Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space

[Deleted User] · 03/03/13 - 21:46

Anyone else looking forward to this. Previously unseen footage apparently. Could be interesting.

"In February, a meteor exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to earth, injuring more than 1,000 people. This documentary includes previously unseen footage of what happened as astrophysicists explain exactly what it was, and the likeliness of it happening again. Plus, Nasa's latest plans to deal with a worst-case scenario and what can be done to defend the planet."

Paace · 03/03/13 - 21:55

I certainly am and it's been shown on BBC2 and Channel4 . Will be interesting to see how they both compare.

Matt35 · 03/03/13 - 23:01

When is it on?

kingofscotland · 03/03/13 - 23:46

CH4 8pm - Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space
BBC2 9pm - The Truth About Meteors: A Horizon Special

[Deleted User] · 03/03/13 - 23:54

Paace wrote: »

I certainly am and it's been shown on BBC2 and Channel4 . Will be interesting to see how they both compare.

oh yea. Horizon. Hadn't noticed that. Thanks for the heads up.

Logan Five · 04/03/13 - 00:50

Recording both.

BellaRosa · 04/03/13 - 01:06

If they didn't know this was coming .. how did they get a camera behind it

zoepaulpenny · 04/03/13 - 01:15

they would have thought they were under attack from the yanks..

jenzie · 04/03/13 - 01:32

will they show the nutjob who thinks it was a UFO that broke it up

Arcana · 04/03/13 - 01:58

A cheery note to end on.

fmradiotuner1 · 04/03/13 - 02:24

Am finding the BBC one more interesting for me.

[Deleted User] · 04/03/13 - 02:34

The presenter is going for the Brian Cox approach. Its not working.

Atlantic · 04/03/13 - 02:36

I'd rather just watch an hour long compilation of Russian car crashes captured on their dash cams.

ganderpoke66 · 04/03/13 - 02:36

I do find that guy's presenting style annoying, does he have to enunciate so slowly, like a Scottish Lllllllooooyddd Grossssssmannnnnn ?

hellsTinkerbell · 04/03/13 - 02:51

Its on right now....on record.
If the meteor landed in Russia.....then they have first dibs on it.
Meteor rock seeming is worth a lot.
I dont know who first said it is....but to be fair...this rock landed in Russia so Russia gets the glory and the Riches.

Paace · 04/03/13 - 02:56

ganderpoke66 wrote: »

I do find that guy's presenting style annoying, does he have to enunciate so slowly, like a Scottish Lllllllooooyddd Grossssssmannnnnn ?

I too find his presenting style annoying. Though Horizon are doing a different slant, I much preferred the C4 documentary .

allafix · 04/03/13 - 03:07

I caught a few minutes of this halfway through as I had been watching Top Gear on timeshift. I found it instantly unwatchable. All that background music and flashy graphics was bad enough but I caught the bit where they showed the UK was on the same latitude and questioned whether it might have hit us instead. Within a minute this was shown to be impossible, so why even bring it up, apart from to add a sensationalist angle.

Horizon is awful these days. I used to avidly watch it in it's heyday, regardless of the subject, because you would always learn something interesting and it was done in a serious way. Now it's superficial, relying on flashy graphics and editing to make a visual impact regardless of the actual content.

hellsTinkerbell · 04/03/13 - 03:10

The thing is the meteor did not hit the uk.
Its Russia's meteor.
Any other country that is showing a tv show about it is full of conjecture.

allafix · 04/03/13 - 03:16

cylob49 wrote: »

The presenter is going for the Brian Cox approach. Its not working.

To be honest I find the Brian Cox approach doesn't really work for Brian Cox either.

[Deleted User] · 04/03/13 - 03:27

BBC won that hands down with an informative and interesting narrative.

solare · 04/03/13 - 03:35

hellsTinkerbell wrote: »

Its on right now....on record.
If the meteor landed in Russia.....then they have first dibs on it.
Meteor rock seeming is worth a lot.
I dont know who first said it is....but to be fair...this rock landed in Russia so Russia gets the glory and the Riches.

I have a piece of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite that fell on 12 Feb 1947 in Siberia. It's only a tiny piece but I love it. It must be a wonderful sight to see a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere.

Valerian · 04/03/13 - 05:10

Atlantic wrote: »

I'd rather just watch an hour long compilation of Russian car crashes captured on their dash cams.

That was something else, wasn't it :eek::D

[Deleted User] · 04/03/13 - 11:05

The actual TV report at the time on the Russian news channel showed far more footage of it. So I was disappointed in this show. We saw little of the local impact or interviews with first hand accounts.
Instead this programme reminded me more of a programme called Goldrush, (about gold miners) on the Discovery channel.
In other words greedy people (er hem, sorry scientists) such as that British woman turning up in the hope of claiming a piece of meteor for themselves.

mike65 · 04/03/13 - 15:57

Watched the C4 programme, interesting enough but as is now re-rigure with this channel and programmes about or related to environment it ends with a tone that suggests whoever commissions these progs is very much "old Testament".

Soyokaze · 04/03/13 - 16:22

Is it me, or was this basically a repeat of an older Horizon programme, with new extra bits about the recent Russian meteorite edited in? I seem to recall having seeing most of it before.

snoweyowl · 04/03/13 - 19:11

I watched the BBC one and also found the presenters and general style very annoying.

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