Tbf Shergar put me off tinned meat for life.

I remember watching the one in 1999.  On a rooftop of an office in basingstoke.  It was very eerie.  Pretty much the only thing on TV for the week before was people doing their best john wyndham impressions and telling you not to look at it

At age ten, I walked into a video game arcade.  All the others there were much older (13 or 14) and I didn't want to look like a dumb child.  I went up to the Jukebox and put 10p in and saw that the first record was AC/DC "Hells Bells" which I had never heard before but I knew older kids liked AC/DC so... I selected the track.  It blew me away so I played it again, and again and again until I ran out of money.  

Two things happened to me, I fell in love with AC/DC and never lost that.  I decided I wanted to play guitar like Angus so as soon as I could, I got myself a guitar and taught myself to play and 40 years later I still play every day.

Never made any money out of it but still love it.

Turn around…..

Like most kids below and around the age of 10, I was fascinated with dinosaurs. When I was 13, I saw Jurassic Park and I think this revived what was, at the time, a waning interest.  I ended up watching it at the cinema so many times I lost count.  From that point on, I said I wanted to be a paleontologist.  I went on digs with the Natural History Museum in Denver as part of a work experience and developed a particular interest in what led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. I stubbornly stuck with that throughout school and university (BSci in Geology). It was only after moving to the US with the intention of starting a Masters that I came to the realisation that this wasn't the career for me.

What about you PS - any dark secrets of inspiration lurking in your cupboards?

I'm guessing Gorlami, you saw the Attenborough doc on the finding that may been a 'witness' to the meteor strike? You'll probably now tell me it has been derided.

And yes, sort of........I quit law to continue a business that I started in my early teens that stemmed from a childhood interest. There are still vestiges of it in what I do now, but it has taken a tangent or three since then.

My Dad dragged me and sis out of our beds at some ungodly hour in July 1969 to watch the Moon Landing.

Once we had woken up properly it was pretty exciting, and like all small boys back then, we all wanted to become astronauts.

James Burke was very much a TV god.

I was once in a dentist's waiting room. I must have been about 13, I remember being wide-eyed and impressionable, curious about the world. 

Two gentlemen were looking at an article in a magazine. It was about some very important and controversial topic. I paid a bit more attention and it became clear to me that they were involved in a heated discussion on the article. Not its contents or substance, but whether there was a comma misplaced on page three, paragraph seven, sub-paragraph (h).

The argument continued long after they had been called by the dentist and after the dentist was due to go home and everyone else in the room had given up interest. I was amazed at the tenacity with which they completely ignored the substance of the article and argued over who was right on a meaningless point.

It was a then that I knew I wanted to be a City lawyer. 

watched the one in the UK but it was cloudy so a bit shyte.

There is also a misplaced comma in the heading of this topic. 

I'm guessing Gorlami, you saw the Attenborough doc on the finding that may been a 'witness' to the meteor strike? You'll probably now tell me it has been derided.

I'm not sure whether I've seen this or not. Will look it up to refresh my memory. I managed to shake the obsession 20 years ago so now there's just a healthy level of interest. I don't go out of my way to find stuff. Most of it will engage in debate about the various competing theories each of which has their own merit. But you rarely hear people argue that it could have been several correlated events.  The evidence of a meteor hitting the earth (present day Yucatan) is undeniable (unless you're a religious nut) but then so is the geological records of the Deccan Traps. And hard to say whether evolutionary changes were triggered by the environmental changes that either one of these events may have brought about or whether they were already in motion due to some other environmental catalyst.

Watched the one in 1999 on the Embnankment in London. The silence and drop in temperature were quite spooky but I can’t say it inspired me.

Solar eclipses are not that rare and all things considered pretty lame. More of a shooting star type myself.

here you go Gorlami

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016djt

Will have to watch that later as I need to access it via a VPN from here. But I don't think that's one I've seen before so thanks for sharing.

I was once putting the bins out late at night and looked up to see a fooking huge shooting star burning up.  Think i looked it up and it was the perseids.

Looked dead set to destroy dorking for a few moments

My very early sailing adventures combined with seeing a stand at a boat show sowed the seed of racing a boat round the world and led to me eventually taking a break in my career to do that when the opportunity came up.

It's wrong to wish on space hardware...

here you go Gorlami

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016djt

Thanks PS. That was a nice trip down geeky memory lane. Hadn’t thought about shocked quartz and spherules for more than a decade! I’m surprised they got through an hour of explanation focussing only on the asteroid theory without mentioning the KT boundary iridium layer. That’s about as close as you get to a smoking gun in geology.

Saw the one in 1066 and decided to invade England. No-one’s managed that since.