Dang it... I haven't seen it yet. For some reason my pvr didn't record last night.
Derek Stanley
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> On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:01 PM, <> wrote:
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> Sorry for bringing up the old topic here, but they didn't actually present Bruno as a scientist in the show at all. In fact, Tyson made it explicitly clear in the show that Bruno wasn't a scientist, and that it was probably just good luck (well, I guess it wasn't really good for him ultimately) that he happened to come to the right conclusion since he had no evidence to base his ideas on.
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> I really don't get the level of indignation that people have about how Bruno was presented in Cosmos, and everyone that I've heard complaining about it seems to have missed the point, which was that ultimately he was a guy who was punished for thinking differently. Yes, they simplified the history of what happened somewhat (e.g. not really mentioning that he was a supporter of Copernicus39; ideas about a heliocentric solar system), but they definitely didn't claim that he was a scientist.
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> Meanwhile, I though t last night's episode about the age of the Earth and how that led to the discovery that lead was poisoning everyone (and ultimately its banning from pretty much everything) was pretty awesome.
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Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:01 PM, <> wrote:
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> Sorry for bringing up the old topic here, but they didn't actually present Bruno as a scientist in the show at all. In fact, Tyson made it explicitly clear in the show that Bruno wasn't a scientist, and that it was probably just good luck (well, I guess it wasn't really good for him ultimately) that he happened to come to the right conclusion since he had no evidence to base his ideas on.
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> I really don't get the level of indignation that people have about how Bruno was presented in Cosmos, and everyone that I've heard complaining about it seems to have missed the point, which was that ultimately he was a guy who was punished for thinking differently. Yes, they simplified the history of what happened somewhat (e.g. not really mentioning that he was a supporter of Copernicus39; ideas about a heliocentric solar system), but they definitely didn't claim that he was a scientist.
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> Meanwhile, I though t last night's episode about the age of the Earth and how that led to the discovery that lead was poisoning everyone (and ultimately its banning from pretty much everything) was pretty awesome.
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