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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Sat Mar 15, 2014, 01:29 PM Mar 2014

Bill Maher: Watch ‘Cosmos’ twice. ‘Once baked and once straight’ because it’s ‘good both ways’

In an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Seth MacFarlane, producer of “Family Guy” and now “Cosmos” explained the so-called “Big Bang” theory to Bill Maher and his panel.

But first, Maher explained that he watched “Cosmos” twice, “Once baked and once straight and it’s good both ways.”

“And what I love about it is that you go all the way back in time,” he continued, joking, “the full 6,000 years” in a jab at Creationists.

“Right back to when the Easter Bunny shat us all out,” MacFarlane agreed.

Maher said that “Cosmos” covers the origins of the universe as described in the Big Bang theory, but that he felt like he hadn’t fully grasped it himself, so Myers volunteered to explain.

“When our universe was one second old,” he said, “it was the size of a marble.”

Now, all the hundred billion galaxies, all of the stars and worlds, everything,” he continued. “All the matter and energy in the universe was condensed to the size of a marble.”

“And then obviously it exploded in every direction,” MacFarlane said.

Watch the video, embedded below:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/15/bill-maher-watch-cosmos-twice-once-baked-and-once-straight-because-its-good-both-ways/

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Bill Maher: Watch ‘Cosmos’ twice. ‘Once baked and once straight’ because it’s ‘good both ways’ (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP
I am watching the new Cosmos exboyfil Mar 2014 #1
I recorded it on DVR Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #2
+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #3
I respect Maher, and I tried. But I got halfway there, and realized I had disconnected the cable jtuck004 Mar 2014 #4

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
1. I am watching the new Cosmos
Sat Mar 15, 2014, 01:49 PM
Mar 2014

and then watching the old Cosmos episode by episode. I was depressed after the first week. I know Tyson is trying, but he is no Sagan and you cannot get past the bloody commercials destroying any narrative. They have to pay for the show, but I am getting to the point that I will wait for it on DVD or Amazon streaming.

Cirque du So-What

(25,949 posts)
2. I recorded it on DVR
Sat Mar 15, 2014, 04:34 PM
Mar 2014

then skipped through the ads at breakneck speed. IMO it's the only way to watch anything on commercial TV.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
4. I respect Maher, and I tried. But I got halfway there, and realized I had disconnected the cable
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 09:06 PM
Mar 2014

some time back.

So I went out and played with the dogs, and thought about their evolution. Close enough

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