Goede Docu's?!

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 13:15 schreef DubzOne het volgende:
Gister 'Religulous' gezien. Ik vond em grappiger (en soms scherper) dan ik verwacht had!
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IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/

@ Da_Ripper: ook zeker een docu die jij relaxed vind!

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 13:15 schreef DubzOne het volgende:
@ Da_Ripper: ook zeker een docu die jij relaxed vind!

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Op donderdag 22 januari 2009 16:45 schreef Man-E-Faces het volgende:
David Grtiffin - 9/11 Omissions and Distortions.
Hij valt de officiele 9/11 commission report aan en de stukken die daarin staan.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6837001821567284154

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Op donderdag 22 januari 2009 16:20 schreef Borreke het volgende:

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Ook pas geleden Religulous gezien. Ik vond hem wel leuk om te kijken, zit een sarcastische toon in deze docu naar mijn mening. Bijvoorbeeld na elk interview een stuk in de auto waarin hij hij loopt te grappen en de manier van monteren. Heb verder wel gelachen hoor

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Dawkins points to some of science’s achievements and describes it as freeing “most of us” from superstition and dogma. Picking up from his superstition-reason distinction in The Root of All Evil? (while recycling some footage from it), he then says reason is facing an “epidemic of superstition” that “impoverishes our culture” and introduces gurus that persuade us “to run away from reality”. He calls the present day “dangerous times”. He returns to science’s achievements, including the fact that, by extending our lifespan, it helps us to better appreciate its ‘other’ achievements. He turns his attention to astrology, which he criticises for stereotyping without evidence, and he tries an experiment in which 20 people of various star signs is asked if the verdict for Capricorn applies to them, while being told it is their ‘own' star sign. The result was that the one Capricorn person did not believe it, but some of the others did. Dawkins is warned against the experiment by the astrologer Neil Spencer, and Dawkins tells him he is in a no-lose situation. “I hope so, yes”, replies Spencer. Having put astrology to the test and referred to larger-scale experiments, he then talks about the real beauty in astronomy, and then expresses frustration that 50% of the UK population – more than are members of one religion – believe in the paranormal. He then visits a palm reader, Simon Goodfellow, who makes statements Dawkins interprets as referring to retirement – which most people his age would soon be going in for, but not importantly Dawkins himself – and Cornell then finds himself in contradiction over whether or not the “spirit G” is a family member. Cornell next tries suggesting this spirit was in the military – again, typical of deceased relatives of people Dawkins’s age, but not of Dawkins. Cornell finishes with several explanations of why his powers might not always work, but Dawkins insists extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and then talks to the sceptical Derren Brown about cold reading, including misdirective tricks it uses.

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Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it would destroy our Sun and all the planets.

For years no one could work out what was causing these awesome explosions. Now scientists think they have identified the culprit. It's the most extreme object ever found in the Universe; they have christened it a 'hypernova'.

Cold War cosmology
The mystery began in 1967. A US military satellite was launched to detect Soviet nuclear tests which the Pentagon believed were secretly taking place on the dark side of the Moon. Instead, the satellite picked up evidence of explosions far bigger than any bomb. Something was emitting bursts of gamma rays - the deadliest form of energy known - on a massive scale. What was worse, these blasts just kept on coming.

Breaking the law
For decades scientists were baffled. Especially disturbing was evidence that these explosions might be coming from the furthest reaches of the Universe, billions of light years away. If this was so, then for us to see them on Earth they had to be on a scale that was beyond our comprehension. According to some, these explosions were so huge that they might even violate the most sacred law in all science: Einstein's famous equation relating mass and energy, E=mc². That law underpins nothing less than our understanding of how our Universe works.

Live fast, die young
It was not until 1997, when a satellite pinpointed the exact location of these bursts, that scientists began to solve the puzzle. It seems these huge explosions are caused by the death throes of stars twenty times the size of our Sun, which burn themselves out and explode, creating hypernovae. What then unfolded was a chain of events, which would ultimately point towards some of the most exotic wonders in the Universe: stellar nurseries (where new stars are born) and black holes.

Observations show that - instead of fading away, as an explosion might be expected to - radiation continues to emerge from the area of a hypernova. This ongoing emission is characteristic of the process of star birth. Astronomers conclude that the hypernova grows rapidly along with other normal stars in a nursery, but burns out when its contemporaries are still in their infancy.

Pointing to the past
Find a hypernova, therefore, and you have also tracked down a part of space where stellar synthesis is underway. Which is why some scientists now believe that the huge explosions of hypernovae may be the key to unlocking one of the great unsolved mysteries in the Universe: how the first stars were made at the very dawn of time.

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Op vrijdag 23 januari 2009 21:34 schreef Twerk het volgende:
BBC Horizon - The death star
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http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-41720681955951129&ei=pil6SYayHJPiqQLwjIS7BQ&q=the+death+of+a+star&hl=nl

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Op vrijdag 23 januari 2009 23:06 schreef DubzOne het volgende:
Die BBC Horizons staan ook nog steeds op mijn te kijken lijstje!

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Op zaterdag 24 januari 2009 02:00 schreef DubzOne het volgende:

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Moet het echt snel gaan checken! Lees ook echt superveel over dit onderwerp... Heerlijke materie!

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Op zaterdag 24 januari 2009 02:25 schreef Probably_on_pcp het volgende:
Heb net Dawkins Nightmare gekeken. Laat je niet "afschrikken" door de 7,5 die hij krijgt op IMDB want deze docu is gewoon goed. Heel indringend en zonder commentaar. Je moet je eigen commentaar erbij geven.

Het gaat over de introductie van de nijlbaars in Lake Victoria en wat voor invloed dit heeft gehad op het leven van de mensen rondom het meer. Er worden mensen gevolgd tijdens hun dagelijkse leven in een vissersdorp in Tanzania. Een echte eye-opener over hoe het leven in delen van Afrika echt in elkaar steekt. Zet je even weer met beide benen op de grond.

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Op zaterdag 24 januari 2009 02:27 schreef Twerk het volgende:

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Je bedoelt ongetwijfeld Darwin's Nightmare

Bovendien vind ik een 7,5 @ IMDB vrij hoog hoor.. Zal het binnenkort eens bekijken.

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Op dinsdag 27 januari 2009 22:56 schreef DubzOne het volgende:
De drie delige serie 'The Elegant Universe' gepresenteerd door Brian Greene (vernoemd naar zijn gelijknamige boek) is ook zeer de moeite waard als je geïnteresserd bent in natuurkunde en de huidige stand van zaken wat betreft de snaartheorie, extra dimensies etc.

Zelfs voor mensen die niet echt verstand van natuurkunde hebben goed te volgen (en ook zeker een eye-opener!)

Hier staan alle drie de delen: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=elegant+universe&emb=0#

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ATOM


In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms.

1. THE CLASH OF THE TITANS
Professor Al-Khalili takes us from the discovery of the atom to the development of quantum mechanics.

2. THE KEY TO THE COSMOS
This episode tackles world-changing discoveries such as radioactivity, the Atom Bomb and the Big Bang, and tries to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?

3. THE ILLUSION OF REALITY
Al-Khalili discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, and finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, but seething with activity.

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'The Elegant Universe' gepresenteerd door Brian Greene