Discuss: Nova, Nature, Blue Planet, National Geographic Presents, Living Planet,

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What's better than these? This week I've seen:

NATURE. The Reptiles: Snakes which featured footage of a guy in Cameroon climbing 20 feet into an aardvark hole with a burning torch and dragging out a 100 lb. python. Also Yellow-Bellied Sea Sankes

and

NOVA: Descent into the Ice during the course of which a guy climbed a mountain and went SCUBA diving in a glacier.

but my very, very favorite of all, is:

Snake killers: Honey badgers of the Kalahari - National Geographic Special over the course of which I learned ALL ABOUT HONEY BADGERS. The high-point was when a honey-badger got in a fight with a cobra, was bitten about seventeen times and died. Ten or fifteen minutes later it shook off the venom and resurrected itself, totally unharmed. Then it kicked the cobra's ass. Honey badgers are amazing.

I'd also like to name-check the excellent National Geographic Special 'Snake Island' about an island overrun with crazy-fatal snakes. A bunch of scientists go and visit.

What're your picks, ILE?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

gratuitously:
http://www.honeybadger.com/images/snuffsnarl.gif

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I know exactly how he feels. I was like that at brunch last Saturday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit. hes eating a cobra??

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i got these shows on my tv!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, (xpost) ... and you can get Nova / Nature on PBS.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is the Honey Badger movie page

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually documentaries like that are available on p2p networks or as torrents.

I'll get "the future is wild" :
"Become a time-traveling scientist researching and comparing the evolution, biology and behavior of animals of the present day with creatures 5 million years, 100 million years and 200 million years in the future."

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 15 October 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Life's Greatest Miracle is cool!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I want all of this shit on dvd, now pls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Future is Wild is such a brilliantly absurd show. They get scientists to talk about these totally made up, badly CGIed creatures as if they were real. Once they had a squid that swung through trees like a monkey.

Blue Planet is probably the best wildlife series I've ever seen. I love underwater stuff.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

is blue planet have sting music?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

greatest national geographic ep ever: hornets from hell

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(bah sorry that link is dead but TRUST ME)

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Life of Mammals was amazing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Honestly, I'm more into the shows on SPACE than nature documentaries, but the latter also have their moments. That hunny badget shit sounds amazing, Jer. (or do I call you Remy now?)

S: Carl Sagan's COSMOS.

― Helios Creed (orion), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I recommend documentary "L'Odyssée de l'espèce" to everyone, creationists included. It's like "quest for fire" but with better scientific insights. It's a 8 millions years saga from primate to homo sapiens. made with cgi and reconstitutions, very informative.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

whats this 'hornets from hell' about? sounds scary

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

giant hornets in japan!! write-up here doesn't do the show justice at all [i watched it dubbed in french so was spared the probably-silly ominous voiceover tho]

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Just one of these hornets can kill 40 European honeybees a minute; a handful of the creatures can slaughter 30,000 European honeybees within hours, leaving a trail of severed insect heads and limbs.

um, yikes

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

they SHOW such an attack in slow motion like a crazy action movie!

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

my fav nature tv is distinctly more mellow:

the hinterland who's who!!!

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

S: Carl Sagan's COSMOS.

i thought these were only available to PBS memebers who donate $200.00?

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone who is stung by the hornet and doesn't receive proper treatment soon thereafter can die from the venom, which is powerful enough to disintegrate human flesh.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I was google-img-srching for 'Alien' to post a response to that, but I was stopped in my tracks by a picture about halfway down. NSFW.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The titties with eyes?

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The titties with eyes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

kephm: or you could have taped it when it was on teh teevee, like me.

they replay it fairly often!

― Helios Creed (orion), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Did anyone watch the premiere of the new Discovery series Planet Earth last night?

I think it is/was on BBC too.

There is some seriously amazing footage in these things.

