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Galaxy Doomsday -The Impending Andromeda/Milky Way Collision Sir Patrick Moore discusses the impending doom of the Andromeda Galaxy crashing into our own Milky Way with Prof Derek Ward Thompson & Prof Carlos Frenk, whilst Dr Chris Lintott and Astronomer Nik Syzmanek observe Andromeda with a small telescope. There are two examples of cosmic scale which particularly interested me in this program, I've known for some time the large size that Andromeda appears in the sky to astronomers (described here as the equivalent of six full moons) and I've also seen it myself looking like a pretty big blurred spot with binoculars, so, I should have known that it was both very big and relatively near. However until seeing the dinner plate example described here, I have always tended to think of galaxy's as being far further apart in relationship to their sizes, indeed after seeing this, the famous Hubble Deep Field galaxy photograph now makes far more sense to me. . This is an edited clip from "The Sky At Night" - The Grand Collision: November 2007 The whole program is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/science/space/realmedia/skyatnight_nov07?size=16x9&bgc=000000&nbram=1&bbram=1 The Sky at Night home page also has many other episodes to watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/ The Hubble Deep Field Photograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HUDF.jpg . Tags: The Sky at Night Patrick Moore Andromeda Milky Way Collision Astronomy |
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Media fall for Princess Diana Romping Hoax 1996 Oct 8th 1996 - Whilst I'm filming our baby, Sky News breaks the news, (to us), about the Sun obtaining a tape showing Diana and James Hewitt romping at Highgrove some 5 years earlier. In hindsight I should have switched the video back to the TV whilst Diana was speaking about the London Lighthouse, but I was more interested in filming my Daughter at the time, still its poignant to hear in the background that she is being talked about in the present tense. After Squidgygate, Camillagate and Fergie's toe sucking pictures we took a Royal Story like this in out stride, as does the Sky News report which does not question the "facts" in any way, but the story was exposed as a hoax soon after. My feelings about the whole Diana cult thing are very similar to Eddy Izzard's in my "Diana died" upload, i.e. I'm always very sad to see someone die young and especially leaving children, but I had no urge to start throwing roses around. However this video does remind me that most of the time, the living Diana Soap Opera was pretty much harmless fun, both for her to star in and for us to watch, for example her Panorama interview is one of my all time TV highlights. Sadly the post Diana Soap Opera has just become excruciatingly tiresome and increasingly far-fetched. The Diana tape Affair (1996) The Sun paid a six-figure sum for a tape featuring two lovers cavorting, alleging that it depicted Princess Diana and her lover James Hewitt romping at Highgrove. The 80-second reel had come from a 'smart American lawyer' acting on behalf of a group of soldiers led by a man known only as the Sergeant. The Sun devoted five pages to the "Di spy video scandal" but Diana denied the pictures were of her. The then Sun editor Stuart Higgins issued a grovelling front-page apology saying it had been "conned by cunning fraudsters", and that he had fallen for 'one of the most elaborate hoaxes of the decade'. Source: The Observer & Guardian 2004 Tags: Princess Diana Di James Hewitt Romping Video Tape Hoax Sky News Royal scandal The Sun London Lighthouse HIV AIDS |
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Doug Stanhope on Immigration Edited from "Doug Stanhope Go Home" Channel 4 - Comedy Lab Interesting take on immigration, he talks a lot of sense, although calling the people who do all the shitty jobs, losers, doesn't fit in very well with my desire for a harmonious society. And I would have felt more comfortable to see him target the indigenous population who cannot be arsed to work and not the box packer with low expectations, who at least had pride in what he did. Also it would have been interesting to know if the potato workers were getting the minimum wage. Still it's a refreshing change from hearing Talk Sport Right Wing Jock types talking hate and fear with their idiot audiences lapping up every word. Full Show at RileyELFuk http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=walWYAIfJHI Poles get the wrong end of the stick in the comments section of Part 3 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3nJ-NGTNT7E . Tags: Doug Stanhope Immigration Go Home |
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Carl Sagan - A thousand years of darkness Its happened before... Carl contemplates that the "submission to ethnic, religious or national identifications" and the rejection of scientific values will leave us tenuously on the brink of a 2nd (and possibly final) dark age. http://www.carlsagan.com/ User Spiff embedded this clip on Videosift with the following description: - In this excerpt from the final episode of Sagan's 'Cosmos,' he discusses why the momentous discoveries of the ancient world were unable to prevent the dark ages from virtually banishing scientific thought for a millennium, and how the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge, the great library of Alexandria, met its regrettable end. A sobering statement on what ignorance, apathy and fanaticism can do if left unchallenged. . Tags: Carl Sagan dark ages cosmos Alexandria Hypatia Shakespeare 1000 |
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Creature Comforts Heat Electric Ads c1990 Clip from an Open University program about advertising. Animator Nick Park of Aardman Animations talks about the use of unscripted conversations by the general public for the classic Electricity Board 'Creature Comforts' spin-off adverts. Tags: Creature Comforts Heat Electric Gas HeatElectric Wallace & Gromit Wrong Trousers Chicken Run tortoise |
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Animation showing the three Milankovitch Cycles Eccentricity, Axial Tilt & Precession collectively effect changes in the Earth's climate. I've added a brief clip from the BBC documentary series 'Earth Story' presented by Professor Aubrey Manning to the beginning of this 'Open University' animation which I originally had on thingsihaveseen. The Earth Story climate episode went into detail about how the carbon cycle, vegetation and continental drift effect long term climate over millions of years. Unfortunately I only kept bullet point clips which are not enough to present a coherent description here. What fascinates me about Milankovitch Cycles is the short-term ness of them and how little we hear about their effect in the current climate change debate Links http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/milankovitch.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#Orbit_and_rotation http://www.koshland-sciencemuseum.org/exhibitgcc/causes08.jsp Links Provided by http://www.youtube.com/user/mooeypoo Tags: Milankovitch Cycles Earth climate Eccentricity Axial Tilt Precession |
