The Mary Rose.

[acropolite]

SBS 2 tonight, 7:35 The Ghost of the Mary Rose. I believe that this is the same ship that Rod (rodstar) named his SDM after, so I thought I'd give a heads up seeing as the name has been mentioned so many times on the forum.

[AstralTraveller]

Thanks. Guests are about to arrive but I'll watch it later. :thumbsup:

[gary]

Thanks Phil,

Also available online for the week -
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2106928065/The-Ghosts-Of-The-Mary-Rose?utm_source=Latest

I have seen both the original Mary Rose in Portsmouth and used Rod's Mary Rose in
Bucketty and can confirm that neither are sea worthy but that Rod's makes for the better
telescope.

[Rodstar]

LOL!! :rofl:

I saw the original Mary Rose at the Maritime Museum in about 1995/6, and it blew me away!

Although the telescopic version of the Mary Rose may not be seaworthy, it did survive a light drowning in Tooheys Old, courtesy of the big dip at Binnaway, en route to Coonabarabran, when a case of beer was smashed, in the trailer in close proximity to the mirror box. I shudder at the memory!

Thanks for heads up re the show, I will catch it online this week.

[AstralTraveller]

Interesting show, though I now remember seeing it previously. I think they could have covered all the material they had in about half the time and I found the build up to the big revelation overdone but explanation of the discovery itself to be too brief. Of course I was chuffed that it involved the oxygen-isotopic composition of tooth carbonate because analysing carbonates for carbon and oxygen isotopic composition is one of the main things I do - though I only rarely do teeth (mostly it's shells) and never for archaeology. [At least I suspect it was the carbonate-oxygen. The phosphate-oxygen is also possible but it is a lot more work for, in this case, little likely gain.] I'm surprised that there has, so far anyway, been no DNA analyses done. I would have thought it would be technically possible, likely to be very informative and that such a proposal would obtain research funding.

"Knaves I cannot command" ?? They've met our students have they?? :lol: