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Life in the undergrowth

Started by abbot lau, November 24, 2005, 06:30:08 PM

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abbot lau

Saw the first episode of this last night, and as usual with these flagship BBC/Attenborough nature series, I was left thinking

1) Bloody hell!
2) Shit!
3) Looks like leopard slugs have a damn good sex life.
4) Jesus Christ! Scorpions glow under UV light!
5) Cool camera technology!
6) If this was a perfect world, David Attenborough would live as long as a Galapagos tortoise and keep making these programmes.

Almost Yearly

5) Yeah, this is a domain where the latest digital frame rates can go wild. I mean, bullet through apple is one thing, lacy refracting wing pairs beating is quite another. Cool.

Bogey

Quote from: "abbout lau"4) Jesus Christ! Scorpions glow under UV light!
Pff. I learnt that off Bill Oddie weeks ago!
They live in the Thames Estuary too, albeit very little ones.

Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to this turning up in a certain somewhere. Attenborough is cool guy*.

*Alright then, someone come along and prove that he's a racist or something.

mook

It was a little bonus to me. I'm not much of a tele watcher. I hardly ever bother switching the box on at all, but last night I happened to flick the fucker on and, well, I got rewarded by this. Bloody fantastic programme. I sat tranfixed all the way through it. The hatching of the mayfly was lovely. Even though I've fished for trout for years I've never seen more than a couple of dozen rise of an evening, what the film crew managed to capture was almost magical.

As for the slugs though..they might have very balletic cock/cunt/cunt/cock nookie suspended in mid-air by a vertical hammock of their own making, but it won't stop me bunging some pellets around my purple sprouting broccoli.

Bogey

Heh-heh, you're him, aren't you, mook:

The Plaque Goblin

I don't recall him mentioning those early scorpions that were 1 metre long.

Dark Sky

Quote from: "Bogey"Attenborough is cool guy*.

*Alright then, someone come along and prove that he's a racist or something.

My mum saw him interviewed by Parky once and said that she thought he was actually a very boring man.

mook

Quote from: "Bogey"Heh-heh, you're him, aren't you, mook:
(picture)

Cor, look at that bit of forerib....I don't care if you are taking the piss, that's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in ages.
;)

I wish I had taped the bloody programme now, I want to watch it again, just to see that massive effing worm again. How big did he say they grew to? ten foot or something. Christ, imagine the size of the chub you could catch with that bastard.

LadyDay

I had a massive crush on David Attenborough when I was about 10.  He also got me through biology A level.  Every time I thought that one more sighting of my dead dissected rat would kill me, I'd think of having his job and it would all be ok again.

Maximash

Incredible television. I almost welled up at the beauty of some of it.

Catalogue Trousers

Quoteshe thought he was actually a very boring man.

Poor sod. He's boring.

Bugger his immense enthusiasm, his willingness to go that extra mile for the results (yes, I am thinking about that bit with the gorillas - it's still astonishing - as well as wading through guano and land crabs), his sheer class - he's boring in person, so he can't be cool. Meh.

Long may he carry on doing this sort of thing, even if  VLS does keep taking the piss.

abbot lau

How about those tiny little beetles smaller than a pinhead ? the ones that washed themselves with a drop of water and had extra inflatable arms?   They looked like they were designed by a Japanese toy company.

I swear some of them had little yellow smiley faces on their backs!

Bogey

Quote from: "mook"
Quote from: "Bogey"Heh-heh, you're him, aren't you, mook:
(picture)

Cor, look at that bit of forerib....I don't care if you are taking the piss, that's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in ages.
;)

I wish I had taped the bloody programme now...
I wasn't taking the piss at all! He's a cool dude!

And it's available to d*wnl*ad now, if you have the capability.

SweetRosalyn

Heh, I used to have a crush on David Attenborough when I was little too. Mostly 'cause of his voice.  He is fantastic and I love every show of his I've seen.  I didn't see the programme in question, due to being lacking in tv currently.  Otherwise I would have.  They're amazing.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Oh goddamnit, I missed this. I was really looking forward to seeing it too, Attenborough is the best argument for the licence fee ever. I saw a documentary on Five about octopuses earlier that night, which was interesting but just didn't engage me like one of Attenborough's shows does.

