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Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:56 am
by magma
I remember watching that... good, but Kaku gets on my nerves after a while. He did a series on technology of the future recently... content was great, but it was really in need of a different voiceover.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:05 pm
by djdowee
does anybody know what the 3rd episode will cover?
2nd was brilliant
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:10 pm
by magma
disturbed dowee wrote:does anybody know what the 3rd episode will cover?
2nd was brilliant
The Thin Blue Line
Brian reveals how something as flimsy as an envelope of gas - an atmosphere - can create some of the most wondrous sights in the Solar System. He takes a ride in a English Electric Lightning and flies 18kms up to the top of Earth's atmosphere, where he sees the darkness of space above and the thin blue line of our atmosphere below. In the Namib desert in south-west Africa, he tells the story of Mercury. This tiny planet was stripped naked of its early atmosphere and is fully exposed to the ferocity of space.
Against the stunning backdrop of the glaciers of Alaska, Brian reveals his fourth Wonder. Saturn's moon Titan is shrouded by a murky, thick atmosphere. He reveals that below the clouds lies a magical world. Titan is the only place beyond Earth where we've found liquid pooling on the surface in vast lakes, as big as the Caspian Sea, but the lakes of Titan are filled with a mysterious liquid, and are quite unlike anything on Earth.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:16 pm
by saphyre
whens this on?
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:39 pm
by kay
Sunday?
I thought the next episode would cover Jupiter's giant spot as well, thought i saw that on the telly while at the takeaway.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:54 pm
by kay
Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!
"...Where did you get this water from??"
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:19 am
by firky
I still enjoyed it but I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous two. I wish he'd stop grinning at everything, it makes me want to grin with him.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:21 am
by firky
He's even grinning on his work's webpage!!!
http://www.apolloschildren.com/brian/
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:01 am
by kay
I can't imagine many professors would have a photo gallery page
I want to be like him when I grow up!
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:45 am
by djake
me and my dad have been watching this, its pretty much the only kinda stuff i bother watching on tv these days.
i just wish there was more on tv.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:45 pm
by saphyre
methanological cycle on titan is the one
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:54 pm
by magma
kay wrote:Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!
"...Where did you get this water from??"
Enjoyed this one... I think it was the weaker of the three so far, but still loads of great stuff. Talk about Titan always gets me excited... I want someone to send a massive space-tug out there and tear it out of its orbit and into a warmer area of the solar system just so humans can see what happens.
I thought he might get a bit more into the Big Spot, tbh... but I suppose an anti-cyclonic storm is an anti-cyclonic storm.
The Gas Giants have always freaked me out a bit. I want to know a lot more about them.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:37 pm
by kay
magma wrote:kay wrote:Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!
"...Where did you get this water from??"
Enjoyed this one... I think it was the weaker of the three so far, but still loads of great stuff. Talk about Titan always gets me excited... I want someone to send a massive space-tug out there and tear it out of its orbit and into a warmer area of the solar system just so humans can see what happens.
I thought he might get a bit more into the Big Spot, tbh... but I suppose an anti-cyclonic storm is an anti-cyclonic storm.
The Gas Giants have always freaked me out a bit. I want to know a lot more about them.
Go read Titan by Stephen Baxter
I've always been fascinated by the gas giants. They're one of the first things that I remember reading about. I thought he'd mention the comet that crashed into Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy.
I wonder whether the next one will be on tectonics and vulcanism! Looking forward to Io.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:41 pm
by magma
kay wrote:Go read Titan by Stephen Baxter
I've always been fascinated by the gas giants. They're one of the first things that I remember reading about. I thought he'd mention the comet that crashed into Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy.
I wonder whether the next one will be on tectonics and vulcanism! Looking forward to Io.
Nice one - that looks ACE.
Yeah, I thought there was more to say on Jupiter... I kind of get the impression the most interesting/useful things about Jupiter are its size and its moons though!
Next one's definitely looking geological... apparently the 'wonder' is the mahoosive Martian mountain. Good times!
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:58 pm
by kay
magma wrote:Yeah, I thought there was more to say on Jupiter... I kind of get the impression the most interesting/useful things about Jupiter are its size and its moons though!
Also, I think they're trying to tease out the lesser-known things about the solar system. To be honest though, I think we don't know enough about Jupiter for them to talk much about it in great detail. They can describe it in broad, sweeping strokes, but the minutiae are still pretty much unknown. To me, the most interesting thing about Jupiter is that it's essentially a failed star - one that was just a little bit too small to ignite. That in itself is a wonder because the solar system would be completely different if it had been massive enough to be a star.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:24 pm
by Motorway to Roswell
Enjoyed the episode tonight. Not as good as the previous one though.
Next week 'Aliens', life in the solar system
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:42 pm
by firky
I still have it to watch, keep forgetting it is on.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:05 pm
by sonar
i like the guy that presents it but he reminds me soo much of the guy from dead mans shoe's/spencer from hollyoaks.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:06 pm
by kay
I think the last episode was the weakest, as is usual with most documentaries. I guess they did have to squeeze something in about life.
Re: Wonders of The Solar System
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:41 pm
by -dubson-
Never really got into this. To me the solar system itself isnt really that interesting myself (strangely).