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esteban

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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2005, 06:18:53 AM »
Wow, I've never seen this star gazer show. NAKED EYE ASTRONOMY RULES! I actually never heard of that term before :)
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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2005, 08:32:16 AM »
You've never seen Star Gazer? Actually you have probably seen it before while browsing through channels one night. It's that show with this nerdy astronomer (Jack Horkheimer) and he gives you great information about spotting various atronomy bits with your own naked eye or using something like a small telescope or a pair of binoculars as Jack says. If you were ever flipping through channels at night and came across a cheesy show with this guy talking about stars with still blue screened space backgrounds, then you've seen it. One stance he's usually in is him sitting on a ring of a planet like Saturn and then he's usually drifted away to another screen via high tech effects. You can even download all of the recent episodes off the officially website, since they are only five minutes long! It's totally an awesome show and I recommend it!

The only better space related show on PBS than Star Gazer is Cosmos of course, which is the best space/star science show in history if you ask me ;) ! Cosmos is so incredibly awesome and so is Carl Sagan. This show holds great interests and you learn a ton from it! I enjoy the soundtrack fo r it as well, which I should buy someday. My favorite episodes were the time traveling, human evolution one, and the episode where his starship first appears. EXCELLENT SHOW!
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2005, 09:18:48 AM »
I always hated Carl Sagan, he was such an egotistical bastard and his BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of years ago schtick was pretty annoying.  Plus that book of his that they made into a movie f*cking SUCKED, the one with Jodie Foster.
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2005, 07:28:17 PM »
Carl Sagan is your god, GUTS. I can see how he is a bastard outside of Cosmos, but Cosmos was just so awesome to be passed up and his theories were rad, even if physicsts make fun of him. The sweet thing about the TV sereis of Cosmos (not the books) was how it blended intruiging physic facts along with a 80's touch. By the way, I didn't read the book for Contact nor even see the movie, so I don't know how much the book relates to the movie even though Sagan did do some kind of production for the movie but died during it (I think). Contact is supposed to be shitty though, but for how awesome Cosmos was, I think Carl Sagan easily pays off as being a hero in my books.

By the way, I have this theory of how Carl Sagan isn't actually dead, but actually faked his death and time traveled to a different time to escape from some kind of government issues due to secret discoveries.
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esteban

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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2005, 06:20:58 AM »
Hmmmm, if that Star Gazer show has been on the air for a long time, then I probably did see it (if you don't have cable, PBS is your best friend).

I don't think I've ever seen Cosmos though.

And that Contact movie (never knew about the book) was super-duper hyped back in the day. I remember going to see it and folks were visibly excited.

I don't remember much from the movie, though. But it was much better than ANACONDA or MOD SQUAD. Ouch.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2005, 07:51:32 AM »
Well Contact is super awesome up until Jodie Foster meets an alien, then it's just like WTF?  It's the biggest cop-out in movie history, I was so disappointed.  The rest of the movie is great, but that one part really ruined it for a lot of people (including me).
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2005, 09:47:03 PM »
You guys have to check out Cosmos, it's one of my all time favorite TV series! The DVD package Carl Sagan's official site sells it for is a total rip off though (Like $150 or something, jeez), but I looked it up on Ebay before and it's much cheaper, I still need to get it myself along with the soundtrack. If you guys have any old video stores near you, they might have the VHS tapes for rent, like this one near me. It's worth everything!
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« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2005, 11:03:23 AM »
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You guys have to check out Cosmos, it's one of my all time favorite TV series! The DVD package Carl Sagan's official site sells it for is a total rip off though (Like $150 or something, jeez), but I looked it up on Ebay before and it's much cheaper, I still need to get it myself along with the soundtrack. If you guys have any old video stores near you, they might have the VHS tapes for rent, like this one near me. It's worth everything!
yup, i'm gonna check out the $.99 VHS rental shops around here.
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Keranu

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« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2005, 08:17:56 PM »
Alright, sweet. Tell me if you have found it and what you thought of it. Keep in mind that there is a couple episodes or so that can be boring, but for the most part the show is excellent!
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« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2014, 03:56:35 PM »
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« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2014, 04:03:20 PM »
searching for "PBS kids" you perv?
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« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2014, 06:18:15 PM »
If you like Mr. Rogers, you owe it to yourself to watch this video of him.


He really is one of my favorite people ever.
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2014, 07:09:53 PM »
Quote from: galam on March 24, 2014, 04:03:20 PM
searching for "PBS kids" you perv?

I was obsessed with Clifford when I was little. And No. Didn't search. Went through old things like all the way back out of boredom. Mew.
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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2014, 08:45:20 PM »
When I was a kid, it was 3-2-1 Contact, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Dressup, and the Romper Room that I watched.  Now that I have a young child, I realize just how special Mr. Rogers was compared to the absolute "bombardment" of my son's other kids' DVDs... even if a full episode of Mr. Rogers can't hold his interest as a result.
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« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2014, 10:42:51 PM »
I remember Arthur being pretty good. I used to watch that a lot in 3rd grade.
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