TA on the radio

[Trapezium Artist]

For those of you in the east of England, you might be interested in tuning in to this Sunday's edition of The Naked Scientists radio show between 18:00 and 19:00. The topic this week will be "Making Planets", and I will contributing via phone from Holland, wearing my day job hat (or should that be, as an astronomer, my night job hat?   )

It'll be live, so feel free to listen in and witness the high-wire act of me trying to think up potty analogies for scientific phenomena in real time, which often ends up with me talking my way into a dead end, up the Khyber pass without a Kalashnikov ...  :shock: It'll be available as a podcast thereafter for those of you living elsewhere.

//http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

If nothing else, it'll be a good warm-up to the new episode of Doctor Who, "The Waters of Mars", which follows immediately after at 19:00. Particularly because I spent a couple of hours this morning in the Mars Express satellite control room at ESOC in Germany, albeit paying more attention to the control console across the room for Rosetta, our comet-chasing mission, which had a close flyby past the Earth today.

[catherine]

So what will you be wearing, for this Naked Scientists radio show?  :shock:

[Trapezium Artist]

So what will you be wearing, for this Naked Scientists radio show?  :shock:

Since it's the radio, I'll be wearing exactly whatever you wish to imagine me to be wearing (or not), Catherine. And you'll be entirely to answer for it ...  

[catherine]

Something like this, then? (but minus the cigarette)

[Trapezium Artist]

Something like this, then? (but minus the cigarette)

OMG (as my children might say), how did you guess?

Oh, I forgot: it's your fantasies that radio allows you to fulfil, not mine ...  :lol:

[Mouse]

:shock: Ye gods - it's still there when I close my eyes!

Anyways, best of luck for the broadcast TA.  

[Trapezium Artist]

:shock: Ye gods - it's still there when I close my eyes!

Anyways, best of luck for the broadcast TA.  

Thanks, Mouse ... I suggest you ask Catherine for some eye-and-brain bleach: not a pretty sight, is it?  :shock:

[rogerg]

:shock: Ye gods - it's still there when I close my eyes!

Anyways, best of luck for the broadcast TA.  

heh  that made me laugh, Mouse!

and yes, TA, have a grand time!!

[catherine]

Did anyone else hear TA talking dirty on the radio last weekend then?

("Geocentric model" and "heliocentric model" and "conservation of angular momentum" indeed... well, we all know what THAT means!)  :shock:

The podcast of the show (and individual interviews) can be found here.

[Trapezium Artist]

Did anyone else hear TA talking dirty on the radio last weekend then?

("Geocentric model" and "heliocentric model" and "conservation of angular momentum" indeed... well, we all know what THAT means!)  :shock:

The podcast of the show (and individual interviews) can be found here.

Thanks, Catherine, although I'm afraid I wasn't especially thrilled with how it went. I'd been told we'd have about 10-15 minutes and we'd agreed I'd start with some of the more historical perspective on how stars and planets form. However, we'd only got part way through that and barely into how we study the topic today, what the problems are, and where we're going, before they apologetically cut me off after (what seemed like) less than 5 minutes ...  

So, I don't know how it came across; probably a bit disjointed and incomplete, but ...

As for conservation of angular momentum, well, I'm not quite sure what you thought I was talking dirty about, although I suspect it has more do with linear momentum, unless you're a pair of hamsters ...