![]() ![]() Much of the information presented in “Sisters of the Sun”-except of course for the vast timescales that emerge from evolutionary presumptions-represents reasonable conclusions based on observable astronomy and physics. The danger lies in extrapolating from stellar physics to presumptive evolutionary conclusions. By studying these snapshots astronomers can learn a lot about stars and even speculate reasonably well about how they should change as they use up their fuel supplies. ![]() SnapshotsĪs when biological evolutionists string together a series of discrete fossils and claim that connecting the dots demonstrates an ancestral relationship, so evolutionary astronomers string together a series of stellar “snapshots” to fit their story of origins. Host Neil deGrasse Tyson ultimately draws conclusions connecting “stellar evolution” to molecules-to-man evolution, continuing beyond the realm of observable science into the speculative realm. “Sisters of the Sun,” episode eight of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, mingles fascinating physics and astronomy with evolutionary interpretations that cannot be tested or observed. ![]() ![]() The Blu-ray issue also contains an interactive Cosmic Calendar.See Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey for reviews of other episodes and discussion guides for further study. The set contains all thirteen episodes, an audio commentary on the first episode, and three featurettes, "Celebrating Carl Sagan: A Selection from the Library of Congress Dedication", "Cosmos at Comic-Con 2013", and "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – The Voyage Continues". The series was released 10 June 2014 on Blu-ray and DVD. According to Fox Networks, this was the first time that a TV show was set to premiere in a global simulcast across their network of channels. The show is a co-production of Druyan's Cosmos Studios, MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions, and National Geographic Channel Druyan, MacFarlane, Cosmos Studios' Mitchell Cannold, and director Brannon Braga are the executive producers.Ĭosmos premiered simultaneously in the US across ten Fox networks: Fox, FX, FXX, FXM, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo Mundo, and Fox Life. In August 2011, the show was officially announced for primetime broadcast in the spring of 2014. In June 2012, MacFarlane provided funding to allow about eight hundred boxes of Sagan's personal notes and correspondences to be donated to the Library of Congress. He and Druyan have become close friends, and Druyan stated that she believed that Sagan and MacFarlane would have been "kindred spirits" with their respective "protean talents". MacFarlane admits that he is "the least essential person in this equation," and the effort is a departure from work he's done before, but considers this to be "very comfortable territory for me personally". MacFarlane, who has several series on the Fox network, was able to bring Druyan to meet the heads of Fox programming, Peter Rice and Kevin Reilly, and helped secure the greenlighting of the show. and I'd like to spend it on something worthwhile." MacFarlane had considered the reduction of effort for space travel in recent decades to be part of "our culture of lethargy". At the time, MacFarlane told Tyson, "I'm at a point in my career where I have some disposable income. He was influenced by Cosmos as a child, believing that Cosmos served to " the gap between the academic community and the general public". A year later, at a 2009 lunch in New York City with Tyson, MacFarlane learned of their interest to re-create Cosmos. Seth MacFarlane had met Ann Druyan through Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2008 kickoff event for the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a new Los Angeles office of the National Academy of Sciences designed to connect Hollywood writers and directors with scientists. Scientific concepts are presented clearly, with both skepticism and wonder, to give full effect. The host leads a journey through the infinite cosmos in his Spaceship of the Imagination. ![]()
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