Grahame Gardner 🏴2/ Now THIS is how you report a rocket launch for the BBC!
https://youtu.be/cCJh5D0FCZk?si=xGMKyZSemkFA1kyZ
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Jon HancockAlmost half a century on, "Connections" remains a masterpiece of television. I found it enthralling when it was first broadcast, despite being too young to follow all of James Burke's arguments, and it still draws me in, forcing me to think even while it entertains.
And nobody has ever been less appropriately attired for farm labour than Burke is here.
BBC Archive: "1978: Could You Survive Without Modern Technology?"
1978: Could You Survive Without Modern Technology? | Connections | BBC Archive
DoomsdaysCWThis is a must-watch for folks today, who are even more #TechnologyDepedent, @wesdym ! Wow!
#KesslerSyndrome #CarringtonEffect #SocietalCollapse #DependenceOnTechnology #OverDependenceOnTechnology #TechnologyTrap #JamesBurke
I remember watching this when it first came out @wesdym! TY for the reminder!
JoeJoeTom (aka Eerie Tom)Just watched my first episode of The #AlexeiSayle Show. Holy cats, he's like the #JamesBurke of comedy.
Likely Jan LukasA pendulum! This jogs my brain to an apparently-random #memory, likely from #JamesBurke's #TheDayTheUniverseChanged series, about how #latitude was easy to determine via the skies, but that #longitude could not be measured until timepieces that did NOT require a #pendulum to drive it were invented.
Pendulum movement isn't very functional on a rolling #ship, after all.
And at that moment, the name of the item
I held and it's purpose snapped vividly to mind: it was a #sextant!
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Pious PeteJames Burke is an historian of technology AND an historian of science #JamesBurke
Science is the human response to Technology #JamesBurke
An artefact-type can evolve morphically or aptitudinally #DLClarke #JamesBurke
@wesdym "Billions and billions and billions..." Yes! Love #CarlSagan and #JamesBurke!