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Everybody Loves Science!
J:
indeed. the first episode was just beautiful.
LeeC:
Watched it with my girlfriend on Sunday in HD. Was magnificent. She cried. I wont spoil on why.
mustang6172:
Jupiter's red spot isn't a hurricane; it's an anticyclone. This is an oversight of proportions approximately three times the size of Earth!
Akima:
Confusing a cyclone (hurricanes are cyclones) with an anticyclone is rather more than an oversight; it's getting things backwards. I imagine they were going for drama; "it's big and stormy and rotates so its a hurricane!" Or perhaps someone was confused by the GRS' direction of rotation, forgetting that it is in Jupiter's southern hemisphere.
And I can't watch it... :(
J:
as a university film professor i once knew used to say "If only there were some sort of Beautiful Technology that could help you overcome this problem.
having listened to tyson's podcast regularly for several years now, i have a hard time imagining him not catching that if it was a mistake. i figure they decided to go with the word most people would be familiar with. i don't think most people realize that the term cyclone/hurricane indicates a specific direction of rotation, and stopping to explain that would have absolutely murdered the pacing.
one of the main points of the show is to communicate the love of science to people who might have previously been turned off by seemingly dry, passionless facts & figures they learned in school. for that, pacing and presentation are of prime importance.
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