Okay get this. Has anyone seen this programme, Tiny Planets? It's about five minutes long, it's on every day at like quarter to four on CITV.
There's these two little guys, right, named Bing and Bong, although I don't know which is which. One of them looks like an albino version of Zippy out of Rainbow, and the other reminds me of Bungle, probably by association. They're on this sofa, and it's attached to this fuckoff massive catapult that shoots them off to some other place every time.
So they go off in this sofa which is attached to their home by a long piece of elastic, and they fly through space and when they reach the place they've aimed at they harpoon themselves to it. Then they jump off onto some little planety thing and, after messing about for around a minute or so, they fix something, for no real reason.
For example today they were on this planet and Zippyesque had this balloon and it lifted him off the ground and he floated around for a bit until it burst and he fell into a pond, in fact into one of those floating doughnut-shaped lilo things that Bunglesque had brought, and deftly thrown right underneath him. Then they proceeded to fix the shower system being used by a queue of planet natives, which was pouring its water down a drain and not back into the water supply, and making the lake dry up.
Then then leave. This involves getting back into the sofa and cutting the rope that attaches them, and then they hurtle backwards, get back home and go to bed.
As you can tell it's fucking bizarre, it's like why the hell are they doing this... but it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, it's all in gorgeous 3d animation, and so unbelievably cute you can't help but love it. I mean I thought all kids TV was crap but woah. <3<3<3
> Okay get this. Has anyone seen this programme, Tiny Planets? It's > about five minutes long, it's on every day at like quarter to four on > CITV.
> There's these two little guys, right, named Bing and Bong, although I > don't know which is which.
> So they go off in this sofa which is attached to their home by a long > piece of elastic, and they fly through space and when they reach the > place they've aimed at they harpoon themselves to it. Then they jump > off onto some little planety thing and, after messing about for > around a minute or so, they fix something, for no real reason.
they're heros of the universe (as the theme song says), that should be reason enough
> Then then leave. This involves getting back into the sofa and cutting > the rope that attaches them, and then they hurtle backwards, get back > home and go to bed.
I saw it a few times when I was a lazy masters student, and also in the limbo period waiting to do my PhD. The best one I saw was the one with a see-saw and levers, where they tried to use the see-saw and couldn't because one was bigger, then tried lifting something, discovered that the lever allowed them to move things easier or harder depending on where they put the rock pivot. Then they got on the see saw, but with the little one nearer the middle, and see-sawed away happily, before going home. It was beautiful and fun, and showed simple physics in a great way, and one that kids could understand too. Fantastic. Really Great Program!!! :-)
> I saw it a few times when I was a lazy masters student, and also in the > limbo period waiting to do my PhD. The best one I saw was the one with > a see-saw and levers, where they tried to use the see-saw and couldn't > because one was bigger, then tried lifting something, discovered that > the lever allowed them to move things easier or harder depending on > where they put the rock pivot. Then they got on the see saw, but with > the little one nearer the middle, and see-sawed away happily, before > going home. It was beautiful and fun, and showed simple physics in a > great way, and one that kids could understand too. Fantastic. Really > Great Program!!! :-)
Shouldn't it have been the big one nearer the middle?
> "Martin Eyles" <martin.ey...@bigfoot.removethis.com> wrote in message > news:D1ez9.270$5r1.46882@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net... >> I saw it a few times when I was a lazy masters student, and also in >> the limbo period waiting to do my PhD. The best one I saw was the >> one with a see-saw and levers, where they tried to use the see-saw >> and couldn't because one was bigger, then tried lifting something, >> discovered that the lever allowed them to move things easier or >> harder depending on where they put the rock pivot. Then they got on >> the see saw, but with the little one nearer the middle, and see- >> sawed away happily, before going home. It was beautiful and fun, and >> showed simple physics in a great way, and one that kids could >> understand too. Fantastic. Really Great Program!!! :-)
> Shouldn't it have been the big one nearer the middle?
You're right - it was. Shows how much physics you remember after being graduated for just over a year.
ME
ps. speaking of graduation - my second one (MSc Informatics & Control - Coventry University) is today (11th) in Coventry Cathedral. I wonder how much of that I'll remeber in a years time - hopefully all of at, as I'll need it.
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