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* AlienSea: Sagan discusses some of the theories about what could exist under Venus' clouds before spacecrafts found the [[DeathWorld hot and hard facts]], including besides it being [[VenusIsWet Earth-like]] oceans of sparkling water caused by carbon dioxide dissolving on its waters or even hydrocarbon seas.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* PlantAliens: The civilization who are self-described as "We Who Survived" in the Encyclopaedia Galactica are mobile autotrophs who implement Selenium, Bromine and Chlorine in their biology (along with the ubiquitous CHON elements, of course), and engage in arithmetic poetry. Ironically, [[spoiler: they ended up self-destructing. Just before we did]].
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* PlantAliens: The civilization who are self-described as "We Who Survived" in the Encyclopaedia Galactica are mobile autotrophs who implement Selenium, Bromine and Chlorine in their biology (along with the ubiquitous CHON elements, of course), and engage in arithmetic poetry. Ironically, [[spoiler: they [[spoiler:they ended up self-destructing. Just before we did]].
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** Books, as explained in Episode 11, "The Persistence of Memory," let us ''transcend time and death''.
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** Books, as explained in Episode 11, "The Persistence of Memory," "Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory", let us ''transcend time and death''.
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* AutomobilesAreAlien: There's one prt in which we zoom on Earth from an alien perspective and stop when cars can be discerned. They're considered as possible lifeforms, humans being suggested to be parasites required by them to start moving.
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* AutomobilesAreAlien: There's one prt part in which we zoom on Earth from an alien perspective and stop when cars can be discerned. They're considered as possible lifeforms, humans being suggested to be parasites required by them to start moving.
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* DontTryThisAtHome: Michael Faraday, probably anachronistically, says this to his audience while demonstrating how an electric spark can make gunpowder go boom. (Or [[AluminumChristmasTrees possibly not an anachronism]], since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle his book about candles]] advised on proper safety measures for its suggested "at home" experiments.)
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* DontTryThisAtHome: Michael Faraday, probably anachronistically, says this to his audience while demonstrating how an electric spark can make gunpowder go boom. (Or [[AluminumChristmasTrees possibly not an anachronism]], anachronism, since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle his book about candles]] advised on proper safety measures for its suggested "at home" experiments.)
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* {{Tuckerization}}: A segment set in the Paris 1878 Universal Exposition in "The World Set Free" features a booth for [[Creator/SethMacFarlane MacFarlane's]] Refined Lard, taking advantage of the fact that there ''was'' an actual [[NamesTheSame Mcfarlane]] and Co. Booth advertising their refined lard at that expo.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: A segment set in the Paris 1878 Universal Exposition in "The World Set Free" features a booth for [[Creator/SethMacFarlane MacFarlane's]] Refined Lard, taking advantage of the fact that there ''was'' an actual [[NamesTheSame Mcfarlane]] Mcfarlane and Co. Booth advertising their refined lard at that expo.
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* HotLibrarian and HotScientist: According to contemporary reports, Hypatia, the last librarian at Alexandria.
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* HotLibrarian and HotScientist: HotLibrarian: According to contemporary reports, Hypatia, the last librarian at Alexandria.
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''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'' aired on Creator/{{FOX}} network 34 years later as both a remake and an update. Written by Sagan's widow Ann Druyan, with UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson as host, viewers were once again taken on a journey through the wonders of the Cosmos. It used many parts from the original series which still held up and showcased many things which had come about since the original show's airing, also branching off in other directions.
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''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'' aired on Creator/{{FOX}} network 34 years later as both a remake and an update. Written Executive produced by Creator/SethMacFarlane and written by Sagan's widow Ann Druyan, with UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson as host, viewers were once again taken on a journey through the wonders of the Cosmos. It used many parts from the original series which still held up and showcased many things which had come about since the original show's airing, also branching off in other directions.
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* GenreRoulette: The original series had an eclectic soundtrack incorporating classical music, world music and 1970s electronica. Because Sagan was the head of the committee to select music for the Voyager Golden Record, several of the tracks chosen for the record appear in ''Cosmos''.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The original series had an eclectic soundtrack incorporating classical music, world music and 1970s electronica. Because Sagan was the head of the committee to select music for the Voyager Golden Record, several of the tracks chosen for the record appear in ''Cosmos''.
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* FingerlessGloves: Edwin Hubble rocks a gray knit pair in the scenes about his observations.
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* FingerlessGloves: It being Victorian England, these are the poverty variant and part of the overall shabby look of young tradesman Michael Faraday. They disappear after he gains employment at the Royal Institute.
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* HoboGloves: It being Victorian England, these are part of the overall shabby look of young tradesman Michael Faraday. They disappear after he gains employment at the Royal Institute.
