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Old 06-05-2007, 07:30 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
anyone watch this show on the Discovery channel? i caught it sunday on the HD channel and man was it ever facinating. the way they managed to mix fact in with fiction was awesome, and i loved how completely different they made the planet from Earth, compared to most sci-fi where alien planets look like your backyard. the only thing i didn't like was the realization that while the show is based on actual plans to visit a planet like Darwin 4 (maybe Gliese 581), i probably won't be alive to see it happen

I watched it last night, it was well done, but the creatures were a little extreme, the one bird with jet engines and a 8 foot pike was a little silly, and I couldn't see anything evolving like that.
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