I was tearing up when the Elephant calf lost his mother in a sandstorm and then followed her tracks in the wrong direction. My jaw dropped when that great white pwned the seal in mid air. I roffled at baboons walking upright in flood waters. I cheered for the Impala when it narrowly escaped the jackles by leaping into the pond.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

life's rich pageant

― river wolf, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

planet earth was so good--i missed the ocean one though

― cutty, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

i fucking loved the deep blue movie

― river wolf, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

i have a feeling they'll be re-running them a lot.

this article makes a really good point. I wanted them to just shut the fuck up already about how groundbreaking each shot was and just let it speak for itself.

i want the crew who shot these to team up with the dudes who did Baraka and make the ultimate @_@ fest.

i fucking loved the deep blue movie

HI DERE netflix queue.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait, i just realized i alread saw that one in IMAX. it was awesome.

is the blue planet series any good?

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

yes, yes it is

― Matt, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

sweet, thats on netflix too.

any other reccomendations on specials like this avail. on netflix?

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

the series 'planet earth' – currently on discovery – is pretty spectacular. the promos are trumpeting that the show took 2000 days to film, in 304 location, etc., etc., and it sure does look like it. it's gorgeous. the narration (by sigourney weaver) is boilerplate, though. apparently it's a rebranding of the bbc series of the same name though w. attenborough instead of weaver. first three episodes aired this past sunday, next two 'deserts' and 'ice worlds' are airing at 8:00 and 9:00 on April 1.

― remy bean, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

hi, what, i didn't read the last twenty posts, obv.

― remy bean, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

haha but yeah lets keep talking about how awesome it is!!!

i cant wait for deserts. having spent middle school and high school living in one, i learned all about how abundant life can be in them, despite conventional wisdom.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

that snow leapord hunt was amazing, too. i forgot to mention that was a favorite too.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

I had a really bizarre obsession with The Living Planet and David Attenborough when I was five years old. I even insisted that my parents buy me Attenborough's book.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

also, whale shark *_* soooo beautiful.

my friend has scuba dived near one before and was close enough to touch it. i think this was the first time ive actually seen footage of one.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Does one ought to watch <i>Blue Planet</i> in any certain order? I <3 marine nature documentaries.

― Leee, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

i'm gonna netflix the shit out of these

GRADY LET'S BE FRIENDS

― river wolf, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Leee - if I recall correctly, the Blue Planet episodes can pretty much be watched in any order.

My choices: Blue Planet, Life of Birds (really incredible footage - but that's true of all of these showsx), Life of Mammals (the latter should be watched in order as the episodes build toward the primates).

I watched part of Planet Earth last night, but ended-up crying over the baby elephant and decided that I needed to get some sleep.

― MsLaura, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

The way that shot just pulls out and pulls out and you just see this expanse of desert and this lone baby Elephant walking to its inevitble death.... so so so fucking heartbreaking.

Somehow, I feel like a better human after watching things like that though. I cant really explain why.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone seen Microcosmos? It came out about 10 years ago. The macro photography is just incredible. It was amazing to see insects get absolutely hammered by a rainstorm.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

yah – the whale shark was absolutely incredible. all i could think of was how i would like a jacket patterned like a whale shark. or how i'd like to be reincarnated as one. (a whale shark, not a whale shark jacket).

and my other favorite part? the vampire squid. i posted about that on the cthulu noize thread. about the biophosphoresence, about the 8 swirling glowy arms, about the red/blue eyes.

― 冷明, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

i think i missed that one.

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― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

oh, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_Are_Beautiful_People should be available @ netflix?

― 冷明, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone seen Microcosmos? It came out about 10 years ago. The macro photography is just incredible. It was amazing to see insects get absolutely hammered by a rainstorm.

Hard like armour on Monday, March 26, 2007 8:15 PM (1 hour ago)

Funny, I just started watching it last night. Yeah, pretty amazing. I love how there's so little narration so it's just like "Whoa, what are these bugs up to?"

Also, OMG STEAMY SNAIL LOVE

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

i have heard about that one.

On netflix queue now.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

oh man microcosmos a movie Ill never foget for all the wrong reasons, surprisingly the snails didnt help my cause /= good first date movie.

― Kiwi, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

and my other favorite part? the vampire squid.

