Couch Potato Three
Oh, the trailer for the Dr. Who Christmas Special Voyage of the Damned that just aired on BBC One has lovely visuals! It's so Starship Titanic it can't be unintentional, though the story is probably not the same. But Kylie Minogue as his offsider? I don't know... The trailer ends with a lovely line though, I paraphrase "I'm the Doctor and I'm going to save the world. Got a problem with that?"
Click on the 14 to see it. Only problem is that it seems to need Internet Explorer to work.
Prior to that I was watching the Oceans episode of the series Earth : The Power of the Planet. A lush series, presented by Iain Stewart. The Oceans episode has an effective animation that explains the conveyor, and he also goes into how the failure of the conveyor triggered a mass extinction of 90% of life on the planet at the time. He also talks about how this happened for land creatures (hyrdrogen sulphide) and talks about phytoplankton, which was something I was first exposed to as a risk way back in the late seventies, and have been surprised to see it not mentioned as often as one might expect.
But he also has dwarf elephants from Sicily, he races the tide up an Amazonian river, and explains how waves are formed. So overall a very entertaining and educational program, which has added ideas to my plans. There's a lot energy trundling around the planet, driven by solar heat at the equator, and the radiation of that heat at the poles.
Click on the 14 to see it. Only problem is that it seems to need Internet Explorer to work.
Prior to that I was watching the Oceans episode of the series Earth : The Power of the Planet. A lush series, presented by Iain Stewart. The Oceans episode has an effective animation that explains the conveyor, and he also goes into how the failure of the conveyor triggered a mass extinction of 90% of life on the planet at the time. He also talks about how this happened for land creatures (hyrdrogen sulphide) and talks about phytoplankton, which was something I was first exposed to as a risk way back in the late seventies, and have been surprised to see it not mentioned as often as one might expect.
But he also has dwarf elephants from Sicily, he races the tide up an Amazonian river, and explains how waves are formed. So overall a very entertaining and educational program, which has added ideas to my plans. There's a lot energy trundling around the planet, driven by solar heat at the equator, and the radiation of that heat at the poles.