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post Mar 22 2010, 11:07 AM
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Another great episode - and great work by Ralph there - I'm not sure where that analogue was but it really was a superb one for the Huygens landing site.
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post Mar 22 2010, 05:32 PM
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Indeed, good coverage of the January 2005 Huygens probe landing with the parachute shadow visible on Titan's surface...
Interesting bit with the two-seater BAC Lightning T-5 jet with a climb rate of 50000 ft per minute ohmy.gif
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post Mar 22 2010, 05:45 PM
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I saw the Lightning take off at a few airshows, almost before the end of the runway it went into about an 85 degree climb, and was gone......
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post Mar 22 2010, 07:02 PM
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I'm glad I got to see one at Fairford in the very early 90's ( got to see a Vulcan before they were retired as well )

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post Mar 22 2010, 08:39 PM
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rolleyes.gif Follow the Tweets from the prof here!

http://twitter.com/profBriancox

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post Mar 22 2010, 09:48 PM
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Another plus is that should they want to illustrate something with an unusually high albedo, they won't need to jet off to another exotic location - just zoom in on his teeth laugh.gif
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post Mar 27 2010, 12:33 PM
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Just watched Prof Cox on the BBC's Jonathan Ross show!
Absolutely hilarious!
Warning, does contain some adult humour.
UK folks can catch it on iPlayer (or YouTube will have it
real soon!)
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QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 22 2010, 07:07 AM) *
Another great episode - and great work by Ralph there - I'm not sure where that analogue was but it really was a superb one for the Huygens landing site.


Matanuska glacier (and river), a little north of Anchorage. I had to split from the DPS conference
in Puerto Rico a day early to get to the shoot. mere 48 hours from snorkelling among angelfish
to wobbling around on crampons on the glacier - some pics are on my web page. I was
supposed to get a ride over the glacier in a chopper but they descoped that, bastards.

Re: comments on Horizon etc. - I havent seen many recent ones, but certainly the old ones
(I vivdly remember the V2 at Neptune with Larry Soderblom setting off a fire extinguisher
to 'simulate' the Triton plumes being influential in my formative years) were great.

Often co-produced with WGBH Boston as Nova, I've seen (purely out of vanity) some shows as
both Nova and Horizon, such as the great 'A Place Like Home' post-Huygens Titan episode -
the Nova version seemed a bit dumbed down. Can't speak to more recent Horizon vs Equinox etc., though.

Many of the British producers I've met on shoots have actually had science backgrounds (indeed
one had even done the same Aerospace Systems degree I did at Southampton), so they're not
all 'meedja' types....
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