'Wonders Of The Solar System' - Anybody Else Enjoying This Series?

[jordanseagull]

you feeling ok?

Completely forgot I even posted!

 

[Marc]

haha

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

I'm really enjoying it. Its been really well put together, I like the 'everyman' physicist presenter also.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

It is a fabulous series. Presented by Professor Permagrin who is interesting, enthused and obviously an authority on all things to do with space. In HD it is fabulous. I have is Skyplussed so I don't miss an episode.

Well done BBC

TNBA

TTF

 

[vegster]

It is extremely good, but his voice drives me round the bend. I would quite happily throw a bit of rock, 20 km/second, at him after a while.

I'd prefer the Schrödinger's cat experiment of dealing with him. I watched the first episode and was very dissapointed, he was unable to tell me anything I didn't know already. From the midway point I thought of Spike Milligan's precognisance when he spoofed Life On Earth in his Q series...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQtlaofjoI

 

[8ace]

It's a programme I would probably like but don't watch because of the whiney northerner presenting it. In general I dislike factual programmes/documentaries being presented by a celebrity like Richard Hammonds engineering connections.
Sometimes the show is more about them than the subject itself.

 

[glasfryn]

Yes immensely

 

[Diatribe]

It's a programme I would probably like but don't watch because of the whiney northerner presenting it. In general I dislike factual programmes/documentaries being presented by a celebrity like Richard Hammonds engineering connections.
Sometimes the show is more about them than the subject itself.

as far as I know Richard The Hamster Hammond (hes not a hamster, he's a man) has no qualifications to present thta priogramme, Brian Cox on the other hand is a particle physisist. it's his job. I like him and the show.

 

[8ace]

as far as I know Richard The Hamster Hammond (hes not a hamster, he's a man) has no qualifications to present thta priogramme, Brian Cox on the other hand is a particle physisist. it's his job. I like him and the show.

I'm aware he's a proffessor and therefore knows his onions. The fact he used to be in a boyband probably didn't harm his chances of getting this job though. And his voice grates.

 

[countrygull]

It's a superb series: but how does he manage to smile all the time he's talking? That in itself is a mystery of the solar system.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

I saw him last year on the Nerdstock stand up show on BBC4 and what he said then was fascinating and I'm loving the Solar System series.

The whole Nerdstock thing (a non religious comedy show held over Christmas and very pro science and anti creationism and religion) was really good and well worth watching. http://www.rationalape.com/2010/02/nerdstock-9-lessons-and-carols-for.html . Brian Cox is on 5 minutes into it but it is all well worth watching and very funny, especially if you believe in evolution and not creation!

 

[Captain Haddock]

Another big win for the Beeb methinks.

Some riveting actual footage of a landing on Titan tonight (BBC 7pm), and hard to fault the enthusiasm of weird man-boy Brian Cox who looks like alarmingly he should be in a boy band but is in fact in his forties. Roams the earth like David Attenborough or 'Brilliant!!!' out of The Fast Show, picking up remains of meteorites or digging into glaciers.

Well worthy of a watch on the iPlayer. IMHO, like.

Recorded it all, but seen none of it yet.

Love this stuff from The Beeb.....it's what they thrive at!

 

[Marc]

Episode 4 of 5 tonight 9pm BBC2

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Professor Brian Cox

He was keyboard player in DReam

Things can only get better

Some guy eh?

TNBA

TTF

 

[jordanseagull]

He's 42!!

 

[Gwylan]

I love the series and watch it avidly.

What's also good is the kids' version, that uses Brian Cox footage but explains things a bit more simply for the younger audience. It's presented by that irritating duo who did Big Cook, Little Cook and those ads for Channel 4 cricket but that doesn't stop it being a good programme - my kids are fascinated by it.

Top marks for the BBC for both of the programmes.

 

[Marc]

last one was great and now that animals have been found that can live WITHOUT Oxygen (see link below) I now entirely refuse to believe that life....whether in bacteria or very miniscule from....does not exist anywhere, intelligent life is another matter but IMO there simply HAS to be some form of live out there and maybe even in our own Solar System

BBC News - First oxygen-free animals found