Today has been a day with the heavens in focus. This morning, whilst driving to work, Chris Evans interviewed the great Buzz Aldrin. This man is an 82 year old legend, a genuine hero and worthy of complete respect. Unfortunately, I didn’t think that Chris Evans showed the due respect; he didn’t manage his interview with Buzz as well as he should of done.
To be fair to Chris, Buzz took his time over his answers, didn’t answer in sound bites and didn’t really answer some questions at all, but that meant Chris managed the interview in a slightly heavy handed way and was a bit dismissive, and even condescending, in his efforts to constrain the piece to a limited time slot. That was a real shame in my opinion – Evans is usually so much more professional. The interview would probably have worked better if it had been pre-recorded.
The next heavenly focus was care of Felix Baumgartner – I can’t decide if this man is a hero or a lunatic. Like many around the world I have been waiting with anticipation to see his jump from 36.5 kilometres high. I have watched the CGI representation and have watched his practice leaps as well. The thing is though, I am really quite nervous for this man. He is taking a huge risk in breaking the sound barrier with his own body whilst approaching a descent speed of 700 miles per hour, and there is no guarantee that he’ll survive the fall even with his high tech space suit.
The jump is unlikely to take place until Thursday now and so the wait goes on a little longer. I pray that Felix doesn’t kill himself - his body will be wired with all sorts of monitoring devices and, if the jump goes wrong, it will all be recorded in truly horrifying detail and then no-doubt broadcast around the world. If he succeeds of course, he will be a modern superhero but I am not sure the risks are worth it.
The last heavenly focus for today is the northern lights. The aurora borealis has been visible to those in the northern most points of the country and the pictures on the BBC have been spectacular. I have never seen the lights before, live too far south and I am envious of those that have the opportunity.
Seeing the lights is one of the things on my list of ‘must experience’ before I die. Hopefully I’ve still got plenty of time to fit them in, fingers crossed that the same applies to Felix.
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To be fair to Chris, Buzz took his time over his answers, didn’t answer in sound bites and didn’t really answer some questions at all, but that meant Chris managed the interview in a slightly heavy handed way and was a bit dismissive, and even condescending, in his efforts to constrain the piece to a limited time slot. That was a real shame in my opinion – Evans is usually so much more professional. The interview would probably have worked better if it had been pre-recorded.
The next heavenly focus was care of Felix Baumgartner – I can’t decide if this man is a hero or a lunatic. Like many around the world I have been waiting with anticipation to see his jump from 36.5 kilometres high. I have watched the CGI representation and have watched his practice leaps as well. The thing is though, I am really quite nervous for this man. He is taking a huge risk in breaking the sound barrier with his own body whilst approaching a descent speed of 700 miles per hour, and there is no guarantee that he’ll survive the fall even with his high tech space suit.
The jump is unlikely to take place until Thursday now and so the wait goes on a little longer. I pray that Felix doesn’t kill himself - his body will be wired with all sorts of monitoring devices and, if the jump goes wrong, it will all be recorded in truly horrifying detail and then no-doubt broadcast around the world. If he succeeds of course, he will be a modern superhero but I am not sure the risks are worth it.
The last heavenly focus for today is the northern lights. The aurora borealis has been visible to those in the northern most points of the country and the pictures on the BBC have been spectacular. I have never seen the lights before, live too far south and I am envious of those that have the opportunity.
Seeing the lights is one of the things on my list of ‘must experience’ before I die. Hopefully I’ve still got plenty of time to fit them in, fingers crossed that the same applies to Felix.
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