/r/Cosmos
A place to discuss the documentary series Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Cosmos: APV: (hover for details) | This is the original Cosmos hosted by Carl Sagan. The official name of this Cosmos is Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. |
Cosmos: ASTO: (hover for details) | Also known as Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is the sequel to Carl Sagan's original Cosmos. |
A place to discus the documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and its sequel Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Be sure to subscribe in order to tune into this excellent science series!
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Submissions must be Cosmos-related content. | If a submission is simply about Carl Sagan or Neil Tyson but not about Cosmos, more appropriate subs would be /r/CarlSagan and /r/NeilDTyson. Exceptions include AMAs from people in fields that would be of interest to Cosmos viewers. If you need help finding a suitable subreddit, click here. |
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No memes. | This is extremely simple. "No memes". |
No linking to piracy. | Piracy is anything that is a non-purchased/non official copy of Cosmos. Don't link and/or ask for pirated links to episodes. Streaming links for the original series on major video hosting sites are a grey area |
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/r/Cosmos
Whats the diffrence between these two versions of the book cosmos? (Carl Sagan)
This is either an idea I got from Dr. Sagan, or it occurred to me after having viewed Cosmos a couple of times. Probably I'm paraphrasing the man himself.
Why isn't Cosmos, or something like it, part of the core curriculum in our schools? Countless generations of our ancestors looked up and wondered: what are those things in the night sky? They looked at each other and the natural world around them and wondered about that, too. Who are we? What is this place? How did we come to be here? And we are among the first people to have actual answers to some of those things. Real answers. Incomplete answers, to be sure, but answers nonetheless. Not only is it cheating children if a proper education and leaving them ill-prepared for modern life, it's also incredibly disrespectful to all of the people who came before us, who lived and died with no real answers at all.
The story of the cosmos, as far as we understand it, is amazing and everyone should know about it. The fact of evolutionary biology should be taught to every student regardless of whether they take a biology class. There should be an entire course on evolution by natural selection, required for graduation.
Also, why is it not a graduation requirement for high school students to design a scientifically sound experiment? Why are kids not taught the history of science and the scientific method as subjects in and of themselves?
Published by Random House but just lists 1980 with no further info. Thanks!