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We've been following the program with our grandkids, both on TV as well as on the Cosmos website. Sure, as a couple of oldies like my husband and I, it's prompting our memories on our "ancient" history and science ... but it wasn't designed to inspire us, was it? The program is designed to inspire children about science the way meeting his mentor Carl Sagan inspired Neil deGrasse Tyson. We watched the first program with a lot of skepticism ... I mean, really ... Fox and science? No way. Absolutely no way. Cartoon figures? Hmmm. But whoa! Look at the grandkids! They're tuned in and turned on, all the way through the program. My husband and I were saying, "I know ... I know ... that's the theory of ... !" And the grandkids were saying, "SHHHHH!" Then after the show, they'd go to the website and look again at some of the clips; the older grandkids looked at the study guide and talked to their friends online about the show. It reminds my husband and I of when we were young and full of wonder, but didn't have the money to study all the things we wanted to know about. The Army paid for some of my college and the Navy paid for some of my husband's. By the time we realized we could have fun studying AND working both, it was a bit too late for us; by that time, our aspirations had already been relegated to working in a factory. We've got it on preorder. If you have kids and/or grandkids, we strongly recommend you order a copy for them ... and that you sit and watch it with them.