Tomorrow's World 30 January 1986

An edition of the BBC weekly science magazine show first broadcast live on 30 January 1986.

[@marcse7en]

38 years later ...... I can take high quality photographs on a pocket computer, and transmit them wirelessly to my PC (which now fits in the palm of my hand), and display them on an Ultra High Definition Flat TV! Amazing how fast technology advances?

[@liverush24]

Those golf clubs really took off.

[@liverush24]

I want the model oil rig.

[@liverush24]

"Mike, using one of these things, how long would it take you to test all of the welds in all of the pipes?" "Well you couldn't it's impossible." Thanks Mike.

[@Hertfordshire247]

In just a few years time, Richard & Eddie will be camping for the night where he's golfing (only to get flashed in the tent) 🤣

[@jdavis460]

I used to have the Sony profeel tv they use in this program they were great.

[@lizhumphries9100]

I remember watching this on a Thursday night

[@LoftBits]

7:50 "and what's more, these pictures will last forever!" - and here is me, with a couple of those SV (Still Video) discs and a broken 1988 Canon RC-760 (which costed c.a. £5k back in the day), with no way to play them back whatsoever. If I had a player, I bet there would be 'read errors' anyway, after 40 years of storage; in the meantime, the 180 years old Daguerreotypes are doing just fine! :-)

[@culttelevision]

This is a couple of months into the new Paul Hart music and this title sequence.

[@markglover2525]

Tomorrows ... 'Thhhp!' World. 'Thhhp! Good lord - I'd forgotten about the uber-noisy breathing! What was that about?

[@johnp139]

It’s pronounced YOUR-ANUS!!!!

[@rehetzelprdxyw3317]

Did no one in production notice the camel toe at 17:35? Ah, innocent days.

Yeah bay-bay!

[@northernplacecorporation]

Interesting... but what apps did you use for this digitization and edit?

[@neilogden]

Obs

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@neilogden That's for the digitization. What about the edit? You used MAGIX VEGAS Pro 16.0 for this?

[@liverush24]

Maggie Empty-bin.

[@johnp139]

WRONG on Challenger diagnosis! Nothing to do with the fuel lines, and that was totally wrong!

[@neilogden]

I think that was the speculation at the time. Of course it was later shown that was wrong but it was one of many initial theories.

[@liverush24]

It was caused by the o-rings.

[@cloverfield911]

I wonder will that camera thing ever catch on??..lol

[@LoftBits]

It didn't (if you mean the analogue Still Video system she is presenting) - a couple of years later, though (mid 90s) the digital cameras took off.

[@shahrulamar5358]

Challenger space shuttle exploded. 🚀🚀

[@dukedepommefrites8779]

17:30 camelot

[@marcse7en]

20:24 Allwyn! 🤣

[@mbenn8168]

Well, that catamaran thing certainly made a monumental impression on the World. Strangely they never seemed to know the World was going to be 'plunged into a climate disaster' a few years later. It's almost like it's a scam dreamt up in the last few years to make some select people very rich indeed. [Have to say a word in praise of the basic photo editing, courtesy of some buttons off the Star Ship Enterprise]

[@davidwebster8536]

Here we are nearly 40 years later what climate disaster are you talking about ?

[@johnp139]

How primitive

[@Osc1llateW1ldly]

23:04 - "for the last few years I've seen a growing awareness that for a healthy diet meat should have less fat" - meaning we need to eat flesh to be healthy. How ignorant and uneducated one needs to be... Even for 1986 standards

[@dougie1968]

Vegan, perchance?

[@MZig-rw7su]

Such rubbish even at the time and typical BBC naffness

[@johnp139]

It’s pronounced a-LUM-in-um!!!

[@ultimatemagic2125]

"What a perfect woman driver" Haha, still true today.