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* FailedFutureForecast: In an earlier version of the "Blues for a Red Planet" episode, there was an afterword discussing the possibility of the U.S. and the Soviet Union teaming up to explore and colonize Mars, ending with a shot of the U.S. and Soviet flags in front of a Martian landscape.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp:
** In an earlier version of the "Blues for a Red Planet" episode, there was an afterword discussing the possibility of the U.S. and the Soviet Union teaming up to explore and colonize Mars, ending with a shot of the U.S. and Soviet flags in front of a Martian landscape.
** This was also acknowledged in the afterword of the new version of the final episode, "Who speaks for Earth", showing images of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands and the abolition of the [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid in South Africa]], mentioning how "walls have fallen down and [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes irreconcilable ideologies have embraced]]", and taking it as a good omen for the future.
** In an earlier version of the "Blues for a Red Planet" episode, there was an afterword discussing the possibility of the U.S. and the Soviet Union teaming up to explore and colonize Mars, ending with a shot of the U.S. and Soviet flags in front of a Martian landscape.
** This was also acknowledged in the afterword of the new version of the final episode, "Who speaks for Earth", showing images of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands and the abolition of the [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid in South Africa]], mentioning how "walls have fallen down and [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes irreconcilable ideologies have embraced]]", and taking it as a good omen for the future.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The segment on Giordano Bruno was harshly criticised by historians of science and philosophy for its inaccuracies. While the show concedes that he was "no scientist", many liberties were taken with his historical character in order to present him in a more positive light, and some have accused the show of deliberately fudging the facts so that his story fits more neatly into the old "science vs religion" cliche.
*** Bruno is shown reading Lucretius' ''On the Nature of Things'' while the narration informs us that he was reading "books banned by the Church". Lucretius' work was never banned by the Church, and in fact had enjoyed wide dissemination for hundreds of years before Bruno was born.
*** Bruno is shown being violently thrown out of his friary by his fellows. In reality, he absconded of his own accord.
*** The show presnts Bruno's cosmology as being something he dreamt up himself after being inspired by Lucretius. He states in his own writing that his greatest influences were Copernicus and Nicolaus Cusanus; indeed, much of what the show presents as Bruno's innovations were things he directly lifted from "The Divine Cusanus", as Bruno calls him.
*** As a lecturer at Oxford, Bruno is depicted as espousing Copernican cosmology, which leads to him being jeered at and pelted with rotten fruit by the other scholars. While Bruno was disliked at Oxford, it was mainly because he was found to have been an unrepentant plagiarist, and his heterodox beliefs seem only to have elicitied mild teasing.
*** Generally, the ideas of infinite worlds, extraterrestrial life, and heliocentrism were not forbidden by the Catholic Church, and many well-respected theologians and high-ranking churchmen argued in favour them. The Church's issue with Bruno stemmed principally from his denial of the divinity of Christ, the Ressurection, and slander of Mary. The show reverses the importance of the charges, treating his cosmology as the principal reason for his condemnation.
*** Steven Soter, co-writer of the show, defended the Bruno segment by comparing him to Isaac Newton, who Soter argued is well-regarded for his scientific feats in spite of his unscientific interests in alchemy and theology, apparently forgetting that Bruno didn't ''have'' any scientific accomplishments to speak of.
** The segment on Giordano Bruno was harshly criticised by historians of science and philosophy for its inaccuracies. While the show concedes that he was "no scientist", many liberties were taken with his historical character in order to present him in a more positive light, and some have accused the show of deliberately fudging the facts so that his story fits more neatly into the old "science vs religion" cliche.
*** Bruno is shown reading Lucretius' ''On the Nature of Things'' while the narration informs us that he was reading "books banned by the Church". Lucretius' work was never banned by the Church, and in fact had enjoyed wide dissemination for hundreds of years before Bruno was born.
*** Bruno is shown being violently thrown out of his friary by his fellows. In reality, he absconded of his own accord.
*** The show presnts Bruno's cosmology as being something he dreamt up himself after being inspired by Lucretius. He states in his own writing that his greatest influences were Copernicus and Nicolaus Cusanus; indeed, much of what the show presents as Bruno's innovations were things he directly lifted from "The Divine Cusanus", as Bruno calls him.
*** As a lecturer at Oxford, Bruno is depicted as espousing Copernican cosmology, which leads to him being jeered at and pelted with rotten fruit by the other scholars. While Bruno was disliked at Oxford, it was mainly because he was found to have been an unrepentant plagiarist, and his heterodox beliefs seem only to have elicitied mild teasing.
*** Generally, the ideas of infinite worlds, extraterrestrial life, and heliocentrism were not forbidden by the Catholic Church, and many well-respected theologians and high-ranking churchmen argued in favour them. The Church's issue with Bruno stemmed principally from his denial of the divinity of Christ, the Ressurection, and slander of Mary. The show reverses the importance of the charges, treating his cosmology as the principal reason for his condemnation.
*** Steven Soter, co-writer of the show, defended the Bruno segment by comparing him to Isaac Newton, who Soter argued is well-regarded for his scientific feats in spite of his unscientific interests in alchemy and theology, apparently forgetting that Bruno didn't ''have'' any scientific accomplishments to speak of.
