We watched the last episode of Wonders of the Solar System last night - about the possibilities of alien life. I think I maybe noticed the simplifications in this one more, as it's closer to my field. Although it's also possible that I know just enough to miss the point ;) I think my two main quibbles were about the assumption that water is ( Read more... )

We started off TV night a bit late, having spent a while working out which RB3 songs we wanted to download out of the last few weeks' DLC, so only got 2 programmes in. First up was the third episode of Wonders of the Solar System - talking about atmospheres. Obviously started off with the Earth's atmosphere - and Cox got to go up in a Lightning ( Read more... )

It's a shame TV night takes too long to write up if we're going out on a Thursday, coz I forget things by Saturday ( Read more... )

Started off TV night with the first episode of Wonders of the Solar System - all about the sun. I'd stumbled across this by accident when I was setting something else to record, pleased I did and pleased that for once I found an interesting series at the first episode, not the second as I often do :) The series is presented by Brian Cox who, ( Read more... )

The episode of The Story of Science that we watched last night billed itself as all about the search to answer the question "can we have unlimited power?", but really it was talking about answering the questions "what is power?" and "how can we get more of it?" ... which is less snappy, so I know why they went for that programme title ;) We both ( Read more... )

We started our evening of TV watching with the second episode of The Story of Science - unfortunately we failed to record the first episode, I guess we must've only found out about it after it had already started. A shame, because this turns out to be a really cool series, we very much enjoyed this episode. The programmes are presented by Michael ( Read more... )