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What's on the holo tonight?

Did anyone watch that creepy show on Animal Planet about the animals of the far future on Earth? I think it was 'The Future is Wild'....
Very strange.

-MADDog
 
^ MD, this show is awesome for populating alternate Earths and/or Earth-like planets with cool animals.

- walrus-sized penguins that spray stomach acid at shoreline predators

- foot long flies with dagger-like front legs

- turtles the size of a brontosaurus

Hmmmmm ... maybe somebody should be recording this show and creating stats for all these critters ... hmmmmm?
 
There was a cool show about UAVs on PBS (channel 2 around here) last night. If I'd known about it beforehand, I'd've posted a notice yesterday.
 
Me personally, I like watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which should be on tonight on Cartoon Network. Its cool and strange. Sort off a combination of Kaffka and Ecstacy, with a little Andy Warhol and Beavis and Buthead thrown in for good measure. Yes, its that kinda strange. Dig the Mooninites! Can you imagine them in a Traveller campaign?
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I REALLY liked the arboreal octopi that swing from limb to limb above giant carnivorous relatives below, pelting the monsters with pine cones and other stuff! TOOO COOOL! :cool:

Pappy
 
Mythbuster marathon on Discovery. Two guys trying to find out the truth of all those old urban myths. They show that it helps to be smart and creative to get really dangerous.
 
"Innovation" on PBS tonight looks like it might have some plot ideas. The episode is "Hi-Tech War" and looks at high-tech weapon failures and their impact on the political and technical reality of combat. Sounds familiar so it might have been on before, or was it an episode of Frontline I'm recalling where they examined the "effectiveness" of the Patriot?

Oh well, gonna have to tape it and hope to find time to watch it
 
Originally posted by vegascat:
Mythbuster marathon on Discovery. Two guys trying to find out the truth of all those old urban myths. They show that it helps to be smart and creative to get really dangerous.
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Have you seen the Mythbusters episode where Jamie skis behind the rowing scull (spelling?), I would never have believed that was possible. One of my favorite series. :cool:

Pappy
 
Originally posted by vegascat:
Mythbuster marathon on Discovery. Two guys trying to find out the truth of all those old urban myths. They show that it helps to be smart and creative to get really dangerous.
Click to expand...
Have you seen the Mythbusters episode where Jamie skis behind the rowing scull (spelling?), I would never have believed that was possible. One of my favorite series. :cool:

Pappy
 
I'm just watching an old rerun of Cheers, which had a cameo appearance from a little-known US Senator called John Kerry. I wonder whatever happened to him...?
 
<yawn> "Quiet night eh barkeep?"

Yep, its cause we closed an hour ago, don't ya got a home or something?

"Just one more for the road ok? It's a long cold walk back to the downport at this hour."

Sure thing FT, for a regular, your usual?

"Yep, hey mind if I flip through the channels?"

Nah, go ahead, not much on at this hour

<click, click, click, click>

"hunh, what was that?!"

<clack, clack>

Coming up on The Shopping Channel "Ditzy Cosmetics".

"Nah, couldn't be. Hey barkeep, on second thought make that a double."
 
Er, about the M-48 on the freeway...
It was an M-60 RISE out of a California National Guard armory near San Diego. A disgruntled (doped?) NG-type jacked the heavy metal and took out some residential streets (and a Winnebago)before plopping down on the freeeway.
Note to copycats: take someone with you to TC; the bonehead didn't, and was to distracted to drive a straight line (an unnecessary ability north of the Al Batin wadi but critical on North American metropolitan streets).
Check out "Most Extreme Police Chases."
BTW, said intellectual was killed by CHiPs when he stuck the RISE on said concrete divider. Darwin strikes again!
 
Haven't been any working M-48s in a very long time.

Unfortunately, I'd bet the road rage champion had already spawned.
 
Just a little heads-up.

I see Nova on PBS (U.S.) is airing the episode on the earth's magnetic field changes again tonight. Some pretty cool uncommon plot ideas in it, besides just being interesting.
 
For the FireFly and starting new colonies people
Colonial House on PBS starting May 17

Take ordinary people from today and place them in 1628 for 6 months. The only things that they got to keep/use from modern times is glasses, toothbrushes and some bibles from today.

I have not read the entire website but this sounds interestings.
It looks like they got some basics on how to cook and use tools from the time period also

Dave
 
i hope colonial house is closer to reality than Frontier Pioneer house aka Frontier Survivor. Which was a fair show until you found out, the people could not hunt most of local wild life even with the camcorders.
 
Blast! I should have known that the PBS stations were semi-independant. Oh well, until we have on demand TV, keep an eye out for the Nova episode titled "Magnetic Storm" or check the PBS site for info. Kinda disturbing, seems the earth's magnetic field strength is growing weaker and more chaotic. Research suggests this is tied to the cyclical (every couple hundred thousand years or so) reversal of the magnetic poles. The low period of the magnetic field could last in the order of hundreds of years.

So good news or bad news first? OK, good news first, we can look forward to spectacular aurora displays and no longer confined to the poles but prone to pop up anywhere, even in equatorial regions. The bad news, its the magnetic field that keeps a lot of the deadly solar and galatic radiation from cooking us daily, so we'll be looking at increased cancer rates while the field goes through the low flux.

About the JSF episode, that was another interesting one (subjectively anywho), though I was convinced by the end that they picked the wrong one.
 
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