[Closed] PSA - BBC2 - Wonders of the Solar System - 2100 tonight.

Over on BBC1, David Dimbleby dances with Gilbert and George. Tough call...

Solar System is on HD too. Bonus 😀

yep good programme,.

Mr Woppit - Member

Over on BBC1, David Dimbleby dances with Gilbert and George. Tough call...

Seriously.

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.

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.

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...

Now that is a proper aircraft. Awesome machine!

*Pride*

My father designed bits of it.

What I would give for a ride in a Lightning.

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'!)

captivating programme, especially as it's a subject I normally find quite dull

My father designed bits of it.

hehe, my uncle used to fly them - said they were fightening 😉

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.asp

doesn't list prices for a lightening trip, although they are doing buccanneer trips for £6.5k...

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!

Nice one Cap'n!

Worthy of a bump, I think, as it's Mars tonight!

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.

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.

...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-[i]science[/i]' fixed smile he wears [u]all the time[/u]? 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?? 😯

Didn't learn anything new but it beats reading and quite entertaining.

Astronomy got me into science as a kid too.

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.

Can't stand that smile.

Chainsaw could fix that.

Or a nice little axe.

Or a sledgehammer.

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. 🙂

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.

I agree with no eyed deer I find him annoying.

I like the program but his presentation is too flowery for proper science..

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.

All this science lark is a load of old mumbo-jumbo anyway. Everyone knows that God created the world in six days.

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.

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 🙂

I liked the astrology is rubbish line, especially coming from a jedi:-

[url= http://bbc.co.uk/i/rtg5k/ ]Obi wan kenobi[/url]

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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.

a beardy guy, a blackboard and some chalk.

...you see I used to [b]love[/b] that! And I was about 8 years old at the time, used to find it fascinating 😀

Tell you waht, if you find this programme poor, I'd LOVE to know what you DO like! 😯

If you want "proper science" there are loads of websites, journals, university courses, textbooks, etc for you.

This is the sort of programme that's going to get a kid hooked on science (my 6 year old loves the kiddie version on CBBC, Space Hoppers) such that they might study it 'properly' later in life. As such, it should be applauded.

All you miserable gits who don't like him because of the way he looks at the camera or smiles FFS need to get a grip, he is a very knowledable bloke who is down to earth and not full of his own importance like lots of the toffee nosed tossers on TV. He is my sons hero and glad he has someone like Prof Cox as a role model instead of some arsehole footballer or pop prat.

Luckily my son prefers learning about wildlife & science and nature as well as a diverse taste in music and will encourage him as much as I can even if I have to get up at 3 in the morning to go and see black grouse etc. Shame I can't get him to ride a bike though.

I think it's great to be able to watch someone who is clearly fascinated by a subject and loves their job.

Great TV. It's shows like this that the Beeb does best.

I find his enthusiasm completely infectious; he makes the subject very absorbing.

If you want "proper science" there are loads of websites, journals, university courses, textbooks, etc for you.

This is the sort of programme that's going to get a kid hooked on science (my 6 year old loves the kiddie version on CBBC, Space Hoppers) such that they might study it 'properly' later in life. As such, it should be applauded.

Totally agree. I know for sure if I was a kid, I'd be mad for this, then making cosmic landscapes n stuff out of my lego, or drawing stuff, and straight on to my parents nagging for books. Fabulous, inspiring programme.

I didn't like it to start off with, cos I thought it was a bit condescending, with all the "wondrous" orchestrated music, and all the wow, cor, amazing, look, it's a planet stuff.

Maybe it is the hair.

and all the wow, cor, amazing, look, it's a planet stuff.

