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calabi yau · 22-03-2010 1:06am

He just reminds me of that little lad who was in take that back in the day, went on to do big brother, Michael Owen or sumthin, except knows the **** out of his physics.

You have to love Saturn though. I feel sorry for Cassini, that dude has journeyed to Titan, via, Jupiter & Saturn, took some of the greatest pics of our solar system known to man, but tends to get overshadowed by Hubble, bit like Ken Barlow outta boyzone and David mcwilliams

Linguo · 22-03-2010 12:30pm

I missed this again, does anyone know when it's repeated??

akkadian · 22-03-2010 2:46pm

calabi yau wrote: »

He just reminds me of that little lad who was in take that back in the day, went on to do big brother, Michael Owen or sumthin, except knows the **** out of his physics.

You have to love Saturn though. I feel sorry for Cassini, that dude has journeyed to Titan, via, Jupiter & Saturn, took some of the greatest pics of our solar system known to man, but tends to get overshadowed by Hubble, bit like Ken Barlow outta boyzone and David mcwilliams

yeah that probably all originates with French arrogance as they co-built that probe with e Italians. Huygens was brilliant, but for me Cassini was and IS the most impressive. It's still going and still doing science now, about 5 billion-billion km's in. It's discovered that the moon, Enceladus, is altering the electromegnetic field of Saturn, with ice jests that it ejects out. The full craft (mothership and huygens) were launched from an American launch vehicle in Florida. The extra-long reliability of Cassini is made possible by the 3 RTG's (nuclear powered batteries basically) Cassini is the horse and huygens was the jockie, except the horse is still galloping around.

calabi yau · 22-03-2010 3:17pm

akkadian wrote: »

yeah that probably all originates with French arrogance as they co-built that probe with e Italians. Huygens was brilliant, but for me Cassini was and IS the most impressive. It's still going and still doing science now, about 5 billion-billion km's in. It's discovered that the moon, Enceladus, is altering the electromegnetic field of Saturn, with ice jests that it ejects out. The full craft (mothership and huygens) were launched from an American launch vehicle in Florida. The extra-long reliability of Cassini is made possible by the 3 RTG's (nuclear powered batteries basically) Cassini is the horse and huygens was the jockie, except the horse is still galloping around.

Cheers man, sound

Old'n'Cranky · 22-03-2010 4:27pm

Linguo wrote: »

I missed this again, does anyone know when it's repeated??

Its on again tomorrow BBC2 7pm

Linguo · 22-03-2010 4:33pm

thanks a mill!

Conor108 · 28-03-2010 7:35pm

Brian Cox was on Johnathan Ross there, really good interview:D

Das Kitty · 31-03-2010 9:08am

calabi yau wrote: »

He just reminds me of that little lad who was in take that back in the day, went on to do big brother, Michael Owen or sumthin, except knows the **** out of his physics.

Funny you should say that, first time I saw Brian Cox was when he was playing keyboard for D:Ream doing warmup for Take That.

I'm a novice so I get a lot out of the programme. I will be getting the Blu Ray.

BTW I think he was photographing the crowd not the sun at the end of the first episode.

RolandIRL · 31-03-2010 1:09pm

Wonders of the Solar System
Prof Brian Cox - the "rockstar physicist"
For anyone's who missed the episodes. Thank the gods some guy uploaded these. really interesting program

Theta · 31-03-2010 1:17pm

I just started watching them on Iplayer (I managed to get it working :cool:). I have to say Brian Cox is good at presenting these programs I must give his book a shot. I just finished a book by Brain Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality which I thought was excellent.

Michio Kaka is great too when doing programs like this.

djhaxman · 31-03-2010 1:36pm

Theta wrote: »

I just started watching them on Iplayer (I managed to get it working :cool:). I have to say Brian Cox is good at presenting these programs I must give his book a shot. I just finished a book by Brain Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality which I thought was excellent.

Michio Kaka is great too when doing programs like this.

Yeah he's one of the main presenters of Universe on Discovery Channel, that's a good program too.

calabi yau · 01-04-2010 12:05pm

@ whiteman19, you little beauty, I missed the first ep

@ theta, how did you get the iplayer working

i'm a complete novice to all this aswell, I've been reading Bill Brysons book and another called Physics - The Big Questions. Pop science but they certainly have generated a great interest in me in the universe. I've watched some lectres with Brian Greene and Michio Kaku and they make it really interesting and explain it in lay mans terms. I'm borrowing a telescope from my sister in law today so hope to check out some things tonight.

I downloaded a brilliant app on my iPhone called pocket universe, it grabs your location and shows you exactly where the stars are relative to you.

