From neswift@earthlink.net Sun Aug 13 09:51:06 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA163720 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:51:06 -0700 Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA11197 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:51:05 -0700 Received: from [63.22.36.84] (1Cust84.tnt5.west-palm-beach.fl.da.uu.net [63.22.36.84]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11379 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:49:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Wery TAN: Cosmos (No, I don't know the answer) From: Norman Swift To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3996CEFF.C5A59C1A@home.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I'm looking at Sagan's _Cosmos_ and reading his Introduction dated May 1980. Looks like the definite answer could be supplied by KCET, the Public Broadcasting Service outlet in Los Angeles. Could find no specific dates for the original 13 series. > From: Ivan Van Laningham > Reply-To: classics@u.washington.edu > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:38:23 -0600 > To: classics@u.washington.edu > Subject: Re: Wery TAN: Cosmos (No, I don't know the answer) > > Hi All-- > > "P. T. Rourke" wrote: >> >> If you're that desperate to know, try writing to this guy, Ken Jenkins, who >> according to his resume (found with Raging Search) worked on the animations >> for the series. >> >> http://www.immediatefuture.com/resumes.html >> > > I _am_ that desperate. It's for a novel I'm working on, set in August > of 1980. A very nice scene (IMO) depends on the main character having > seen Cosmos, thereby being able to identify a particular piece of > music. I'll have to dump, or change, the scene if Cosmos didn't air > till September or October. > > However, it's not Ken Jenkins I need to write to, but Donald E. Davis, > whose resume contains Cosmos work. Several resumes were combined on > that page. Thanks for the tip! > >> A search of the WGBH website included this amusing result: >> >> "Search results for '(cosmos or cosmoses)' " >> >> Obviously someone had the hoary old "define the Universe, give three >> examples" question on his Physics final. >> > > Or else they've been reading science fiction for a while. ... > > Metta, > Ivan > ---------------------------------------------- > Ivan Van Laningham > Axent Technologies, Inc. > http://www.pauahtun.org/ > http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html > Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 > Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours > .