I'm still hung up on these fuckers:
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Almost straight out of sci-fi. I liked the evolution to tree analogy as well. They did that thing very well. Titan really is following along the lines of Earth 4-3 billion yrs ago. Primordial life is likely going to start up soon. I hope we don't interfere in the development of that planet so we can monitor the progress of life there if that happens.
Didn't he refer to them as "water bears"?
You know that if we get the capability to do so, we (humans) will have orbiting "siphoning stations" around titan sucking up all of that natural gas. People with growing space capabilities like China and India, would have no reservations in doing so. Though, if we ever want to be able to more effectively explore and travel in our solar system we will have to exploit those of off world resources; gas (methane), helium, hydrogen and rare metals found on moons and asteroids will all be needed to effectively build vehicles off world (so as to circumvent the issue of gravitational escape) for more economically construction
I can see the "Want ad" now--"Hundreds of laborers needed to man extraction and refining platforms in near Titan orbit..." Of course, then as now, we will still be exploiting the chronically exploitable--uneducated whites and blacks, migrant workers, low wage seekers from the equatorial latitude nations, etc
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The evolution tree was done quite nicely; these are the situations where I truly appreciate the use of SFX, they are a prime component to such a presentation.
To draw in another thread--this show is to the "pedestrian's (or child's)" understanding of science and to grow its appreciation, as VIKINGS is to factual history. Yes it is dramatized and put in a pretty package, but if it gets the avg shrub or kid away from their XBOX for a minute , then the tactics are well used.
Freaking embarrassing is that in places like most of Europe, China, S Korea and Japan-you could get a kid to watch a show like COSMOS even if Tyson was doing nothing but standing at a podium and no SFX were used--they would watch because they still respect education and science. Here (and parts of Europe) you have to dress it up like a whore and pimp it out to get ppl to watch.