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Jonk

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Ok...maybe I should have said "looking like", but nonetheless it's only a joke.

I attended a sky at night event in Portsmuth last year I think it was, and he was on the screen in the auditorium doing a quick live presentation before going live on the BBC.

He was fine.

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Paul73

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Ok...maybe I should have said "looking like", but nonetheless it's only a joke.

I attended a sky at night event in Portsmuth last year I think it was, and he was on the screen in the auditorium doing a quick live presentation before going live on the BBC.

He was fine.

Indeed. SGL would be a very very dry place without a bit of banter / humour.

Paul

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Astro Imp

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I just watched it on the iPlayer and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ok most of what was presented was old news but to have a whole hour of meaningful TV in amongst all the celebrity jungle/dancing/bakeoff/masterchef/escape to the country type programmes gives me hope.

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dwc

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I thought it was a good warts-and-all retrospective, when there must have been a temptation to write it with hindsight. Probably better than trying to do "live" coverage as well, as that was well covered by others. And really good to see the honest opinions of the project team.

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Gazabone

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Personally I thought it was a great program and I do enjoy Maggie's style, she does remind me of Sir Patrick. Yes, most of what was there was "old" news but firstly, it captured the excitement better than any other report of the event and secondly (and I think more importantly), this was coverage of one of the greatest moments in astronomy/space flight and I have a feeling that S@N's coverage will go down as the definitive UK coverage of the event unfolding in front of our eyes.

As far as I'm concerned, well done to all at S@N for a good job well done. :-)

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Reeny

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........I will ask:

Did anyone not know that it bounced 3 times, ended up at an angle (almost sideways), under an overhang, that the harpoons did not fire and that the jets to "press" it down also did not fire as it landed? Equally did anyone not know this 2 days before the S@N Special?.............

I watched all of the event unfold live on the laptop while working.

But I didn't have time to keep myself up to speed after that.

The UK news channels made assumptions early on, then started to contradict themselves once the situation became clearer (not their fault).

So it was nice to get a summary of the facts, in the order they happened, accurately presented by Maggie and Chris.

We might be keeping this edition of Sky at Night on the DVR permanently - it was an excellent piece of TV reporting.

I thought the UK news was stuggling to keep up with the fast moving developments,

But it will make your toes curl when you watch the US TV news reports where they congratulated NASA on their great achievement.

Never let a journalist put the truth in the way of a good story.

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Uranium235

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lol....

The headmaster enters the classroom, and all those boys larking about five minutes ago now sheepishly look up from the work they were supposed to be doing - desperate to avoid retribution by way of a clip round the ear and two hours detention :D

Keep it going Chris.... awesome work :)

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Polar Bear

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The show was fine and covered the weeks events with some background thrown in. I like presenters who know the subject and Chris and Maggie certainly know their onions. The interviews gave a little insight and were also interesting.

What really perturbed me was Matt Taylor's shirt :shocked:  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/a-pornographer-and-atheist-explains-why-the-science-guys-shirt-crash-landed/

I don't want to get into the sexism argument, but what was he thinking of!

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Avocette

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The programme was great and although I've been attentively reading the ESA website and news coverage, it had some, for me, fresh information. In particular the MUPUS hammer experiment having broken due to the unexpected hardness of the surface material doesn't seem to have been reported elsewhere yet.  We also heard mention of the 'flywheel spinning down' since the motor was turned off at the first touchdown, so presumably the lander gradually increased its own counter-spinning during the first long bounce. Perhaps a contributory factor for the lander's unstable position when it finally stopped moving.

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alan potts

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Sadly I don't get to see many of the Sky at Nights any longer, it was one of the things that got me into Astronomy back it the late 60's that and the Apollo program, they always had Sir Patrick on the T.V. with I think they called the other one James Burke. I have only managed to see a few since Chris and Maggie took over but Ihink it comes down to you can't please everyone all of the time, personally what I have seen I like.

Alan

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Timbo

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Thanks for heads-up on the BBC4 show.

I was struggling to think what to do this eve and so popped here for a shufty and shall now head over to iplayer - hope its still available, as I tried my best to keep up with live events online at the ESA site.

Tim

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Timbo

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Have just watched Rosetta BBC4. 'Twas not news to me but very nicely and excitedly delivered and explained by Chris and particularly, as is usual, by Maggie.

Thanks to OP for heads-up as I have been busy with work lately and would have missed it.

T

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