'Horizon - The Core'

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Just spotted this on BBC iplayer, goes into details about the Earths core and how it creates and affects our magnetic field, and how that in turn causes problems for Hubble.

[Indispensable Hobbes]

I just watched this, this afternoon. love Horizon programmes though some of it confuses me unless I miss explinations. Like the tree theory - why only growing towards the poles, would they not grow around the sphere?

[stevetynant]

I watched 25 years of horizon the other night which I'd taped on the box from ages ago. It was a brilliant compendium of science from the last 25 years. Sir Patrick saying the dark patches on mars could be vegetation, how the Hubble was broke when it first was launched, it never crossed my mind that's its just a huge 200p floating outside our atmosphere, amazing programme I've got it locked and permanantly recorded to watch again in the future

[sologuitarist61]

Saw this some time ago so must have been repeated - good programme though

[VigdisVZ]

it never crossed my mind that's its just a huge 200p floating outside our atmosphere

Yep, only difference is that it has a 57600mm focal length

[DaveS]

I'd watched it earlier, and frankly the "trendy" MTV / "music"-video style made it near imposible for me to stomach. To me it was old style Horizon made by trendy directors with little or no science background.

The newer series appears to be more watchable.

[Astro Imp]

Watched this a day or two ago on iplayer and found it good but not brilliant.

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Yeah i agree, they seemed to have about 5mins worth of useful information, spun out into a half hour show.