I prefer the view conveyed by: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06qj2qg/ad/the-planets-series-1-2-the-two-sisters-earth-mars But methinks we need to rescue our own planet before we try and rescue another.
Perhaps fixing our own planet in conjunction with looking ahead for another one would be more prudent.
It's interesting but I've often browsed maps of Metro Manila and there are a surprising number of streets named for the space age, 'Lunar Rover' in Las Pinas, 'Armstrong' in several cities. There's a street called 'Soyuz Extension' in Las Pinas as well amongst many Apollo streets I can't remember where I saw all of them or the names but they are there, the ones I mention above are just a result of a quick search on Google Earth tonight.
Wednesday : Jupiter the Godfather. @oss. Interesting take on Jupiter regulating the asteroid belt and having an influence on the meteor that struck earth at the K/T boundary. That being the case I didn’t realise it had and still has such an influence on our planet.
I've not had a chance to watch them but yes we would not be here without Jupiter at it current position, the oddity is that it must have migrated out there along with Saturn and possibly the other gas giants long ago as they should have formed quite close to the sun. Jupiter is like the solar system's force field it has been protecting us gravitationally for most of the Earth's existence but occasionally it can hurl one at us. Comet Schumacher Levy 9 was the perfect example of Jupiter mopping up stray objects, I'll try an watch these if they are on iPlayer.
I would be interested to hear what you think. I tried to watch them first time around but tended to nod off after a hard days work but recently I have had more time and of course it’s great on the larger telly. Yes. The whole series is on iPlayer right now.
Will have a look in the morning, I'm convalescing just now for a couple of days, still in a fair bit of pain at home.
I've watched them now, I like his presentation and these are new, made in 2019, I was a bit concerned about the description of the formation of Jupiter as the vast majority of exo planets found so far are hot Jupiters which orbit very close to their star but it appears that he is putting forward the Grand Tack Model where Jupiter forms rapidly then migrates inwards to around the orbit of Mars then resonance with Saturn results in an outward migration. I had heard of the Saturn resonance theory before although I thought they originally had thought that Jupiter formed closer to the sun, the problem here is that too close to the sun and there is not enough cool hydrogen to form the gas giants either. There are still a lot of problems with theories of formation of the Solar system and our system appears very different from the majority that we have surveyed through telescopes over the last couple of decades but Cox is giving us the best currently accepted ideas in this series, and the graphics are lovely really well done based upon the best imagery from our various missions to the planets.
Well this program does also highlight so many other perfect storms & conditions to which made our life on Earth so, lucky. It's a really nice series and I enjoyed the Saturn episode - the visualisation of the descent to the inner core is fantastic. Space is horrifically violent!
So you watched them all back to back in one day? I am watching one each night, so it was Saturn tonight. It does seem like a very good series. I recall you weren’t a great fan of Brian Cox! Yes, good imagery and graphics.
It was my pal that could not stand his voice I quite like him. Yeah back to back I might be nearly 62 but I behave like a teenager
