James Burke : Connections, Episode 6, "Thunder in the Skies", 1 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 6 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "connections" between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a "1+1=3" type of way.

It is this type of investigation that is the core idea behind the Knowledge Web project, whereby sophisticated software is being developed to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[daddyofjames]

JB doing programmes in the frozen wastes when men were men..Non of this namby pamby crash helmets on skidoos, wrapped in gortex on the off chance he'd get hypothermia! Oh no... Only a duvet jacket and normal trousers and shoes for our James!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Not even an arctic leisure suit!

[felipepiresrj]

Thak you soooo much for posting !

they should teach like that in schools...the WHY of things...

[akulkis]

Opening shots are in Detroit... .the 5-tower complex on the waterfront is the Renaissance Center, and when he's first on camera, he's riding in one of the Ren-Cen elevators, (which travel in the vertical tubes attached to the side of each of the 5 towers)

Appropriate for his comment "this is people's vision of the future" because when it was built, the interior of the RenCen looked like something out of Star Wars, and because talking about production lines .. Detroit is the obvious place.

[awshucks]

Sadly, James does not highlight the fact that, even with their bellies literally crammed with bread...it did no good. The lack of sunshine during the growing season meant that what wheat did not mould in the field, was severely lacking in nutritional value (no sun, no energy transfer).

Global Warming...from this point forward, the earth distance relative to the outermost area of the sun...shrinks. We get marginally hotter every year from this point forward. Not man made at all.

[darkmiles22]

@Bondianwolf JB admitted that scientists had a lot of theories but no evidence for what caused the Little Ice Age, and the LIA wiki article confirms that this is still the prevailing scientific opinion.

We have a lot more data about what is happening to the climate in more recent decades however, and scientists are in nearly unanimous agreement (>98%!) that human influence is on the climate is very likely having a net warming effect.

cf wikipedia: Attribution_of_recent_climate_­change

[darkmiles22]

@Bondianwolf JB admitted that scientists had a lot of theories but no evidence for what caused the Little Ice Age, and the LIA wiki article confirms that this is still the prevailing scientific opinion.

We have a lot more data about what is happening to the climate in more recent decades however, and scientists are in nearly unanimous agreement (>98%!) that human influence is on the climate is very likely having a net warming effect.

en.wikipediadotorg/wiki/Attrib­ution_of_recent_climate_change

[seks03]

what idiot disliked this?

[Frank14612]

James Burke, you are a genius and a humanitarian -- a rare combination. Thank you!

[AtheistAnarchoRudi]

@ToniBabelony philosophy for the win. you bring up beautiful points.

[jaymoe67]

Why is the challange of learning what has allready been learned so dispicabel to the rightous. Most Catholic priests will admitt to any one who asks that the bible is not a source of set in stone knowledge. Science has surpassed what the Bible brings to us, many of these monk/scholars admit that religion is a force of community to bring us together during the dark times, science is what advances us forward.

[pseudocute]

I love it, you listen to one damn travelling poet and BAM the ice age has already hit.