Depends on how long the delay, but yeah delays were generally long enough that they should have had enough time to set up again. And it occurs to me; do we know that this was actually the first and only take?
Modern version is to discuss the volatility of our current president, wait for a tweet, and point to a graph showing the instant stock market conflagration.
I can’t emphasize enough how much Connections influenced me as a kid. It, and Burke’s other masterpiece, “The Day the Universe Changed”, were transformative experiences for me, and convinced me that the future I wanted depended very much on paying attention to the past, and how we got here in the first place.
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Apparently they can jump as far as 33 ft! You find out why towars the end:
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Welp, I know what I’m doing tonight. Thanks!
I loved this show as a kid - they used to play it and Connections 2 (IIRC) on TLC back when that was ‘The Learning Channel’ before turning into the abomination it ended up becoming.
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I have the companion book for “The Day The Universe Changed” for sure. I might have “Connections” too.
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I took my mom to this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUrshCNVKE
That worked out well.
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Connections was my favourite Science/History show.
James Burke is still around, and I listened to one of his interviews a couple of years ago with Dan Carlin James Burke re-connecting He’s still quite interesting.
Some of his later documentaries were a bit optimistic in assuming that by the year 2000 or so we will be trading in carbon credits and fossil fuels will be on the way out.
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Perhaps this was the golden age of television documentary. I’m thinking not only of the original ‘Connections’, but Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ (1980). And in a similar vein, albeit darker, is Canadian historian Gwynn Dyer’s ‘War’ (1983). Still required viewing IMO
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I had a '67 Impala with a 327 and it never jumped like that… I guess I never ran into a big block Cheetah… >.>
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This brings back childhood memories of field trips to KSC and marvelling at the Saturn V as a boy. I believe it’s thankfully been moved indoors in the intervening years since this video was made. I wasn’t in the area for the Saturn V launches, but neighbors told me that the vibrations from the launch would shake things, the shuttle never did.
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Yeah, why can’t we reboot this, instead of Charlies Angels or Godzilla? Though I’m not sure who would be a good host for it today.
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Easy: Tom Scott. I’m pretty sure, if asked, he would name James Burke as one of his inspirations.
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Have you watched, " The World at War"; the series about WW2? It was a great commentary by Laurence Olivier.
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You meant to say Swiss train system, surely?
ETA: of course you did, and I should have scrolled on.
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What’s really amazing is that while Burke was shooting this…
…there was another camera just out of shot simultaneously filming him from another angle as Donald Sutherland’s Body Snatchers stand-in.
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Heh, reminds me of how I can’t stop noticing that in all the Attenborough-voiced nature shows. I get why they add sound effects, but I do get distracted by imagining how they come up with some of them.
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Just came to say Connections and The Day The Universe Changed are dope!
Yes. Another classic. I’ve watched pretty nearly every WWII documentary! I think the BBC ones produced by Laurence Rees are the best.
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