion going on at the XKCD forums, as well.
http://xkcd.com/1379/
ALT Text: "The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That's only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal."
They have their own discussion going on at the XKCD forums, as well.
Chicago last year test drove a couple ProTerra buses, which have been in full operation in other towns and cities across the country. There are solar cells and electric plugs, with charging stations around the city that take only a few minutes to charge between runs. It doesn't eliminate the need for gas, but it reduces dependency so that the bus gets 24 mpg, similar to a coupe, much better than most SUVs, and a HUGE improvement over older buses that get 5 mpg at best. It saves the town a ton of money from not having to buy gas, and it requires less regular maintenance than usual buses, also saving money on equipment (with the number of buses in a large metropolis, the existing manpower can thus focus on maintaining more regular work, rather than dealing with time-consuming emergencies and breakdowns).
But y'know, those buses are evil, for reasons that aren't quite clear to anyone else. So they deserve to be shot down, for some reason.
If you live in a big city, you're already at half an IAU, so you can already directly observe the drastic impacts of 2C of warming.
Here's a thought: If we installed those solar-collector roadways, then maybe we could redesign cars so that they could draw power from the roads themselves by induction -- sort of like how streetcars draw power from overhead cables, but more advanced. Of course some kinds of vehicle would still need onboard power sources for going offroad or driving on roads that hadn't been solar-converted, but once most roads have been converted, it would be doable, at least for things like buses that followed standardized routes.
If you live in a big city, you're already at half an IAU, so you can already directly observe the drastic impacts of 2C of warming.
I also love "likely"... very scientific, epsiecially after NDT told us not to watch the dog.
Very good final episode. Really a shame there won't be more of this series.
