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Offline mrclose

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Strange But Beautiful
« on: Sunday, Jul 29, 2018 03:09 pm »
I have been watching "Planet Earth" on the BBC channel and last evening they had an episode called "South Pacific".
(Sometimes, I get really tired of the political shows)

Well, I just had to download a copy of the entire episode ... just to cut out and put a two minute segment of the documentary on Youtube to share!
(I kept a copy of the entire video in case anyone is interested)

This is the part where strange creatures who come out only at night from the deepest part of the Pacific.

He says in the video that the Seahorses shown have never been seen before?

Then how did Salviati know what they looked like when he created my set of Seahorse stems? :shrug:



I get a kick out of the one that flashes in the colors of our traffic lights!

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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, Jul 29, 2018 03:22 pm »
Planet Earth has magnificent photography. I tune out the "climate change" propaganda.
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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #2 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 04:20 am »
Planet Earth has magnificent photography. I tune out the "climate change" propaganda.
Like National Geographic. Finally, I can actually say I just look at the pictures and rarely read the articles (because of the AGW tripe) When I was younger, the photography was always impressive, but I read the articles, too.
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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #3 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 11:14 am »
I haven't seen this series.  Amazing!

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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #4 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 11:20 am »
Like National Geographic. Finally, I can actually say I just look at the pictures and rarely read the articles.

I did that also.  But with Playboy.   wink777
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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #5 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 12:54 pm »
Planet Earth has magnificent photography. I tune out the "climate change" propaganda.

They also tend to sneak in Evolution from time to time.
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Re: Strange But Beautiful
« Reply #6 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 01:59 pm »
They also tend to sneak in Evolution from time to time.
They certainly do.
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, Jul 30, 2018 06:54 pm »
I did that also.  But with Playboy.   wink777
Yabbut people claimed to 'just read the articles' (Yeah, right) in Playboy. So it is an interesting reversal. Besides the images of native nubility in far away places have been pretty much covered with T-shirts and the like in Nat Geo.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis