Science Richard Feynman broadcast on BBC

[Notebook]

18 September at 20:00 BST on Radio 4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11299244

Not sure if it will be available ouside UK.

You may have known him from this:

N.

 

[BrianJ]

Always interested to hear anything by Mr.Feynman!

Program is available online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ts5mm

and will be repeated tomorrow on BBC Radio4 at 3.00pm (UK)

More Feynman stuff on BBC archives:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/

 

[Keatah]

why is he talking about a piece of rubber?

 

[NukeET]

why is he talking about a piece of rubber?

Space Shuttle Challenger's last flight.

 

[lennartsmit]

why is he talking about a piece of rubber?

I think he's talking about the o-ring that was in the shuttle-SRB during the Challenger-disaster. Could somebody confirm and/or explain it a bit more?

Edit:Ninja'd

 

[Woo482]

I'll just copy this from Wikipedia

The failure of an O-ring seal was determined to be the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. A contributing factor was cold weather prior to the launch. This was famously demonstrated on television by Caltech physics professor Richard Feynman, when he placed a small O-ring into ice-cold water, and subsequently showed its loss of pliability before an investigative committee.

 

[garyw]

full details about Challenger, the O-Ring and more can be seen in this documentary.

 

[Keatah]

I thought youtube vids could only be 10 minutes ?? and here we got a great 45 minute show!

 

[garyw]

User uploaded videos can only be 10 minutes. There are some people that have agreements in place with youtube and can upload entire TV shows.