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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #4927509 - 11/12/05 11:03 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

its not public access, its a business. i agree some of their stuff is goin downhill but whatever, im sure their makin a decent amount of change doin it.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: TheDude]
    #4927543 - 11/12/05 11:08 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

It depends if I'm really interested or not. I don't think it's that much different than reading retention. The difference is that usually when you read the quality of the information is better, so there are more facts available.

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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #4927545 - 11/12/05 11:08 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

Mythbusters absolutely rocks. No, it's not all very scientifically sound, but it's both fascinating and entertaining. I agree about the crappy "documentaries" though, and I don't much like Discovery's obvious pro-war/pro-military slant.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: TheDude]
    #4927685 - 11/12/05 11:51 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

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Any type of "educational programming" is a total joke. Have you ever really retained any educational information you've heard on tv (more than just a fact or two)? I don't know about you but I find it really difficult to digest the facts they spew out because the pace of the shows is so fast. They pile on bits of information one after another without leaving anytime to digest or review what has been said. That way after watching an hour show on WWII or whatever it might be, I haven't actually retained a single thing even though lots of facts were presented.

At least if I read about this stuff I can pause and think about the material or reread parts I find interesting so they're committed to memory but with TV that isn't possible.




The old Discovery channel is the primary reason for my constant 1-upping of science teachers as a child... reading helped, but watching 2 to 5 hours of educational TV per day was mostly to blame. But then again, I dont know what it's like nowadays.

PBS is just the shit though.

I have a pretty face paced mind, so when I read I cant stand that my reading pace forces me to wait in between facts, but when presented with an audiovisual production containing entertainment interwoven with learning at a decent pace, I enjoy it and retain quite a bit. Many mongols, for example, have been found to be descendants of what is beleived to be the real culture that we know of as the amazon warrior women. normal highland mongol parents had a light skinned, blonde, blue eyed little girl... which, assuming mendelian genetics is correct, means that (since blue eyes and blonde hair are recessive genes) both of her parents had ancestry in a european race, which was connected to the amazons.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: Stonerguy]
    #4928195 - 11/13/05 06:07 AM (18 years, 4 months ago)

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Dolphins in SC and Georgia marshes are known to throw fish up on land and eat from there.





dolphins are mamals, just as orca are, so neither of those count

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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #4928242 - 11/13/05 07:06 AM (18 years, 4 months ago)

Yes, Discovery channel is crap. I only watch the National Geographic and BBC Learning anymore.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: ivi]
    #4928615 - 11/13/05 11:39 AM (18 years, 4 months ago)

discovery channels owns when they do specials about killers and drugs.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #4928635 - 11/13/05 11:45 AM (18 years, 4 months ago)

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Dolphins in SC and Georgia marshes are known to throw fish up on land and eat from there.





dolphins are mamals, just as orca are, so neither of those count




Yes I know(I actually thought of that also). I disagree with fish being able to do it. Whenever I take fish out of the water for more than a couple of seconds they start to like gag..


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: Stonerguy]
    #4928668 - 11/13/05 11:58 AM (18 years, 4 months ago)

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dolphins are mamals, just as orca are, so neither of those count



Yes I know(I actually thought of that also). I disagree with fish being able to do it.





what about these?


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #4928681 - 11/13/05 12:02 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

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dolphins are mamals, just as orca are, so neither of those count



Yes I know(I actually thought of that also).  I disagree with fish being able to do it. 





what about these?






From the looks of the URL it looks like a sea lion and dolphon photoshoped together :grin:.


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Re: FUCKING DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #4928706 - 11/13/05 12:14 PM (18 years, 4 months ago)

I just watch the science and national geographic channels.

Discovery started sucking a LONG time ago.

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