Wonders of Our Solar System

It's his child-like enthusiasm which I find endearing. I think a great many of us would like to have such a passion for something.
 
Nix said:
It's his child-like enthusiasm which I find endearing. I think a great many of us would like to have such a passion for something.
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I am probably being too hard on him but I just can't stand the way he is on camera.

I take that back about him being a bad role model, if he inspires someone to take an interest in science then that is a good thing, there are way too many bad influences surrounding young people... in the context of drugs and crime Brain Cox isn't all that bad.. I guess ;)

ElvisFan said:
I am ecstatic that I'm not the only one. His rictus grin and over-enthusiasm has been annoying my **** off for ages. Why is it that these programmes are just glorified nature shows: (show some interesting location on earth, talk about space, another earth location, another bit of space talk.)

Based on recommendations on this thread i tried to watch it. I lasted about 15 minutes.
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Panzerbjorn said:
Am I the only one that can't stand Brian Cox?

He's a smarmy, condescending ****.

It's all well and good presenting a complex subject in a simple way for the masses to understand but don't rub it in peoples faces. His boyish drawl makes me think his voice never broke and what is with that stupid grin of his after everything he says.

It feels like Physics meets Playdays to me.

I'm getting more and more fed up with the BBC's dumbing down if it's factual entertainment.
After that ridiculous Horizon about infinity that was trying to be The Twilight Zone and now this, I'm starting to lose the will to live.
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I can't tell you how much I agree with you both. The stupid grin is what haunts me... how do I make it stop?
 
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My mother loves this program and she thinks Brian Cox is actually the most attractive man in the world after James Gordon.

Bizarre mind's mums have.

I watched it and thought you jammy git, flying all over the world just to do a 30 seconds film clip at each location. Just wished I studied a bit harder on my Physics A level now, I'd just love to have his job.
 
2StepSteve said:
Brian Cox

Anyone remember the programmes he presented for Horizon about a year ago? One of the subjects he 'covered' on Horizon was Time. He was a stuttering, mumbling and confused idiot through out he whole 60 minutes, it was embarrassing. I had to google him afterwards to find out if he really is a professor and to my disbelief he actually is! He is a professor and yet had an amazingly hard time roughly explaining things in simple terms.

I went out of my way to not watch the first episode of Wonders of Our Solar System just because he was presenting it, the Horizon programmes left such a bad taste in my mouth of someone that doesn't know what he is talking about.

Watched the second episode and he has improved but I still find him very annoying to watch. I don't see him as a role model for science or a driving force for physics... maybe you like how he smiles non stop (even while talking).
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I've seen him in a good number of science/space/physics related programs over a good few years, and never seen him in personna such as you described? :confused:
 
Finished watching episode 2 last night...

Must admit I didn't quite follow the gravitational resonance element of it. ie: How a pair of moons, just because they happen to be say on a 2 to 1 orbit pattern, can clear an area of the ring (of Saturn) far within both their orbits. I understand that he was explaining when they were aligned they'd obvious tug a but more, but I don't see why this would only affect an area of space (the ring) at one particular distance, and not the entire ring?! ie: It they'd be tugging everything more, not just that one distance away!?

Wiki here I come!
 
Loving the series, he was on Johnathan Ross tonight and not entirely sure why or what to what purpose, but they were "playing around" with some LN2. I was sat there wishing that Ross would plunge his hand into the bowl. :rolleyes: That's bad right?
 
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Loving the series, he was on Johnathan Ross tonight and not entirely sure why or what to what purpose, but they were "playing around" with some LN2. I was sat there wishing that Ross would plunge his hand into the bowl. :rolleyes: That's bad right?
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Just finished watching this. I thought Cox did a great job of showing how interesting science could be with genuine enthusiasm.

I was half expecting there to be some sort of accident with the nitrogen lol. I felt sorry for Cox lol as he was fully aware of how dangerous it can be whereas Ross probably wasn't as clued up :P.
 
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PioneerFX said:
Loving the series, he was on Johnathan Ross tonight and not entirely sure why or what to what purpose, but they were "playing around" with some LN2. I was sat there wishing that Ross would plunge his hand into the bowl. :rolleyes: That's bad right?
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It made me cringe a bit though when Brian Cox said he could 'find a use' for a sex toy on one home-made particlar accellerator Wossy made.
 
Just watched the final part about life on other planets. Very interesting theories backed up with deep sea and underground cave findings on earth. It seems the ice moon europa is our best hope for finding micro organism extra terrestial life.
 
That spoof is fantastic.

Bit of a shame that the series is over but hopefully they'll do another one as I enjoyed it a lot. It's also a bit sad that the reality is we won't find any intelligent life in our solar system :(
 
Kyle009 said:
That spoof is fantastic.

Bit of a shame that the series is over but hopefully they'll do another one as I enjoyed it a lot. It's also a bit sad that the reality is we won't find any intelligent life in our solar system :(
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Well, at least not in Slough anyway...
 
Merlin5 said:
Just watched the final part about life on other planets. Very interesting theories backed up with deep sea and underground cave findings on earth.
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That concentrated venting methane thing on Mars had me going, whoa, never knew that! That was pretty powerful stuff.
 
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