re: So Cosmos is more atheistic rant than actual cosmos?

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Yeah, I head NdT on the radio the other day, and he said he's going to try as little as possible to reiterate what Sagan said and focus on things he didn't say or didn't know when the original Cosmos was made. He said they wouldn't really be going into Galleo or Copernicus for those reasons.

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I enjoyed the first episode in that they gave a wonderful nod to Sagan, and even went so far as to re-do the Cosmic Calendar thing...which was one of my favorite parts of the original series and loved seeing it re-done.

Without knowing where the series will go, and having not seen last night's yet, I'd assume it will touch on the various breakthroughs in the breaking of the human genome and genetic advancements, discovery and just how we're now able to find new planets around distance solar systems, advancements in physics, etc.

I think one of the program the new Cosmos has is that we now live in a world that, THANK GOODNESS, has well produced and researched science shows on 24-7 on nearly every topic imaginable. We now live in a world of science programs spawned by Sagan's Cosmos. Hell...Tyson himself has ton a metric shite ton of programs for NOVA alone. So there's no way it can be anywhere near as groundbreaking as the original...but I'm going to enjoy what they come up with.