Planet Earth: "Deserts"
Dec. 11th, 2007 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockThis episode was slightly less breathtaking than the ice or oceans episodes, but it definitely had some fantastic photography and film going on. The scenes of the flat lizards leaping up to catch flies.... way cool!
Living in America, I think we don't get to see kangaroos very often, so we just don't appreciate how weird they are. SERIOUSLY. A kangaroo is a weird, weird looking animal. Especially when its jumping and bounding over land.
The stuff with the elephants was neat. I felt so sorry for them! How hungry they must be, to survive out there.
In the portion that talked about Utah (which, in my opinion, was too brief) I recognized rock formations from Capitol Reef National Park, which I drove through the week before Thanksgiving. Gorgeous! Utah has the best rocks. It may have crazy cultists, but many does it have awesome rocks. I'm surprised the video didn't show the Grand Canyon, though, or even Bryce. I mean... Bryce is unlike anything I've ever seen before in nature, and of course the Grand Canyon is the Grand Canyon. Over Thanksgiving my cousin and I teased my brother mercilessly because we'd both seen the Grand Canyon and he hadn't. Everytime he countered with "Well I HAVE seen..." or "But I've been to..." We'd look at each other, then look back at him, and say "Sure. But have you been to the Grand Canyon?" It was fun to torture him.
Is Death Valley really the hottest place on Earth? I didn't know that. I knew it was pretty hot, but I didn't know that. Cool. For some reason I always thought the hottest place on earth was in Northern Africa or something. ... I did some googling, and apparently there are a couple of places that vie for "hottest place on earth", depending on what year was the record-setting temperature. I think I'm going to go wiht what the show tells me, though, because a) I trust the Discovery Channel, and b) when I have the guts to go swimming with man-eating sharks, then I'll begin to question them.
Now.... onto fresh water episode!
Living in America, I think we don't get to see kangaroos very often, so we just don't appreciate how weird they are. SERIOUSLY. A kangaroo is a weird, weird looking animal. Especially when its jumping and bounding over land.
The stuff with the elephants was neat. I felt so sorry for them! How hungry they must be, to survive out there.
In the portion that talked about Utah (which, in my opinion, was too brief) I recognized rock formations from Capitol Reef National Park, which I drove through the week before Thanksgiving. Gorgeous! Utah has the best rocks. It may have crazy cultists, but many does it have awesome rocks. I'm surprised the video didn't show the Grand Canyon, though, or even Bryce. I mean... Bryce is unlike anything I've ever seen before in nature, and of course the Grand Canyon is the Grand Canyon. Over Thanksgiving my cousin and I teased my brother mercilessly because we'd both seen the Grand Canyon and he hadn't. Everytime he countered with "Well I HAVE seen..." or "But I've been to..." We'd look at each other, then look back at him, and say "Sure. But have you been to the Grand Canyon?" It was fun to torture him.
Is Death Valley really the hottest place on Earth? I didn't know that. I knew it was pretty hot, but I didn't know that. Cool. For some reason I always thought the hottest place on earth was in Northern Africa or something. ... I did some googling, and apparently there are a couple of places that vie for "hottest place on earth", depending on what year was the record-setting temperature. I think I'm going to go wiht what the show tells me, though, because a) I trust the Discovery Channel, and b) when I have the guts to go swimming with man-eating sharks, then I'll begin to question them.
Now.... onto fresh water episode!
