Episode 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Carl Sagan)

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book to accompany the series was also published.

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[qed100]

Accusing him of hate speech is like accusing children of appeasing evil spirits on Halloween. Innocent kids aren't practicing a pagan ritual, and your antagonist had nothing malicious in mind by using that nasty old word. Please be bothered to enlighten yourself as to the plasticity of language. Also please note that the word wasn't invented in the US as a derogatory weapon; it was -appropriated- as one. The word itself came across the border with the Mexicans who used it.

[simikess]

Listening to him speak about the Cosmos is like listening to poetry.

[flinchus]

Can someone please describe to me how this word is actually offensive without simply using the hollow argument that it is meant to be derogatory. Is it the pronunciation of the word that is offensive? Using a word that sounds Mexican in the attempt to make something less palatable to a racist minded audience does not make a word racist or derogatory. How can a word given to a plant be racist? Implying that all Mexicans smoke weed might be considered so but this is insane.

[Cydric Von Borres]

TOO FUCKING LONG INTRODUCTION!

[Fidel Soto]

You'd think someone nicknamed Bunnies Kitties would not be intelligent at all. OH WAIT, I WAS RIGHT LOL

[Jeff Hurst]

And "weed" is defined as "A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants", clearly it is largely used to mean something else as well. To use your own words, "You'd think someone intelligent enough to listen to Carl Sagan would be intelligent enough to know..." that words have more than one meaning.

[amy stevenson]

Do I win anything for capturing a ROD in this program because I am not to sure if anyone new about them when this program was made?. If you want me to show it to you just send me an email and I will tell you exactly where it is, in fact there are a few but 1 is just in your face that you can't say that it's not there. I love space programs thanks Carl.

[amy stevenson]

Do I win anything for capturing a ROD in this program because I am not to sure if anyone new about them when this program was made?. If you want me to show it to you just send me an email and I will tell you exactly where it is, in fact there are a few but 1 is just in your face that you can't say that it's not there. I love space programs thanks Carl.

[amy stevenson]

Do I win anything for capturing a ROD in this program because I am not to sure if anyone new about them when this program was made?. If you want me to show it to you just send me an email and I will tell you exactly where it is, in fact there are a few but 1 is just in your face that you can't say that it's not there. I love space programs thanks Carl.

[amy stevenson]

Do I win anything for capturing a ROD in this program because I am not to sure if anyone new about them when this program was made?. If you want me to show it to you just send me an email and I will tell you exactly where it is, in fact there are a few but 1 is just in your face that you can't say that it's not there. I love space programs thanks Carl.

[alinkyng]

That assumes a world population of 6 billion, there are currently 7.1 billion people, the number is closer to 1 in 40,000.

[billfottle]

Your comment reeks of stupid. Every sentence is dumb and riddled with spelling mistakes.

The entire comment is quite cute though. Bless you for trying to seem like you know what you're talking about, even though you can't spell the word you're trying to educate people about.

I hope you trip and hurt your knees. Both of them.