Brian Cox - Solar System - BBC2

[MR_Punk]

Cox is back with another series on BBC2 with another look at the Solar System. I watched the first episode and was a little underwhelmed to be honest. Its just seems like the BBC is rehashing the same old to fill their Science quota. I remember Cox's earlier programmes being really good. I have often rewatched his 2 "Wonders" series and the episode on Entropy and the heat death of the universe is bloody fantastically mind-blowing / grim.

 

[MR_Punk]

Anytime I see clips of Cox, I feel like he’s just making stuff up that’s impossible to prove/disprove. Saw one where he was talking about the Sun going supernova in several billions of years lol

That wasn't as crazy as its sounds, I believe the current theory is our sun will end up as a white dwarf in a fair few billions years time but will go through a red giant phase first and get a bit big red and nasty.

 

[MR_Punk]

I watched episode 2 last night and I am really interested in learning a bit more about the Oort Cloud, does anyone have any recommendations?

 

[MR_Punk]

Thanks for this, thoroughly enjoyed it.