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BBC R4 - Frontiers 2

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BBC R4 - Four space related documentaries

BBC R4 - Gravity Probe B

Broadcast April 23, 2003

BBC Blurb

In 1916 Einstein first put forward his general theory of relativity.

Now, nearly 90 years later, physicists are finally getting ready to

put Einstein to the test. Gravity Probe B is a satellite containing

some of the most precise measuring devices ever built. It has been

more than 40 years in the making, cost over 600 million dollars, and

has needed to invent a dozen completely new technologies in order to

make it happen.

Not only has the financial investment been huge, but it has been a

life time’s work for many of the scientists involved, including Francis

Everitt, the chief scientist on the mission. Everitt has dedicated 42

years to Gravity Probe B and hopes this year will finally see his life’s

work come to fruition with the Probe’s launch. This extraordinary experiment

is set to reveal once and for all whether Einstein’s brilliant predictions

about the Universe were in fact correct. But as the September launch date

draws nearer, NASA has just ordered a last minute review on the project

and its very survival hangs in the balance.

Peter Evans visits Stanford University - the home of Gravity Probe B - to

find out how this extraordinary experiment came to be, why it has taken so

long and why the plug may be pulled at the last minute. The project has had

some of the greatest minds in physics working on it, but just why has it taken

nearly 90 years to get even close to testing Einstein’s landmark theory?

NB Gravity Probe B launched April 20, 2004

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BBC R4 - The Goldilocks Planet

Broadcast August 21, 2005

BBC Blurb

Ten years ago the first "solar-system-like" planet was discovered,

but it was too close to it's parent-star and so too hot to sustain

life. Now more and more candidates for extra-terrestrial life are

being found, and the disparate worlds of sci-fi fan and astro-physicist

are in danger of collision. So if the arguments about first contact

and non-intervention have been rehearsed in film, in literature and

on television, is it really possible that William Shatner once spoke

of the secrets of the cosmos?

The picturesque setting of Castel Gandolfo, nestling on the lip of a

burnt-out volcano in the mountains south of Rome, is the setting for

a gathering of scientists. And for Christians in particular, astrobiology

has a particularly bizarre set of questions. How does their understanding

of the salvation offered by Jesus Christ change when alien life is discovered?

To put it crudely, if God sent us his only son, who, if anyone, did he send to

51 Pegasi, an earth-like planet many light years away?

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BBC R4 - SETI

Broadcast November 30, 2005

BBC Blurb

The SETI institute in California is dedicated to the search

for extraterrestrial intelligence. It's a serious scientific

endeavour that is about to get a big boost with a new, cutting

edge telescope that experts are predicting could stumble across

ET within the next 25 years - if he, she or it is out there.

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BBC R4 - Mission To Mars

Broadcast May 5, 2008

BBC Blurb

Richard Hollingham reports from the Institute of Biomedical Problems

in Moscow. Drawing on their expertise in space endurance, scientists

at the Institute are planning to simulate a mission to Mars.

Early next year, six cosmonauts will enter a simulated spacecraft and stay

there for 500 days. Called Mars-500, scientists hope that the simulation

will provide them with valuable psychological and physiological information

about how a crew might withstand the rigours of such a long space flight.

Richard meets Inessa Kozlovskaya, one of the world’s leading authorities

on the physiological effects of weightlessness. Under Inessa’s watchful eye,

Richard is strapped into a horizontal treadmill. Without regular load-bearing

exercise in space, cosmonauts’ bodies are unable to withstand the stress of

returning to Earth’s gravity after prolonged weightlessness.

Kevin Fong from University College London tells Richard more about the

psychological pressures on astronauts taking part in endurance missions.

Richard also visits the Institute of Space Science in Moscow. He talks

to Russian space scientist Anatoli Petrukovich about the dangers of prolonged

exposure to cosmic rays. Two Italian space scientists, Livio Narici and Marco

Casolino, both from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, assess the dangers of

cosmic radiation and how best to protect astronauts from its worst effects.

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	BBC R4 - Gravity Probe B.mp3	26.5 MB
	BBC R4 - Mission To Mars.mp3	26.4 MB
	BBC R4 - SETI.mp3	26 MB
	BBC R4 - The Goldilocks Planet.mp3	25.7 MB
	Front2.txt	4.6 KB
	gravity-probe-b.jpeg	224.1 KB
	th-3189415486.jpg	65.5 KB

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