June 2008 – The Battle of the Giants: Sir Patrick Moore finds out more about our two largest gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn. Dr Chris Lintott has the latest news from the Phoenix probe on Mars.
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Filed under: The Sky at Night
heres to Sir Patrick Moore on the 700th Episode of "The Sky at Night" & foundation work on to Lunar Geography.
The way things are reported & commented upon by apparent observers is always illuminating in many ways.
I recall a wonderfull BBC documentary broadcast a while ago, following a Sky at Night special hosted by the marvellous Sir Patrick Moore, all about the Sun! Well, the documentary that followed was equally marvellous, with wonderfull photography, graphics, & descriptions of the workings of the Sun. In fact I was totally enthralled by it until the last 5 minutes or so, when the narrator dramatically spoke the closing words along the lines of “No one can explain what effects the power of the sun has on our climate, but whatever it is, it's already been overtaken by man-made global warming!”, coupled with an image of a bright furious sun cutting immediately to an image of a calving ice sheet. Very impressive. I only wonder as a simple structural engineer how that, if one doesn't know what effect 'A' has upon 'B', how does one know that 'C' has a greater effect upon 'B' than 'A', & one doesn't really know what effect 'C' is having upon 'B' if any?