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capturing the cosmos dr. tanya hill: goodafternoon, everyone. my name is tanya hill. and i'm the astronomer forthe melbourne planetarium. and here at themelbourne planetarium today, it's apretty exciting day as we're launching a brandnew planetarium show. it's called "capturingthe cosmos." and we've createdit in partnership with the scientificorganization called caastro. and i'm fortunate tohave with me today two members from caastro,ben mckinley and jack line. mr. jack line: hello. dr. tanya hill: they'reboth researchers at the university of melbourne. and so what we'dlike to do today is talk a littlebit about the show, some of the australian sciencethat's happening right now, the telescopes thatthese guys are using to explore some of thereally big mysteries and the big questionsabout the universe. so guys, do you want tojust say a little bit about your research? maybe ben, what's thething that excites you? dr. ben mckinley: sure. i

so today, we are talking to stewartcheifet. hello, stewart. hello. and you are very much known for yourcomputer show that you did for 20 years. that would be the computerchronicles. well, i'm very pleased that you agreed for the interview, sothank you for that. sure, pleasure to talk with you. thank you. would you start, please,in telling us about how you started to be a television presenter,actually? well that's a long story, but i'll try tomake it short. before the computer chronicles, i had done general news work as a tv reporter,so i'd been doing this tv journalism, covering all kinds of things before computer chroniclesever started. and the fact is, i also happen to be a lawyer, so i was covering trials anddoing legal stuff as a reporter also. and the technology part just came out of my personalinterest. as a college undergraduate, i was a math major, so i've always been a sort ofgeeky kind of guy, and when the pc revolution started, i thought: "well, th