(Video Obsolete, see desc) James Burke : Connections, Episode 6, “Thunder in the Skies”, 1 of 5 (CC)
Watch Entire Show in HQ: www.youtube.com Continue with this version (ex. to see previous comments): www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com 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 k-web.org. See channel page for purchase options. PS Sorry about audio quality here. I will repair that when I have time.
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Yeah, no gloves? either!
February 21st, 2013 at 9:15 pmLike a boss!?
February 21st, 2013 at 9:37 pm@FranklinBlunt That’s true and that’s where science comes in. We are only? on the verge of what is to be known and not even close to making use of this knowledge. Such is the majesty of the scientific method.
February 21st, 2013 at 10:12 pm‘zactly. Sometimes I have to wonder about and review those leaps just to get the? connection too.
February 21st, 2013 at 10:41 pmMuch to ponder on that and agree as well. Yet, what of the questioning and searching? Much of what is purported? to be fact may not be such. Just as well, there is so far to go.
February 21st, 2013 at 10:49 pmOpening 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.
February 21st, 2013 at 11:16 pm@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
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:16 am@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
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:46 amwhat idiot disliked this??
February 22nd, 2013 at 1:12 amJames Burke, you are a genius and a humanitarian — a? rare combination. Thank you!
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:07 amphilosophy for the win. you? bring up beautiful points.
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:11 amWhy 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.
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:21 amI love it, you listen to one damn travelling poet? and BAM the ice age has already hit.
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:41 amAs if? we care about your precious opinions – haha
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:58 amIMHO this is a wrong idea, as people need to believe in something else, other then themselves. A believe in science is to believe in fact, though not all answers are given. Faith dwells from what we don’t know, but what we believe. Knowledge is what we know and what is fact. Not all is known, so we can’t put our full commitment in believing what knowledge has to offer. Humans need something they can not grasp to feed the void? of what we don’t know, and that will always remain.
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:24 amJames? Burke is the real Doc Savage; Man of Bronze.
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:36 amNot even an arctic? leisure suit!
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:36 amJB 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!
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:38 amUgh. You? needn’t elaborate further.
– JBW
February 22nd, 2013 at 4:13 amWell, it never really got off the ground, since no one from England could afford to move there. He was fervent believer in what was known as “phlogiston” theory, which is a defunct theory about oxidation and combustion. He called oxygen “deflogistated air”. Before I moved here, I was always taught that Lavoissier had discovered oxygen, but since we are a bit more Anglophilic than Francophilic here in the? US, I can see how we gave credit to the Britt…
February 22nd, 2013 at 5:05 amNow that *is* interesting!?
What did they base their utopian society on? I mean, was it some specific “ism” or just making it up as they went along?
February 22nd, 2013 at 5:23 amVery cool show, especially liked the bits about Joseph Priestly, if only because I live right near where he? tried to set up a sort of utopian society, here in Northumberland Co. Pennsylvania
February 22nd, 2013 at 6:18 amActually I think … (is it this episode?) he says that we’re in a “mini” ice age right now, possibly due to sunspots or whatever.
Whether or not the temperature is “returning to normal” or going beyond what it should be is a matter of concern definitely.
Previously sudden shifts in the earth’s climate had dramatic effects but with 10 billion+ people now, most of them living in poor countries and near the coast lines (Indonesia for? instance) a sudden shift up could be devastating.
February 22nd, 2013 at 6:54 amJames suggests that the lack of sun spots? may have been the trigger of the climate change discussed…
Recently I have read the current solar cycles have been getting more chaotic and the current solar minimum is taking it’s time to change.
But yet, here we are with no ice age.
Perhaps suprisingly this is because the expected ice age is being offset by our carbon gas emissions, and if that were the case, you probably won’t want to be around when sun activity returns to normal!
February 22nd, 2013 at 7:40 amoops:?
“would be better if they”
not
“would be better they should”
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In attempting to rephrase in order to erase the word “should” (which I have vowed never to use again!) I produced a meaningless sentence 😉
Live-n-learn.
February 22nd, 2013 at 8:17 am– JBW