Fail: Reporter Laments Lack of Meteors Despite One Streaking Behind Him
- Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:18pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Right place, right time, but looking the wrong way.
It must not have been Mark Thompson’s night. The BBC reporter got stuck reporting on meteor shower during a cloudy night for the show “Stargazing Live.” Naturally, he couldn’t seem to find any meteors. In fact, he even started complaining to studio hosts that there’s “not much to be seen at the moment.” There’s just one problem: seconds before uttering those words, a bright meteor can be seen streaking across his right shoulder (about six seconds into the video below):
The Daily Mail says the hosts eventually informed Thompson of what happened:
Host duo Dara O’Briain and Brian Cox revisited the gaffe later on in the show when viewers had emailed and tweeted in to tell show producers what they had missed.
O’Briain confirmed the shooting star was in fact a meteor from the Quadrantid meteor shower.
He then crossed back over to an embarrassed Mr Thompson, who admitted his blunder.
He said: ‘I must admit I was oblivious to it, I think I‘m probably the only person in the entire country who didn’t see it.’
(H/T: Gamma Squad via FARK)
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gs425
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:48amMark “Bagdad Bob” Thompson.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 4:22amThe guy was too busy smiling for the camera. CHEESE!
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:12pmLol, that was funny XD.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:57pmSo funny.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:07pmWhat? That The Blaze is desperate enough to run this story?
Agreed.
It seems ******** is the only news site that has truly lived up to its name so far.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:02pm“Fail”… yet another example of using a verb as a noun. Nice journalistic chops… this didn’t warrant the “epic” tag? Writing like a frat boy blogging his opinion of the latest comic book movie isn’t exactly the best way to build credibility. The word is “failure”… hell, I’d accept “failing”. Using a verb as a noun is what allows jerks to call people “retards.”
Report Post »Failure: Imposing tech jargon and lingo upon the general population.
Write the language as if your job depends on your skill… because it damn well should.
bs2722
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:01pmHe doesn’t realize that God gave him 2 eyes an only one mouth… so that he can look twice as much as he can talk.
Report Post »Bill May
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:02pmOur lame stream media can’t see all the lame brain commies streaking in frontt of them. This guy is clueless. Our lame stream people media people are dangerous.
Report Post »Ashrak
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:00pmKarma.
Report Post »Col. HawK
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:36pmHahahaa… The Lord has a Great sense of humor, don’t cha think!… Just goes to show, He’s always there, even when you’re not looking…. Heheheeee
Report Post »KbJockey
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:20pmWe NEED the state run media to provide these “Star Gazing” programs for the couch potatoes that are either too drunk, stoned, or lazy to get out to see in in real life.
You know the Obama voters that are still expecting him to pay their mortgage and pay for gas for their car.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:15pmI blame Bush!
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:06pmYES… I agree it was all Bush’s doing!
Report Post »simple thought
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:01pmi’d rather see a bbc journalist look stupid than my president,
Report Post »obama has missed alot more than a falling rock, sadly
clockwatcher
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:56pmThis is just like the democrats they talked while the republicans kept their eye on the ball.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:52pmHe is just as astute as our MSM journalists………..
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:43pmFantastically amaaazzzzzing.
Report Post »Rusty-nail
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:42pm…what I mean is–I think it’s cute. Ha!
Report Post »Rusty-nail
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:40pmLove this *gotcha* story. XD Ha!!!
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:36pmDon’t worry the guy in the White House is oblivious too and he looks dumber than you.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:42pmCan you be a little more specific as to which guy? POTUS or his cronies?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:18pmThe funny thing about this?
This is what State-Run media gets you. Not just inept losers in front of the camera, but boring crap like “Star Gazing Live” TV shows.
That‘s not to say that stargazing isn’t fun, (I own a Celestron NexStar 8 SE, which is a nice telescope for the price), it’s just not worth live TV time when all you have to do is walk outside and see exactly the same thing. lol
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:35pmHey! I have a C8 myself, no “go to” computer on it, but auto slew/tracking.
