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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
You mean if Vexx and his colleagues didn't attempt to brainwash you with fluoride and radio beams from satellites, you wouldn't be interested in science?
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lol
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Originally Posted by C.A.
Dr. Tyson wrote a book describing just that, and that nowadays not just America, but the whole world needs another reason to look up into space again.
He says that after the space race has died down, humanity has stopped dreaming and has become too content with staying on this rock. His objective now is to invoke the same curiosity and wonder in people as when he first watched Cosmos.
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Yeah I completely agree with him. Back then, news about Astronomy was shown almost nightly. "Voyager passed this point...", "Viking discovered this about Mars...", "New photos of Saturn arrived today...", etc. Astronomical science (among other sciences) was at the forefront of everyone's minds. The 70's and 80's of my youth really were a time of wonder.
Now unless it's something really amazing that happened (such as that photo where every point of light is another galaxy. What a mind-blower that was!), one hardly hears about astronomical science in mainstream media. One has to search for news, if they can be bothered with searching at all. It's disappointing to see the general attitude these days.
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