
I recently was exploring Hulu. It's a really fantastic site if it has the shows you like to view. On his
Bad Astronomy Blog
Phil Plait turned me back to Hulu because it has all of the old Cosmos series. Remember that one? It was on PBS in the 1980s, done by the late Carl Sagan, and I think it popularized science, astronomy astrophysics for a generation of us. As Phil observes, Carl Sagan's Cosmos did more than the typical Discovery channel show does today -- it took its time to explain, through discussion, observation and thought experiements, everything from the Copernican revolution to the impact of Einsteinian relativity on space travel to the Drake equation. I foundly recall watching this with my parents when it first aired. A big reason why I enjoy science, and particularly astronomy, to this day.
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