In case you haven't seen this before, it's truly marvellous TV.
Well worth a look! Proper science, presented in a way that isn't patronising, but that enthrals and involves. Brilliant, IMO.
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PSA - BBC2 - Wonders of the Solar System - 2100 tonight.
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Over on BBC1, David Dimbleby dances with Gilbert and George. Tough call...
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Solar System is on HD too. Bonus
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yep good programme,.
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Mr Woppit - Member
Over on BBC1, David Dimbleby dances with Gilbert and George. Tough call...
Seriously.
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Brian Cox is great! I love pretty much anything he does. Try to dig out clips of when he does the phone conversations with Shaun Keaveney on the breakfast show on 6music - always great. Obviously a very clever bloke who loves what he does but doesn't take himself too seriously.
And he was in D:Ream.
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Both will be available on iPlayer
I didn't realise till today that Prof Brian Cox originally shot to fame as keyboard player for 90s Nulab popsters D:Ream.
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Love this programme, the Cassini film from Saturn was astonishing, and Brian Cox is obviously doing a job he adores. Wish I could get a job like that...
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Now that is a proper aircraft. Awesome machine!
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*Pride*
My father designed bits of it.
What I would give for a ride in a Lightning.
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ME! ME! ME! I WANNA GO INNA LIGHTNING!
(when he said 'the only people higher than me are on the space station' everyone in the room here said 'James May'!)
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captivating programme, especially as it's a subject I normally find quite dull
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My father designed bits of it.
hehe, my uncle used to fly them - said they were fightening
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any one who wants to fly in a lightening can do, this is where the prof did it:
http://www.thundercity.com/pages/499409045/Home.aspdoesn't list prices for a lightening trip, although they are doing buccanneer trips for £6.5k...
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Worthy of a bump, I think, as it's Mars tonight! Oh, and check out Tropic of Cancer from 2000. Two hours of excellent TV. Intelligent and fascinating, without patronising. Superb!
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Nice one Cap'n!
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Worthy of a bump, I think, as it's Mars tonight!
...and large things that go bump in the night...Posted 2 years ago # -
Hope it comes out on DVD, my son wants it, he amazed me with his knowledge
hes 13 going on 30! Could have a budding physicist on our hands.
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Do everything to encourage him. It's a subject I never fail to find fascinating, and have done since I was a kid. Would love to have had an opportunity to work in something like that, but my meagre math skills would count against me I think. There's always something new to discover.
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...seriously?
Brian Cox... grrrr, there's just something so bloody irrrrrritating about him! Does anyone else secretly want to punch him on the nose, just to wipe that bloody annoying 'oh-look-at-me-looking-at-you-through-the-TV-camera-lens-while-I-talk-science' fixed smile he wears all the time? He looks like a Wallace and Gromit character!
And don't get me started on that fringe.
I was virtually screaming at the TV this evening going - "IT'S BLOODY GRAVITY", while they spent 5 minutes repeatedly telling us again and again and again that 'Scientists were shocked to find that Io was full of volcanoes, in what was thought to be a dead area of the solar system. Why was this..?'. Cue more shots of lava, a few more shots of The Fringe and Fixed Smile... etc.
And you reckon this is good 'inteligent' tv??
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Didn't learn anything new but it beats reading and quite entertaining.
Astronomy got me into science as a kid too.
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Does anyone else secretly want to punch him on the nose, just to wipe that bloody annoying 'oh-look-at-me-looking-at-you-through-the-TV-camera-lens-while-I-talk-science' fixed smile he wears all the time?
I think I might fancy him actually.
Perhaps you do too and that's what's annoying you so much.
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Lovely smile.
Nice hair too.
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Can't stand that smile.
Chainsaw could fix that.
Or a nice little axe.
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Or a sledgehammer.
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Or maybe a tunnel boring machine.
'Ha! You're not smiling now, are you, now you've got a hole in your face the size of Eurotunnel!'
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Great programme last night - Great line from Prof. Cox: "And whilst astrology is a load of rubbish...."
Made me LOL very loudly
I think he's probably the best, most watchable, presenter on TV right now: Obviously very kinowledeable, and great at making people (Well, me) understand some fairly complicated physics, with a childlike enthusiasm for it. Posted 2 years ago # -
PP i completely agree. I have been glued to the this program since it began and thats mainly due to Brian Cox and his infectious, boyish enthusiasm.
He turns an interesting subject into a fascinating program.
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I agree with no eyed deer I find him annoying.
I like the program but his presentation is too flowery for proper science..
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Seems to be repeating itself a bit now and the whole laying photos out on the ground with stones to pin them down seems a bit contrived. Still good to watch though. Certainly better than Heroes that cut off the last few minutes of Prof Cox as herself had set it to record.
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All this science lark is a load of old mumbo-jumbo anyway. Everyone knows that God created the world in six days.
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my meagre math skills would count against me I think
Cox only got a D grade at A level maths.
He was on Jonathan Ross on Friday night. If you watch it on iPlayer, you can forward past all the bits of Ross being an idiot and just watch him.
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I dislike the way that documentary series seem to be made as one off programmes as opposed to a run of episodes linked together. There is an awful lot of repetition across episodes.
That said I like Brian Cox mainly because he was in D:Ream
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Lol @ "proper science"
I think maybe the OU keep archives of all the episodes that consisted of a beardy guy, a blackboard and some chalk.
Having said all that, and I do love the series and Mr Cox, I get the feeling that there is just a tiny bit too much presentation and not quite enough substance. It's almost as if the makers are too afraid to challenge us.
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