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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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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 |
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Mar 22 2010, 05:45 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
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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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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Mar 22 2010, 08:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
-------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Mar 22 2010, 09:48 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Loughborough Member No.: 4121 |
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
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Mar 27 2010, 12:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
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!) Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Mar 29 2010, 12:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
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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