The Future is Wild

[GL2814]

Has anyone seen this show on Animal Planet? I think it is an intresting show. The only thing They did not take into account is the sun. I mean 200 million years in the future the sun would most likely be a giant red sun. Mercury and venus would have been consumed by the sun and the heat from the sun would most likely killed all forms of life on Earth.

 

[Illuminatus]

I mean 200 million years in the future the sun would most likely be a giant red sun.

You're a bit off. We're 4-5 billion years from that point.

 

[Kripost]

For some reason, the makers of the film seem to like molluscs.

 

[Yamialpha]

I seriously doubt if mankind will exist during that time.

 

[HeatherJay]

For some reason, the makers of the film seem to like molluscs.

I noticed that too...they definitely seem a tad biased.

I especially liked the squid monkeys swinging from the trees.

 

[HeatherJay]

Oh, and equally outrageous, lol, their show Dragons Alive. I have a 6 year old who is now firmly convinced that flying dragons actually existed and refuses to listen to me when I tell her they're only pretend..."No, Mommy, they're really real! I saw the dragon bones!" Way to go, Animal Planet!

 

[Yamialpha]

Oh, and equally outrageous, lol, their show Dragons Alive. I have a 6 year old who is now firmly convinced that flying dragons actually existed and refuses to listen to me when I tell her they're only pretend..."No, Mommy, they're really real! I saw the dragon bones!" Way to go, Animal Planet!

Does the show actually claim that dragons once existed?

 

[HeatherJay]

Does the show actually claim that dragons once existed?

Well, they state that it's meant to be fantasy and they show how they came up with the concepts of the different dragons...BUT the whole show is set up to sound like it's real...they show "fossils" of dragons and tell about the regions of the world in which they were 'found'...they include computer generated animations, and they include the different "breeds" of dragons...they even went so far as to show the way dragons mate and care for their young.

I was a tad disappointed with Animal Planet on that one. My daughter and I watched the whole show. She totally ignored the part about it being fantasy and only seemed to hear the part about these "real" facts about flying, fire-breathing dragons. I'm sure she wasn't the only 6 year old who is convinced it was real, either.

 

[Yamialpha]

Well, they state that it's meant to be fantasy and they show how the came up with the concepts of the different dragons...BUT the whole show is set up to sound like it's real...they show "fossils" of dragons and tell about the regions of the world in which they were 'found'...they include computer generated animations, and they include the different "breeds" of dragons...they even went so far as to show the way dragons mate and care for their young.

I was a tad disappointed with Animal Planet on that one. My daughter and I watched the whole show. She totally ignored the part about it being fantasy and only seemed to hear the part about these "real" facts about dragons. I'm sure she wasn't the only 6 year old, either.

Really. I thought of Animal Planet as being educational-especially for young children. Showing fantasy programs like that doens't seem very educational.

 

[HeatherJay]

Really. I thought of Animal Planet as being educational-especially for young children. Showing fantasy programs like that doens't seem very educational.

I totally agree.

 

[PACKY]

Has anyone seen this show on Animal Planet? I think it is an intresting show. The only thing They did not take into account is the sun. I mean 200 million years in the future the sun would most likely be a giant red sun. Mercury and venus would have been consumed by the sun and the heat from the sun would most likely killed all forms of life on Earth.

Thats why we need to MIGRATE, we need to pool our universal human intellect, resources and finances and work to find ways to ensure the human race continues to flourish, MARS is a stepping stone, it is a experiment, once we start to go from one plante to teh next with new sceintific advancements we can leap frog all throughout the universe.

 

[QubeMaster]

I just watched that show to see all of the cool animals. Some of the stuff they thought of it really cool. Others is just bogus.

 

[PACKY]

Think that show was wild..nationl geographic is airing a show called E.T. on monday
with "fantasy" creatures and what if's....when networks show these types of programs they should include disclaimers in the beggining at the end of every commercial break as well as the end...these shows are watched by people of all ages and varying degrees of intellegence. it can do more harm then good if people arent made aware that it is not yet real..or it is at this time fantasy..

 

[Yamialpha]

Thats why we need to MIGRATE, we need to pool our universal human intellect, resources and finances and work to find ways to ensure the human race continues to flourish, MARS is a stepping stone, it is a experiment, once we start to go from one plante to teh next with new sceintific advancements we can leap frog all throughout the universe.

Thankfully we have plenty of time to prepare for such a voyage, although the problem is that such a trek will require so many resources that by the time the technology is there, we may not have the resources. That's why we need to start now.