Anyone seen the "Future is Wild" series?

[GeoffP]

I'm watching the "Future is Wild" series by Discovery and I was curious to know if anyone else has seen it. I like the overall setup and all that, but I think some of the suppositions are out to lunch. They postulate the near extinction of the fish, but not the sharks. The "flying flish" are all wrong IMHO and I dunno about basic reptiles and amphibs going out either. Unless we wipe them out, they're likely to be around a long time: they already made through Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic and K/T. Seriously. Massive sunlight block only means they'll go sleepy for a few years, like they did in K/T. I mean, reptiles came through practically unchanged! Come to think of it, small mammals did too. Hmm. I can't see the small verts going out unless absolutely everything did simultaneously, leaving only the insects.

 

[draqon]

yeah it is an amazing film, I think they over fantasized in it thou...I mean the fact that Earth will be inhabited by walking huge octopuses on land, thats a bit too much.

I liked the huge blue bird thou... UV protection skin

 

[GeoffP]

Yeah that was good. I kind of wondered about the giant squid though...I think that cephalopods are definitely a good candidate for more evolution, but the physical limitations on a form like that would be substantial. Muscles constantly flexed to support the body? What if it got a cramp?

:roflmao:

 

[draqon]

Yeah that was good. I kind of wondered about the giant squid though...I think that cephalopods are definitely a good candidate for more evolution, but the physical limitations on a form like that would be substantial. Muscles constantly flexed to support the body? What if it got a cramp?

:roflmao:

well they said...the thing will have many feet and thus its weight will be distributed...but still...

 

[GeoffP]

I realize you can't compress muscle (much, anyway), but it's a lot of weight. What did you think about the desert hoppers?

 

[draqon]

I realize you can't compress muscle (much, anyway), but it's a lot of weight. What did you think about the desert hoppers?

seems real enough to me...

I was more fascinated by the evolution of these jellyfish in Australia...

These are jellyfish that flourish in Australia currently: bluebottle jellyfish

and this is how they are presented in the future by

http://www.jalipo.com/EPG/owner/?id...G/player/0A8A7B3E-4E64-4972-A92E-AC9073EE4354

 

[GeoffP]

Those were okay. A lot of interaction was being postulated. Could be. I still don't think that small verts would have gone out like that. We've been around almost as long as the inverts, you know.

 

[Orleander]

Is this the show that had the giant whatever walking through the sea of 'jello' eating with its feet?

 

[GeoffP]

I think that might have been Alien Planet. That was cool too.

 

[kmguru]

Did they talk about how a space faring creature will look like in the future?

 

[GeoffP]

Nah, just locals. The Future is Wild series was just about Earth.

 

[Orleander]

I think that might have been Alien Planet. That was cool too.

was that where those robots went to a planet and octopus guys killed them?
Am I getting them confused? Because I thought The Future is Wild had octopus taking over as well.

 

[GeoffP]

FIW did also have cephalopods suggested as the next dominant life form for the earth. I remember the aliens from Alien Planet - they did look kind of cephalopodish too.