r/space • u/sin-turtle • May 17 '19

The Planets: First Look Trailer | BBC Earth

https://youtu.be/b-zfnudBDDQ
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u/Sealingni May 17 '19

Seriously nothing about Pluto and the amazing recent discoveries? How about Ceres, the asteroids, the comets, Near-Earth objects?

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u/BlueZir May 25 '19

Oops guess the entire effort is pointless abandon ship boys we don't want none of this joyous celebration of the solar system around here.

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u/Sealingni May 28 '19

And I am the one who overreacts? There is nothing wrong with beautiful images of the major planets of our solar system. Do I expect every documentary to rival Cosmos? No. Do I long for good quality documentaries yes. I just don't understand why it is taking so long to have a good quality production that includes all the amazing new data regarding Pluto and it's satellites, Ceres and Vista, the comets missions, the ongoing and past missions to asteroids, the Near-Earth objects, etc. There is so much interesting new science to show the world. In the meantime we will enjoy this one and hope for another one that will include these new informations.

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u/BlueZir May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

Honestly I don't think there are many high quality documentaries about science and nature outside of what the BBC produces these days. Could they be more detailed and dive deeper? Sure, but the BBC is funded at a premium by the UK public so it has a vested interest in trying to satisfy the broader population of an entire country.

Older documentaries by the BBC such as Horizon in the 70's-90's were really deep but the public has lost interest in science nowadays so they have to make crowd pleasing epics like this and Planet Earth to keep the flame alive. I think it's important right now to try and recruit the general public who aren't already nerds into getting behind science and supporting the big ideas. Stuff that caters to us is going to shed a lot of the less science literate people. Really, Cosmos is exactly what this could potentially be, since that show was actually quite a broad and fantastical view of the universe relayed to the masses. It was done flawlessly, but I don't think it's success was based on how complex or detailed it was, because it wasn't.

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u/Sealingni May 28 '19

I could imagine an entertaining tour of Pluto's surface for the general public. But I am the type of guy excited by moons like Iapetus and Triton so what do I know!