![]() ![]() ![]() Tyson took a bus to Ithaca, N.Y., where Sagan - who taught at Cornell University - made time to meet with him on a snowy Saturday. In it, there's a date penned in to meet with Tyson, then a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with a dream of becoming a scientist. There's a touching tribute to Sagan in the first episode of the new "Cosmos." In it, Tyson sits on a coastline with the personal calendar owned by Sagan in 1975. The first episode of the new "Cosmos," titled "Standing Up in the Milky Way," gives viewers an introduction to the updated Spaceship of the Imagination tells the story Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher burned at the stake in 1600 for publicizing his theory that planets like the Earth orbit other stars (scientists have since confirmed nearly 1,700 exoplanets, so far) and runs through a new Cosmic Calendar, which reveals humanity has only used science to explore the universe for the last second of the last day of the cosmic "year." You could say it's almost a whole new cosmos to explore. And Sagan's "pale blue dot" moment when seeing the first view of Earth from deep-space has been recreated by rovers on Mars and spacecraft orbiting Saturn and Mercury. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which carries a golden record of Earth sounds and images that Sagan helped compile, is now in interstellar space on its own voyage across the cosmos. Space telescopes now peer ever-deeper into the cosmos. Thirty years later, the shuttle fleet retired. Much has changed since Sagan's "Cosmos" first aired. "Particularly for 1980, it was an extraordinarily diverse, visually diverse array of images." ![]() Barnum element as well, which the original 'Cosmos' had in an immense way," MacFarlane said during East Coast Q&A event on Tuesday (March 4). "That's what we wanted to preserve, the idea that this is certainly educational and inspiring, but that it would have a certain P.T. Sagan's iconic "we are all star-stuff" moment? Check. So, too, is the Cosmic Calendar, which compresses the 13.8 billion-year history of the cosmos into a single year. Sagan's Spaceship of the Imagination, which he used to flit across time and space to tell the story of the universe is still there. While the new "Cosmos" makes the case for science for a new generation, some major elements from the original remain. Science is becoming mainstream." Ĭarl Sagan's 'Cosmos' for the next generation "I think the pendulum is swinging back," Tyson told a crowd of 400 people in a packed auditorium at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. On Saturday, Tyson said that after a period of unpopularity in our culture, science seems to be gaining ground. In the week leading up to the premiere, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" was screened in cities across the United States, where Druyan, Tyson and fellow executive producer Seth MacFarlane (of "Family Guy" fame) held live Q&A broadcasts for three different time zones. "In the video message, which leads into the debut episode, President Obama invites a new generation to embrace the spirit of discovery and inspires viewers to explore new frontiers and imagine limitless possibilities for the future," officials with Fox and National Geographic Channel said in a statement Saturday (March 8). The first episode was screened at the White House on Feb. President Barack Obama will kick off the 21st-century reboot of "Cosmos" with a video introduction urging viewers to find their own way to explore the universe around them. ![]()
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