Space Age Latin Lesson

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

712

Date Released

15 Aug 1968

Date recorded

18 Jul 1968

Length of issue (in feet)

675

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Roman Ruins
2. 2Space Age Latin Lesson
3. 3We Love Lepidoptera

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: A trowel would be useless to dig with in space. For that you need a radio telescope like the one at the Mullard Radio-Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge. In fact, it’s the biggest in the world and with it, Sir Martin Ryle and his team have discovered, not ruins, but Little Green Men. "Pulsars" as they’re known give off regular radio signals from millions of years away. To track down these ancient and distant space noises they have a battery of weird and wonderful space age devices. But Sir Martin needs something as simple as a bike to make the final adjustments to his giant movable dish aerial. Then he can make maps of the heavens and chart the stars - which also have names invented by the Romans ... like Lepidoptera.

Keywords

Science and technology

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

258

Story extras:

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