tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588308263522848407.post4759369106389836000..comments2013-03-03T07:28:37.332-08:00Comments on The Space Observer: Best Space DocumentariesWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07942891847552781911noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588308263522848407.post-50660434076745433282013-03-03T07:28:37.332-08:002013-03-03T07:28:37.332-08:00Hi. Thank you for these nice documentary suggestio...Hi. Thank you for these nice documentary suggestions. I really just hate those kind of documentaries which aim at the "MTV Generation" as you call it. I want detailed information on the stuff. The series "The Universe" just keeps on repeating the same sentences in an episode which really is bugging me. It's as if they think I can't understand things on the first time so they need to say it five times. Also, they always exagerate stuff like "if a strangelet would touch the earth, everything becomes - strange". What nonsense, as if such a thing would realy happen. All this "the asteroid could hit the earth", "the sun will explode and destroy earth", "a black hole will eat up the earth"..yeah, sure, I got it. But it's so extremely unlikely that it's just stupid to focus on such things in a documantary to make the universe more exciting. They tell me that neutron stars may have a quark-gluon-plasma core. But they don't tell me what that is. It's just stupid and superficial.<br /><br />Thank god there are enough books to read in more detail, but still it sucks. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12277082479300283650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588308263522848407.post-47675465038206681552012-09-19T05:06:18.534-07:002012-09-19T05:06:18.534-07:00Absolutely. As it happens I stumbled upon an excel...Absolutely. As it happens I stumbled upon an excellent documentary on Earth that has the same magic, lack of talking heads and excellent visuals called "Earth: Making of a Planet" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856691/) This is from the same director as the "Journey to the Edge of the Universe", so that might be a reason why. The Earth-Thea impact sequence is one of the best ways this event was shown, same goes for the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. The only area where this movie failed to convey is the feeling of aeons of time that have passed since the Earth was created - and how little our history is compared to that. In the beginning of the movie the years area fast-forwarded by billions - a lot more than the entire dinosaur, mammal and human history that the entire 2nd half of the movie is about.WMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07942891847552781911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588308263522848407.post-72746256513120038772012-09-18T16:02:28.913-07:002012-09-18T16:02:28.913-07:00Thanks for the list. I agree with your top entry. ...Thanks for the list. I agree with your top entry. Journey to the Edge of the Universe is a wonderfully beautiful adventure. I'm trying to find something similar which captures the magic without killing it with regular talking heads and attempts to explain things with footage of goings-on down on Earth. Can you recommend any that stick to the magic that Journey has?Charlieboy13https://www.blogger.com/profile/03306441674509596188noreply@blogger.com