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COSMOS Then and Now - by Keith Cowing
http://astrobiology.com/2014/03/cosmos-then-and-now.html
COSMOS Then and Now
Source: Keith Cowing
Posted March 10, 2014 10:57 PM
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I have lived with the original COSMOS in my head for more than 30 years. It is not going to go away and I am incapable of not comparing the new and the old versions. Both series are boundary-pushing creatures of their respective times - and hosts. Yet millions have never seen the original.
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When COSMOS first aired in 1980 I was helping to close down Jerry Brown's 1980 Presidential campaign in Los Angeles. I did not have a TV at home so every Sunday I'd head over to the office to watch COSMOS on the largest Sony Trinitron there was - the widescreen TV of the day. It was mesmerizing. Working for Jerry Brown I had a lot of interesting opportunities which included the Voyager Saturn encounters at JPL which overlapped the first run of COSMOS on TV. For me this was rather exciting to day the least - I'd see things on TV and then be in the same room with the people making things happen the next day. Heady stuff.
<snip>
COSMOS Then and Now
Source: Keith Cowing
Posted March 10, 2014 10:57 PM
<snip>
I have lived with the original COSMOS in my head for more than 30 years. It is not going to go away and I am incapable of not comparing the new and the old versions. Both series are boundary-pushing creatures of their respective times - and hosts. Yet millions have never seen the original.
<snip>
When COSMOS first aired in 1980 I was helping to close down Jerry Brown's 1980 Presidential campaign in Los Angeles. I did not have a TV at home so every Sunday I'd head over to the office to watch COSMOS on the largest Sony Trinitron there was - the widescreen TV of the day. It was mesmerizing. Working for Jerry Brown I had a lot of interesting opportunities which included the Voyager Saturn encounters at JPL which overlapped the first run of COSMOS on TV. For me this was rather exciting to day the least - I'd see things on TV and then be in the same room with the people making things happen the next day. Heady stuff.
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