{"id":37890,"date":"2011-08-07T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cosmos-will-hit-the-air-once-again-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:46:33","slug":"cosmos-will-hit-the-air-once-again-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cosmos-will-hit-the-air-once-again-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Cosmos will hit the air once again! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b70c_Cosmos_title.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35539\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Carl Sagan revolutionized popular astronomy with his book and TV show \"Cosmos\", which had an audience of hundreds of millions of people. We&rsquo;ve learned a lot about our Universe since then, and we&rsquo;re overdue for a modern version of Sagan&rsquo;s show. So I&rsquo;m pleased to find out that Neil Tyson will be hosting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/arts\/television\/fox-plans-new-cosmos-with-seth-macfarlane-as-a-producer.html?_r=1\">a revamped and updated version of \"Cosmos\"<\/a>!<\/p><p>He&rsquo;s working with Ann Druyan (Sagan&rsquo;s widow and herself a science popularizer), Steve Soter (who also worked on the original show), and Seth MacFarlane, creator of \"Family Guy\". I know, that may sound weird, but MacFarlane is a big science fan, a friend of Neil&rsquo;s, and commonly puts a lot of science into his shows. <\/p><p>The new show is being created by National Geographic and Fox, and will air on the latter <em>in prime time<\/em>. To circumvent the expected comments on this, note that Fox News is separate from Fox TV, so the irony is there but perhaps not as strong as you might think.<\/p><p>I&rsquo;m looking forward to this new show. \"Cosmos\" had a profound effect on hundreds of millions of people, but times have changed. I&rsquo;ll be curious ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0XR4cpWvu0R2q03TgHWhSGYSFLE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b70c_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0XR4cpWvu0R2q03TgHWhSGYSFLE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b70c_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8797d_riC6de1Ayis\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8797d_JtyDnTPuW8c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sagan revolutionized popular astronomy with his book and TV show \"Cosmos\", which had an audience of hundreds of millions of people. We&rsquo;ve learned a lot about our Universe since then, and we&rsquo;re overdue for a modern version of Sagan&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cosmos-will-hit-the-air-once-again-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}