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cesium133:
--- Quote from: J on 13 Mar 2014, 18:40 ---unfortunately, it seems not everyone shares your enthusiasm
--- Quote from: Oklahoma Fox station removes evolution from ‘Cosmos’ by cutting only 15 seconds ---In what appeared to be an editing error, a Fox affiliate in Oklahoma managed to remove the only mention of evolution from Sunday night’s Cosmos science documentary by cutting only 15 seconds from the broadcast.
The much-anticipated reboot of Carl Sagan’s legendary Cosmos premiered on Sunday with an overview of the history of the Universe, from the Big Bang to the advent of humans.
It wasn’t until the last 10 minutes of the show that host Neil deGrasse Tyson hinted at human evolution.
“We are newcomers to the Cosmos,” he explained. “Our own story only begins on the last night of the cosmic year.”
“Three and a half million years ago, our ancestors — your and mine left these traces,” Tyson said, pointing to footprints. “We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.”
But for viewers of KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City, that 15 second paragraph was replaced by an awkwardly-inserted commercial for the evening news. The edit was caught on video and uploaded to YouTube by Adam Bates.
At least one of the segments advertised in the news promo — a story about a 12-year-old bow hunter — did air on that evening’s newscast.
Watch the edited and original versions of Cosmos below, broadcast March 9, 2013.
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Heh. Now I kinda wish I had watched that.
LeeC:
reminds me of this:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9ImScQGAo
which is further funny because Family guy creator Seth MacFarlane is producing the new COSMOS :-D
mustang6172:
Scientists are now quite certain that neither Planet X or Nemesis exist.
http://news.yahoo.com/planet-x-myth-debunked-030652774.html
I always figured debunking Nemesis would require pointing an X-ray telescope along the plane of the ecliptic for a couple years.
Loki:
Hm. It sounds more like "we have been certain for years, here is another guy confirming this". At least I remember learning the bit about scientists overestimating the mass of Neptune years ago when I learned of Planet X.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Jan 2014, 15:51 ---I seem to remember that my children discovered how to put things in holes the right way round as young toddlers - we even bought them things to learn with!
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damn you, Paul, I bit my tongue so hard I'm bleeding
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