There are a plethora of science shows out there (remember when there was only nova and cosmos?). A show targeted for middle school or even teenagers usually presents the info in a horrible often inaccurate way and is likely imprecise in its language. That is a crime - for many of those kids, that show is all they will ever learn on the topic.
One of my pet peeves with all these shows is they don't state their intended audience. I can't tell you how many times I've looked forward to watching a show on my DVR only to get 10 minutes into it to find its meant for a teenager with little background.
One of my pet peeves with all these shows is they don't state their intended audience. I can't tell you how many times I've looked forward to watching a show on my DVR only to get 10 minutes into it to find its meant for a teenager with little background.
You are forgetting that covers 99.9% of our high school graduates. Sad but true. Worse yet, school only teaches how to pass the standard tests, not to think and question like when us old guys went to school.
We have little choice. Scientific American only gives you two paragraphs and then five pages saying how smart the author is. Discover mag is down to elementary school level. Most of us can't afford the professional association pubs unless our company pays for them. ( How I miss Machine Design and EDN). Even NASA Tech Briefs changed when they went full scale. Science Friday on NPR? Not much deeper.
So, we come to an AUDIO HOBBY forum because there are members here far more knolegable than we can find in the media. Sad state of affairs, but I'm grateful.
We have little choice. Scientific American only gives you two paragraphs and then five pages saying how smart the author is. Discover mag is down to elementary school level. Most of us can't afford the professional association pubs unless our company pays for them. ( How I miss Machine Design and EDN). Even NASA Tech Briefs changed when they went full scale. Science Friday on NPR? Not much deeper.
So, we come to an AUDIO HOBBY forum because there are members here far more knolegable than we can find in the media. Sad state of affairs, but I'm grateful.
I can assure you that the Baltimore County school system (where I attended) did not even vaguely teach us to think and question back in the old days when I was there ('60s and '70s). I didn't really get that in a formal setting until college (UMBC), at which point we got it good and hard.
When a folk singer does a far superior job of explaining astrophysics than Scientific American, that's a terribly sad thing. I dropped SciAm from my subscriptions when they simultaneously became more political and dumbed down; I don't think that juxtaposition is uncorrelated.
"They" dumbed down Scientific American? Aw....
SA was like a monthly textbook to me.........I would grind my way thru them, taking notes along the way....they were great fun. About the time I "got it" on any one particular article, a month had passed & I was ready for another.
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SA was like a monthly textbook to me.........I would grind my way thru them, taking notes along the way....they were great fun. About the time I "got it" on any one particular article, a month had passed & I was ready for another.
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By definition: 1 light year is a unit of measurement defined as the distance light travels in one year in a vacuum.
For cosmic distances it is a bit easier to use in calculations than km or miles.
1 light-year equals just under 9.5 trillion kilometers.
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Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey - New on Fox TV
"Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey"
More than three decades after the debut of “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” Carl Sagan’s stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY sets off on a new voyage for the stars.
Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the series will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
Carl Sagan’s original series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” was first broadcast in 1980, and has been enjoyed by more than 750 million people worldwide.
Episodes will begin airing March 9, 2014 on Fox and also air on National Geographic Channel on the same night.
FOX Broadcasting Company - Programming
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I accidentally learned of the show on a out-of-state PBS TV talk show.
KLRU Schedule | Overheard with Evan Smith - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson | Overheard With Evan Smith | KLRU TV Schedule | KLRU-TV, Austin PBS
"Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey"
More than three decades after the debut of “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” Carl Sagan’s stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY sets off on a new voyage for the stars.
Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the series will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
Carl Sagan’s original series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” was first broadcast in 1980, and has been enjoyed by more than 750 million people worldwide.
Episodes will begin airing March 9, 2014 on Fox and also air on National Geographic Channel on the same night.
FOX Broadcasting Company - Programming
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I accidentally learned of the show on a out-of-state PBS TV talk show.
KLRU Schedule | Overheard with Evan Smith - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson | Overheard With Evan Smith | KLRU TV Schedule | KLRU-TV, Austin PBS
Thanks Charles, I know that. That is why I said; "seems so obviously wrong". I know it is wrong but why it should have been obvious to the writer.
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I will watch for the Tyson series. He is a decent presenter, but it still comes down to the writers.
For pure science, nothing beats Feynman's lectures. Probably a little out of date now.
For pure science, nothing beats Feynman's lectures. Probably a little out of date now.
I watched a couple of episodes of "Brain Games" on National Geographic channel last night. Fun stuff, but made for a very general audience. The writing was a bit "loose", but the show did seem to have its heart in the right place.
We had a nature doco recently, filmed in Australia (well close to), about a largish white pointer shark that had been tagged and the tag was found separated from the shark. After analysis, it was thought it met a very sudden, violent demise.
When it was speculated that there could be three suspects; giant squid, killer dolphin (it isn't a whale), or a shark. In the next few minutes, it was said the temperature of the probe went up to 27 degrees for a a day or so then dropped to ambient. My immediate thought was that a shark doesn't dive deep enough for a squid attack to occur nor would a squid be able to eat a shark, and that if the culprit was a killer dolphin, the temperature would have risen closer to 37 degrees, leaving the only real culprit, a HUGE shark.
After an hour of so-called research, sure enough, it was decided the only likely suspect was a shark, big enough to prey on a 4 metre shark. What an anti-climax!
When it was speculated that there could be three suspects; giant squid, killer dolphin (it isn't a whale), or a shark. In the next few minutes, it was said the temperature of the probe went up to 27 degrees for a a day or so then dropped to ambient. My immediate thought was that a shark doesn't dive deep enough for a squid attack to occur nor would a squid be able to eat a shark, and that if the culprit was a killer dolphin, the temperature would have risen closer to 37 degrees, leaving the only real culprit, a HUGE shark.
After an hour of so-called research, sure enough, it was decided the only likely suspect was a shark, big enough to prey on a 4 metre shark. What an anti-climax!
One obvious thing that's wrong about the science people refer to as Einsteinian relativity is the fact that time isn't really a dimension of space because time and length are two different things. The reason why mass, length and time can vary is due to motion through the aether and/or the fact that the properties of the aether vary with gravitational potential. The fact that so many people believe that time is a dimension proves the power of hypnotic effect of Einstein Relativity as its used to control the masses. Read through Einstein's writings and you will find that he never said the aether does not exist.
The dimension is ct, where c is speed of light, which gives the unit of length. Lots of scientists and textbooks have said so. It's why it's often referred to as space-time.
Assumptions,
HowStuffWorks "All the matter in the universe"
and the link ..The Extension, Age and Mass of the Universe
Regards
M. Gregg
HowStuffWorks "All the matter in the universe"
and the link ..The Extension, Age and Mass of the Universe
Regards
M. Gregg
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arithmetic, a false thing they invented in school so all the schoolchildren could pass algebra. It was a set of rules in which if you followed without thinking could produce the answer -Richard Feynman
Ill never forget that
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That's funny, when I was 13 I snuck my father's calculus and analytic geometry text into 8th grade math class and refused to participate in what was going on. The teacher punished me by giving me a 72 (which I of course changed to a 92). Much trouble ensued.
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