Richard Hammonds Invisible Worlds
Richard Hammonds Invisible Worlds
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madbadger

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11,729 posts

267 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Apart from the fact he 'owes' most of us £20 the trailer for this looks very good.

On tonight at 21:00 BBC1.

guide said:
New series: 1/3. Speed Limits: Using state of the art technology. RH goes beyond the limits of the naked eye and explores the secrets of the invisible world around us.
smile

Jonny671

29,775 posts

212 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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This is very good actually! biggrin

Good work from the BBC Science team recently.

MiniMan64

18,868 posts

213 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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This is pretty good stuff, interesting and well put together and Hammond only mildly annonying for once! wink

Mike 820

570 posts

210 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Enjoying it so far. I can only hope they do something with cars. Combustion process etc....

standfree93

3,001 posts

210 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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That was a brilliant program!

robinhood21

31,009 posts

255 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Did I miss something? biggrin

As said, another fascinating film by the BBC. Most enjoyable and, look forward to more of the same from Auntie.

JB!

5,255 posts

203 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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seen the sprites & shockwaves before, but some brilliant TV right there.

Martin Keene

11,045 posts

248 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Superb program. Slightly over used the phrase 'now with the help of new high speed camera', but that's nit picking.

I look forward to the next two.

khevolution

1,594 posts

218 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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I saw the advert for this, but completely forgot about it, will have to catch up with it on Iplayer

FM

5,816 posts

243 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Enjoyed the show, I hope this is the kind of flavour of new programming that the BBC is pulling out the bag to counter the criticisms over the lack lustre daytime schedule & huge spending.
Bravo..

oobster

7,574 posts

234 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Very interesting show, and I was surprised I didn't want to throw the remote at the telly at any point like I do when Hammond is on TG.

I liked the bit about the bubbles damaging the propellor - can't remember the name of the effect though, starts with C?

Edited by oobster on Tuesday 16th March 22:43

FM

5,816 posts

243 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Cavitation.

kiteless

12,370 posts

227 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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Cavitation.

The lightning thing was a little misleading, as a lightning bolt always travels upwards in every electrical storm.


BliarOut

72,863 posts

262 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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THAT is why we pay the license fee.

Shaw Tarse

31,836 posts

226 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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When is it repeated?
Sunday BBC2?

freecar

4,249 posts

210 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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My family must have been in ther minority here then.

I (and my parents) thought it was dumbed down, factually inaccurate and repetitive.

I get it, high speed cameras make slow motion footage. How about some comparisons then? How about how many frames a second is required to capture certain things. That way we can actually compare these incredibly fast things in some kind of quantitive manner. But no it's just a really, really fast camera that makes "cool" videos.

Were it not screened late I would have thought it as kids TV like bang goes the theory.

Uhura_Fighter

7,018 posts

206 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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freecar said:
My family must have been in ther minority here then.

I (and my parents) thought it was dumbed down, factually inaccurate and repetitive.

I get it, high speed cameras make slow motion footage. How about some comparisons then? How about how many frames a second is required to capture certain things. That way we can actually compare these incredibly fast things in some kind of quantitive manner. But no it's just a really, really fast camera that makes "cool" videos.

Were it not screened late I would have thought it as kids TV like bang goes the theory.
yes


I switched it off, should have been on cbbc.

BliarOut

72,863 posts

262 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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So the fantastic state of the art photography did nothing for you two then?

Piersman2

6,675 posts

222 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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freecar said:
My family must have been in ther minority here then.

I (and my parents) thought it was dumbed down, factually inaccurate and repetitive.

I get it, high speed cameras make slow motion footage. How about some comparisons then? How about how many frames a second is required to capture certain things. That way we can actually compare these incredibly fast things in some kind of quantitive manner. But no it's just a really, really fast camera that makes "cool" videos.

Were it not screened late I would have thought it as kids TV like bang goes the theory.
Errr... I distinctly recall him mentioning for virually all the films what rate they were filming at, e.g. 40x, or 100x or even 200x I believe.

You've only got to times these by roughly 25 to get the frame rates if that's the info you need.

I thought it an excellent program. A bit dumbed maybe but still some very interesting vidoes particularly for me the shock wave.


Uhura_Fighter

7,018 posts

206 months

Tuesday 16th March 2010
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BliarOut said:
So the fantastic state of the art photography did nothing for you two then?
Can't speak for the other poster and I didn't see all the show.

The photography was good, (fantastic as you say) though some shots have been seen already. It was Hammond I didn't like, reminded me of that science kids show Blast Lab. I would have continued to watch it if the presenter was somone else e.g. Brian Cox.

The Beeb can't please eveyone all the time, I am glad some enjoyed it.