Wonders of the Universe

gonna sing d:ream all the way home now.

He explains things in ways non-science freaks understand and I appreciate him for that. I know he knows the extreme theoretical stuff too (since he works at CERN) but that's not the point of his shows.

he plays keyboards at CERN

first stars ftw

now he's in the canadian rockies, which for him is also ftw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ruBtLIvJM

He explains things in ways non-science freaks understand and I appreciate him for that. I know he knows the extreme theoretical stuff too (since he works at CERN) but that's not the point of his shows.

This is the important thing. I am a bright person (I think), and I would not have appreciated this series if I had felt I was being talked down to, but I didn't feel that way. Also I learned many things. And gained an all-encompassing feeling of vertigo, which my physics nerd friends assure me goes away in time.

I enjoy this but when they pose BC on the skyline against the setting sun as if he was some kind of Angel of Astro-Rock I tend to burst out with a yawp of astonished laughter. Which is probably not the intended effect.

why are only the first two eps only available, on iplayer?

I never got to watch the last part of this due to peculiar iplayer of missing episodes. the original solar system series is up now though, which i found far more engaging than the endurance run of speculative hyperfawning in this one.
People do need to get wise to ESA & ESO's media activity though, particularly thisfilm, 'Eyes on the Skies', which is absolutely wonderful.

My guy Dr. Joe Liske has absolutely no business in front of a camera, but is interminably watchable. The film carries this great aesthetic in the lineage of purely educational programming, somewhere between sickly, hilarious and mindblowing- but buttressed with insanely top shelf production values. Obviously this is real deal stuff, so there is a lot of utterly fascinating material.

Just thought I'd watch the two series again and now I have both next to each other:

2010 Wonders of the solar system
2011 Wonders of the universe

2012 Wonders if there's anything even bigger: multiverse?

But according to wikipedia, he's combobreaking and will be making:

2012 Wonders of life

This wanker's new show seems to have fucked the speakers on my tv. Stupid blaring fuckin timpani shite everywhere.

The sound mix is srsly fuckin appalling. Decent show tho.

Great fuckin show this week

he's not fit to lace Attenborough's coffee

they repeated Life on Earth for the last couple of weeks on BBC2 i'm wondering if you cd trace the line of the last 30 years where "popularising big ideas" slid into "assuming yr core audience is 14 year old Relentless junkies"

Cant but disagree, this is different to what attenborough does or has done tbh, and cox is improving all the time

it might just be his face and hair and voice tbf, i'm easily distractable when it comes to tv

This is Young Ppl TV

yeah this is good enough, a reasonable amount of learnin' in each show, hugely padded out of course but with pretty pictures and cox's general affability.

Hes at it again. Looks good, hes getting less annoying, all the quick edits are a bit much but hey

This is fuckin nuts

The towers, aye. All a bit over Decca Aitkenhead's head though: http://gu.com/p/4nayf?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hmm I think he did rather rush the explanation there.

These are cool random documentaries with zero content or links

Yeah I mean thumbs up for human towers and manatees and free diving grannies. Would happily watch with no voiceover while thumbing through some popular science pamphlet, but then how would prof cox pay for his teeth augmentation.

Yeah the lads talking over iceberg shots without cox is much better than cox

Honestly though he does fuck up the explanation of why ice floats on water. He tells us all about the structure of ice but doesn't say how or why it's different from when it's a liquid, and then he says it's less dense but doesn't say why - which he could have done with a five second nod back to the efficiency of the honeycombs.

cox obv grows on me the entire time.

attended a live show tonight with nine thousand ppl to watch him powerpoint. and it was good!

the graphical representations in these programmes make me want to take up weed. So awesome

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:03 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you ever get this sorted

ha i did not

Hes back folks and these are the best shows on space on tv imo so beg steal or borrow