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Stephen Fry - Love at first Sight Clip from the BBC's "Mark Lawson Talks to Stephen Fry" Aug 2007 BBC4 STEPHEN FRY NIGHT (but need realplayer to play clips - thanks for making it easy guys) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/stephen-fry.shtml . Tags: Stephen Fry Love at first Sight Mark Lawson |
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Stephen Fry - Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself Edited clip from the BBC's "Mark Lawson Talks to Stephen Fry" Aug 2007 BBC4 STEPHEN FRY NIGHT (but need realplayer to play clips - thanks for making it easy guys) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/stephen-fry.shtml . Tags: Stephen Fry Mark Lawson Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself |
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Death of Gene Roddenberry - CBS news report For me, before Bronowski, Sagan and Feynman etc there was Roddenberry. Its difficult to gauge the impact that Gene has had on my life, you never know if your molded, because of or are just instinctively drawn to, like minded soul's, but either way and just for sheer entertainment alone I own him a great deal of gratitude. Gene Roddenberry August 19 1921 - October 24 1991 CBS News Report shown in the UK on Sky News at the time Tags: Gene Roddenberry Death Obituary tribute Star Trek |
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John Harrison, his clocks and the Longitude problem The 18th century astronomy community's reluctance to accept the accuracy of John Harrison's clocks is not one of the highs of scientific research. I've had to quite heavily edit the 18 or so minutes I have of this documentary shown in early 1999 (would like to credit it further but cannot at this point) in the 9:38 I have here, I concentrate on the astronomical alternatives, the Barbados trial and the final winning of the prize money The Story of Harrisons Clocks http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.355 All four clocks on show at The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Tags: John Harrison clock Longitude problem H1 H2 H3 H4 isaac newton Cassini astronomy |
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The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin 1979 BBC Top of the Pops on 3rd UK release of the song Tags: The Moody Blues Nights in White Satin 1979 |
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Bronowski talks about filming at the concentration camp Bronowski on Parkinson in 1973 explains the background behind the Cromwell quote in a short clip from a later BBC Parkinson highlights show Jacob Bronowski at Auschwitz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIfatdNqBA Tags: Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man Parkinson beseech thee |
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Montag meets the Books In a world where all books are burnt. Montag finally meets the Books. Clips from the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451. Based on a novel by Ray Bradbury. Formaly on thingsihaveseen Tags: Fahrenheit 451 Montag Book Burning |
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Bill Clinton (Rory Bremner) talks to Juliet Morris From lighter times when all we had to worry about was who was blowing the presidential trombone, as opposed to why in gods name is he playing with matches in the Middle Eastern tinderbox. From Rory Bremner - Beware Of Imitations, Channel Four c1999 Tags: Bill Clinton Hilary Rory Bremner Monica Lewinsky Juliet Morris Beware Of Imitations |
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Alexei Sayle - Gilbert & George Parody Egbert and Bill Performance Art sketch from The All New Alexei Sayle Show BBC 1994 Tags: Gilbert & George and Alexei Sayle performance art |
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Iraq - "Thank you, now go home" The title is the words of an Iraqi I can remember being interviewed on the day the Saddam's statue was pulled down. I doubt whether the "thank you" bit conveys the feelings of the two impressive women taking part in this debate, but they can speak for themselves. The "now go home" bit they certainly agree with. Iraq is a bloody mess, at this moment it's superfluous to say whether we were for or against it. The only question is what the hell do we do next. This clip is from "The Iraq Commission" Channel Four 11th July 2007 (series runs 2nd -- 14th July) The whole thing can be watched at: http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/I/the_iraq_commission/index.html WOMEN for WOMEN "Every once in a while a new voice emerges with the power to change the world. Zainab Salbi, activist and social entrepreneur, is such a voice." That's a big write up on the site, but this women has the prime ingredient for all leaders, charisma. http://www.womenforwomen.org/zainab.htm Houzan Mahmoud, Born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973, is the representative abroad of Organisations of Women's Freedom in Iraq. http://houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/ . Tags: Iraq war on terror Commission Zainab Salbi Saddam Houzan Mahmoud Troops Out |
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Iraq - Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax The son of a Sunni father and Shia Mother talks here about how Baghdad, a once secular city has fractured around religious fault lines These edited clips are from "The Iraq Commission" Channel Four 12th July 2007 The whole thing can be watched at:http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/I/the_iraq_commissio n/index.html Check out Salam Abdul-Munem's Blog (but last time I looked it had not been updated for some time) Tags: Iraq Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax war on terror Abdul-Munem |
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JFK - Millicent Martin laments the day after his death The dream is always going to be so much more provocative than the reality, there's no way of knowing, but I guess its unlikely that Kennedy could have ever have lived up to the outpouring of lost hope that, this song, written and sung the day after his death, evoked. Maybe we need to 'believe' in leaders née icons in this manner because it's far easier than taking the responsibility ourselves From a BBC end of century round up New Years Eve 1999 Formerly on thingsihaveseen Tags: John Kennedy Death JKF Millicent Martin The Week That Was TW3 Alec Douglas-Home Gay |
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Simon & Garfunkel - Hazy Shade of Winter 1966 Tags: Simon and Garfunkel Hazy Shade of Winter |
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Eddie Izzard - Noah's Ark What about the floating ones and the swimming ones? From Glorious c1999 Formaly on sinfulish Eddie reenacts how he began his career as a street performer in Covent Garden riding the unicycle whilst performing handcuff escapes http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j9FF7siUpqg Tags: Eddie Izzard Noahs Arch Noah's Glorious |