This is a really well done episode that deals with the death sentence we all have, including the universe. It would be nice to think we are immortal in thought and deed. Tyson tells us that we don't seem to have a connect with what has destroyed civilizations in the past and our activities probably will make our tenure shorter. The sun is going to die in five billion years, so what can our descendants do? The positive thing is that we can dream about what is going to happen. Our lives are so minuscule compared to cosmic time. We are speck in the time continuum. The dinosaurs lived hundreds of millions of years and we have only been around a mere moment. Also, what does evolution do for us. Will we evolve like the guys in "2001: A Space Odyssey" or Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End"? What do we have to lose, but we need to start now to plan for the future.
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Life in space rocks!!
elo-equipamentos6 July 2017
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a documentary's face giving to us all respect and reputation about what he is talking about is totally true, in this episode beginning at Iraq, telling the story about the first ever writer who put your name in their work and how the life can survives even with several natural catastrophes on Earth along billions years, the life begin once more millions years later in the same point that it stopped, fantastically explained in a easy way to everybody could understand, delightfully entertainment and useful for learning more over our existence!!
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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: Netflix / Rating: 8.75
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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: Netflix / Rating: 8.75
Time, Space, Death, Life
christian9410 February 2016
After Electric Boy being the weakest of an Earth-shattering series. Episode 11 is like its tile: Immortal and God-like. Electric Boy is still a 9/10 and all other episodes are pretty much 10/10... so what is this a 11?
Oh, no, just episode 11. The episode asks questions and put things in perspective and then flips the already amazing Cosmic Calendar into the Cosmic Calendar of the Future with some interesting and hopeful scenarios for humanity, our own fragile Earth and solar system and perhaps the unimaginable universe. Everything must perish, but this episode brings us to the brink and makes us feel slightly infinitely immortal for less than a split-second in the cosmic calendar.
Science, storytelling, art and documentary television can get you there. Who would have thought?
Bravo!
PS: episode 12 brings you back to Earth, passing by Venus and still blows your mind while making it meaningful and delivering a well needed message...
Oh, no, just episode 11. The episode asks questions and put things in perspective and then flips the already amazing Cosmic Calendar into the Cosmic Calendar of the Future with some interesting and hopeful scenarios for humanity, our own fragile Earth and solar system and perhaps the unimaginable universe. Everything must perish, but this episode brings us to the brink and makes us feel slightly infinitely immortal for less than a split-second in the cosmic calendar.
Science, storytelling, art and documentary television can get you there. Who would have thought?
Bravo!
PS: episode 12 brings you back to Earth, passing by Venus and still blows your mind while making it meaningful and delivering a well needed message...
This episode is full of inaccuracies
harrypauledwards9 February 2024
For a start why has Enheduanna got Black African features when she was an Akkadian from the Middle East?
Secondly she was appointed by her father Sargon the Great, the High Priestess of UR not URUK which is a completely different city.
And the way she is portrayed as being loved by all is utter nonsense.
She was detested by the inhabitants of Ur as she was after all part of the occupation of the Sumerian cities by the Akkadian Empire.
The locals even driven her out of the city on one occasion during a revolt.
And whilst it is true she signed all that poetry most historians now agree that she never wrote it.
For a start it was wrote in Sumerian not her native Akkadian which is about as similar as Japanese is to English.
Also it would take scribes years upon years to learn how to write Sumerian cuneiform. The ruling class didn't spend a huge portion of their lives to learn this, that's why they had scribes.
Secondly she was appointed by her father Sargon the Great, the High Priestess of UR not URUK which is a completely different city.
And the way she is portrayed as being loved by all is utter nonsense.
She was detested by the inhabitants of Ur as she was after all part of the occupation of the Sumerian cities by the Akkadian Empire.
The locals even driven her out of the city on one occasion during a revolt.
And whilst it is true she signed all that poetry most historians now agree that she never wrote it.
For a start it was wrote in Sumerian not her native Akkadian which is about as similar as Japanese is to English.
Also it would take scribes years upon years to learn how to write Sumerian cuneiform. The ruling class didn't spend a huge portion of their lives to learn this, that's why they had scribes.
Good info overall, but wide of the indicated topic.
Innsmouth_Apprentice14 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Cosmos: Immortals fails to address individual biological immortality. A realist sees immortality only one way, which is individual immortality. Once one is dead, whatever he/she left after him/her ceases to matter for that person, for the obvious reason that the person doesn't exist any more. Biological immortality in the sense of eternal life for the individual is supremely challenging a pursuit, to be sure, yet at the age of genetics and computers it is precisely what we should be talking about. Rejuvenation and lifespan extension; disease treatment; disease prevention; global safety; all the measures required to keep every single human safe and living indefinitely.
And yet this episode does not broach the subject. The words "aging", "telomeres", and even "lifespan" are never spoken. Instead, Tyson waxes romantic about "living on through written documents" and "surviving as a species". These things are certainly important issues in their own right, but not in the specific context of true immortality. Rather, they are important in relation to such subjects as cultural heritage and the collective future of mankind.
This episode does cover such interesting and vital topics as the possible interstellar travels of biological building blocks, and the possible future emigration of humans from Earth... but I must give it a low score nonetheless, it being a work titled "Immortals" that neglects to discuss immortality.
3/10.
And yet this episode does not broach the subject. The words "aging", "telomeres", and even "lifespan" are never spoken. Instead, Tyson waxes romantic about "living on through written documents" and "surviving as a species". These things are certainly important issues in their own right, but not in the specific context of true immortality. Rather, they are important in relation to such subjects as cultural heritage and the collective future of mankind.
This episode does cover such interesting and vital topics as the possible interstellar travels of biological building blocks, and the possible future emigration of humans from Earth... but I must give it a low score nonetheless, it being a work titled "Immortals" that neglects to discuss immortality.
3/10.
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