I'm ashamed to say, I've never really considered to constellations before so it was great to locate Orion, finding orions belt and beetlegeuse, finally got to grips with some of the other constellations aswell as locating Venus and mercury. So hope to investigate more now when I get this telescope.

I've been interested in all this now for more than two months so I hope it's not a passing fad with me.

Theta · 01-04-2010 12:14pm

calabi yau wrote: »

@ whiteman19, you little beauty, I missed the first ep

@ theta, how did you get the iplayer working

i'm a complete novice to all this aswell, I've been reading Bill Brysons book and another called Physics - The Big Questions. Pop science but they certainly have generated a great interest in me in the universe. I've watched some lectres with Brian Greene and Michio Kaku and they make it really interesting and explain it in lay mans terms. I'm borrowing a telescope from my sister in law today so hope to check out some things tonight.

I downloaded a brilliant app on my iPhone called pocket universe, it grabs your location and shows you exactly where the stars are relative to you.

I'm ashamed to say, I've never really considered to constellations before so it was great to locate Orion, finding orions belt and beetlegeuse, finally got to grips with some of the other constellations aswell as locating Venus and mercury. So hope to investigate more now when I get this telescope.

I've been interested in all this now for more than two months so I hope it's not a passing fad with me.

Used a firefox plugin called FoxyProxy Basic and used a UK proxy and it works no problem. Quality is excellent

Mini Driver · 02-04-2010 11:33am

This series is brilliant... what a job too Brian Cox is travelling to some of the most amazing places in the world and all to do a show about what he loves .... where do I send my cv;)

akkadian · 02-04-2010 4:54pm

Mini Driver wrote: »

This series is brilliant... what a job too Brian Cox is travelling to some of the most amazing places in the world and all to do a show about what he loves .... where do I send my cv;)

Hollywood boulevard.

calabi yau · 04-04-2010 10:17pm

Great show again tonight. Brian Cox has been to some of the most amazing places on Earth to make this show. What a job is right!

Incredible education. Cheers beeb.

Mini Driver · 06-04-2010 7:31pm

I only saw 2 episodes of this series. Does anyone know of a website etc that I could see them all from the begininng.

RolandIRL · 06-04-2010 10:10pm

check the earlier posts in the thread. i posted youtube links for the first 4 episodes.

Old'n'Cranky · 06-04-2010 11:52pm

.....I still haven't watched them, although I recorded all the episodes......

akkadian · 07-04-2010 6:19pm

Mini Driver wrote: »

I only saw 2 episodes of this series. Does anyone know of a website etc that I could see them all from the begininng.

It's on the BBC website AFAIK but it tests your IP address. If you're not in the UK, u can't see it. I think RTE player has this obstruction too. It's 2010, the EU should open up their players. I enjoyed the last episode, Europa is the white jewel of the solar system.

julikerry · 09-04-2010 8:55pm

Watched all the episodes of Wonders of the Solar System and they were good I have to say. Believe I issed a good tv show on Channel 4 the other night called something like 'A Beautiful mind' about the discovery of pulsars, any body see it?

Just a few weeks ago I uploaded my own website at
www.the-universe.ie It's all about astronomy and stuff maybe you might like to drop in and have a look around. Carl Sagan's Cosmos was and still is my favourite astronomy programmed with the Universe coming a close second...any suggestions on other good or great astronomy programme's

....ooops almsot forgot 'The Sky at Night' what a great solid programme, I'd give it a whole fist full of thumbs up

just for the great and un pretencious Sir Patrick Moore...now there's a legend

Conor108 · 10-04-2010 5:33pm

From Wikipedia -

Cox has confirmed that a follow-up series to Wonders of the Solar System, called "Universal", will start filming in May 2010.

Brilliant:)

calabi yau · 10-04-2010 9:30pm

Conor108 wrote: »

From Wikipedia -

Brilliant:)

bloody marvellous

WalterMitty · 10-04-2010 9:38pm

julikerry wrote: »

Watched all the episodes of Wonders of the Solar System and they were good I have to say. Believe I issed a good tv show on Channel 4 the other night called something like 'A Beautiful mind' about the discovery of pulsars, any body see it?
Just a few weeks ago I uploaded my own website at
www.the-universe.ie It's all about astronomy and stuff maybe you might like to drop in and have a look around. Carl Sagan's Cosmos was and still is my favourite astronomy programmed with the Universe coming a close second...any suggestions on other good or great astronomy programme's

....ooops almsot forgot 'The Sky at Night' what a great solid programme, I'd give it a whole fist full of thumbs up just for the great and un pretencious Sir Patrick Moore...now there's a legend

The beautiful minds was ok but more of a biography than a science programme. It was about the woman who discovered pulsars while working on her phd, using a radio telecope she made. She was from northern ireland.

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