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Top telly.
Recorded it. Can’t wait to watch it with the boy.
Very good. Stunning visuals.
Also worth following on Twitter because the God Botherers are getting very wound up by references to evolution, 4.5 billion year old planets and astrophysics. 😂
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Recorded it.
Hopefully at some point during the programme they'll do a special feature on how iplayer evolved! 😆
Excellent show, would like more info as opposed to long shots and short punchy dialogue though! This did coincidentally coincide with me listening to the Daniel and Jorge explain the universe episode on Terra forming when they did speak about Mars and Venus, worth a listen if you found the stuff about Mercury's and Venus's atmospheres interesting.
I was also scanning twitter and noticed a recommendation for 13mins to the moon which was also advertised at the end of the show, covers the efforts to land a man on the moon from what I hear, has anyone else listened to it?
Hopefully at some point during the programme they’ll do a special feature on how iplayer evolved
Ha! Reminds me to point out the lovely utility Get_iPlayer, which allows archiving of BBC tv & radio and replay on devices without app and/or network access.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki
I've listened the the first 13 minutes to the Moon podcast. I would recommend it.
Good honest solid programme.
👍
Will listen to the 13mins to the Moon Podcast (thanks for the info)
Yep, was excellent watching. Really interesting hypothesis about how Mercury got to be where it is...had no idea!
Between that and the Equator from the air the other night I feel the license fee has well and truly paid for itself.
One of our lads (and mine, through repeated viewings) was an old BBC The Planets series -- had it on DVD and near wore it out - from back in the early 2000s I guess. Lad is now 21 and his summer job is working in a space rocket factory... 🙂
interesting hypothesis about how Mercury got to be where it is
There's not enough side...
There’s not enough side…
Played for and got!
I posted about 13 Minutes to the Moon a couple of weeks back. There's a good article about it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48232627
Played for and got!
Prince of the Planet Potters!
I'm kind of disappointed to open this thread and find that the planets are not in fact enduro specific 🙁
Watched it earlier on that new fangled iPlayer, I don't think it'll replace VHS, absolutely brilliant.
Northwind, if the title had been, "The Planets? Why yes. Yes they are"...
😁
came here looking for Gustav Holst.
left with a plan for the weekend's viewing.
13 Minutes to the Moon
Listened to the first three this afternoon, and they are most excellent.
Highly recommended.
I liked the talking heads bit at the end as much as the main programme. Could do a spin off series on various space probes.
[s****]
I still marvel how they can get a space craft to orbit various planets to slow it down enough and still coincide with Mercury's odd orbit. That's a lot of complicated maths
Shame they littered the surface with it at the end. Maybe they should have incinerated it into the sun?
And all that dust and gas that formed the first rocks, where did that come from?
Maybe they should have incinerated it into the sun?
That's actually surprisingly difficult to do link
And all that dust and gas that formed the first rocks, where did that come from?
All the elements heavier than hydrogen were made by fusion in earlier generations of stars.
Ta for PSA.
Will be downloading ASAP.
Freebie poster in the style of the Oceans one given away last year:
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/planets/
I was also scanning twitter and noticed a recommendation for 13mins to the moon which was also advertised at the end of the show, covers the efforts to land a man on the moon from what I hear, has anyone else listened to it?
Yep it’s great 🚀
I liked the talking heads bit at the end as much as the main programme.
Finally watched it last night, I thought that was the best bit. More of this sort of thing.
It was great.
People sometimes have a go at Brian Cox for his laconic pacing and all the moody aerial shots, but his documentaries always contain some pretty complex physics explained in a really simple way.
So we had N-body gravitation explained using some boulders!
I wonder if religious people hate that program lol.
Wish Carl was still around.
A little bump if you're at a loose end. BBC 2, 2100.
Good shout, thank you.
Excellent programme tonight, it prompted me to look up Olympus Mons, which I’d never really bothered to do before. I knew it was big, but bloody heck, it’s huge! 22 kilometres/72,000 feet high, it’s total surface area is almost as big as France!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons
Ep4 of 13mins to the moon out...
Loved the first one
watched it with my kids aged 6 & 8, both were reluctant, but were fascinated thoughout
It was ace. The bit about what might happen on Titan towards the end of the sun's life was interesting.