God I Love the Discovery Channel

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-04-09 04:56pm

Tomorrow night there's a movie called "Supervolcano" coming out about what would happen if Yellowstone erupted.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-04-09 05:07pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Tomorrow night there's a movie called "Supervolcano" coming out about what would happen if Yellowstone erupted.

I saw it with ASU's geology club on Thursday, advance screenings are sexy, and so is the movie.

J · Post by J » 2005-04-09 05:51pm

It's about the only channel I watch these days. I do wish they'd put on more science shows instead of having replays of Monster Garage and American Chopper everyday.

Looking forward to it. And the Mythbusters of course.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-04-09 05:56pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Tomorrow night there's a movie called "Supervolcano" coming out about what would happen if Yellowstone erupted.
I saw it with ASU's geology club on Thursday, advance screenings are sexy, and so is the movie.

Awww... sucknut! The UCD geology club didn't get a screening, how'd you get it? Are you a geologist, or just a fan?

BTW, did anyone see the DSC's movie "The Great Smallpox Pandemic of 2003"? Chilling.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-04-09 06:00pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
Alyrium Denryle wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Tomorrow night there's a movie called "Supervolcano" coming out about what would happen if Yellowstone erupted.
I saw it with ASU's geology club on Thursday, advance screenings are sexy, and so is the movie.
Awww... sucknut! The UCD geology club didn't get a screening, how'd you get it? Are you a geologist, or just a fan?

BTW, did anyone see the DSC's movie "The Great Smallpox Pandemic of 2003"? Chilling.

Just a fan. I am a bio major, but apparantly The Discovery Channel contacted the geology club a few weeks ago, and I have a friend who's major is geology, he invited me to attend.. I even got a free t-shirt and poster out of the deal

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-04-09 06:10pm

Yeah, ASU is one of those "famous" geology schools that wouldn't take me. F$%^ing UCD!

So, you're saying this movie won't be '10.5' ?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-04-09 06:16pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Yeah, ASU is one of those "famous" geology schools that wouldn't take me. F$%^ing UCD! So, you're saying this movie won't be '10.5' ?

It very much was a 10.5

finally a disaster movie that doesnt rape science.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-04-09 06:21pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Yeah, ASU is one of those "famous" geology schools that wouldn't take me. F$%^ing UCD! So, you're saying this movie won't be '10.5' ?
It very much was a 10.5

finally a disaster movie that doesnt rape science.

I meant "10.5, the bad disaster movie that raped science made by NBC".

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-04-09 06:24pm

I love Discovery Channel and its spinoff channels, too. And the commercials for Supervolcano looked rather intriguing; I'll definitely be watching.

Count me in as another Mythbusters fan. "Quack, damn you!"

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-04-09 06:30pm

I'll be the sourpuss here. The Discovery channel and it's subchannels blow as a viable info source on science. They are more into entertainment nowadays and educaton and accuracy takes a back seat. Bah. No longer watch this nonsense.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-04-09 06:44pm

Lord Zentei wrote:I'll be the sourpuss here. The Discovery channel and it's subchannels blow as a viable info source on science. They are more into entertainment nowadays and educaton and accuracy takes a back seat. Bah. No longer watch this nonsense.

Dude when I watched it, the geology club, which had vowed to throw popcorn at the screen for any inaccuracies.. threw no popcorn

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-04-09 06:49pm

Of course, its the Discovery Channel, not the Scifi Channel.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-04-09 06:49pm

I'll be the sourpuss here. The Discovery channel and it's subchannels blow as a viable info source on science.

I'll be the anti-sourpuss here and tell you that a lot of people turn to those square things with all the flat flappy sheets - y'know, "books" - for accurate science information. When I turn on the cathode ray, I want mindless entertainment, dammit.

Post by **Broomstick** » 2005-04-09 06:51pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
Alyrium Denryle wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Yeah, ASU is one of those "famous" geology schools that wouldn't take me. F$%^ing UCD! So, you're saying this movie won't be '10.5' ?
It very much was a 10.5

finally a disaster movie that doesnt rape science.
I meant "10.5, the bad disaster movie that raped science made by NBC".

Which recently ran on the SciFi channel (where it belongs).

The Other Half and I did a MST3K on it, including throwing dirty socks at the screen when a particularly egregious error was spewed forth. (We used to throw popcorn, but there were hygiene issues if we didn't clean up immediately, which sort of ruins the party atmosphere)

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-04-09 06:54pm

SPOOFE wrote:
I'll be the sourpuss here. The Discovery channel and it's subchannels blow as a viable info source on science.
I'll be the anti-sourpuss here and tell you that a lot of people turn to those square things with all the flat flappy sheets - y'know, "books" - for accurate science information. When I turn on the cathode ray, I want mindless entertainment, dammit.

