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UltraShame posted:I got to watch the NOVA documentary about their expedition to Everest, when they ended up finding George Mallory's body in 1999. It was great. The amount of corpses frozen forever on the side of the mountain is shocking. Many of the dead on Everest died climbing the glacier, falling between the cracks. Their bodies get ground up by the glacial shifts, repeatedly smashed and pulverized, and then eventually spat out. So, unfortunately, not entombed pristinely forever on the mountain side. Just, you know, fyi. Since you seemed interested in dead bodies on Everest. Anyway, not having checked this thread since page 4, any really awesome new space stuff? I've seen Cosmos and most of the older ones. The OP could use an update. Elijya fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Feb 6, 2012 |
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irrelephant posted:There are plenty of photographs of bodies on Everest, most huddling in the same position as when they took their last breath. They even become morbid landmarks, such is their permenancy, like ol' Green Boots. They sit there forever frozen, dead bodies right there beside the loving hiking trail because it would require an entire expedition with the sole purpose of just retrieving the body to move it further than a few yards. I followed that Everest...est...est thread and watched tons of the documentaries, films, etc, none of which mentioned any pulverized corpses as far as I can remember As for Terry Jones, he does great, lighthearted stuff all the time, although it's rarely modern history. If you have Netflix, up on streaming right now are Terry Jones: Ancient Inventions (three episodes on War, Sex, and City Life), The Hidden History of Rome, The Hidden History of Egypt, and The Story of 1, a PBS special about the number 1. Many of these are up on Youtube as well https://www.google.com/search?tbm=v...iw=1024&bih=594
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the worst are the close ups of black frostbitten faces with an open mouth silently screaming forever 
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Imapanda posted:I just finished Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe and am feeling this big urge to watch anything else related to the knowledge of the cosmos. I actually asked just up the page, and Fayez Butts gave me this Fayez Butts posted:I think the current goon favorites are Discovery's How The Universe Works, narrated by Mike Rowe and Into The Universe, narrated by Stephen Hawking and Benedict Cumberbatch (of Sherlock fame). If you're interested in the pure science without pretty graphics, I highly recommend this Lawrence Krauss lecture, A Universe from Nothing
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-talk regarding Dear Zachary again.
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Ignatius-J-R posted:QFT; this is a fantastic lecture. I've watched it over a dozens times. Glad to hear others dig it as well.
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If there were to be a new thread, it should have a new OP that tries to assemble and organize as many of the links from this thread as possible.
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