Recent developments...
•the big potential funder has asked us to put together an education and public outreach programme around the Beagle build and launch
• two TV companies came a courting recently, and we hear that the British Broadcasting Corporation is not utterly deaf to the idea that a build and launch (to say nothing of our recreation of Darwin's voyage, a mere bagatelle, that) of a replica of the Beagle during Darwin's bicentenary might be an exciting televisual event. Lest we forget: one of the most most significant ships in modern history (which happened to the British) which happened to carry the most significant biologist of natural times (which happened to the British) who happened to then propose one of the most important scientific theories of modern times (I know a theory can't be British, but it was fomented, written, announced and published here, in Britain). And then we sail her round the world, crewed by young people. Across the Atlantic oceans, around Cape Horn, across the Pacific, to Australia, to Africa and back up those Atlantics. And sorry, the young crew won't be nicking cars, dancing on ice or trying to be next boy or girl band, they'll be going aloft in storms to shorten sail, helming through phosphorescent seas under moonless, starlit skies, making the same landfalls as Darwin and looking at how climate, society and biodiversity has changed since Darwin's time, carrying our original experiments, making real scientific breakthroughs. If you can't find some broadcasting excitement in that well go and (add invective in comments, which are moderated).
• We have interviewed a very high-protein young lady to provide administrative support. Which is a good thing.
• two TV companies came a courting recently, and we hear that the British Broadcasting Corporation is not utterly deaf to the idea that a build and launch (to say nothing of our recreation of Darwin's voyage, a mere bagatelle, that) of a replica of the Beagle during Darwin's bicentenary might be an exciting televisual event. Lest we forget: one of the most most significant ships in modern history (which happened to the British) which happened to carry the most significant biologist of natural times (which happened to the British) who happened to then propose one of the most important scientific theories of modern times (I know a theory can't be British, but it was fomented, written, announced and published here, in Britain). And then we sail her round the world, crewed by young people. Across the Atlantic oceans, around Cape Horn, across the Pacific, to Australia, to Africa and back up those Atlantics. And sorry, the young crew won't be nicking cars, dancing on ice or trying to be next boy or girl band, they'll be going aloft in storms to shorten sail, helming through phosphorescent seas under moonless, starlit skies, making the same landfalls as Darwin and looking at how climate, society and biodiversity has changed since Darwin's time, carrying our original experiments, making real scientific breakthroughs. If you can't find some broadcasting excitement in that well go and (add invective in comments, which are moderated).
• We have interviewed a very high-protein young lady to provide administrative support. Which is a good thing.
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That sounds fantastic. All the best to HMS Beagle Project!
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