Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the hope-they-sell-billions-and-billions dept.
calags noted that CNN is reporting that the very cool "Cosmos" is finally going to be available
on DVD. I'm curious to see how well the 20-year-old mini- series
has aged. I loved it when I was little tho. They're also going to
air an hour "Highlights" show on PBS.
> The ironic thing is, when you say "too much trembling awe at the majesty of the heavens," >I think
you forget that Sagan lived and died an aethiest. Don't these two things contradict?
As Sagan himself put it:
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science
and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is
much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more
elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god,
and I want him to stay that way.' A religion, old or new, that
stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern
science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and
awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
- Carl Sagan
I see no contradiction whatsoever. You do not need to be a theist to understand awe.
Cosmos was a financial disaster
by
Mr.+Protocol
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· Score: 4
KCET, the PBS station here in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, was flying high at the time Cosmos was made. This big, fancy production was supposed to be their crowning achievement and make them all a boodle of money, or rather, make back the boodle they'd spent producing it and a bunch of other expensive stuff.
It cratered in.
The disaster was so great that, combined with the other losses, it drove the station into near-bankruptcy. Everyone running it was replaced and the new regime turned it into a standard, fiscally responsible PBS station, i.e., everything was subordinated to begging and pleading for membership subscriptions. Paradoxically, that's when I allowed my membership to expire. Although they have always claimed that they show things "complete and uncut", they started dropping off introductory material from at least one program and replacing it with begging and pleading.
Several years later the station finally managed to claw its way out of the hole.
I'm still not a member.
No one around KCET mentions Cosmos any more.
Re:Do Slashdot care about their own rights at all?
by
ElrondHubbard
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· Score: 5
Are you guys aware that the _Cosmos_ DVDs are *not* region encoded? One set, one world. Get informed before you start bitching.
http://www.onecosmos.net/
-- "The deep-fried Mars bar is a symptom of a wider crisis."
-- Nutritionist Ann Ralph, on the Scottish diet
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, Carl Sagan stuff and anything ANIME you post. But that The Prisoner is finally available on DVD, that you ignore???
No justice, I tell you.
--
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
>I think you forget that Sagan lived and died an aethiest. Don't these two things contradict?
As Sagan himself put it:
I see no contradiction whatsoever. You do not need to be a theist to understand awe.
KCET, the PBS station here in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, was flying high at the time Cosmos was made. This big, fancy production was supposed to be their crowning achievement and make them all a boodle of money, or rather, make back the boodle they'd spent producing it and a bunch of other expensive stuff.
It cratered in.
The disaster was so great that, combined with the other losses, it drove the station into near-bankruptcy. Everyone running it was replaced and the new regime turned it into a standard, fiscally responsible PBS station, i.e., everything was subordinated to begging and pleading for membership subscriptions. Paradoxically, that's when I allowed my membership to expire. Although they have always claimed that they show things "complete and uncut", they started dropping off introductory material from at least one program and replacing it with begging and pleading.
Several years later the station finally managed to claw its way out of the hole.
I'm still not a member.
No one around KCET mentions Cosmos any more.
Are you guys aware that the _Cosmos_ DVDs are *not* region encoded? One set, one world. Get informed before you start bitching.
http://www.onecosmos.net/
"The deep-fried Mars bar is a symptom of a wider crisis." -- Nutritionist Ann Ralph, on the Scottish diet