{"id":1221,"date":"2013-07-21T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2013-07-21T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T15:14:59","slug":"cosmos-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2013\/07\/21\/cosmos-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmos 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1980 (or thereabouts), one of the most amazing things happened. \u00a0PBS aired a documentary. \u00a0That’s not unusual in and of itself, but this was a documentary about science.\u00a0A relatively unknown science guy talked about evolution, cosmology, the history of math, and how science works.<\/p>\n

Carl Sagan and Cosmos became household names.<\/p>\n

I was 8 at the time. \u00a0I don’t know why my dad watched it, but he did and I watched with him. \u00a0I’m reminded of the scene from The Secret of NIHM, where Nicodemus says “we saw the words and understood”.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get it then, but I knew that this stuff was amazing. \u00a0It was, literally, life-altering for me. \u00a0I’d always been a dinosaur kid. \u00a0I was into dinosaurs long before they were cool. \u00a0My mom made me a stuffed stegosaurus because they just didn’t exist at the time.<\/p>\n

Now… now it’s time for a new generation to be inspired by the wonder that is Cosmos.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/gklrONZ51w8<\/p>\n

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is certainly a worthy successor to Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n

and I am really looking forward to this… and to sharing it with my son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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