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Now that the new Cosmos has concluded, what was your favourite moment or line from the series?

Asked by ragingloli (52231points) June 12th, 2014

The difference between seeing nothing but a pebble and reading the history of the cosmos inscribed inside it—is science

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talljasperman's avatar

The solar system turning into an eye. Also everyone seemed nice and caring from the sketches. Almost like they respected each other.

mazingerz88's avatar

The Sky Full of Ghosts episode, my favorite. I think this was the one with a scientist walking on the beach with his son or grandson. Can’t recall any lines but I remember it made the universe feel “transcendent” to me as human being.

El_Cadejo's avatar

I haven’t watched the last four episodes yet, but honestly, I wasn’t impressed. To much bashing on religion, while I agree, it got tiresome. Too much looking at the past, yea I get it, you need to show sciences roots, but I’d much rather look toward the future.

filmfann's avatar

The way they said “Thousands of Millions”, rather than “Billions”, probably because of the way people made fun of Carl Sagan’s pronunciation of that word.

jaytkay's avatar

re: “Thousands of Millions

I think they changed that to make it more clear.

One billion is 1,000,000,000 in the US and Canada and modern Britain
One billion is 1,000,000,000,000 in continental Europe and old British books

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talljasperman's avatar

@jaytkay Then trillion and quadrillion are next. What were the old British books say for them?

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