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"Roger Smith" wrote in message ... In message , Martin wrote I think as an attempt at "Serious Science" its one of the worst things I've seen, even by the pathetic standards of the BBC. The final part sees on astronaut die from radiation sickness (in reality they'd all have died poncing around the solar system like that) oh and there's a fire to deal with as well. Oh and the crew debate as to continue or turn round and go home (presumably they just decide to engage the "warp drive" to do that then? Why do you assume it is any more of an attempt at serious science than sending someone through time to shoot "wildlife encounter" documentaries? Or any other drama programme for that matter that takes science as part of its background? Listening to the BBC science editor on News 24 last week say that he has a real hard time working with an office full of arts graduates who think science is a waste of time is it any wonder the BBC turn out such garbage? No that can be taken as an explanation as to why the BBC's science programming is declining but should not be used as an excuse to bash their extremely limited science fiction output. -- Roger 52:54:41N 01:30:05W Orion 127mm Maksutov. Because there are far more wildlife type programmes on the BBC and many are serious in their content. The whole Space Odyssey show has totally ignored the real Science behind how to do the sort of things they show on the series (you need to watch the Discovery Channel for that) and whats even odder the Sunday special did attempt to explain a little of the Science although it seemed more of a back slapping exercise. The BBC seem to assume that the British public are unable (or are not interested) in having real Science explained to them in a way that does not have to invlove explosions, death or warp drive. I disagree and think the time effort and money would have been better spend on real Science on TV. Its NOT the job of the BBC to pander to audiences, thats why it has a guaranteed income through taxation. I guess it could be worse, we could have some camp gay bloke doing a makeover of the Mars lander with two birds with big arses telling the female astronauts that they will never get a man with a wardrobe full of spacesuits. Martin |
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Paul Neave wrote:
Looking forward to this, 9pm tonight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3992971.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/prog.../spaceodyssey/ Many thanks to eveyone who let me know when it was repeated - I got it this time :-) Jim -- AIM/iSight:JCAndrew2 - Log in and say 'hi' "We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws of right and wrong break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... Paul Neave wrote: Looking forward to this, 9pm tonight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3992971.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/prog.../spaceodyssey/ Many thanks to eveyone who let me know when it was repeated - I got it this time :-) Jim What did you think of it? Martin |
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In article , Martin wrote:
"Jim" wrote in message ... Paul Neave wrote: Looking forward to this, 9pm tonight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3992971.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/prog.../spaceodyssey/ Many thanks to eveyone who let me know when it was repeated - I got it this time :-) Jim What did you think of it? Haven't watched all of it yet (just got to the 'dust devil' bit on Mars), but overall I'd say it's entertaining rather than informative. Not bad though - easy watching rather than something I have to think about. The second one's on tonight, yes? Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk "Brace yourself, this might make your eyes water." |
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In article , Chris Taylor wrote:
"Jim" wrote in message ... In article , Martin wrote: The second one's on tonight, yes? 16 Nov, 9pm BBC One That would be a 'yes' then? :-) Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk "Brace yourself, this might make your eyes water." |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... In article , Martin wrote: The second one's on tonight, yes? 16 Nov, 9pm BBC One |
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"Martin" wrote:-
I'll be looking forward to that. As it's a "mini-series", I wonder how many episodes there are in total? Abdul Ahad Just two, thank god. I think as an attempt at "Serious Science" its one of the worst things I've seen, even by the pathetic standards of the BBC. Well, it's probably *hard* to portray realism without the heavy Hollywood-scale budgets on the filming side, I agree. But at least the story line doesn't require too much money I would've thought... I have my own stories to contemplate over, and I certainly wouldn't let any BBC calibre camera crew film my motion pictures! See what you think of this:- http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagen...acentauri.html Enjoy... Abdul |
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Yup, Thought I'd missed the second episode and checked on the BBC website to
make sure. Being inherently lazy, copy/pasting it was the best I could do at the time... Am suitably chilled now though and looking forward to a nice cup of horlicks and the show. Enjoy :-)) Chris "Jim" wrote in message ... In article , Chris Taylor wrote: "Jim" wrote in message ... In article , Martin wrote: The second one's on tonight, yes? 16 Nov, 9pm BBC One That would be a 'yes' then? :-) Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk "Brace yourself, this might make your eyes water." |
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"Martin Frey" wrote in message
... (AA Institute) wrote: I have my own stories to contemplate over, and I certainly wouldn't let any BBC calibre camera crew film my motion pictures! I know this is just a wind up but where do you find better quality camera work than the BBC? Advertising and cinema differ in budget, not skill and usually not in quality either. As far as I am aware, the BBC have always had both the best sound engineers, and the best cameramen. I'd be less complimentary of their producers(?) though. They seem to feel a need to switch camera angle every couple of seconds - a real pain when you're trying to watch a virtuoso rock guitar player. Grim |
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