Space Happy

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Tonight's Cosmos was especially excellent. The stuff about panspermia was the most fun (bouncing bacteria!) and always gets my recently re-revved sci-fi brain sparking,* but I also liked that the inevitable exhortation to not be so bloody shortsighted with our own species ended on an optimistic note. Sure there are stubbornly obtuse people refusing to think more broadly, but I like to think that they're a small minority. And, of course, I'm trying to do what I can to help, too.

Hope this is the sort of stuff I get to talk about at Space Place. Got a tour of it the other day. I think I'm gonna have FUN working there. If I get to basically tell kids how awesome the universe is, well, I'll be helping the next generation NOT to be so obtuse. I think that's a goal worth going for.


*DOCTORS PLOT SOLUTION, Y'ALL. THIS BOOK IS STILL GETTING WROTE.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I would have left Curiosity out of the Mars scenes. Having it there implied too much that we know where Martian meteorites come from (in more detail than 'Mars'*).

This also gets my 'episodes with named women' count up to 3.

* That's one of the big pushes to bring back rocks from Mars instead of relying on the ones blasted off; we know where we got the rock, and have all kinds of site data if we bring one back. Which would have been a tangent to the basic point of 'some of the rocks that fall from space are rocks from actual planets, not asteroids'.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Heh. Haven't been counting, but I wouldn't be surprised.

It did seem more of an overview than an in-depth thing, though. I don't think they even used the term "panspermia."

[beccastareyes]

I don't think they did.