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On right now and like much of the audience it's going right over my feeble mind, love to listen to him talk though. BBC HD or BBC2. |
Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars / Stargazing Live
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HoriZon 14,132 posts
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heyyo 14,356 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI wish he'd stop trying to be funny -
heyyo 14,356 posts
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Registered 12 years agoHARMONIC ANALYSIS LOLOLOLOL -
PazJohnMitch 13,433 posts
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Registered 11 years agoHe is a much better lecturer than the ones I had at uni. Although he is talking about relatively simple Physics / Chemistry.
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Anyone watch the star-gazing programme? I thought it was rather good. Coxy and Dara seemed to be a very awkward pair of presenters last time around, but they seem better this time.
It's like Springwatch for sky-watchers, with no obvious Humble Badger equivalent. -
boo 13,426 posts
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Registered 15 years agoCaught Monday's and recorded tonight's, although Mrs Boo insisted I watch the first couple of minutes when I got in...
Brian Cox (in reference to a question about 'Why was the flag in the moon footage flapping?') : "Anybody who thinks we didn't go to the moon, turn over to ITV now. I don't want you!" -
boo 13,426 posts
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Lukus 21,194 posts
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Registered 13 years agoBremenacht wrote:
Yeah, it's good. Nicely packaged bite size pieces of information.
Anyone watch the star-gazing programme? I thought it was rather good. Coxy and Dara seemed to be a very awkward pair of presenters last time around, but they seem better this time.
It's like Springwatch for sky-watchers, with no obvious Humble Badger equivalent.
The after show show was weird though, everyone sitting around drinking wine. It seemed a bit wrong. And why do people insist on letting Jon Culshaw on TV to do impressions. He's awful. I'm a better impersonator than him. I'm not even kidding. -
X201 18,456 posts
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Registered 12 years agoboo wrote:
Followed by...
Brian Cox (in reference to a question about 'Why was the flag in the moon footage flapping?') : "Anybody who thinks we didn't go to the moon, turn over to ITV now. I don't want you!"
At the start of a discussion about UFOs
"Now if you think this is a picture of a UFO you should have already turned over to Celebrity Big Brother"
Followed at the end of the film by Dara O'Briain saying...
"One quick apology on behalf of my colleague here, Celebrity Big Brother doesn't start until 9:00pm, He's not a professor of everything." -
Just remembered I missed this!
Is it on iPlayer at the moment? -
X201 18,456 posts
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Registered 12 years agoL_Franko wrote:
Yep
Just remembered I missed this!
Is it on iPlayer at the moment? -
President_Weasel 12,349 posts
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Registered 14 years agoKa-blamo wrote:
and even then it's in low gravity with almost no atmosphere, meaning once you've imparted some momentum into it it's likely to keep flapping for quite some time.
boo wrote:
To answer why the flag is flapping(not that anyone asked), it's never flapping on its own with no-one around, it's only when an astronaut is screwing the flag into ground, or holding it.
Brian Cox (in reference to a question about 'Why was the flag in the moon footage flapping?') : "Anybody who thinks we didn't go to the moon, turn over to ITV now. I don't want you!"
If you can find footage of it flapping on it's own, we'll talk.gif)
You'll never persuade conspiracy theorists they're wrong though, like with 9/11 nutjobs these lunatics (ha ha did you see what I did there) have too much of their self-image wrapped up in being one of the select few who "know the real truth".
It's far easier for them to continue to believe than to accept they've been a bit of a tit for the last few years, and it's a self-reinforcing thing.
(I'm not going to say anything Dawkins-esque about parallels with religion at this juncture).
Here he is being angry about it in a car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXuQ9Dg2gE
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urban 13,009 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI thought it was a genuinely funny and interesting program tbh! -
Inertia 695 posts
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Registered 8 years agoIt's too pell mell and unfocused for my liking. But then I had just finished listening to an old Reith lecture by Oppenheimer which was very enlightening, intelligent and well articulated. Actually it goes a long way in showing the decline of public intellectuals in the media. I do love the 50's American accent, Intelligent and refined but not as abrasive as the posh English accent.
These lectures are on iTunes definitely worth a listen.
Other highlights include J.K.Galbraith and Bertrand Russell. -
Lukus 21,194 posts
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Registered 13 years agoStealth 'I've just listened to a lecture by Oppenheimer' post. -
JuanKerr 37,708 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI think you mean 'stealth 'I'm a bit of a prick' post'.
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urban wrote:
Was very good. It was an entertaining lecture. I liked how some of the celebs had the same kind of expressions as kids being shown a magic show.
I thought it was a genuinely funny and interesting program tbh!
There was an equally entertaining christmas lecture a couple of years ago about "The order and chaos of probability."
Loved that too. The audience that time actually was kids. -
FogHeart 1,249 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDude, there have been Christmas Lectures arranged by the Royal Society for kids for decades. They just seem to change channels every year. Brian just did an 'adult celeb' version this year too.
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FogHeart wrote:
I know they do.
Dude, there have been Christmas Lectures arranged by the Royal Society for kids for decades. -
I love the idea of a week devoted to stargazing like this but fucking hell I cannot stand that cunt Cox. Smug fuck through and through, he's even annoying as hell on the radio (Infinite Monkey Cage would be quite good if not for his presence). The fact that Jon Culshaw has been on the show too makes me want to go on a stabbing frenzy around the theme of "ways the BBC wastes license money" -
localnotail 23,072 posts
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Registered 9 years agoRhythm wrote:
Is this a Roses thing?
fucking hell I cannot stand that cunt Cox
I don't think he's d:reamy or anything, but I've never got a smug vibe off him, he's like Wallace's smarter little brother. -
boo 13,426 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHe's ok.
Funniest thing about the 30 minute chat prog that they've run for the last couple of nights after the main show, is the guy (presumably from the Macclesfield Astronomy club), with the scarf who's gradually been worming his way into the centre of the picture, right next to the big TV. He's a gurning idiot, but he's hell-bent on getting maximum screen time! -
localnotail wrote:
I don't even know what that means so I'll say no, it's not a Roses thing
Rhythm wrote:
Is this a Roses thing?
fucking hell I cannot stand that cunt Cox
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I thought she was on about The Stone Roses, also from Manchester.
i.e. "Is this a Manchester thing?" -
localnotail 23,072 posts
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Registered 9 years agoHonestly? Has the age-old War betwixt the Houses of York and Lancaster been forgotten? -
CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 8 years agoHow does Cox comes across as someone who is 'smug through and through'...?
Smug is the last word I think of when I watch him on TV. -
That cheesy grin probably riles some people. He normally annoys me but at least he did say last night when some of the sofa pundits were talking bollocks that nobody really knows what it's like to go into a black hole and it is still only mainly theoretical; at the moment.
The thing that annoys me about him is he is a good communicator, in a general way, but persists to always have a comedian by his side and tends to pander to making jokes and things more entertaining but in a bland way.
"Science isn't everything. But science is very beautiful."
- Oppenheimer.
{that's for Juan Kerr] x
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