Last night was an excellent science program on Absolute Zero. And I
learned two new names
I never heard of before. One was C. Drebbel a 17th century alchemist
who arguably invented
the worlds first air conditioner unit by making the King cool in the
heat of summer.

And then the French physicist G. Amontons. I never heard of him before
and he discovered
a very important concept that zero pressure means zero temperature. So
Amontons had
experimentally discovered Absolute Zero.

Now I am wondering as to what other nations provide for its TV
audiences as far as science is
concerned.

I can vow to the fact that here in the USA, over the free TV channels
that PBS offers about
1 or 2 hours of a science program per week over prime time 6 to 12
midnight. Sometimes if
I am lucky a week might render 3 hours of 3 different science
programs.

Yesterday the NOVA Absolute Zero was followed by a program of
"Spontaneous Human
Combustion" where it showed some examples and then showed some crank
explanation,
and finally forensics made a true science test and debunked the notion
of spontaneous
human combustion since the wick experiment of burning fats and oils of
the body.

But my question is , how much does England or France or German provide
its viewers
with "true science" per week?

Here in the USA, that rate is 2 hours per week which to me seems like
a paltry little.
So I wonder if in France or Germany or England that they are able to
see more than
2 hours per week of good science?

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies