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cosmos

Thoughts on Being at the Center of Everything

April 2, 2016 by Randal

I’m a big fan of astronomer Phil Plait’s “Bad Astronomy” blog. Plait opens his April 1st article (no joke) titled “At the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy” like this: Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a ridiculously huge collection of gas, dust, and stars … something like 200 billion stars, give or take. That’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cosmos, Phil Plait, universe

How big is the Solar System?

September 18, 2015 by Randal

If you haven’t seen this 7 minute movie on the scale of the universe (which was just released on September 16th) then you need to. It’s amazing. My only quibble is that they placed the edge of the Solar System at Neptune’s orbit (3.5 miles by scale from the Sun) rather than at the heliopause (which […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cosmos, Solar System, universe

Cosmos meets Logos: If Carl Sagan had been a conservative Christian

June 30, 2014 by Randal

I don’t know if you ever stopped to ask yourself, “What would the original ‘Cosmos’ have been like if Carl Sagan had been a conservative Christian?” Well now you know. Check out this very clever satire by Reasonable Doubts Podcast with Sagan’s doppelganger being voiced by Jeremy Beahan who, based on this performance, could have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Carl Sagan, cosmos, Jeremy Beahan, Reasonable Doubts, satire

The stellar new “Cosmos”: A Review

March 12, 2014 by Randal

On Sunday night, 34 years after the debut of the immortal Carl Sagan miniseries “Cosmos” on PBS, viewers were treated to the first episode of the new miniseries “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. The program began with Tyson speaking on the same rocky coastline from which Sagan had initiated the first “Cosmos” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Another pale blue dot

July 24, 2013 by Randal

Twenty-three years ago the Voyager space probe gave us the iconic image of earth as a pale blue dot, an image immortalized by Carl Sagan in his majestic book Pale Blue Dot. A few days ago the Cassini probe sent back its own entry to the pale blue dot catalogue, a haunting image of earth as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, trailer

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