Well, it is aplanet , and it is amazing. I've seen the rings on Saturn and the spot on Jupiter through my telescope. And it IS fantastic to see. And they present it very, very well. I'm glued to it. 😀

Another 'thumbs up' here too, my 8yr old watches it avidly, repeats and again on i-player. I thank Brian Cox.

did he really need to go to hawaii to demonstrate how high olympus mons is? free jollys on my licence fee bill i think

i do like the programme though, watered and dumbed down science with pretty pictures for the PS3 generation

I was slightly disappointed it wasn't the pocky faced scottish actor brian cox. My mate went to school with the sciency one, in Oldham of all places. Says he has grown into his teeth nicely

One of the best programmes in a long time and another reason to pay the license fee. It's truly ignited an interest which has been lying dormant inside me. I can't get enough of it at the moment. Pricing up telescopes now and interested in launching a weather balloon into near space with some home made controller electronics on board (yes like that guy in the news last week and the Spanish students last year).

However, I have found myself having to watch the shows 2 or 3 times. Not because of how excellent the content is, but because I keep falling asleep during them! Something about the music and his voice just sends me off, no matter how fascinated I am in the content. Is it just me?

Something about the music and his voice just sends me off, no matter how fascinated I am in the content. Is it just me?

It's not just you.

I think he is wonderful.. He demystifies complicated concepts and helps people to grasp thorny problems (like time slowing down) because we think "well if a bloke with his accent can understand it..."

In his programme on gravity a couple of years ago he played (the otherwise unlistenable) John Mayer's "Gravity" which has the most sublime bluesy-note-bending guitar intro I know.

A waste of the licence payers money 👿 As Rocketdog pointed out this northener is just getting free jollys to Hawaii, South America, Artic circle and the Namib desert just to show us some sand dunes. He could have gone to Southport for that.
Its about time the Licence fee TAX was scrapped!

Oh sorry wrong forum.
The best thing on television at the moment. Brian Cox is excellent, explaing complicated concepts simply and showing enthusiasm for his subject while being slightly nerdy.
I now know how people worked out that the Earth wasnt the centre of the universe and what gravitational resonance is. Very useful knowledge

If you want proper cutting edge physics broadcasting, check

http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

Live webcast from the Hadron collider - they're gonna cross the beams today... we're all doomed!

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http://lhc-webcast.web.cern.ch/lhc-webcast/index.html

i've just wet myself 😆

He's on Twitter, talking about CERN today. He just posted this:

If any one else says "block hole" today I'm going to come round and chin em

😆

The programme has re-awakened the enthusiasm for physics that I had as a 17 year old A-Level student, rather than the jaded 30-something I an now.

It would be great for interested children.

Although I am aware of much of the content, I've learned a few things and it is very well produced.

Get rid of BBC 3 & BBC 4 and put more good programmes like this on BBC2.

he also likes wearing normal clothes and hiding at the back, he certainly doesn't look too comfortable fitting in with his band mates 😆

Time to wheel out my favourite science quote ever. Brian Cox, quoted in the Telegraph:

"Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a tw4t."

(Not aimed at you thepurist :o) )

we're all doomed!

Are we doomed?

Yes, we're doomed.

is it me or does the LHC TV presenter sound HOT (i can't see the pictures)

...it just struck me this afternoon that Prof. Brian Cox is pretty much to Physics (and Science) what Charge bikes are to cycling (and MTBing). 🙂

I think that pretty much explains why I (and others, it would appear) find him a little annoying.

The series has had its good moments, don't get me wrong, but there's just [i]far[/i] too much style over substance and mindless repetition of naive statements, for it to be entirely watchable.

When I was a kid, it was programmes like Horizon, Equinox, Tomorrow's World and those weird and wonderful OU programmes at 6am on a Sunday morning that got me excited about science. I'm pretty sure Prof. Cox's programme, as it is, would've just bored me to tears. Each to their own I suppose, but I just think the BBC could do so much better. Instead of catering for the now expected 30 second attention span of its media-saturated viewers, it could [i]actually[/i] present programmes which gave its viewers a little more substance and less [i]presenter-as-a-personality[/i] based travelogue fluff. 🙂

It's Sunday night edutainment... of course the style is similar to The Blue Planet or similar.

In fact, if you remember [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage ]Cosmos[/url] from 30 years ago, it's pretty similar. But with better graphics and accent 😉

That series called Universe years ago was better imo..

I can still remember the way Carl Sagan used to mangle his words like Loyd Grossman

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