'Our civilization is the wonder of this solar system'

[Rum]

Brian Cox..he is going to end up being a national treasure, so watch him! Watched the last part of 'Wonders of the Solar System' where he talked about some new stuff I had not read about (and I do try to keep up to date), particularly about the potential for bacterial type life under the surface of Mars and also in the (hypothesised) oceans of Europa.

He closed, me having had to suppress several emotional lumps in the throat, in effect with the view that 'Our civilization is the wonder of this solar system', or something very much like it.

Brilliant.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If he wasn't from Manchester he'd be perfect. Even I've heard of him.

[AshtonBlack]

If he wasn't from Manchester he'd be perfect. Even I've heard of him.

Where should he be from?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If he wasn't from Manchester he'd be perfect. Even I've heard of him.

Where should he be from?

Some place smancy, of course. Oxford or some damn place like that.

[AshtonBlack]

If he wasn't from Manchester he'd be perfect. Even I've heard of him.

Where should he be from?

Some place smancy, of course. Oxford or some damn place like that.

Oh cos these people studied in manchester:

Samuel Crompton
Richard Arkwright
Sir William Fairbairn
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
Sir Frederick Henry Royce
Daniel Adamson
George Bradshaw
John Dee
Marie Stopes
William Crabtree
Charles White
Thomas Percival
John Ferriar
Peter Mark Roget
John Dalton
William Sturgeon
Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie
Sir Henry Roscoe
James Hargreaves
Hans Geiger
Charles Mackintosh
Thomas Highs
John Mercer
Robert Hope-Jones
JJ Thomson
Sir Arnold Wolfendale
John Dancer
James Prescott Joule
Sir Edwin Alliot Verdon-Roe
Ernest Rutherford
Capt Sir John Alcock
Lt Sir Arthur Brown
James Brindley
John Kay
Alan Turing
Sir Bernard Lovell
Col Sir William Coates
Robert Angus Smith
Roy Chadwick
Dr Patrick Steptoe
Edmund Cartwright
George Stephenson
Lawrence Earnshaw
William Webb Ellis
Thomas Earnshaw
Sir James Chadwick
James Bullough
Prof Eric Laithwaite
George Leigh Mallory
Prof Tom Kilburn
Rev George Garrett
Sir Roger Bradshaigh

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[RuleBritannia]

No one's from Oxford, they just go to university there.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No one's from Oxford, they just go to university there.

Okay.

[AshtonBlack]

I'm watching the Coxer now.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I can't watch him now without hearing him saying, "Physics is just fucking great!"

[AshtonBlack]

I can't watch him now without hearing him saying, "Physics is just fucking great!"

"Completely fucks with my head."

Yeah, this episode was good. I had no idea about the caves on Mars... intriguing, but my money has been on Europa for years.

I hope this can get funded...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Jup ... em_Mission

A snip at a paultry $9 billion.

[SPMaximus]

I can't watch him now without hearing him saying, "Physics is just fucking great!"

"Completely fucks with my head."

Yeah, this episode was good. I had no idea about the caves on Mars... intriguing, but my money has been on Europa for years.

I hope this can get funded...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Jup ... em_Mission

A snip at a paultry $9 billion.

Just 9 billion? Bleh, people like Bill Gates should fund things like these, so selfish of them to just start giving all their money to stop hunger and spreading of decease and stuff like that

[hackenslash]

Bill Gates is spreading death? Has Reuters been informed?

[ficklefiend]

I'm terrible, I am, when I watch these programmes and they say things like our planet might have been colonised by microorganisms from another world on a comet* I immediately think "Let's send out loads of comets full of bacteria and maybe they will grow into something cool somewhere!!" or these caves on mars, I think if there isn't life down there but could be, we should totally colonise it.

If I were in star trek, I'd be violating the prime directive twice daily.

*If I have made a mistake there between different bits of rock/ice flying through space and anyone feels the need to correct me I would like to pre-empt you by saying I don't care.

[Mr P]

I've not had chance to see if it's mentioned over here yet but Cox dared to mention that astology was rubbish in one episode so I started a topic here: http://www.rational-skepticism.org/pseu ... t4697.html and then good old Hack sticks his oar in here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2 ... opic=13894


Keep up the good work