Have you seen Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" TV series?

Nope.

yeah I remember enjoying it quite a bit

I have the book too.

no...I hear he's a space cadet

*cringes, in anticipation of all the "billions" comments*

I just about busted a blood vessel when I first saw McDonald's advertising billions and billions served

I figure Sagan has got some kind of rotisserie system in his coffin to make rolling over in his grave every time someone makes a billions and billions joke easier.

Twistermine - He's a dead space cadet.

I enjoyed the show, and I like all the books by him that I've read (so far two: Contact and Cosmos).

Don't watch TV.

Part of it, anyway.

no

I'd like them to rebroadcast it regularly - it was excellent...of course, maybe they'd need to update parts of it to reflect new information discovered since then. I also liked the music for the show - some (all?) of it was by Jean Michele Jarre...

For Bill: "billions and billions" of times on TLC.

I also really liked James Burke's Connections a lot... I never managed to see all of the sequels to Connections but the bits of them that I've seen didn't stand up to the original series.

I only remember one episode. Sagan was in Vinci talking about relativity. He imagined that the speed of light was ten miles per hour and then started riding around at .9c on a bicycle. All sorts of scientific wackiness ensued.

How about "some of it"?

some of it

Yes, watched it religiously when I was in High School...Billions...Billions...I have the book too...Billions...

From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/

"billions and billions"
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Carl Sagan (1934-1996), in his last book _Billions & Billions_
(Random House, 1997, ISBN 0-679-41160-7), admitted that in the
TV series _Cosmos_, first aired in 1980, he "pronounced 'billions'
with a fairly plosive 'b'" to distinguish it from "millions". But
he asserted that he never used the phrase "billions and billions"
in that show, and that the public association of him with that
phrase is due to a parody that Johnny Carson did of Sagan on _The
Tonight Show_.

Yep, and read the book as well. One of my favorite parts was where he had a roll of toilet paper and unwound a written google, then continued unwinding the toilet paper around a quadrangle to show the size of a googleplex.

Interesting stuff but not entirely accurate.

If it aired during the 80s, then I was either a baby or young child. Even if I saw the show, I doubt I would have understood or enjoyed it.