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If you're in Canada, Daily Planet carried this car earlier this month. They mentioned they were doing test flights.

OF course, you get to see a rather interesting takeoff int he clip. Alas, I think it's Canada only - not sure if the US Discovery channel has it on any of their channels (it's a Canadian production).

Guess we might see an update shortly.

MythBusters is one. Some episodes can air a year or more in Canada after the US:

One of the most common questions we hear from you at Discovery Interactive is about Mythbusters. Specifically, you wonder why we don't air the show at the same time as they do on Discovery Channel USA.

However, we don't organize these episodes into seasons. Because of issues such as rights clearances, budgets, and Canadian content rules, we don't always air new episodes right away.

So if you want to keep current with MythBusters, you can't with Discovery Channel Canada. All they do is drive people to download.

Funny, when I go to forums or sites frequented by military or ex-military guys, they are often frustrated at the rules prohibiting arming of civilian ships with even light machine guns. To them, arming ships transiting hostile waters is not a 'macho Rambo' thing, it's a 'no shit, Sherlock' thing.

>I'd imagine many people have this vision of the crews being able to see the pirates coming and just gunning them down with a chaingun, but the reality is the pirates often manage to sneak up on vessels either using bad weather, blind spots or the cover of night, so many firefights would involve close quarter combat on the decks of the ship itself.

It's called keeping watch, sailors have been doing it on ships since the 18th century at least. Honestly, if you can't keep a overnight watch over your vessel in hostile waters, you shouldn't be sailing there in the first place.

This is not even counting the times people have successfully fought back against the pirates after they've boarded, such as the time they hit a North Korean freighter.

>This is especially important to note also when you realise that against crews of 15 you're sometimes seeing as many as 80 pirates- even if you catch them before they board the ship do you really want to put yourself in the line of fire of even 50+ pirates and start trying to pick them off under fire of 80 or so AK-47s and the odd RPG being returned at you?

I'd rather have an M-2 or even an AK in that situation than not, that's for sure.

>The mentality of many people online of "just shoot them" as a solution to many problems is rather ignorant to the difficulties of the reality of the situation.

The pirates have been stopped from boarding vessels before, when they mistakenly attack supply(freighter) ships from various navies. Do you think the navy vessels run up a flag that says "We are navy, and therefore immune from piracy"? No, they man their guns (usually .50 caliber machine guns) and fire back, as well as maneuver as much as a old freighter can.

>People sailing the boats are civilians, they do not have military training, they have never been in combat, by putting them up there against the pirates you're risking far more people getting shot, whilst being hijacked sucks, it's better than having the crew killed.

I do not understand why people think "military training" is some magic held in some sacred grimore that must be kept away from the masses. Many merchant sailors are former military from 3rd world nations, and the operation and maintenance of a ship is far more complicated than that of a machine gun, or manning it. If they can run a ship without setting it on fire or running into Antarctica, they can work a machine gun. See the Somalis for example.

>The legal barriers are the least of problems, because if it was a real solution to just arm crews then as this is a problem that basically has unilateral agreement from the world's major nations including the 5 permanent security council members then an exception for ships passing through Somali waters would be no big deal.

You underestimate how PC the world's major nations have become. Here's some documentary of a Danish ship capturing some pirates, and letting them go because they couldn't find a court to hand them off to. They even fixed their boat!

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/mighty-ships-/mighty-ships-season-2/mighty-ships-hdms-absalon/

Yep, we faked the whole thing, the Video, the launch, the construction of the payload and package, the other 6 launches we've been associated with and their video's / data... Not to mention the GPS data, it was tough but we faked that too, and the cameraman and producer from Daily Planet, they were tougher, but we still convinced them! http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/september-2009/daily-planet-september-18-2009/#clip215393 Skip forward to the 10 minute mark for our story... now they faked some things, silly tv people and their cut and paste... Whew... after all that work faking everything, it might just have been easier if we actually did it! lol...

This video is being hosted on the discovery channel and they have two stories before the robotic foosball player

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2009/daily-planet-february-3-2009/#clip136425

Hmm... The Discovery Channel's online archives of How It's Made only goes back to season 9, so I wasn't able to find the episode you were talking about, but I did find an episode about whiskey barrels.

I saw a special on the Discovery channel about the Carboniferous age when the Earth's Oxygen levels were much higher than they are today. The theory is that super-oxygenated atmosphere allowed the insects to grow extremely large since they get oxygen by absorbing it from the air.

From the Discovery Channel

Great forests took root and swamps dominated the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, giving rise to metre-long dragonflies and huge spiders with leg-spans of nearly a metre. But most extraordinarily deadly of all was the Arthropleura, an animal that looked like a three-metre long woodlouse but moved like an anaconda...

Would not be fun to see the bugs getting that big again.

A jam session is the bee dance of humanity.

Cute. I know what you mean. But bee dances don't involve interactivity.

Wanna really bug out on the subject matter? Check out the Discover Channel series Mammals vs. Dinosaurs the era where mammals are believed to have developed advanced hearing systems to hunt at night in order to survive.

Also check out this article which describes the properties of the inner ear as an argument against Darwinism!

Note the contradiction of the two examples ;)

Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:

1.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magnet ic_031212.html). I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_fiel d ) due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?
2.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_j r.html [space.com])
3.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ mars_snow_011206-1.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=410901&in_page_id=1770)


How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
4.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html)


Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/060821191 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/disc overy/1/20061117/discovery_pollutionsolution_06111 7/20061117?hub=DiscoveryReport)

One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.

...or they could just import Daily Planet from Discovery Canada. It's been around for over a decade (with one rename), it's not Canada-centric, and it's actually *daily* (shock).

(But Americans don't like watching shows with funny accents...)

I saw something recently that was a rotating condominium, where each floor rotated on its own... The building was round, and all the utilities were in a stationary center "circle". As far as the legal aspect of it, each condominium was 1 floor. The condominium, though, could be rotated to any position the tenant desired, at any time. Saw it on Daily Planet a week or two ago.

Called How William Shatner Changed the World.

Another page goes into some detail about the show, and lists the next airing (in the US). November 13 at 8pm ET

Called How William Shatner Changed the World.

Another page goes into some detail about the show, and lists the next airing (in the US). November 13 at 8pm ET

On a recent episode of Boston Legal, Denny Crane (portrayed by Shatner) received a text message on a newly-received cell phone, to the amusement of Shore (James Spader). Apparently, Crane had never had a cell phone until his new girlfriend gave him one so she could send him lewd text messages.

Of course, it was a flip-phone. And when Crane/Shatner opened the phone to read the message, the foley artist inserted the easily recognizable sound of a communicator being opened on the original Star Trek series.

Earlier this year, The Discovery Channel broadcast a mockumentary entitled: How William Shatner Changed the World. It was a semi-amusing look at the technology (cell phones, computers, etc) that was either predicted by Star Trek or even inspired by it. The "hook" was Shatner projecting his infamous ego throughout the show, taking credit for all of it.

Marc says that after this interview, he got a lot of email at PRO from around the world asking about how to build a lightsaber. Apparently some European Star Wars fanzine stated that he was actually researching building an actual working light saber. Lots of people sent him notes asking for details, and some were very disappointed to learn that he was not pursuing such research.