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[Farseer]

Has anyone else watched Human Planet? It's a documentary about humans and... How bad arse some people are in just their day to day lives. Imagine Morul Ironblood, Cacame Apebald etc but IN REAL LIFE.

Stuff like: Hunting foxes with a golden eagle that you snatched from it's mother's nest, scaring off fifteen lions with three guys and sea bed hunting for three minutes with a single breath. These are just examples of bad arsery. The whole show is made of this stuff.

On today's show, a guy walked across a tightrope across some of the worst rapids in the world just to fish for his family, a man and his two children walked down a rapidly defrosting frozen river in order to get the kid's to school in a six day journey and a group of people ran out of food in a certain part of the year so they dug up every turtle egg they could find (it was either three hundred or three thousand, still a hell of a lot), raised them through infancy and then released them back into the wilds so they could hunt them as they grew up and get food from them.

If you're not watching this, why the hell not? Go on BBC iPlayer or on a naughty site or something and get it from there. :p

EDIT: Also, it's David Attenborough, so it's worth watching for that alone.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Human Planet indeed. Sucks to be you, everything else on Earth.

[Farseer]

Human Planet indeed. Sucks to be you, everything else on Earth.

That's mentioned in the first five minutes in the program.

"Humankind is the only species to expand beyond it's natural environment without significant evolution" etc.

Also, for the ladies, if you want to see "sexy" (according to my girlfriend, anyway ) guys run around topless and do manly things, this is the SHOW FOR YOU.

EDIT: This is the one with the apparently sexy guys. I don't see it myself.

[Deadmeat1471]

Good stuff!

[Vector]

The falls in that video are amazing.  Not so enthused by the dudes, but the landscape... it's excellent.

Putting that on my list of things to see some day.

[Farseer]

Putting that on my list of things to see some day.

You shouldn't watch this show.

Your list will quintuple. :p

How about the bridges woven from living tree roots in (I think) Meghalaya? :p That take lifetimes to form and last for centuries?

There's another thing the show did. xD

[fqllve]

How about the bridges woven from living tree roots in (I think) Meghalaya? :p That take lifetimes to form and last for centuries?

That is pretty fucking awesome, I'll have to check this out.

Attenborough does some good stuff, even if he does kinda strike me as an Imperialist.

[Farseer]

That is pretty fucking awesome, I'll have to check this out.

Attenborough does some good stuff, even if he does kinda strike me as an Imperialist.

Here's a really bad video of one. In the show, it's a man and his daughter who he is teaching to weave a new bridge. "Your children and their children will use this bridge. And many others."

And what's wrong with that? :p

[GamerKnight]

Those parts of the world would be incredibly rich if scientists discovered how to harvest badassery as a renewable energy source.

[Farseer]

Those parts of the world would be incredibly rich if scientists discovered how to harvest badassery as a renewable energy source.

Or managed to work out a way to distill it into drink form.

"Live with the power of FUCKING AWESOME in your veins!"

[Zrk2]

It's POWERTHIRST!

[Euld]

Those parts of the world would be incredibly rich if scientists discovered how to harvest badassery as a renewable energy source.

Spoiler: Gurren Lagan spoiler (click to show/hide)

But then the Anti-Spirals would come and kill us all D:

[Realmfighter]

Holy shit if this was about DF then that spambot would be perfect.

[Solifuge]

Ooh, this looks like a pretty cool show; I'm going to need to check it out! Even though something that takes 3 years to build might not appeal on a broader scale, those woven root bridges are extremely cool. It's practically like something out of a fantasy book.

Also...

sea bed hunting for three minutes with a single breath

The secret is hyperventilation. Supersaturate your blood with oxygen, until you just start to feel light-headed, and then take one last, deep breath. Your body will use up the blood-oxygen first, and your blood PH will quickly balance out, so you won't feel lightheaded for long. Once the oxygen in your blood is used up, you switch to the stuff in your lungs.

Doing this, I've been able to dive without equipment for over 3 minutes, and swam about 80 feet underwater. I'm too buoyant to stalk the reefs like that though.

[Eagleon]

Terrible idea. Your blood is already quite well saturated without hyperventilation. What that does is artificially decrease CO2 levels below normal concentrations, which is the thing that makes you realize, "Holy shit, I need air." You can, as a result, black out without any warning whatsoever and drown pretty much instantly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_water_blackout