Astronomy (and Space Science) Look-alikes, No. 8
When Professor Colin Pillinger decided to explore the surface of Mars using Beagle 2, was his interest at least partly accounted for by his similarity to archaeologist Phil Harding of TV’s Time Team? Perhaps not, as the latter has had more success using a trowel costing £3 than the former using a probe costing £30 million…
In the Dark 
January 6, 2010 at 9:27 am
Spot on!
January 6, 2010 at 9:44 am
You sure that isn’t John McCririck on the right?
Anton
January 6, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Not sure the first sentence of your post makes grammatical sense, Peter, or am I missing something subtle?
January 6, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Mark, quite right. Editing failure. I hope it makes more sense now.
January 26, 2010 at 6:41 am
This is priceless.