TV Wonders of the Universe: Destiny

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BBC iplayer

Go watch it! I love the programs this guy does, actually makes the deepest aspects of science make sense. Plus you can tell he's making these programs not because he wants to make money, but because he just loves what he does and wants to get his message across.

 

[Embattle]

Yeah I watched it, had Wonders of the Solar System on bluray and will get this when it comes out.

 

[Punishment]

Not available in your area , FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !!!

 

[ileks]

Brian Cox really annoys me but I do like some of the programmes he makes. I wish studying physics/maths at university level was anything like these shows make out tho.

 

[Cerb]

We had one of these threads about wonders of the universe too no?

Iirc the consensus was great show but Brian Cox is a smug twat.

 

[Gwadien]

Makes me think about the big questions which is depressing, what happens when you die etc

 

[PLightstar]

Was a good program but found the ending of the universe a bit odd, its been a while since I left school but there were more theories to the end of the universe than just Heat Death. He could have mentioned those theories.

 

[Sparx]

The new series isnt gripping me like Wonders of the Solar System did, not sure why.

Brian Cox makes it interesting and easier to understand though

 

[Job]

I love the guy, but possibly too many lingering shots of him looking windswept
and interesting, I think the Top gear production crew are doing the visuals.
I didn't realise the Sun has only 1 billion years left as it is, I thought we had like 4-5 billion before anything bad started happening.
Better start hording the beans ma.

I read an old focus magazine years back and it had an article of top ten ways
civilisation would end, all the usual, disease,war, asteroid hit..huddled around the last star as in Cox's scenario, but he one I thought was the most likely,
we just lose interest in having kids and life at all, and let ourselves die out.
I think it's started to happen allready.

 

[PLightstar]

To be fair a billion years is a long way off yet. Seeing how far we have come in a million years from ape-like creatures to the dominate species on the planet and bulk of that happened in the last 7 thousand years. The last 100 years have brought our tech level along at an astonishing rate. I don't see why by the year 3000 we will have space bases near the asteroid belt or even begun terraforming Mars and moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Or even left the Solar system all together on generational ships. Unless we screw up and plunge ourselves into another Dark age like after the fall of Rome.

 

[Ch3tan]

I love the guy, but possibly too many lingering shots of him looking windswept
and interesting, I think the Top gear production crew are doing the visuals.
I didn't realise the Sun has only 1 billion years left as it is, I thought we had like 4-5 billion before anything bad started happening.
Better start hording the beans ma.

I read an old focus magazine years back and it had an article of top ten ways
civilisation would end, all the usual, disease,war, asteroid hit..huddled around the last star as in Cox's scenario, but he one I thought was the most likely,
we just lose interest in having kids and life at all, and let ourselves die out.
I think it's started to happen allready.

It's a billion before it starts dying, up to 6 billion before it finally *goes*

 

[cHodAX]

We had one of these threads about wonders of the universe too no?

Iirc the consensus was great show but Brian Cox is a smug twat.

Yep smug twat who spends too much time mugging to camera, the last series he did was really interesting but the way he presented it pissed me right off.

 

[cHodAX]

It's a billion before it starts dying, up to 6 billion before it finally *goes*

Yep, a billion years before it isn't viable for life on earth anymore but at least 7 billion more before it goes supernova.

 

[Scouse]

Liked the series but if you *really* like this sort of stuff then you simply have to get Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.

Coxy copies most of what Sagan says anyway but Sagan is, to quote Cox, about a billion billion billion times better. Also, Sagan's 13-hour-a-thon isn't just cold hard science - he dares to speculate and, despite the very cheesy 70's ness of it, engages in a way that Mr Cox could only dream of.

You can pick it up for about 8 quid. The only DVD set I've bought in about 18 months

 

[Job]

Yup . got a torrent from isohunt of the whole series, good quality.

Better music, more simplistic but imaginitive special effects and a real nerd who care's not of his own image.
And it was Carl who got NASA to turn around Voyager to take that picture of Earth.

 

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Just saw the second episode and there seems to be a glaring contradiction. Given the birth-death-re-birth cycle it seems to me that there won't be an end to the universe, certainly not the one he decribed in the first episode. Or am I missing something?

 

[Scouse]

I wouldn't say you're missing something. I'd say you're doing this:

1 + 1 = 3.

 

[rynnor]

Just saw the second episode and there seems to be a glaring contradiction. Given the birth-death-re-birth cycle it seems to me that there won't be an end to the universe, certainly not the one he decribed in the first episode. Or am I missing something?

In reality we dont actually understand the birth of the universe - we have evidence of a big bang but not the event that caused it - it all breaks down into metaphysics back before the big bang.

