{"id":4289,"date":"2014-03-05T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2014-03-05T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T01:15:47","slug":"billions-and-billions-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"Billions And Billions, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the relaunch of <em>Cosmos<\/em> this Sunday. I have vague but pleasant memories of watching the original Carl Sagan series with my parents and it provided my introduction to the notion of scale; both in terms of the vastness of the universe and the deepness of time. I&#8217;m still a bit surprised that Fox and Seth MacFarlane are behind this project, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2014\/03\/first-look-cosmos-rebooted-with-neil-degrasse-tyson\/\">early reviews seem positive<\/a> and make no mention of dick jokes or climate change denialism. The fact that it&#8217;s airing on Sundays seems to indicate that Fox is hoping to attract a large audience. I&#8217;m skeptical that Americans will watch a general-interest science series in droves, but I would love to be proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I should also try to re-read Sagan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Contact-Carl-Sagan\/dp\/0671004107\/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-3&amp;qid=1394068262\"><em>Contact<\/em><\/a>, which made a big impression on me when I first read it back in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the relaunch of Cosmos this Sunday. I have vague but pleasant memories of watching the original Carl Sagan series with my parents and it provided my introduction to the notion of scale; both in terms of the vastness of the universe and the deepness of time. I&#8217;m still a bit surprised <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4289' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-science","category-tv","category-11-id","category-19-id","category-29-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-17b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}