Brian Cox - Wonders of the Solar System

[Habbibu]

Anyone watching? That man gives physics a very good name...

HE CAN'T BE 42!

I am also a little bit in love with him, I can't fancy a man with no brain. Buuuut, does any one else struggle with

'things, can only get betterrrr, can only get betererer'

going round on a loop in their head, rather spoiling the whole 'I'm learning physics me' moment?

Oh and yes he is 42, slightly older than DH who looks the same age as him

Seashells - I read pop science books and watch sciencey stuff on TV and think I understand them, as I do so. Then try to explain what I've watched/read to others using words such as "yeah, and there was this ef-off great big squirty thing coming out of the sun only it wasn't a flare and I thing it came from the coronosphere", or "you know - the oojimiflip - the bit that's bigger in relative terms in a cat than it is in humans which is why they're better at catching mice".

Just as well I'm not a science teacher, really

Did anyone see this a while ago? he was great. You can see he wants to punch David King for being an idiot, but chooses to detroy him with Good Sense instead.

Did you see Space Hoppers on BBC 2 - 30 min prog for 7 - 11 (ish??) yo using Brian Cox footage from Solar prog along with other stuff to educate parents and children in parallel. It was fab.

About 3 1/2 mins in - 3:50 etc

Spacehoppers episodes 1 and 2 will be repeated at (I think, don't sue me if I'm wrong) 5:15 on the 13th and 14th. I'd Sky+ed them but as we unplug everything overnight it didn't record.

Oh! Oh! Oh! let's ask to have BC for a webchat! Put paid to the idea than MNers not interested in anything except children and biscuits!

Yes! Please someone ask!

He was ace with the thickies on Something for the Weekend.

I will have to namechange though otherwise he'll know I Google-stalked him. I might scare him

Thanks Habbibu, a very welcome bit of Brian for my afternoon cuppa, he made that David King look like a backward thinking idiot, what a worry that he was the government advisor for so long. I'd love to go out to dinner with Brian Cox, he's so enthusiastic about science, v sexy in my book. It's about time they made some attractive looking geeks. (apart from me of course, I'm a very attractive geek, snort)

Will watch the clips later when I'm at home.

this is quite funny

I have been giving this matter some consideration and have decided that I'm not in love with him, but I would like him as an uncle for my DS. Is that odd?

think it's v reasonable, otter.

have asked. One handed with ds trying to eat laptop, so may look unhinged.

Yerrrs- I think he is just so smiley and enthusiastic that he is impossible not to like. He would have definitely made me more engaged with science at school. I was a bit of a dunce, but I love watching programmes like this now- it's all so fascinating, and certainly more accessible when explained by somebody who doesn't wear leather elbow patches.

Just watched it - fab isn't it and what I want to know is why physics students didn't look like that when I was at uni?

Sweeping generalisation coming up, but the physics bods were always uber-geeks or greasy metal-heads and practically all had glasses with veeerrrrryyyy thick lenses! (disclaimer - I did maths, so was not much better )

Sweetem welcome to the shrine of Prof. Cox

on now!

Oh, thank you, Meglet!!!

oh sweet - wrote to NASA aged 7 asking for pictures of mars!

he's racking up an awful lot of air miles in this series isn't he

isn't he just? But I think it's working - the examples do make things clearer.

gah! pg knackeredness meant I went to bed 20mins in - I felt I wasn't doing him justice iplayer it is this evening!

I am always v envious of where they go for these trips - the Atlas mountains looked amazing!

Brian Cox does my head in. You'd think that he invented the LHC, the whole of physics and indeed the universe itself.

And his voice lacks gravitas.

Just because he looks pretty doesn't mean that he's a better physicist.