 

[Rulke]

The birth and death of stars is a bit like doing your laundry, each time you do it you lose a few socks

 

[Zenith.UK]

I like what he does. I may not necessarily like his media exposure, but I think the guy is a star for evangelising science the way he does.
I also like this report on Daily Mash about the BBC dropping the music volume for the 2nd episode.
The Daily Mash - BBC tells D:Ream keyboard player to shove it

"Blimey! Planets, Eh?"

Then he was on the 700th episode of Sky At Night.
BBC - BBC One Programmes - The Sky at Night, 700 Not Out

The thing is that he was with Dare way back, then with D:Ream. He gets to play with ATLAS on the LHC and still has time for all this TV work.
And he was the science advisor for Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine" where Cillian Murphy based the character of Capa on Brian Cox.

He's a celebrity rockstar nuclear physicist cosmologist.

The guy actually is Buckaroo Banzai!!!
YouTube - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Trailer

 

[Cyradix]

What Rulke said.
Big stars are capable of creating the heavy elements.
When the star dies you get a big cloud of gas and all these heavy elements.
Gas clumps back together to form a new star, other bits and pieces form the planets.
But every time this happens the new stars are a bit smaller up to a point where the stars aren't big enough anymore to form the heavier elements.
Like our own sun, it isn't big enough to create heavy elements, so when it goes all the gas might form another new star but after that one... lights out...

 

[Zenith.UK]

Okay, this is the trailer I *should* have used. It's better at explaining it.

YouTube - Buckaroo Banzai 2011 Digital Trailer

 

[Lamp]

Watched the final episode last night. Got to say, I've quite enjoyed the series. The third episode was my favourite, but then again I've always had a soft spot for gravity (there are black holes out there billions of times larger than our entire solar system !)

Billions of Galaxies
Each Galaxy has hundreds if not thousands of billions of stars
Thats billions of solar systems
Billions of planets
Surely one of those planets harbours intelligent life.
We can't be the only one. Not given the numbers & the unimaginably HUGE expanse of the cosmos.

 

[Job]

LOL at jumping from 10ft on the surface of a neutron star, by the time you hit the ground you would be doing 4 million miles an hour.

 

[Exioce]

Further to what Cyradix and Rulke were saying, we do eventually run out of matter, summed up best in The Last Question by Isaac Asimov - 1956

^^ Probably my favourite page on the internet.

 

[Cerb]

I like what he does. I may not necessarily like his media exposure, but I think the guy is a star for evangelising science the way he does.
I also like this report on Daily Mash about the BBC dropping the music volume for the 2nd episode.
The Daily Mash - BBC tells D:Ream keyboard player to shove it

"Blimey! Planets, Eh?"

Then he was on the 700th episode of Sky At Night.
BBC - BBC One Programmes - The Sky at Night, 700 Not Out

The thing is that he was with Dare way back, then with D:Ream. He gets to play with ATLAS on the LHC and still has time for all this TV work.
And he was the science advisor for Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine" where Cillian Murphy based the character of Capa on Brian Cox.

He's a celebrity rockstar nuclear physicist cosmologist.

The guy actually is Buckaroo Banzai!!!
YouTube - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Trailer

Haha I love the daily mas.

" Cox said: "All that film of me looking dead pensive on a mountain and stars proper blowing up and stuff - it needs a bit of Whigfield behind it."

 

[old.user4556]

It was very interesting, but I also found it very depressing. I loved physics and astronomy as kid, but lately the programs about science all seem to be about how fucked the human race are, how doomed the earth is and how the heat death of the universe means an infinite eternity of silent black nothing.

I watched a programme with Professor Ian Stewart (Men Of Rock) and it described that everything we see round about us in the UK will be erased by the next ice age / large glacier as if it was never here.

I watched a programme about the moon that explained that the moon is slowly drifting away from us, and when it gets too far away then the earth will 'wobble' meaning that earth as we know it will probably be semi-fucked.

Then, I watched the wonders of the universe that talked about the death of the sun, the death of the earth and the eventual infinite blackness of space.

It's really getting me down; I think i'd rather not have known.

 

[Rulke]

Don't be depressed, you'll be long dead before any of that happens!

 

[Scouse]

Lol! Cheery

Chin up G. At least yer sister's hot!

Producer Roy Hobbs stressed: "When I worked on The World At War Laurence Olivier asked me to whack up the Wagner during the Auschwitz section.

"If I can tell the greatest actor of all time to fuck off then D:Ream Casio Boy can lick my balls."

Classic

 

[old.user4556]

Yeah, I guess it makes me feel rediculously small, insignificant, fragile and basically fucked from the minute I was born. What is it about human's and their selfishness that makes us feel so important / special? I wish I had the ability to give less of a shit .

... and Scouse, both my sisters have had kids now. Their clunge will probably be a replica of the infinite blackness of the universe by now .