Mars Curiosity

If the BBC would just dedicate one channel to follow this, I could turn my TV back on.

BBC4 does nothing how about using that one?
 
Less said:
If the BBC would just dedicate one channel to follow this, I could turn my TV back on.

BBC4 does nothing how about using that one?
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Can't understand why the BBC have 3 & 4 but they normally only start at 7pm, what a waste of money, your right Less they could dedicated 4 to things like this and make the channel worth while
 
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This is better than sport, I like the scrolling effect lots of interesting links to keep us entertained as well.
:)
 
Less said:
If the BBC would just dedicate one channel to follow this, I could turn my TV back on.
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Oh me too..I'm such a geek about things like this.

But I guess landing a 2000 pound nuclear powered remote controlled car using a jet powered hover crane on a planet 354 million miles away whilst decelerating from 13200mph to 0mph in just 7 minutes just aint as remarkable a human endeavour as someone do a parachute jump dressed as the queen.

Thanks for the horizon link...totally missed that one
 
Guinness said:
Oh me too..I'm such a geek about things like this.

But I guess landing a 2000 pound nuclear powered remote controlled car using a jet powered hover crane on a planet 354 million miles away whilst decelerating from 13200mph to 0mph in just 7 minutes just aint as remarkable a human endeavour as someone do a parachute jump dressed as the queen.

Thanks for the horizon link...totally missed that one
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They could have sent me on ahead, I'd have guided it down, too late now, as usual I was ignored.
:D
 
Guinness said:
Thanks for the horizon link...totally missed that one
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No problem, gives me a chance to explain to Jaysay what BBC4 is spending licence fee on, every documentary shown on Beeb2 will be repeated on there, that's why it's documentary channel of the year, according to whom?
:)

By the way BBC4 is repeating the history of Tetris as we speak, I watched it the first 4 times it was on, will watch again.
 
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Less said:
No problem, gives me a chance to explain to Jaysay what BBC4 is spending licence fee on, every documentary shown on Beeb2 will be repeated on there, that's why it's documentary channel of the year, according to whom?
:)

By the way BBC4 is repeating the history of Tetris as we speak, I watched it the first 4 times it was on, will watch again.
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Works the other way too Less, lots of original documentaries on BBC4 too, and often repeated on BBC2.

Just off to watch the Mars Horizon prog on iPlayer now. Forgot all about it on Monday.
 
susie123 said:
Works the other way too Less, lots of original documentaries on BBC4 too, and often repeated on BBC2.

Just off to watch the Mars Horizon prog on iPlayer now. Forgot all about it on Monday.
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I enjoy BBC4, Just wonder why there is a BBC4?
Comes on at seven in the evening, then around 10 at night they repeat what was on earlier, then again later at night.
Surely with the history of the Beeb, they could do re-runs of many great prog's and keep us interested, but the same one several times on the same night?
A sure sign of overstretching or fudging their (all the Beeb's) budget?
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Here's why BBC4's only on part time:

On the Freeview digital terrestrial platform, BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed stream in Multiplex B that timeshares with the CBeebies channel. As a result, BBC Four broadcasts from 7 pm to about 4 am every day, with an hours down-time and promotions for CBeebies, before CBeebies channel runs from 6 am until 7 pm.

And here's its remit:

It has a schedule dominated by repeats but is required by its licence to broadcast at least 100 hours of new arts and music programmes, 110 hours of new factual programmes and premier 20 international films each year.

Now can I go and watch the Mars programme in peace?
 
Just watched the Horizon prog, very interesting but could have done without the relentless noisy California background. Kept wanting the nice Bristolian Colin Pillinger of Beagle fame to pop up. Just been reading about him & didn't realise he's had MS for the last few years.

As an ex-chemical scientist I was particularly intrigued by the chemistry lab on board the vehicle and the search for organic molecules and rock analysis to determine possible life on Mars in the distant past. We don't have long to find out if it makes touchdown from that rocket powered crane - expected at 6.31am BST next Monday 6 August.
 
"Attempts to land in 4 days. There is one heck of a feat of engineering going in to getting this thing down. Sometimes you just have to take your hat off to the ingenuity of these guys"

IF, IF it works. And that's a big IF. I watched the BBC documentary.

It looks far too complex to me to work. They would have been better off sending a Big Trak with a test tube stuck on the back.
 
ToffeeGuy said:
IF, IF it works. And that's a big IF. I watched the BBC documentary.

It looks far too complex to me to work. They would have been better off sending a Big Trak with a test tube stuck on the back.
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Well I reckon if you can manage to use a keyboard to string a sentence together, they will easily succeed.

By the way, how are the rest of the infinite monkies?
;)
 
Less said:
No problem, gives me a chance to explain to Jaysay what BBC4 is spending licence fee on, every documentary shown on Beeb2 will be repeated on there, that's why it's documentary channel of the year, according to whom?
:)

By the way BBC4 is repeating the history of Tetris as we speak, I watched it the first 4 times it was on, will watch again.
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In that case instead of calling it BBC4 they should just call it Ditto:rolleyes:
 
susie123 said:
Here's why BBC4's only on part time:

On the Freeview digital terrestrial platform, BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed stream in Multiplex B that timeshares with the CBeebies channel. As a result, BBC Four broadcasts from 7 pm to about 4 am every day, with an hours down-time and promotions for CBeebies, before CBeebies channel runs from 6 am until 7 pm.
?
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So Cbeebies which takes a different channel on freeview etc. that could be used by an important sales channel shares with B4 for transmission time, why not just one channel cbeebies during the day adult repeats at night?
 
Less said:
I enjoy BBC4, Just wonder why there is a BBC4?
Comes on at seven in the evening, then around 10 at night they repeat what was on earlier, then again later at night.
Surely with the history of the Beeb, they could do re-runs of many great prog's and keep us interested, but the same one several times on the same night?
A sure sign of overstretching or fudging their (all the Beeb's) budget?
:confused:
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Believe it or not, repeats cost money. Everyone involved in making a programme signs a contract which gets them a fee every time something is reshown. In the 70s and 80s a contract generally allowed for two repeats and two overseas showings but with the age of a thousand digital channels things are a little different, hence there are fewer repeats of older programmes these days.

Some charity programmes can't be reshown at all due to the original terms of the contract.
 
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