Documentaries

[Mr Invisible]

These guys were fucked

No ... The KLF are gonna rock ya....

UH HA UH HA UH HA...

3am am ... am am am ... 3am am ... eternaaaaaaaaaaaal

 

[Howard Moon]

This one is pretty heavy

The Bridge is a 2006 British-American documentary film by Eric Steel spanning one year of filming at the famed Golden Gate Bridge which crosses the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, connecting the city of San Francisco, California to the Marin Headlands of Marin County, in 2004. The film captured a number of suicides, and featured interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year.

 

[Howard Moon]

According to many authorities, since the late 1950's subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of media, at an increasingly alarming rate. "PROGRAMMING THE NATION?" examines the purported uses, influences and potential subconscious side-effects of what's going on beneath the surface of advertising, film, music and political propaganda. Even the US military has been accused of using this technology in their Psychological Operations Unit, (PSY OPS) campaign. This socially relevant documentary not only traces the history of this phenomenon, but seeks to determine the validity and potential threat that may or may not exist. Do you ever find yourself doing or buying things without any conscious reasoning? Why has consumer debt in America risen over 50% since 1990? How is it possible that the United States consumes about 25% of the world's resources while only making up 4.5% of the world's population? Are we all part of an elaborate scheme which has been programming the nation? Decide for yourself...

 

[MatstaDogg]

I just started watching this one.

Unlocked is a groundbreaking 8 part documentary series that provides firsthand stories by industry icons, celebrities, consumers, and field experts on the culture, technology, history, and future of the video game industry.

 

[Howard Moon]

I just started watching this.

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Unlocked is a groundbreaking 8 part documentary series that provides firsthand stories by industry icons, celebrities, consumers, and field experts on the culture, technology, history, and future of the video game industry.

That looks interesting, will have to check it out

 

[Howard Moon]

Marc Singer's "Dark Days" is a feature length documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. The film depicts a way of life which is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above. In the pitch blackness of the tunnel rats swarm through piles of garbage and high-speed trains out of Penn station tear through the darkness.

 

[Howard Moon]

Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. From crashing his plane over Africa to hobnobbing in Hollywood and his remarkable encounters with everyone from Walt Disney to President Roosevelt - this is the story of his greatest adventures and how his real-life escapades find expression in his most famous books, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Matilda.
Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive, the story is told largely in his own words with contributions from his last wife Liccy, daughter Lucy and biographer Donald Sturrock. Long-term collaborator and illustrator Quentin Blake also creates exclusive new drawings for the film which are specially animated to bring Dahl's marvellous world to life.

 

[rainman]

I'm with you, love documentaries and sport.

Obviously I love doccos on Assyria and the Mid East. Also love the conspiracy ones too.

SBS screen documentaries every night about the Middle East, it’s called the news

 

[rainman]

I love documentaries on space its fucks my head though lol

I thought lost in space was a documentary until I saw Dr Smith interviewed once

 

[The DoggFather]

SBS screen documentaries every night about the Middle East, it’s called the news

Fkn lol, I like the ME history, not the fucking polluted shit hole it is now.

 

[Howard Moon]

Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes.

In Tegmark's view, everything in the universe — humans included — is part of a mathematical structure. All matter is made up of particles, which have properties such as charge and spin, but these properties are purely mathematical, he says. And space itself has properties such as dimensions, but is still ultimately a mathematical structure.

"If you accept the idea that both space itself, and all the stuff in space, have no properties at all except mathematical properties," then the idea that everything is mathematical "starts to sound a little bit less insane," Tegmark said in a talk given Jan. 15 here at The Bell House. The talk was based on his book "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality"

Nature is full of math

The idea follows the observation that nature is full of patterns, such as the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. The flowering of an artichoke follows this sequence, for example, with the distance between each petal and the next matching the ratio of the numbers in the sequence.

The nonliving worldalso behaves in a mathematical way. If you throw a baseball in the air, it follows a roughly parabolic trajectory. Planets and other astrophysical bodies follow elliptical orbits.

"There's an elegant simplicity and beauty in nature revealed by mathematical patterns and shapes, which our minds have been able to figure out," said Tegmark, who loves math so much he has framed pictures of famous equations in his living room.

One consequence of the mathematical nature of the universe is that scientists could in theory predict every observation or measurement in physics. Tegmark pointed out that mathematics predicted the existence of the planet Neptune, radio waves and the Higgs boson particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass.

Some people argue that math is just a tool invented by scientists to explain the natural world. But Tegmark contends the mathematical structure found in the natural world shows that math exists in reality, not just in the human mind.

And speaking of the human mind, could we use math to explain the brain?

Mathematics of consciousness

Some have described the human brain as the most complex structure in the universe. Indeed, the human mind has made possible all of the great leaps in understanding our world.

Someday, Tegmark said, scientists will probably be able to describe even consciousness using math. (Carl Sagan is quoted as having said, "the brain is a very big place, in a very small space.")

"Consciousness is probably the way information feels when it's being processed in certain, very complicated ways," Tegmark said. He pointed out that many great breakthroughs in physics have involved unifying two things once thought to be separate: energy and matter, space and time, electricity and magnetism. He said he suspects the mind, which is the feeling of a conscious self, will ultimately be unified with the body, which is a collection of moving particles.

But if the brain is just math, does that mean free will doesn't exist, because the movements of particles could be calculated using equations? Not necessarily, he said.

One way to think of it is, if a computer tried to simulate what a person will do, the computation would take at least the same amount of time as performing the action. So some people have suggested defining free will as an inability to predict what one is going to do before the event occurs.

But that doesn't mean humans are powerless. Tegmark concluded his talk with a call to action: "Humans have the power not only to understand our world, but to shape and improve it."

 

[cntrbry bnkstwn]

sunderland till i die on netflix, poor ***** relegated twice in consecutive seasons lol

 

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[Mr Invisible]

Seriously ... how good is Ross Kemp! Love his Extreme World stuff.

Also check out the 3 part series "Meet the Drug Lords". A pommie ex Marine follows drugs paths from Mexico where it's smuggled across the border into USA, to Columbia where he sees the legacy of Pablo Escobar, to finally Peru where the coca plants are not only farmed but protected by the people.

Incredibly good series and very confronting.

 

[Mr 95%]

Seriously ... how good is Ross Kemp! Love his Extreme World stuff.

Also check out the 3 part series "Meet the Drug Lords". A pommie ex Marine follows drugs paths from Mexico where it's smuggled across the border into USA, to Columbia where he sees the legacy of Pablo Escobar, to finally Peru where the coca plants are not only farmed but protected by the people.

Incredibly good series and very confronting.

Have you ever seen where he goes to Papua New Guinea? Whoa..

 

[The DoggFather]

Love the tough mofo...

 

[Mr Invisible]

Have you ever seen where he goes to Papua New Guinea? Whoa..

Yeah ... he's no nonsense that's for sure.

 

[Memberberries]

Anyone watch that David Attenborough doco on 9?

I need to listen to him more often. I am getting better at mimicking his voice!

It's easy, all you need to do is sound heaps old and English!

 

[Mr Invisible]

Anyone watch that David Attenborough doco on 9?

I need to listen to him more often. I am getting better at mimicking his voice!

It's easy, all you need to do is sound heaps old and English!

Are you talking about the new one Dynasties?