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Title: Earth Day
Post by: Xessive on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 10:03:29 AM
Did anyone know (or care) that it was Earth day today?

I like the idea, but isn't everyday Earth day? I mean considering we're pretty much restricted to the planet.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: idolminds on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 10:47:43 AM
Ah crap, I forgot to send a card.

Wait a minute....
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: nickclone on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 10:50:12 AM
If I don't get the day off, I don't care...but I don't have a job so I wouldn't care anyways.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Quemaqua on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 10:54:22 AM
We saw people doing stuff around town.  We didn't do anything.  Julia and I are both kinda' enviro-friendly and such, but the whole Earth Day thing always seemed worthless to me.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Pugnate on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:00:54 AM
Well Battlestar shall be arriving soon, so enjoy the planet while you can.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:17:34 AM
I only knew it was Earth Day because the Science and Discovery channel have been throwing out advertisements about special Sunday showings of Earth Day programs, some of them look pretty cool, but I'll be at work soon and will miss most of them.

Also has anyone been watching Planet Earth on Discovery Channel?  It is a pretty awesome miniseries so far, completely shot in HD, so it looks really nice, took 4 or 5 years to make it and you can see the work that went into it.  They showed this super slow motion shot of a crocodile taking down a wildebeast by the water, pretty fucking cool.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: iPPi on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:31:44 AM
I will celebrate by playing some World of Warcraft and studying for my last final exam.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Quemaqua on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:55:41 AM
Planet Earth looked awesome, but we haven't really managed to catch it yet.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Ghandi on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 02:11:41 PM
Earth day is for hippies. Dirty hippies.

/me realizes he lives in a town full of hippies

Oh yeah..go earth day....
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: ren on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 04:29:45 PM
I mean considering we're pretty much restricted to the planet.

Tell that to gpw
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Antares on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 04:37:28 PM
I would have had no idea  today was earth day if one of my friends hand't mentioned it last night.  I celebrated by sleeping most of the day.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: iPPi on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 04:43:33 PM
I found out by the Google logo.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 04:52:23 PM
Also has anyone been watching Planet Earth on Discovery Channel?  It is a pretty awesome miniseries so far, completely shot in HD, so it looks really nice, took 4 or 5 years to make it and you can see the work that went into it.  They showed this super slow motion shot of a crocodile taking down a wildebeast by the water, pretty fucking cool.
It was made by the BBC, and is now being re-broadcast by the Discovery Channel. The narrator is David Attenborough.

And that slow-motion scene you're talking about isn't even the cool one.
(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2113/sharkattack1ant9.png) (http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/851/sharkattack1sj6.jpg) (http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3826/sharkattack2atv3.png) (http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3850/sharkattack2og2.jpg)
That, er, was a seal.

pwnd
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Antares on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 04:59:32 PM
The discovery channel version is narrated by sigourney weaver.  I agree though, the two ultra slow motion shots of the great whites are possibly the most amazing thing I have ever seen on TV.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 05:00:41 PM
The discovery channel version is narrated by sigourney weaver. 
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I agree though, the two ultra slow motion shots of the great whites are possibly the most amazing thing I have ever seen on TV.
For the record, those are two different images from the same sequence, in which a shark ambushes a seal from below and leaps completely out of the water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIIQoZH1sk).
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: idolminds on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 05:02:38 PM
I found out by the Google logo.
haha, me too.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: angrykeebler on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 05:15:33 PM
My allegiance lies with the Red Planet- Mars. Fuck the Earth.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 09:26:42 PM
I haven't seen the shark one yet, I hope to get the DVDs or at least rent them sometime.
Title: Re: Earth Day
Post by: Xessive on Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:30:20 PM
Tell that to gpw
Haha