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Originally Posted by Orionskies
I think overall this show was positive experience for television and a step in the right direction.
Hopefully the stupid commercial channels noticed less cooking, sports and reality TV garbage.
Well done ABC.
Julian
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Well said. The basic truth here is that this was a public broadcast about astronomy and that was really an excellent outcome. The fact that the Kepler data came up trumps was another win. Get peoples attention on the subject and you raise its profile and that can form a feedback loop really fast.
As for the political guff, well, it seems the populous is starting to acknowledge that our so call "leaders" are a bunch of incompetent, self absorbed twats and they are being by-passed more an more.
Social media is a powerful tool in this regard. This is being pointedly demonstrated in Tasmania at the moment. The dogma driven box-heads in power here are about to pass legislation to open up 300,000+ hectares of reserved forest but no company will touch it because of the threat of public backlash.
One logging company stuck up its hand a few weeks back; they supply Bummings with hardwood. Yesterday, Bummings went public declaring they will not accept timber from that source. Social media pressure I would suspect.
There may be hope for us yet
The pollies can shove their heads in the sand and say, "It just isn't so", but they can't fool everybody, or deny the Science.