One of the television series of the 80s was Cosmos, presented by Carl Sagan. For many current parents in the 80s, television could be considered the Internet of today's children. There was no interactivity although the contents were so varied and attractive that they did not stop waking our imagination, they encouraged us to look for encyclopedias !, in libraries and, of course, to comment on the programs the next day at school.
Now National Geographic Channel brings back the classic program of scientific dissemination with a new version adapted to the public of the 21st century. The series is produced by Ann Druyan, Steven Soter and Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy. The objective is recover and maintain the restlessness and spirit that Carl Sagan had for space and especially for the disclosure. FOX International Channels (FIC) will premiere the program simultaneously on all its channels, in a total of 180 countries and 48 different languages. In Spain you can see through the National Geographic Channel, FOX, FOX Crime, Nat Geo Wild and Travel channels, the next Monday, March 10 at 11 p.m. The time seems very inadequate to stimulate vocations among children, right?
The new series is called Cosmos: a spacetime odyssey (a space odyssey) and will have 13 episodes presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan who is Sagan's widow and who has been part of the creative team.
As you can read on the National Geographic page, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was still studying at an institute in the Bronx when he received an invitation from Professor Carl Sagan inviting him to spend a few hours with him at Cornell University. That appointment marked his adolescence forever, although the time came, he preferred to leave to study Physics at Harvard and postpone his appointment with Astronomy.
More than four decades later, with his own career as a communicator and astrophysicist, DeGrasse has crossed the road again with his old mentor through his widow, Ann Druyan, who did not hesitate to choose him among half a dozen finalists.
The eighties have passed many years and Spanish society has also changed a lot, although astronomy still has extraordinary appeal. I write the date because I really want to see the work of Neil deGrasse Tyson that I think is very complete as a disseminator and I am sure that with the current technological artifacts you will have many possibilities to do a job full of attractions.
