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Already programmed into Sky+
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Its about time something decent was on TV again. Thanks for the reminder!
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Look forward to it.
Await "Top Gear responsible for global warming, flood, etc " headlines tomorrow!
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>>Its about time something decent was on TV again>>
You've not been watching James May's 20th Century series then...:-)
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The Polar Special was great entertainment, despite the obvious backup - hats off to the team.
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Either I misread the sat nav screen or the shots were not taken at the Pole. I am sure that they got there but the screen I saw, 3 times, and about which there was all the elation was 78*N not 90*N. Perhaps what I saw was their start point. Any way, great camera work, great physical endurance and fairly awful music, particularly in the last 15 minutes - wailing choirs! Not my taste
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Was brilliant. I must say I couldn't see myself going there anytime soon. Give me the south of France anyday!
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I thought it was hilarious entertainment - especially when the bolt froze to JC lips.
Another great advert for Toyota as well.
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Excellent TG special, I especially liked the toilet-attachment on their Toyota. Looking forward to the next series!
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especially when the bolt froze to JC lips.
He called it a bolt too, but he had an excuse being in pain and unable to see it.
It was a nut.
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"all the elation was 78*N"
I wondered that, too. There wasn't even a pole...
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There wasn't even a pole...
Yeah, I distinctly remember Winnie The Pooh leaving one there following one of his 'expotitions', and can only deduce that they went to the wrong place. Fantastic show though, although I'm surprised they didn't show Hammond getting there.
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Winner Takes All?
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Bumper Dumper?..........haven't laughed so much in ages
and that mangled shock absorber looked well knackered
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I think thet may have travelled to the Magnetic North Pole, which apparenty does tend to wander around the Arctic region on a yearly basis. That may explain the 78 degree latitude on the sat-nav.
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According to that "accurate" website Wikipedia, magnetic north was 82.7° N 114.4° W in 2005. But ...
(2001) 81.3° N 110.8° W
(2004 est) 82.3° N 113.4° W
(2005 est) 82.7° N 114.4° W
So would it be 78 degree lat in 2007?
I think they cheated and did not go there when the ice got thin. I'd phone the Beeb but do not trust the phone lines ;-) One reason for thinking "cheat" is they are sat on the ice with no protection to the face - it will have been many degrees below freezing. Maybe it was all at Resolute.
My employer sponsored the Polar Challenge a couple years ago (Fujitsu) and we sent an engineer (ex forces) to support IT. TV series showed how difficult it really was.
Entertaining but still do not think it was real. Especially as the risks were real and H&S would have said no.
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Having said I don't believe it.... could they have gone to the Geomagnetic North Pole and not the magnetic one? In 2005 this was at 79.74° N 71.78° W and now drifting towards Siberia.
Still think too dangerous to really do.
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heres the link i forgot to put on my other post Doh!!
deeptow.whoi.edu/northpole.html
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Interesting to know how they got on doing the return journey.
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They were only round the corner from Resolute. Probably walked to a hotel every night ;-)
In a straight line Resolute to their target GPS coordinates is about 316 miles. The north pole was another 700+miles away. So they might have been the first to drive to magnetic north which is always changing so nobody can do the same as it will have moved.
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According to this site:
www.allthingsarctic.com/northpole/index.aspx
Then magentic north currently 78°18' North and 104° West so the show with N 78° 35' 7" W104° 11' 9" ever so slighltly out but it will have moved again. So I stand corrected. But still do not think they did it.
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rtj70 - thanks for your input! I used to use maps and inertial nav systems for a living and I am confident that the true, static Gegraphical North Pole is at 90*N and stays there! The comments you and others have made about the Megnetic Pole are entirely correct - it moves all the time and is not necessarily that near to the geographic North Pole at any time. Perhaps it was that Pole that they went to and all the fuss was about. Anyway, good entertainment and, if they got to wherever they got to on 'fumes' how did they get back?
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Who cares? It was good entertainment.
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"Interesting to know how they got on doing the return journey."
Suspect they were picked up by plane and left the Icelandic support to drive back.
Enjoyed the show. Must remember that it was only a show. Impressed by Hamster's running alongside the dogs. There was something in the tabloids this week about him running 16 miles home after getting stuck in the floods .....
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It's all happening at the north pole. One week there's enough water to swim 100 yards in, the next the ice is thick enough to support a team of 4X4s.
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Ok I suppose, for a pretend adventure. In all those shots, especially the 'thin ice' sequence, we have to remember that the Icelanders will have tested it & tried it before our intrepid explorers did. But who oh why, oh why does Clarkson have to make such a fetish around 'not being able to do stuff' ? I think it's a sort of 'class' thing - he likes to generate an image of the helpless but effortlessly superior aristocrat: ' I have a little man to do that - I don't have to' vibe. Luckily, his little men or Icelanders in this case, managed to dig him out of trouble after the numerous little-boy-stamping-his-trucculent-foot episodes - I thought May's cold eyed displeasure at his antics were genuine in this case.
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The RSPCA will be onto this as well, complaining about the woman beating the huskies. They probably dont realise that when a team of them kicks off for a rumble, if you dont have a stick or whip you could end up as dog food.
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One couldn't help feeling that the 'Icelandic mechanics' and Richard Hammond's dog woman were the real unsung heroes of the thing. Funny in places though.
Wonder what the programme cost?
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I did feel genuinely sorry for Jezza when he got pushed into that hole in the ice.
I was suprised they could expose bare skin at the reported minus 30 degrees, but Top Gear have a habit of doing things properly (ie the channel crossing, resurfacing a road, jet powered cars etc). If they shot fake episodes, and it ever got out, their reputation (if they have one) would be ruined. So I think this was genuine.
As for the huskies, they must have pretty thick fur, so I doubt the whip hurt them too much. I'm sure the Canadian lady knows far more about the wellbeing of her dogs than an average RSPCA officer though.
I can't wait for the new series this Autumn
Ian
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For anyone who missed it, it's being repeated on BBC2, at 8pm on Sunday.
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As said above, great entertainment, but G.O.K. what order it was shot in.
If you watch the repeat, keep an eye out for the little red glass hammer in the centre of the roof of their truck... now you see it, now you don't... etc. etc.
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I watched the Polar Special last night.
I was laughing out loud!
The dog team woman must be someone special.
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Saw it last week, but missed some due to interruptions and watched the repeat. Both me and my wife enjoyed it - who cares if it's a set up, badly edited etc etc, it's en enterntainment show not a factual documentary. As for the Mail I have just been in a household who buys this rag every day - the editor should be up for inciting racial hatred.
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Does anyone know the story of the crashed aircraft that they came across?
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Do a Google on Arctic Air Crash......found a good contender straight away......if i knew how to post a link i would have done...:-)
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If you go to the top of the Discussion page, have a look at the TINYUrl information.
One you have installed TINYUrl, all that is required is to convert a URL to a TINYUrl and copy and paste it into your posting.
Takes about five seconds.
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aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=1949100...1
sadly - I think I've found it....The DC3/C47 that is.
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www.oldwings.nl/content/c47_yic/c47.htm
Another link.
And a quote from that page.
The wreck of 43-16062 was briefly shown in an episode of the BBC programme "Top Gear", aired on 25 July 2007. Information from several other sources revealed that the shown C-47 footage was filmed on 02 May 2007.
Not surprisingly, the footage showed that the condition of the wreck had not changed much since 2006. In 2006 it only had a few bullet holes in the USAF star insignia on the left side, but this footage also showed several in the insignia on the right side, which must have been added during the past year. Slow vandalism continues, unfortunately.
Thanks
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