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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Well TV is terrible again tonight, unless you are a 'Titanic' fanatic. Discovery Channel has a good show on evolution before the dinosaurs (2 hours long, have seen it 2 times). I guess I'll watch it again!!
We did Titanic last night. We'd only seen it once before, when it came out, so we gave it 3 or 4 or how ever many hours. :~)
Maybe you'll stumble on a Columbo movie. Gotta like him. :~)
Heh...if I had Discovery Channel or the History Channel or anything along those lines, I'd be a total TV junkie...instead of an Internet junkie, I guess. Oops.
Documentaries totally suck me in - especially the historical speculation type ones like "here's how *this* group of scientists thinks the pyramids were built..."
I like how they can construct a whole skeleton out of a hip bone and a tooth :~)
Well, these earliest creatures have an exterior skeleton, usually found in 1 piece -- does make it easier!
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Plus providing us with a history full of errors they committed, which we seem determined to repeat, one after the other.
The trouble with this early creatures show is they keep citing behavioral traits for which there is zero evidence, based on hypothetical ecological niches similar to more modern creatures, of whose behaviors we have evidence. I get rather annoyed at this, but the animations are still great.
The most interesting about this Engineering an Empire show is that it's hosted by Peter Weller - the actor from Robocop and 24. Evidently he has a master's degree in Roman and Rennaissance art and is also a literature and fine arts professor at Syracuse University.
Dude....real organic.
Peter Weller also stars in the greatest movie ever made.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. :-)
Neurosurgeon, Rock Star, and Comic Book Hero. :-)
Sounds like it has the potential to be horrendously bad. In a good way, mind you.
We'll have Ramius bring it with him the next time he visits.
The Triptopan, right?
Totally.
If that doesn't getcha the other one will :~)
That movie is one of his quirks... it's no weirder than yours. :~)
Since you mentioned the movie, I'll take this opportunity to link to one of my favorite movie sound files...
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