Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, by Carl Sagan. Viewing + Discussion

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ATTN: This location as changed. It will now be held at Natty's apartment. I will email out the exact address the night before to all those who've RSVP-ed.

Greetings Fellow Science Romanticists!

We will be continuing our screening + discussion of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series this Thursday (5/25) with episode 5. A description of the episode is below:

This episode, devoted to the planet Mars, begins with scientific and fictional speculation about the Red Planet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction books, and Percival Lowell's false vision of canals on Mars). It then moves to Robert Goddard's early experiments in rocket-building, inspired by reading science fiction, and the work by Mars probes, including the Viking, searching for life on Mars. The episode ends with the possibility of the terraforming and colonization of Mars and a Cosmos Update on the relevance of Mars' environment to Earth's and the possibility of a manned mission to Mars.

We will continue on with a new episode followed by group discussion every Thursday night until we finish up the series. Don't worry if you miss a few episodes - this series is not a continual narrative, so you will not have to have seen the previous episode to appreciate/understand the subsequent one.

If you haven't seen the Cosmos yet, here's a video to get you excited about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc). WARNING: this video is super addictive.

As usual, BYOB. +1's welcome (& encouraged!)

Looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday!

Regards,

Reece

P.S. I have a special announcement about our future meetups that I will be sharing with the group during this meeting.