He does get around a bit, doesn’t he??

Rachel

<stares wistfully to the skies>

Carl Sagan would of done it(did it) with back projection.

Its a great job. A few of the things he does and places he goes seem just for the hell of it. I’m Jealous.

its all stardust anyway

About 10 stone? He needs to eat more pies.

Remember ‘Dancing in the moonlight’ by Toploader? How at first you thought it was great but then quickly it started to grate? Need I continue?

I actually always thought that particular ditty, and indeed group, were total she-ite, to quote the parlance of the age.

he has the carbon footprint of a billion billion billion billion million thousand and three protons from the supernova of betelgeuse since the dawn of time

😆 @ brakes

i always hated that toploader song

Ok, toploader not best example…how about Jamie Oliver instead?

The original is by King Harvest, and it’s a bit alright.

It’s also finally available on Spotify.

Too big. I heard Jamie olivers trip to the USA a couple of years back was carbon neutral!

Can’t decide whether to buy the SO this

He’s awesome. I’ve just been transfixed for an hour & I haven’t a clue what he was on about. Well I have really but I’ve got a bad head now.

“Would have” not “would of”.

That is all.

he has the carbon footprint of a billion billion billion billion million thousand and three protons from the supernova of betelgeuse since the dawn of time

I was thinking exactly this as i watched it. Also wondering if they had to double back ever when in part five or whatever they remembered they wanted him blowing bubbles with a big desert behind him or whatever. Brilliant programme though. Great that not everything on telly is dumbed down guff.

I liked the description of his presenting style sounding like a “stoned northerner enthusing about his favourite cake shop”.

Hoowwever, if you’re criticising someones carbon footprint – the internet possibly isn’t the best place to do it 🙂

Probably not much different to an average David Attenborough series. Who gives a toss anyway?

I couldn’t give a damn what his carbon footprint is, only programme thats worth paying the licence fee, puts talk of puny carbon footprints into perspective when you see the big picture, I imagine climate change will crank up a notch when the sun goes nova mmmm toasty!

Brilliant program. If this is dumbing down, I hate to see the original! My 17 year old son sat and watch transfixed – not bad for a program which was basically a chemistry/physics lesson (with some BIG pictures).

Loved the bit that said we were all stardust!

All the elements that make up us, and everything around us, were born inside the core of a dying star…. WOW 😯

As someone else above said: His CF is probably no worse than David Attenborough’s, or any other widely travelled presenter.

I did think some of his locations were a bit gratuitous, but I suppose they all help to demonstrate the “WONDER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-SE-SE-SE-SE-SE”

Probably a lot less than the muppets on the Gadget Show who seem to travel thousands of miles to do a crap review of a new camera etc.

He’s on top of a mountain because he just LANDED THERE FROM SPACE

I guess it depends on what proportion of the Carbon footprint of launching all those orbital telescopes etc. you attribute to Prof Cox. I was glad they used a song other than “Starman” or “We are Stardust” Nice graphics, glosses over quite a lot of the science.

+1 I kept waiting for the more in depth explanation but he never seemed to get there. Still, beats x factory on ice.

He’s on top of a mountain because he just LANDED THERE FROM SPACE

Fact

I wouldn’t say it was dumbed down, aimed at the masses maybe but just because there wasn’t any real technical detail in there doesn’t mean it’s been smoothed over. I liked it, it certainly paves the way for anyone who fancies looking into such things themselves.

Excellent TV.

Do you think on this series the cameraman said “I’ve got this great idea, lets take all the shots with the blinding sun just behind your head…..”

I liked the bit about fossils in rocks and how the they started off as rocks… spooky.

We need to stop messing about and worrying about stuff and build some nuclear powered rocket ships. No point waiting for the sun to explode (and using all the fuel for our rocket ships on crap like powering computers).

…waiting for the more in depth explanation…

What percetange of the audience would understand it and therefore get anything from it? I think it’s enough to inspire the viewers to go look it up.

So, am I right in thinking Adam and Eve were made out of the carbon from an exploding star?

Entropy is a b*tch.

Although I have one serious question. If the ultimate end of the universe is effectively just everything turning to vapour isn’t that ultimate order and not chaos?

What i’ve always wondered, and i’ve yet to find a comprehensive explanation, is why the moon is almost exactly the right size to obscure the sun and cause a solar eclipse?

No other planets have a moon of the correct size, and even with our own moon according to wikipedia in 600 million years time there won’t be any more solar eclipses as its getting further away.

We exist at exactly the right place and at the right time to observe a solar eclipse.

Coincidence?

I know the moon has played a very important part in earths formation, causing the tides, possibly effect on plate tectonics, the earths rotation, causing and stabilizing its tilt, maybe causing heavy metals and rare elements to be available in the earths crust.

Is it all related?

We exist at exactly the right place and at the right time to observe a solar eclipse.

Coincidence?

If you want to go down that path then you might also want to look at distance from the sun, amount of water on the earth, sufficient quantities of the right elements to initiate life, etc, etc.
It’s all highly improbable. If only someone could come up with an explanation about why all this stuff is all just so convenient….. Maybe put it in a big book.

well he probably caused quite a lot of damage to the ozone layer with hairspray back in the 80s too
hes on the right in the band Dare

he’s a confirmed Christian you know?

So? I’m a ‘confirmed Christian’ who is actually an atheist.