Invisible Worlds with Richard Hammond

bass_junkie83

bass_junkie83

Suspended / Banned
Messages
4,367
Name
Dave
Edit My Images
Yes
Looks interesting.

The Top Gear presenter examines some of the hidden wonders that lie beyond the limits of the naked eye. In the first programme, Richard explores the world of hidden detail during the time it takes the human eye to blink, and uses high-speed cameras to glimpse one of nature's most fleeting spectacles

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=60784883
 
Just noticed this on the schedule... looks interesting. There's some really spectacular stuff when you see things super slowed down. I remember there being a thread on here about a video which showed the simple way in which a water drop hits a pool of water and how it kind of 'bounces' first before disappearing. I shall be iplayer-ing it later. :)
 
its on BBC HD @ 21-00 as well :clap:
 
Anyone else see it? Simply amazing and definitely one to watch :thumbs:
 
will have it loaded up on the iplayer via ps3 soon............
 
Just caught the last 10 minutes or so as I was flicking channels and spotted some slo-mo splogs in action!!! I'll catch it tomorrow on iPlayer.
 
just watched it myself. Well worth watching... makes you stop and think about how amazing the world actually is.
 
worth watching again, was awesome to watch, especially as an engineer, the section on cavitation was a really valuable illustration
 
I couldn't miss Chelsea having a sulk on Sky Sports but caught bits of it. Looked good - might watch on iplayer in bed if it's on.
 
I think t was an opportunity missed.

I found it rather tedious and laboured while managing to be being lightweight and uninformative at the same time.

I'd have been happier with 45 minuets of seeing how they set up the shots and how Phantoms work and 5 minuets of watching the shots rather than the Hamster wittering on about how water is 'elastic' and seeing some 'good 'ol boys' with gunpowder and some blurred images from a roller-coaster.
 
Last edited:
Did you count how many time he said "with high speed cameras" ?

Some good pictures but dont think it was that well presented.
 
Voyager said:
I think t was an opportunity missed.

I found it rather tedious and laboured while managing to be being lightweight and uninformative at the same time.

I'd have been happier with 45 minuets of seeing how they set up the shots and how Phantoms work and 5 minuets of watching the shots rather than the Hamster wittering on about how water is 'elastic' and seeing some 'good 'ol boys' with gunpowder and some blurred images from a roller-coaster.
Click to expand...

I don't think it was meant to be a techie programme like Horizon, Hamster doesn't carry the weight for such anyway

I thought it was pretty good, and some interesting shots too though most of those things I've seen done before. I did like the horse poo fungi though, but isn't that a wonderful Catch22 scenario!

The programme did remind me too of some wierd 'creatures' unexpectedly captured on film I've seen where these apparently metre long beasties travel so fast we can't see them, but they may be all around us - cue a new Sci-Fi film based on speed :D

DD
 
I sat and watched it last night, out of ths world.
Loved watching the shockwave from the huge gunpowder explosion!
 
robinb said:
Did you count how many time he said "with high speed cameras" ?

Some good pictures but dont think it was that well presented.
Click to expand...

Totall agree there - without Hamster's constant twittering the programme would only have lasted about 30 minutes!

The slow motion footage was fascinating though.
 
Does anyone else find Richard Hammond tiresome when he's not being harangued by Jermey Clarkson?

I can cheerfully watch James May in just about anything, but outside the TG triumvirate, I find The Hamster to be an annoying little tick...
 
So who is going to be the first one to try and capture a shot of a shockwave, what's your keeper rate going to be? :D
 
JUst gave it a view and thought it was a really good show, ok went on for a bit longer than it needed but a good watch :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top