history channel "life after people"

[Billy's Little Trip]

I tivo'd it and finally watched it. It was pretty cool. But all based on educated theory, obviously. Some of it seemed a bit off to me, but I'm no expert. It was still fun and interesting to watch.
Here >> http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people/
I really like the History Channel and try to record all of the specials about Earth, space and nature. Not so into the military and political stuff, but find myself watching it anyway, quite often.

[ujnhunter]

can't believe no one replied... poor BLT... anyhow I've seen most of this show... (I think I missed the beginning of it...) pretty neat... I liked the Skyscrapers how they turn into multi level jungles... I also really like the History/Discovery type channels and it's really the only thing I ever watch on TV, except for hockey... go Pens!

[Hoblit]

I never saw this post until you resurrected it.

I saw this a while back. It was interesting enough to get me to watch it to the end... but I thought it was pretty speculative. I mean, I know it has to be but I think the theory is leaving out a huge amount of possible variables such as climate change,platonic drift, and other possible alteration of animal habitation based on evolution.

I too am no expert but the show seemed a little OUT THERE at times. That and what does this possible future have to do with HISTORY... I noticed that the history channel isn't necessarily about history these days. It's been leaning towards Discovery.

[fluffy]

platonic drift

ITYM "tectonic."

Sounds like an interesting show. I'll have to see about finding a copy of it to watch.

[erik]

I don't have cable, but I'm so stealing "platonic drift".

[frankie big face]

Freud *heart* Hoblit.

[fluffy]

"Platonic" has nothing to do with sex (or lack thereof) - it actually refers to the abstract mathematical/philosophical ideal. It's unfortunate that people only know of the word it in terms of "platonic relationship" (which of course just refers to a relationship which is about, well, the relationship itself).

Even with all that, it still has nothing to do with the tectonic plates.

[frankie big face]

You could have ended that last post with . I mean, I'm just saying, it was an opportunity lost.

[fluffy]

I could have.

[erik]

2. a. Of love, affection, or friendship: intimate and affectionate but not sexual; spiritual rather than physical. Now usually with lower-case initial.

1631 B. JONSON New Inne III. ii. 238 Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick! gi' you ioy O' you Platonick loue here. 1638 R. BURTON Anat. Melancholy (rev. ed.) III. III. II. I. iii. 420 It was not his person that she did embrace and reverence, but with a Platonicke love, the divine beauty of his soule. 1678 J. NORRIS Coll. Misc. (1699) 355 Platonic Love is the Love of Beauty abstracted from all sensual Applications, and desire of Corporal Contact. 1742 H. FIELDING Joseph Andrews II. IV. xv. 291 If they found themselves to be really Brother and Sister they vowed a perpetual Celibacy, and to live together all their Days, and indulge a Platonick Friendship for each other. 1788 S. LOW Politician Out-witted V. ii. 59 When I talk of a passion, superior to mere Platonic love, you are afraid. a1817 J. AUSTEN Lady Susan x, in Wks. (1954) VI. 258 We are advancing now towards some kind of confidence, and in short are likely to be engaged in a kind of platonic friendship. 1862 Bradford Advertiser 8 Mar. 6/1 As well might be said that Tories of the olden time only fought for..a Platonic love for rotten boroughs. 1905 ‘A. CAMBRIDGE’ Platonic Friendship v. 67 What is known as a platonic friendship is generally nothing of the kind. 1928 A. HUXLEY Point Counter Point xiii. 232 He had such a pure, childlike and platonic way of going to bed with women, that neither they nor he ever considered that the process really counted as going to bed. 1957 J. D. MACDONALD Man of Affairs iii. 43, I did not see how any platonic relationship between Mike and this total woman would be possible. 1995 Daily Express 17 Mar. 29/2 If you have a physical attraction, who wants to remain platonic friends?.. But if you get into sex, the friendship goes.

[frankie big face]

A-HA!

[Hoblit]

Leave it to me to accidentally derail a thread with a stupid mistake of a word replacing "tectonic."

[fluffy]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/platonic

Main Entry:
pla·ton·ic Listen to the pronunciation of platonic
Pronunciation:
\plə-ˈtä-nik, plā-\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Latin platonicus, from Greek platōnikos, from Platōn Plato
Date:
1533

1capitalized : of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism
2 a: relating to or based on platonic love; also : experiencing or professing platonic love b: of, relating to, or being a relationship marked by the absence of romance or sex
3: nominal, theoretical
— pla·ton·i·cal·ly Listen to the pronunciation of platonically \-ni-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Note #3, which in this case was the original meaning of the term. I don't deny that in the context of "platonic love" it has taken over but the origin still comes from #3. It's kind of like the word "molest" which used to just mean annoy/bother/trouble.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Leave it to me to accidentally derail a thread with a stupid mistake of a word replacing "tectonic."

No,that's good. The more posts I get in my thread, the more theoretical Internet money I make.
Beside, I knew you just ran plate tectonics together. I'm married to a Southern girl, so I speak fluent tard.

[roymond]

"Platonic" has nothing to do with sex (or lack thereof) - it actually refers to the abstract mathematical/philosophical ideal. It's unfortunate that people only know of the word it in terms of "platonic relationship" (which of course just refers to a relationship which is about, well, the relationship itself).

Even with all that, it still has nothing to do with the tectonic plates.

Wouldn't it then be about the relationship between the plates?

[fluffy]

I dunno, there's a LOT of bumping and grinding going on between them.