The squid was great. I had to go and google "vampire squid from hell" because it just sounded to ridiculous to be true but yep, that's its name alright - Vampyroteuthis infernalis!

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

Planet Earth was on my Christmas wish list, so I think I will have to buy it for myself after hearing about the vampire squid and the whale shark.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, how did I miss this thread first time through? Then again I'm not a regular watcher of any of these -- Nova was the closest I got back in 1970s/1980s days. And I'll always still remember Clifford Stoll's story in the one episode -- still a hero, because he was such a happy geek.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

who saw last nights eps?

40 MILES OF LOCUSTS!

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

The locust shots were rad.

And OMG that polar bear trying to eat a walrus. I felt bad for him and decided to pretend that the cameramen threw him some pizza when the shoot was over. He must of been starving!

― darin, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

POLAR BEAR vs WALRUS FITE was amazing. I felt so bad for the polar bear afterwards.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

Nova special on shapeshifting cuttlefish -- looks awesome!

― Leee, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Behold! The krazy kuttlefish!

― Leee, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

I JUST WATCHED THE SHIT OUT OF THAT CUTTLEFISH EPISODE

A++++

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Watching the flamboyant cuttlefish rambling across the sea floor with its pseuodpod fins was teh cuet!

According to some scientists studying cephalopod learning, the cuttlefish can use visual clues to solve mazes, making it as intelligent as the octopus or land animals like the pigeon.

Hahah stupid pigeons.

― Leee, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

the narration (by sigourney weaver) is boilerplate, though. apparently it's a rebranding of the bbc series of the same name though w. attenborough instead of weaver.

It seems a shame that, despite writing the scripts and being involved with the production all the way down the line, David Attenborough is not considered up to the job of narrating for the US audience. I'd be intrigued to hear how Discovery's execs justified this change; surely the typical audience for this series (along with Blue Planet, Life of Mammals etc) is well aware of who Attenborough is and wasn't baying for a new voiceover? Or is his fame a British phenomenon?

― Bill A, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

it's safe to say the cuttlefish is the smartest fish in the sea.

Hahah stupid pigeons.
perhaps you missed the recent nature docushow revealing pigeons to be genius animals! like the cuttlefish of the city. or maybe cuttlefish are the pigeons of the sea. except the little "flamboyant" one who's muscular tissue is apparently lethally toxic.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

What Females Want and Males Will Do tomorrow night! Promises to show duck genitalia -- uncensored!

If you've ever wondered about a duck's penis - and really, who hasn't? - Brennan actually puts a ruler to a couple in the show's second installment, revealing a corkscrew-shaped member that, in proportion to the actual duck, puts most porn stars to shame.
"When I sort of first saw my first male and I saw this phallus, I cannot even describe to you what I felt because it's like the most amazing organ that you will ever see," Brennan told reporters.

― Leee, Saturday, 5 April 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

Femmebots, sage grouses humping cow pies, Extreme Makeover: Barn Swallow Edition, Elvis- and Chewbacca-flavored gelato -- tell me I'm not the only who watched!

― Leee, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IznlT8XkmkY&feature=player_embedded

― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Saturday, 14 May 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

rewatchin blue planet, nature ffs

― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:09 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

David Attenborough in Blue Planet 2: "The fjords don't ice over because a giant..."
My brain: "comes and clears it off every morning?"
Attenborough: "warm current of air called the gulf stream prevents it."

― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Monday, 30 October 2017 13:28 (eight years ago)

the NHK series "great nature" has some videos uploaded to youtube

blue mountains of new south wales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwpT24BPR58&t=155s

tasmania: the enigmatic island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_xK8U7jho

the mystery of java's volcanoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DPmWWGY2Vc

the bbc2 miniseries "satoyama" about japan's interaction with nature is also up (narrated by attenborough)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pII_2VbgheI&t=2465s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WshkiSFpE

― clouds, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:17 (eight years ago)

Blue Planet 2 spoiler alert: it's water

― StanM, Monday, 30 October 2017 22:24 (eight years ago)

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