Yeah, too bad they make themselves out to be a science channel as opposed to an entertainment channel.

As for the Sci-Fi channel and their "documentaries"... no comment.

TheDarkOne · Post by **TheDarkOne** » 2005-04-09 09:22pm

Discover channel is good, but there's too many of those bike building and other similar shows. wtf are those doing on discovery? Of course, it used to be there were way too many nature shows on discovery, but I guess they had get something to replace them when they all moved to "Animal Plannet".

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-04-09 10:12pm

Welcome to last month.

The DVD of this BBC TV movie was out before the second part showed too, as they seem to do now. The acting was quite good and it does go for worst case scenario, but it can't be as bad as this 10.5 I keep hearing about and have yet to be treated to.

The documentaries that were on after the two eps were good too and I believe on the DVD.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-04-09 11:22pm

TheDarkOne wrote:Discover channel is good, but there's too many of those bike building and other similar shows. wtf are those doing on discovery?

That's the one thing that really pisses me off about the Discovery Channel. That's great, those people can build cool bikes and stuff, but watching people scream at each other for an hour is just stupid.

I'll probably tape it, looks interesting enough but I'd rather not sit through 50 American Chopper commercials.

jcow79 · Post by **jcow79** » 2005-04-10 01:36am

Does no one here actually get Discovery Science? I think it's actually just called the Science Channel but it doesn't have ANY of the crap that the regular Discovery channel plays. It's like non-stop science documentaries. On my cable it's on channel 272 so a lot of people don't even know it exists. Had a hell of a time finding it on my friends satellite service as well but we did find it eventually. It's abbreviated SCICH in my channel guide. Anyone with the most basic cable will likely not get it but if you have digital cable or satellite check it out. I watch all the time.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-04-10 03:06am

Yeah, too bad they make themselves out to be a science channel as opposed to an entertainment channel.

Oh yeah? I musta missed those commercials. Y'know, the commercials where they DIDN'T glamorize and hype up their stuff the way most entertainment mediums do...

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2005-04-10 06:58am

jcow79 wrote:Does no one here actually get Discovery Science? I think it's actually just called the Science Channel but it doesn't have ANY of the crap that the regular Discovery channel plays. It's like non-stop science documentaries. On my cable it's on channel 272 so a lot of people don't even know it exists. Had a hell of a time finding it on my friends satellite service as well but we did find it eventually. It's abbreviated SCICH in my channel guide. Anyone with the most basic cable will likely not get it but if you have digital cable or satellite check it out. I watch all the time.

I got it, and I watch it all the time. Tomorrow night they have a show called "When Yellowstone Erupts", I think I'm gonna watch that instead of "Supervolcano"

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-04-10 11:39am

SPOOFE wrote:
Yeah, too bad they make themselves out to be a science channel as opposed to an entertainment channel.
Oh yeah? I musta missed those commercials. Y'know, the commercials where they DIDN'T glamorize and hype up their stuff the way most entertainment mediums do...

They do certainly glamorize and hype their stuff up, but they are nonetheless presenting their material as valid documentaries with true scientific content - and entertainment value also, of course. My gripe is that the scientific content takes a back seat, and is sometimes quite absent. Of course I can tell when this is so as can most members of this board, but not kids or the general public. To my mind that represents misinformation.

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-04-10 12:26pm

Lord Zentei wrote:They do certainly glamorize and hype their stuff up, but they are nonetheless presenting their material as valid documentaries with true scientific content - and entertainment value also, of course. My gripe is that the scientific content takes a back seat, and is sometimes quite absent. Of course I can tell when this is so as can most members of this board, but not kids or the general public. To my mind that represents misinformation.

Back before I became skeptical, I saw UFO documentaries on the Discovery Channel, and their treatment was far from unbiased. I believed in all sorts of supernatural nonsense back then, and mostly because of overly credulous shows on the Discovery Channel.

The best of them was Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, since that show always featured a certain party-pooping author at the end saying that he doesn't believe in any of this stuff and that you should remain skeptical. I don't think they show that one anymore.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2005-04-10 09:47pm

So, is anyone else watching it?

Mr. Coffee · Post by **Mr. Coffee** » 2005-04-10 10:01pm

Yeah, watching it. Posting this during the break. Also taping it for watching later. I hope they put this out on DVD so I can add it to my disaster movie collection.

One question, that scene in the airliner. What was all that blue crackly looking stuff? I guess it was some sort of electrical discharge, but what was causing it, static electricity from the ash?

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