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bunsen_hI'm having mixed feelings about the new version of the Cosmos TV series.
It's good to have any kind of show teaching reasonably accurate science stuff in an entertaining way. But... a lot of the graphic stuff isn't accurate. Our solar system's asteroid belt, and the cloud of debris that coalesced into Earth, have been depicted as being like the typical sci-fi movie dense cloud of rocks. A blood stream, with "our ship of the imagination" zipping through it, is startlingly devoid of blood cells. A depiction of a DNA double-helix is bizarrely decorated with lines of light more-or-less-randomly connecting things, making it look like it's covered with cobwebs.
Is it a Brannon Braga thing?
ETA: Some of the spoken science is pretty wrong-in-scale as well. In this evening's episode, Tyson made some mention of molecules so tiny that a million of them would fit inside a grain of sand. Seriously? That's some orders of magnitude off even if we were talking about them fitting across the grain of sand. Then cube the error. I recall squawking about some similar error last week.
It's good to have any kind of show teaching reasonably accurate science stuff in an entertaining way. But... a lot of the graphic stuff isn't accurate. Our solar system's asteroid belt, and the cloud of debris that coalesced into Earth, have been depicted as being like the typical sci-fi movie dense cloud of rocks. A blood stream, with "our ship of the imagination" zipping through it, is startlingly devoid of blood cells. A depiction of a DNA double-helix is bizarrely decorated with lines of light more-or-less-randomly connecting things, making it look like it's covered with cobwebs.
Is it a Brannon Braga thing?
ETA: Some of the spoken science is pretty wrong-in-scale as well. In this evening's episode, Tyson made some mention of molecules so tiny that a million of them would fit inside a grain of sand. Seriously? That's some orders of magnitude off even if we were talking about them fitting across the grain of sand. Then cube the error. I recall squawking about some similar error last week.
