a Super BBC4 'SPACE' Night Tonight (Wed 16th Dec)

Some great programmes i noticed tonight on BBC4...

8-9pm How Britain won the Space Race (Jodrell Bank)

9-10pm HORIZON Special : Beyond the Moon (a 1984 James Burke edition) i LOVED his documentaries in the 70's and 80's as a young child and this one tells us how things might be in the future, so some 30 years on it should prove interesting.

10-11pm HORIZON : Secrets of the Solar System.

I think this is the one i raved about some 6 months or so ago and one i would rate as this years BEST Documentary.
Interestingly it includes a few minutes on a 'Rogue Planet' i say interestingly because it's been reported that it or something like it may have been found.

Take a look here if you want to read more on this...

uk.news.yahoo.com/has-a-mysterious--plan...0906894.html#uPhbdn1

It would seem a good many scientists don't think so so perhaps this 'Rogue Planet' is still out there yet to be discovered.

11-1.20am SPACE NIGHT ends with perhaps my favourite movie of all-time "2001: A Space Odyssey"

An EPIC & BRILLIANT space exploration film which for me is at it's most interesting throughout the first half of the film.
When Dr Floyd is on the orbiting space station talking to the Russians...keep your ears open for the announcer who proclaims a coat has been found (the crew had apparently been looking for it for one of the actors in the sequence and they simply couldn't find it)

A Great night's viewing there.


Oh and just wanted to throw in these words....."GO TIM"

Delighted he made it to the station in one piece (You've got to look up at the night sky sometime soon and find it and him up there helping all humankind)

Good on the UK government for FINALLY waking up to what the future holds (somehow I just couldn't see Corbyn agreeing to such funding? but hey I could be wrong?)

I saw most of the nights offering. Seeing 2001 again prompted me to watch the sequel, 2010, which featured some badly out of scale shots of the Discovery spacecraft.

Sorry I haven't replied earlier...been away from these pages for awhile.

Yeah that was a good night of Tv and it is interesting now that there are even more reports of a 9th Planet...Keep professor Rotheray away from that planet? only joking!

2001 is pretty much my favourite film...I have the sequel 2010 directed wonderfully by Peter Hyams (he had a hell of a job on his hands following Kubrick but he did good) on Blu Ray but have yet to watch it...I need to as I've not seen it for ages and yet there are a number of lines of dialogue engrained in my mind still from this very worthwhile film....

"We are going to get there first, yet you have the knowledge to make the trip work"

I really will have to keep an eye on the Discovery now in this one...curious, if I remember right it did seem a little long? compared to Kubrick's version? is this correct?

The Jupiter ending although outlandish is GREAT FUN and having a projector system i'm hoping it will look impressive seeing this Giant Planet implode and become a sun offering life to Europa...
"All these planets are yours EXCEPT Europa...attempt NO landings there"
Kinda spooky really as that's one of the moons of Jupiter where many agree has a real chance of life...and yet as I understand it there are plans to one day vist it.
Yup need to see this film soon.