Horizon..

just finished watching the cassini - huygens horizon and was pleasantly surprised. it didn;t treat the viewer as sub normal or repeat itself interminably due to lack of real subject matter. and there's even more to come next year. is this the end of the dumbing down of tv? ok maybe not but if you're interested in the subject (saturn and titan) then worth a watch if / when it's repeated.
cheers

julian

 

Was interesting. Marked on calander for the camera view of Titan.

 

Bugger Meant to tape it last night as I was out. Hope its repeated .

 

Yep. I now have 14th of January marked on my calendar.

I didn't get to watch the whole program, ( I was in the middle of cooking), but what I saw was definitely very interesting.

GTM

 

These things amaze me...sending a piece of machinery all that way, I hope the thing doesn't do a beagle and go all quiet on us. The pictures should be amazing...hopefully it won't be a misty day!

 

So, for all those of us who missed the program.................?

 

a joint us / european probe - cassini (the bigest ever to be launched) has just finished it's billion mile jouney and is now in orbit around saturn. on january 15th the huygens part will split off and try to land on titan.
cheers


julian

 

I watched perfect storm instead, my my it was kak wish I'd have watched saturn.

venice was superb last nite

 

The book of The Perfect Storm is excellent.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3953187.stm

 

First, hazy, pictures of Titan's surface:

http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view_event.php?id=6

Fantastic.

-- Ian

 

Going down on Saturn.

Huygens: the countdown to splashdown.