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[cheesey_toastie]

According to Twitter Saturday Midday.

Neil - better stick D-REAM on the rumours list too!

[The Nal]

Presume Brian Cox will be going to unnecessarily extravagant lengths to explain whatever relatively simple event hes involved in? Performing his Peel tent act from the Gobi desert or something.

[ukslim]

The Nal, on 06 May 2011 - 04:23 PM, said:

Presume Brian Cox will be going to unnecessarily extravagant lengths to explain whatever relatively simple event hes involved in? Performing his Peel tent act from the Gobi desert or something.

You can't be as extravagant as that at Glastonbury. But he will be leaving .... pauses at.... peculiar moments in every sentence. And there will be.... stirring music.

[The Nal]

ukslim, on 06 May 2011 - 04:32 PM, said:

You can't be as extravagant as that at Glastonbury. But he will be leaving .... pauses at.... peculiar moments in every sentence. And there will be.... stirring music.

That's what I........thought.

[Icewulf]

And at random points he will make nonsensical comparisons just to dumb it down for the rest of us like:
"Glastonbury festival is a little bit like this pebble..."

[LusciousLucy]

Marvellous. My inner geek shall be happy as it often is for some reason at around midday on a Saturday at the G. Have attended previous sciency lectures at this time in the past couple of years.

[bumpy_capers]

Icewulf, on 06 May 2011 - 05:56 PM, said:

And at random points he will make nonsensical comparisons just to dumb it down for the rest of us like:
"Glastonbury festival is a little bit like this pebble..."

Only infinitely more massive and on a scale we can barely imagine ...

[cortezuk]

Professor Cox for those who didn"t know was a rocker before he was in D-Ream and became a physicist!  He was keyboard player with '90s band Dare - check them out and think of them next time you see him banging on about our planet!!

[halvin]

cortezuk, on 06 May 2011 - 09:52 PM, said:

Professor Cox for those who didn"t know was a rocker before he was in D-Ream and became a physicist!  He was keyboard player with '90s band Dare - check them out and think of them next time you see him banging on about our planet!!

You learn something new every day.

To save people watching too much of the video, this what he looked like: http://www.heavyharm... of the Silence

[J1mbo]

I met him today. Lovely chap.

Total Rock God now too - couldn't move for teenage girls eager to tell him about how they've just enrolled as Physics students.

Science is now sexy.

[james.redfern.88]

Science has always been sexy
This is exciting news, this man is a legend and Glastonbury Is THE place for legends, so it's perfect!

J1mbo, on 06 May 2011 - 11:51 PM, said:

I met him today. Lovely chap.

Total Rock God now too - couldn't move for teenage girls eager to tell him about how they've just enrolled as Physics students.

Science is now sexy.

[Mardy]

Meh, Unless Melvin Bragg is headlining the Pyramid with a live recording of 'In Our Time', I'm not interested.

[fraz]

halvin, on 06 May 2011 - 10:10 PM, said:

You learn something new every day.

To save people watching too much of the video, this what he looked like: http://www.heavyharm... of the Silence

I believe he helped with the Hadron Collider. I might be wrong about 90% sure

[Superscally]

Most. Irritating............man. On the............planet.

[fowls]

Bah! Biology > Physics.

I might try and catch it though. Monkey Cage can be funny sometimes.

Edited by fowls, 07 May 2011 - 12:53 PM.

[ukslim]

fowls, on 07 May 2011 - 12:52 PM, said:

Bah! Biology > Physics.

Biology ∈ Physics

[123ginge]

fowls, on 07 May 2011 - 12:52 PM, said:

Bah! Biology > Physics.

I might try and catch it though. Monkey Cage can be funny sometimes.

Physics> Chemistry> Kid A> Biology

Edited by 123ginge, 07 May 2011 - 01:40 PM.

[pehaw]

So Proff Cox is only one step away from Thin Lizzy.

[Cooter]

ukslim, on 06 May 2011 - 04:32 PM, said:

But he will be leaving .... pauses at.... peculiar moments in every sentence. And there will be.... stirring music.

while he obsessivly grins like a mental noncey child catcher on pills!

[123ginge]