Hubble Star Field
If you are old enough when looking at this picture from Hubble you can hear Carl Sagan’s voice saying “billions upon billions”.
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it seems that one-word comments are not allowed, but that two will get through.
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Here it the download URL.
…why, heck, I’m even old enough to remember a number of SoCal McDonald’s that I saw on a visit that had “Billions and Billions Served” on their sign and everybody knew what it meant….
I remember Carl on with Johnny….”billions and billions…”
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The good old days when there was science on television and people watched it. Now you can’t even get a US distributor for a British film on the life of Charles Darwin, because “it’s too controversial”. 🙁
they’re not kidding about the ‘large files’.
real science on tv, what a concept.
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There were any number of things I definitely don’t miss about the “good old days”, as there are a lot fewer ways to die or be crippled for life today than there used to be, but television was once worth watching.
I miss the days when they actually reported the news and you saw real programs about the world. People once worked their schedules around certain television shows, because the shows were worth the time.
Now, even PBS is failing to inform people, and science is one of the rarest things you will see.
People once worked their schedules around certain television shows, because the shows were worth the time.
yep, our family did that.
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i see the pirate header is back.
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One word and one word only springs to mind and that is
WOW!
I can hear Carl Sagan say those words. I loved Cosmos and a few years earlier hin Royal Institution Christmas lecture series (1977). The annual lectures are still televised. Despite a hell of a lot of dumbing down on British tv there is still some science in the listings
As for Creation not getting a US distributor, that is just plain stupid.
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The pirate header will soon be made clear, Hipparchia.
Jams, never underestimate the power of stupid when it comes to the American public. DVDs and the Beeb save the sanity of a lot of people who think in this country. My Mother uses her Netflick account to watch BBC series television.