While watching the first episode of Cosmos I was immediately impacted by a great sense of wonder of the universe. Neil Degrasse Tyson does a fantastic job of getting across the immensity of the universe as well as the importance of understanding it.
The first episode of the Cosmos seems to focus on getting across the scale of the universe both in size and time. It does this using two different methods. The first being an overview of the cosmic address, Neil goes through the different scales of the universe in a very particular way to instill a sense of wonder at the sheer scale of the universe. For time Cosmos uses a calendar system where the events of the universe have been scaled to the calendar. This also has the effect of getting across the immensity of time.
The first episode also briefly covers a few other topics such as extraterrestrial life, voyager 1 and Bruno Giordano (its nice to see him represented). Overall I would have to give episode 1 of the cosmos high marks and highly recommend it.
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