First off, love our local library which can offer "Free Puppies" and a "Universe Revealed" all in a single visit.
Getting older, and lacking both faith and a green thumb (two ways two have an appreciation for life after *my* life), I wind up turning to the cosmos (or Cosmos for Sagan/DeGrasse Tyson). This series not only helps with that perspective, it offers two clear hopes for humanity.
#1 - the collection of talking heads is a nice cross-section that makes it clear, the universe is for everybody. The male/female and beyond are represented, and people across the melanin spectrum are all involved in understanding signals from the electromagnetic spectrum.
#2 - and there's hope not just for smart scientists, but talented artists as well. The cold blue energy of the universe before stars, the black-hole collisions, impossible images of probes on almost-impossible expeditions to the sun (Parker) or to the time before the big bang (James Webb Space Telescope).
The latter led me to some Pagan worship. Let me be clear, I'm talking about Alyssa Pagan and senior data imaging developer Joseph DePasquale at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) in Baltimore... worth a click/search imho.
As we boldly take our baby steps and eventually meet new life and new civilizations, those beings will hopefully see our artists, scientists and dog rescuers and judge us to be more than the galactic equivalent of planetary termites.
Getting older, and lacking both faith and a green thumb (two ways two have an appreciation for life after *my* life), I wind up turning to the cosmos (or Cosmos for Sagan/DeGrasse Tyson). This series not only helps with that perspective, it offers two clear hopes for humanity.
#1 - the collection of talking heads is a nice cross-section that makes it clear, the universe is for everybody. The male/female and beyond are represented, and people across the melanin spectrum are all involved in understanding signals from the electromagnetic spectrum.
#2 - and there's hope not just for smart scientists, but talented artists as well. The cold blue energy of the universe before stars, the black-hole collisions, impossible images of probes on almost-impossible expeditions to the sun (Parker) or to the time before the big bang (James Webb Space Telescope).
The latter led me to some Pagan worship. Let me be clear, I'm talking about Alyssa Pagan and senior data imaging developer Joseph DePasquale at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) in Baltimore... worth a click/search imho.
As we boldly take our baby steps and eventually meet new life and new civilizations, those beings will hopefully see our artists, scientists and dog rescuers and judge us to be more than the galactic equivalent of planetary termites.
