BBC Horizon: Can We Make a Star on Earth?

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For those in the UK with an interest in nuclear fusion, the following is on BBC Four at 8pm this evening:
Horizon: Can We Make a Star on Earth?

Despite decades of dedicated work, nuclear fusion researchers have been unable to produce electricity capable of supplying a national grid. This documentary witnesses experimental physicist Brian Cox embark on a global tour to discover whether nuclear fusion is a feasible energy source for the future. On his journey he visits a bomb-testing facility in America, and enters the reaction chamber of South Korea's K-Star - a complex that may hold the key to progress in the field of fusion research
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ETA: I've just realised it's a repeat. Has anyone seen this? Is it worth watching?
 
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Darat said:
I'm sure he will be pointing and things are telling us it is all really, really fantastic!
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While staring whistfully at the sky?


(Haven't we been about 15 years away from fusion for about 40 years now?)
 
I enjoy listening to Brian Cox. It's like having cosmology explained to me by Roger Waters.
 
It looks more interesting than anything else on tonight so I'll give it a whirl.
 
I find Brian Cox really irritating - the way he grins all the time and emphasises every large figure/span of time...2 billion years etc. - it's like he's trying to engage the attention of a toddler the whole time.
 
Bad Lieutenant said:
I find Brian Cox really irritating - the way he grins all the time and emphasises every large figure/span of time...2 billion years etc. - it's like he's trying to engage the attention of a toddler the whole time.
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That's called communication..
 
Bad Lieutenant said:
I find Brian Cox really irritating - the way he grins all the time and emphasises every large figure/span of time...2 billion years etc. - it's like he's trying to engage the attention of a toddler the whole time.
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You didn't see the recent BBC astronomy series that he presented with Dara O'Briain? I was impressed by the interest and participation of teenagers. If you can do a better job, apply for his post.
 
Bad Lieutenant said:
I find Brian Cox really irritating - the way he grins all the time and emphasises every large figure/span of time...2 billion years etc. - it's like he's trying to engage the attention of a toddler the whole time.
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I disagree.

I think he provides a good summary of current science to the lay-person, which is the intended audience.

My only beef with him is that he is so bloody young. I wish I had that brain power when I was his age.

V.
 
dafydd said:
You didn't see the recent BBC astronomy series that he presented with Dara O'Briain? I was impressed by the interest and participation of teenagers. If you can do a better job, apply for his post.
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That doesn't seem to be available online yet, but I will be looking for it. I hope it will be accessible on this side of the Pond.

Dara O'Briain is one of my favourite people. As well as being a super comedian he is a very smart chap. I hope for the day that he and Neil deGrasse Tyson would put something together.

V.
 
Verde said:
I disagree.

I think he provides a good summary of current science to the lay-person, which is the intended audience.

My only beef with him is that he is so bloody young. I wish I had that brain power when I was his age.

V.
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Errrr, according to wiki he was born in 1968. That makes him, uuuuhhhh, a mere slip of a 44. Also,

"He also had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11798071
 
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Verde said:
I disagree.

I think he provides a good summary of current science to the lay-person, which is the intended audience.

My only beef with him is that he is so bloody young. I wish I had that brain power when I was his age.

V.
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Well that's cheered me up, being in your mid 40s isn't usually considered young. Now if I could just have the brains!
 
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