Solar System

[Bazile]

Is it just me , but doesn't Prof Brian Cox look old in this series 

On now BBC2

[gingejbee]

No...you look old, too!

[Bazile]

What - you can see me !!!?

[elliemay1]

He's 56 and IMO looks well for that age

[ToraToraTora]

none of us are getting any younger me old china!

[Bazile]

Perhaps it's because most of the programmes he has made are from a few  years ago now.

Love watching and listening to him 

[brainiac]

When does he do his work as a professor at Manchester University?  He's never off TV, radio, podcasts and even does live tours.  Can't stand his voice and simpering delivery - he should stick to teaching.

[douglas9401]

He IS sticking to teaching, just on the telly.

[ToraToraTora]

He works on the LHC me old china, and you don't have to be there. 

[Bazile]

Leave him alone - you hear me ?

[Old_Geezer]

No, not got my ear trumpet in, you young whipper snapper !

[naomi24]

Like Brainiac, I'm not keen on his voice and delivery either.  I feel like he needs winding up to go a bit quicker.  I really want to say 'get on with it!'.  I didn't  realise he's 56 though.  He's wearing well enough.

[Bazile]

//really want to say 'get on with it!'.//

Don't agree 

Now -  if we were talking about Robert Preston 

[newmodarmy]

The long-dead actor or the author?

[newmodarmy]

I quite like Robert Peston's delivery, but he often looks to me as if he's slept in his suit in the car overnight.

I used to enjoy watching Brian Cox but he just seems to be going over the same ground now.

[Bazile]

'Peston ' 

[Peter Pedant]

good script tho'

[fourteen85]

whilst enjoying the series , I am having trouble deciding what is genuine footage and what is simulated, EG we are shown the surface of say Pluto and told that the pictures were taken on a particular mission, then they show the probe passing over the surface, what photograhed the probe?

[ToraToraTora]

Most of the visuals are CGI representations. It makes for a better viewing experience.

[Peter Pedant]

interesting wiki article - was a keyboard player for D:ream

odd - particle physicist ( ver' liddle liddle things in the universe - I have reverted to AB speak) and spends his tee-vee time on the solar system. ( er big big big)

The Theory of  Everything is to unify the two branches and is still on Brian Cox' to-do list !