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posted 19-03-2010 13:02

 
Hofzinser wrote:
Cox has had a pretty fantastic life, hasn't he?

He's 42, you know. His splendid life may account for the fact that he looks more like 24.

Anyway, cracking series.
 
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posted 06-04-2010 12:05

 
Yeah, I liked this a lot. Good old BBC.
 
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posted 06-04-2010 12:21

 
Wonders of the Fucking Solar System

I like the comment on the b3ta board: "He is enthusiastic, but sounds like a stoned northerner telling you about a brilliant cake shop he's found... rather than the marvels of the universe."
 
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posted 06-04-2010 13:00

 
heh

That's a compliment, right?
 
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posted 07-04-2010 08:40

 
I loved the latest one, about the possibility of alien life in the solar system.

The stuff about life thriving in the most inhospitable places on earth (deep sea, glacial ice or sulphur-filled caves) is amazing enough, but it's the outside possibility of subterranean life on Mars at a microbe level (hinted at by the seasonal release of... was it methane or sulphur? from beneath the surface) and the rather higher likelihood of bacterial life on Jupiter's moon Europa (suggested by the pinkish lines along its icy surface) that really blows my mind.

Jonathan Ross played dumb when interviewing Cox the other week, saying he wants little men in hats with lazer guns, not microbes... but that's plenty good enough for me.
 
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posted 07-04-2010 10:32

 
One point about Mars and methane I don't recall Cox making is that methane doesn't hang around in the atmosphere very long. It gets broken down by UV light in a geological instant. So the stuff on Mars couldn't be from ancient volcanic activity. It would have to be recent, undetected geological activity or life, or a completely unknown process.

the rather higher likelihood of bacterial life on Jupiter's moon Europa (suggested by the pinkish lines along its icy surface) that really blows my mind.

I think that part was overplayed. It was just one scientist's opinion that the colouration was indicative of life, without any real supporting evidence. We certainly have good reason to believe life could survive on (well, in) Europa if it got started, but there's still the question of getting it started. We still have no idea whatsoever as to the probabilities of abiogenesis, and only weakly supported hypotheses as to the mechanisms.
 
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posted 09-04-2010 00:18

 
He's okay. No Carl Sagan, but who is?
 
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