No matter how many times I hear those huge numbers (trillions of galaxies, billions of stars etc) seeing it again in a presentation like that is awe-inspiring.

Suggestion for topic: Planetary nebulae. They are visually stunning, and the “this is where our sun is headed” part of the story makes it appealing to a general audience.

Another: It’s educationally useful to have a tour of the Milky way with the right kind of graphics that would give some sort of idea of the vast scale, and how tiny our sun is, how far away the nearest single G/K type stars. Though this has been done before, I hope that eventually, if enough people tell the tale enough times, the info will filter into people’s consciousness so they’ll understand how unlikely it’d be to get alien visitors, and to put our sense of ourselves as so bloody important and central to rest.

I am not sure whether you were referring to me, but if you did, then you completely misinterpreted my post (and being rude about it too): this has nothing to do with anti-Americanism, but rather is a critique on the practice of blocking traffic from entire regions of the world. I thought I made that pretty clear. As Phil has noted himself, the BBC video player also refuses to show their feeds to non-British residents. I am sure there are many other examples of sites blocking traffic from American residents. Do you not think this is a bad thing?
The one alternative Phil supplied, at least as far as I could see, is a myspace video which, unfortunately, is also unable to play for me.

Good job on the videos, the more exposure sciency stuff gets, the better. But speaking of exposure, I wish I could see these videos: both hulu and myspace refuse to show me your work. I hope you also agree that region-locking is one of the bad things that is happening to the internet these days. Although I am sure I will get to see your videos a few days from now, please do not forget your fans who just happen to live beyond an imaginary and arbitrary line on the world map - I believe there is a significant amount of them!

I’m pretty excited about this; I foresee a pretty good future here. We filmed these in hi-def so that even higher-quality footage can be available if needed, so these shorts can be used in a lot of venues. I’d love to see these getting into classrooms, for example.

What’s the copyright status of the videos? Creative Commons?