Same thing every night? You’ve seen the entire Messier catalog then and the NGC objects? If so, nicely done sir, I salute you.
You may well live in a much nicer place than me though, in Ohio during autumn/winter/most of spring it’s cloudy almost 24/7. Takes a long time to get to all of the interesting little blurs here. :)
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:36pmWhat would have been real exciting is him stating about there being no shooting stars; and then one tiny one lands nearby, not enough to hurt anyone, just make a little ‘boom’ sound and show him jumping out of his britches.
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:41pmYawn! Oh well back to the springer show
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:15pmgood stuff. perfect for a born loser comic
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:10pmWHY does he have a telescope to look for meteors?
The media is so fake… it’s all about staging. If you want to see meteors, the last thing you do is zoom in on 0.1% of the sky.
There is no true media anymore. It’s all fakery.
Report Post »p00gles
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:21pmThe reason for the telescope would be to look at the Orion Nebula, he said it looks absolutely stunning through a telescope.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:22pmNot in those seeing conditions, it doesn’t… it takes long exposures to get any detail in the best of conditions, especially with such a small aperture scope. He doesn’t even have a CCD or color filters attached either, so it looks like a grey smudge at best.
In this particular situation, it’s nothing but a prop for the camera.
Report Post »JohnnyJT
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:03pmIf he had eyes in back of his head he would of seen it.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:24pmWell, we all have been there one time or another…looking in the opposite directions when we should of been paying attention right in front of us.
Report Post »NoName22
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:21pmHe’s even posing with a telescope, OOPS!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:46pmHe was probably too busy looking at clouds through the scope to see anything.
But in his defense, meteors would show up a lot easier on that night cam (if it actually is a legit low light cam, which it looks to be) than with the naked eye.
I took some wide angle footage of the perseids a few months ago, and saw stuff on playback that I didn’t notice at the time. Probably about 50% more. And that wasn’t even a low light cam.
Murphy’s law. If you can look like an idiot, you will. At the worst possible time.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:22pmI thin that was just a comtrail…..
Report Post »leftiesaredangerous
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:35pmTypical for the BBC…always missing it.
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:12pmThis is a story? Pfffft, lets get to some actual news that means something.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:15pmAnd this is important why?……New CEO is doing well!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-uT
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:29pmFolks, there IS such a thing as “light” news. This qualifies.
You can’t be doom and gloom 24/7 and expect to have readers forever.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:40pmIt is actually a strategy to make the trolls go away!!! seems they are the ones that complain the most!!! hmmmm… makes ya wonder?????
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:27pmLOL ..another can’t make this up story …
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:34pmSounds like a potential recruit for the NPR system; or vice versa since most are progressives for the most part.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »Rusty-nail
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:43pmI don thin so~
Report Post »tgarrett369
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:07pmThe only thing to see here is the global warming phenomenon!! hey, this is proof of aliens and global warming. also proves how the world is coming to an end and birds and fish are dying. HELP US MR. OBAMA. PLEASE WERE ALL GONNA DIE IF YOU DONT TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE AND TELL THE METEORS TO STOP!!
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:10pmDidn’t you see the movie Mars Invades. Well they are thinking about coming, but Global Warming probably has them scared off.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:14pm@tgarrett369
How about a scene like this…
News caster: “This just released from the DC Press Secretary…a massive meteorite has been moved away from the projected impact sight of AZ or Texas by the valient efforts of our military…”
“And in a totally unrelated matter, a massive meteorite has just impacted on top of DC; they say the town survived as due to the pile of garbage making up the town, the meteor bounced back up into the depths of space…”
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:49pmSNOW L O L hahaha
Report Post »PlanetXenu
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:23pmthat meteor has bad comedic timing. >:(
Report Post »DannyC718
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 11:29pmLaaaaame
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