Hi! My name is Isaac Ingalls and i’m in astronomy 109. I come from Parker Colorado, a small town located about 45 minutes south of Denver, and I lived there with my family until moving to Greely to go to school. I have always had a casual fascination with astronomy and have always wanted to… Read more

The final episode of The Cosmos was kind of a bitter sweet warning to humanity. Sagan tells the story of how the Spanish conquistadors interacted with the Aztecs and how poorly that went. He then compares our current efforts of space exploration to those of the Spanish and implores us to take pity on any… Read more

This episode was once again focused on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. However it used a more empirical approach than previous episodes did. It described our current efforts in through SETI and radio telescopes like the Arecibo Observatory. They use this data in the Drake equation and are able to determine what probability of life… Read more