Wonders of the Solar System

Good thread. Love cosmic bollocks. Huge numbers and fractions, chance in a million billion billion trillion, calculations off the scale, nebulas, scratch your head and choose ignorance. Watched it last night, unfathomable. Actually I saw Brain Cox walking up Charing Cross Road not long ago, astral-planes in his eyes...

He's doing "Wonders of the Universe" now, it's expanding.

it's expanding.

references

He's a weirdo. I wouldn't have thought it possible for someone discuss the end of all life, the universe, everything, with such a big grin. He had the look of an evangelical Christian. Unending grin, sketchy eyes, soft way of speaking, self assured belief that you have it all sussed out.

"Would you like some kool-aid?"

"Along with the Great Wall of China, my perfect teeth are another phenomena observable from space"

"Eat your heart out, Emo Dad."

"I am omnipresent, and omnipotent"

"I am to science what Tom Cruise is to Scientology."

"The grey works for Philip Schofield and George Clooney. Hello ladies".

"Ha, ha, ha! It's funny you ask that! The answer is: nothing. We will die, everything else will die, the universe will get cold and lonely. Nothing will happen for eternity. It's hilarious!"

Until the next big bang*..

*available at XXXFilms.com

"Trust me".

^ Love it! It's like the programme Coast.....presenter looks wistfully out towards a big expanse of something, sweeping helicopter panoramic shot, music swells.....meh......dumbed down nonsense..

Is it just me, or did he take over half the entire show saying time doesn't go backwards?.....it certainly wasn't moving forwards very fast that's for sure.....

prof brian cox, what a smug git..

the universe starts with order, ends in chaos..
we get it, now farking go and get a life and
a useful (proper) job..

More of a Patrick Moore man eh? Fair enough.

no carl sagan.. with his silky voice, no longer with us:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

patrick moore gives me nightmares. apologies i'm being unkind,
i love these programmes, and always been fascinated by the universe.

it's just carl sagan - the cosmos was the programme that grabbed
my attention when i was younger.

I find it a bit "glitzy science for show for people who never leave the sofa". It never goes deep enough, and 99% of it you already know from school etc.

ICBA to UTFS, but if it's a repost, it's a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0&feature=autofb

it's just carl sagan - the cosmos was the programme that grabbed
my attention when i was younger.

Vangelis soundtrack for Cosmos also a winner.

+1
and asimov, frank herbert, arthr c clarke, sagan ruled the heavens

For those that fancy reading something in a similar vain to these shows you could do worse than try Death by Black Hole: And other Cosmic Quandries.