Horizon Tue 7th

[DaveS]

This Tue, 7th. Horizon on Jupiter with results from the Juno probe.

BBC2 at 9pm.

[Jforson]

Thanks for the heads up

[RichM63]

Thanks Dave, I would not have known about it.

Merci.

Rich

[johnfosteruk]

Thanks for the heads up Dave.

[fozzybear]

Sky tv playing up with all the thunder and lightning better stop soon so I can watch this tonight.

[DaveS]

On in 5 min. This is your 5 min call.

[fozzybear]

1 minute ago, DaveS said:

On in 5 min. This is your 5 min call.

ok over here thunderstorm has passed over, tv settled down just finishing watching fishfingers being made....

 

[Gina]

All ready on BBC2 and sitting comfortably...

[DaveS]

Watching now.

[Gina]

Me too.

[Gina]

Disappointing start  - "Jupiter for Dummies"  ?

[DaveS]

Beeb really should give Horizon to the OU to produce. Needs science people, not meeja studies wonks.

Mark Kermode on BBC4 might be a better watch.

[Gina]

Improved a bit now.

[DaveS]

Turned over. Watching Kermode talking about SF films. Will catch up with Horizon later on iPlayer.

[Davey-T]

5 minutes ago, DaveS said:

Turned over. Watching Kermode talking about SF films. Will catch up with Horizon later on iPlayer.

Got bored after 10 minutes of that, made a cup of tea now going to watch some Y'Tube videos

Dave

[Gina]

The Jupiter programme improved but still too much daft associations.  The whole scientific content could have been condensed into around 10-15 minutes, possibly less.  The problem I find with this type of programme is that you can't tell the difference between real images taken by spacecraft or probe and CGI.  They rarely tell you what's real and what isn't.

[DaveS]

I'm sorry I wasted people's time by flagging this up .

At least Kermode was worth watching.

[Davey-T]

1 minute ago, DaveS said:

I'm sorry I wasted people's time by flagging this up

10 minutes of my life I'll never get back 

Dave

[DaveS]

I stuck it for 15min before giving up.

[Gina]

I've got used to not expecting much from BBC programmes unless they're on BBC4 which generally seem to be of a higher calibre.

[fozzybear]

wasted 1 hour of my life hew ho likewise bbc4 better viewing...…

[scarp15]

I really enjoyed it, the insight into the Juno exploration leading to the recent discoveries quite fascinating.

[johnfosteruk]

I didn't get to watch it when broadcast, just sat down with iPlayer 5 mins ago..... turned off when the lady told me how hard it was to get a sense of how big it is. The trailer before it started had already annoyed me tbh, oooh says I, new nature program, interesting footage - title 'Animals behaving badly'. Why oh why? 

Agree with Dave about the OU.

Prof. Cox has a new show that looks promising though, watching ep. 1 as we speak.

*edit* Not a new show at all, it's a repeat, but I missed it first time round so that's ok. So far so good.

[lenscap]

10 minutes ago, johnfosteruk said:

turned off when the lady told me how hard it was to get a sense of how big it is.

Trouble is , millions of viewers now believe Jupiter is big, really big, in fact as big as a 30 tonne truck! ?

[johnfosteruk]

3 minutes ago, lenscap said:

Trouble is , millions of viewers now believe Jupiter is big, really big, in fact as big as a 30 tonne truck! ?

I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to Jupiter ?