Bogey

Oh, you must go and get it.
The best, or at least most technically impressive, bit was the the ten-minute "behind the scenes" bit at the end, where they show off their ultra-high speed cameras, which will be extensively used on next week's programme which is all about flight.
Great stuff.

abbot lau

Quote from: "Bogey"where they show off their ultra-high speed cameras, which will be extensively used on next week's programme which is all about flight.
Great stuff.

Hey, how long before one of those cameras finds its way into the hands of a porno producer?  Ultra slo-mo money shot, anyone?

Tokyo Sexwhale

Is a repeat of this going to be on BBC4 or somewhere in the near future?

sproggy

Quote from: "abbot lau"3) Looks like leopard slugs have a damn good sex life.

That was quite stunning wasn't it.

Put me in mind of the Pink Floyd Pulse tour finale.

Wouldn't it be great if all blokes knobs could do that, we'd never leave the house.

emo_bliss

*bump*

That was just incredible. Perhaps the best thing that's been on tv this year. I had a lump in my throat for the full hour - in fact, I'm on the verge of tears just thinking about it.

This is going to get a dvd release, right?

Almost Yearly

Yep, again, at least four or five "fucking hell"s. Attenborough TV is still at least as good as ever, even without taking the technological advances into account - that's another on for the TV thread.


(Though "David watches imaginary giant prehistoric dragonfly" was a bit of a cringe.)

All Surrogate

I'm really enjoying this show as well.  It keeps striking me how much insects and such are (like) really intricate machines; that brief clip of a weevil, which looked like a strange, sleek-black tank - looked like its head and thorax formed a ball and socket joint.  The hoverflies, damselflies and dragonflies were just incredible - one could fly through a waterfall!  I have to say that the first episode took my breath away with the mating of the leopard slugs.  I mean, why bright blue sex-organs that entwine and spiral and ... look so beautiful?!  To think all this would be happening without humanity, this profusion of life, this venting of existence.  Extraordinary.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

The Titan Beetle that was the biggest amazement for me.

Almost Yearly

And its "as yet unseen" larger larva. How does that work then? Uncle Dave can get his hands on an adult, albeit in a jungle in Elstree or wherever, but no-one's ever seen the übermaggot?

LordSnooty

It's a brillant thing. Makes you go "ooh" and "ahh" in equal measure. You learn a lot, and it's beautiful. The technology is wonderful too, and enlightens us so much more. Even the fact that it was just 48 mins long for the US didn't detract, we got a nice insight into how it's all shot. The little spider farm fascinated me.

As well as being all that it's one of the strongest arguments for evolution - an Intelligent Designer simply couldn't be arsed creating all these different variations. Can you imagine them struggling with the task of coming up with humans... , "yeh, if I make them breed while clinging to a rock under a waterfall... " (later on) "Nahh! That didn't do much. OK, how about if we get the wasp to lay eggs inside a newly-born caterpillar...  hmm, potential... Oh, how's it going  for the moth which drinks sugar solution from a mayfly's ass? Any sign of language or free will?"

Maximash

Oh great, huge fuck-off spiders next week, think I might have to miss that one.

Almost Yearly

I think what gets people about spiders is they do a fair old impression of free will.


If Intelligent Designer and Evolution are the only choices, I'll take (b), otherwise I'll take (c).
.

Boss Mew

Quote from: "Claude the Lion Tamer"The Titan Beetle that was the biggest amazement for me.

You could put a lead on that thing and walk it around town
Much more interesting than a chihuaha

I'm quite looking forward to the spiders next week
I don't like them in real life so much but I'm finding myself more fascinated by the beggers as I get older

I don't think I'll be getting an ' Incy Wincy' though...

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

That's an interesting theory Almost. What gets me about spiders however is their sheer unremitting evil.

Almost Yearly

I'm not altogether sure of the difference, hang on, I'll ask God.