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carpe_ho_ras crowd -- which I picked up again), and I must say, it's no wonder this is THC's most watched show: it's humbling, it's wibble-inducing, it's exciting, it's thought-provoking, and just plain absorbing. The only times it's been Nightmare Fuel-ish was the segment on Boston (too close to home :: wibbles::) and any time they deal with bad ends for domestic or contained animals (footage shot by the caretakers of the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans returning after Katrina: I was in tears). But there are a few heart-warming moments, particularly one bit where a marine biologist mused over dolphins possibly passing on legends of humans, through sound pictures, and even one smirk-inducing moment, when an engineer wondered what some alien archaeologists would think if they uncovered a submerged vault under whats left of the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan, if they'd take it for some strange, drowned temple. But it's rather fun to watch time taking its toll on famous landmarks and causing things to go "ker-smash!!!" My favorite bits have to be the segments where real-life abandoned structures are shown, including an abandoned amusement park in Pennsylvania, a housing complex for coal miners on an island in Japan, sections of Gary, Indiana, and an Abandoned Hospital in New York City that housed the infamous Typhoid Mary at one point (though these can be poignant as well: case in point a segment on Centralia, Pennsylvania, which had to be evacuated due to an underground anthracite fire that's made the place just unlivable since the 1980s, and a segment on Prypiat [sp??] near Chernobyl, in the hour and a half documentary that the series spun off from).
The first season of the series is on Hulu.com, while I managed to find the documentary on YouTube: just ignore the comments, which are mostly the usual YouTube idiocy. I'd like to smack the idiots who kept asking "werz teh kewl myootantz???////" on the segment about Chernobyl. Real Life Is Unrealistic, punks, and the only mutants that came out of Chernobyl are some unfortunate kids with serious health issues, such as Down's Syndrome and chromosomal glitches and thyroid cancer. Some of them won't live beyond their teens (and I can't help wanting to take the health from the hoodlums and trade it with the Chernobyl kids' illnesses...)
I'm also of a mind this could be a prequel to "Firefly", since it's deliberately never specified *how* the humans vanished, but they very well could have left to colonize what becomes the 'Verse.
carpe_ho_ras crowd -- which I picked up again), and I must say, it's no wonder this is THC's most watched show: it's humbling, it's wibble-inducing, it's exciting, it's thought-provoking, and just plain absorbing. The only times it's been Nightmare Fuel-ish was the segment on Boston (too close to home :: wibbles::) and any time they deal with bad ends for domestic or contained animals (footage shot by the caretakers of the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans returning after Katrina: I was in tears). But there are a few heart-warming moments, particularly one bit where a marine biologist mused over dolphins possibly passing on legends of humans, through sound pictures, and even one smirk-inducing moment, when an engineer wondered what some alien archaeologists would think if they uncovered a submerged vault under whats left of the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan, if they'd take it for some strange, drowned temple. But it's rather fun to watch time taking its toll on famous landmarks and causing things to go "ker-smash!!!" My favorite bits have to be the segments where real-life abandoned structures are shown, including an abandoned amusement park in Pennsylvania, a housing complex for coal miners on an island in Japan, sections of Gary, Indiana, and an Abandoned Hospital in New York City that housed the infamous Typhoid Mary at one point (though these can be poignant as well: case in point a segment on Centralia, Pennsylvania, which had to be evacuated due to an underground anthracite fire that's made the place just unlivable since the 1980s, and a segment on Prypiat [sp??] near Chernobyl, in the hour and a half documentary that the series spun off from). The first season of the series is on Hulu.com, while I managed to find the documentary on YouTube: just ignore the comments, which are mostly the usual YouTube idiocy. I'd like to smack the idiots who kept asking "werz teh kewl myootantz???////" on the segment about Chernobyl. Real Life Is Unrealistic, punks, and the only mutants that came out of Chernobyl are some unfortunate kids with serious health issues, such as Down's Syndrome and chromosomal glitches and thyroid cancer. Some of them won't live beyond their teens (and I can't help wanting to take the health from the hoodlums and trade it with the Chernobyl kids' illnesses...)
I'm also of a mind this could be a prequel to "Firefly", since it's deliberately never specified *how* the humans vanished, but they very well could have left to colonize what becomes the 'Verse.
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:22 pm (UTC)I have heard that some areas of Vietnam that were severely exposed to the chemical Agent Orange, have indeed suffered births of children who show "mutations" but these are far from cool, and some need almost round the clock medical attention.
Youtube idiocy often puts me in mind of the famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein "Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."