Discovery Planet Earth

[Shibby]

Anyone watch this? Bouncer? There are a lot of intriguing concepts but they run each idea way too long. There is so much stuff between the theory and the experiments execution it makes it hard to watch a whole episode.

[Bouncer]

are you talking about "Planet Earth" where they filmed all this groundbreaking nature footage? or are you talking about that show where they talk about ways to fix global warming etc..

[Shibby]

Ways to fix global warming.

[Pumpdogg]

Great idea's like you said, but just not pratcial.. Blankies for the ice?? Yeah that isnt going to happen

[Shibby]

I just watched the one about reforestation and it was much more interesting. Everything was practical except the seedlings (after 3 months) didn't take root. The seedlings developed a root system but stopped after that.

[Bouncer]

watching it now on the science channel. i will let you know what i think.

[Shibby]

I also watched the one about creating clouds. It wasn't as interesting but it was ok.

[Bouncer]

i fell asleep watching it. lol. it was actualy kind of interesting about how they started using all those resources to carry the blankets to the glacier that it became "non green" again. not sure why i fell asleep i was laying on the floor just sort of stretching out my muscles etc and fell asleep. lol

[Shibby]

Oh you watched the ice blankets one. That was the one I thought sucked. I would have fallen asleep too if I hadn't watched it in the middle of the day.

[Bouncer]

Oh you watched the ice blankets one. That was the one I thought sucked. I would have fallen asleep too if I hadn't watched it in the middle of the day.

it did bring up a good point though. in the attempt to be resourceful, you can sometimes be wasteful. takes careful planning and a little bit of creative thinking to make these things work.

[Shibby]

I am very impressed by the English guy Basil Singer age 30

Meet the Task Force: Discovery Channel




Dr. Basil Singer — The Scientist

A quantum physicist, science geek, television presenter, skateboarder and kite surfer, Dr. Basil Singer is a man of many talents. Not afraid of a bit of adventure, he is an “extreme scientist” and is equally adept at freezing atoms to the point of absolute zero or catching monumental air with his kite board.

When he’s not filming science shows or explaining the physics behind break dancing, Dr. Singer can be found in the lab at the family business, Singer Instruments Co. Ltd, in Somerset, England. As both manager and senior physicist, it is his job to build and develop robots and scientific instrumentation for institutions worldwide that do research on cancer treatments.

A self-confessed nerd, Dr. Singer has a profound passion for science, particularly physics. While working toward his Ph.D., Dr. Singer froze atoms to three micro Kelvin — that’s three millionth of a degree above absolute zero, the coldest temperature in the universe. This data helped him and other scientists observe the behavior of electrons as they whizzed around the nucleus inside the atoms. The results of these experiments could one day see us develop teleportation devices and supercomputer brains the size of a grain of sand.

[Shibby]

I just watched one about using a aerial turbine (balloon wind generator) that is very interesting. You can put them just about anywhere but there is a huge cost in the helium production.

[Bouncer]

i will have to catch that one.

[Shibby]

The latest one was about creating more of a certain type of plankton in the ocean by pumping nutrient rich water from the bottom of the ocean to the top. The designs simplicity is neat, but the whole thing show so many problems messing with the oceans eco-system and having to deploy millions of the pumps.

[Shibby]

I watched the one about the lenses to deflect 2% of the suns rays. This episode was pretty lame. The biggest problem right now is that it's way to expensive to test is full scale (hundreds of trillions) and anything at a reduced scale has a lot of low tech flaws destroying the experiments.