Planet Earth 2
Discussion
TerryThomas said:
The word legend gets bandied around far too easily these days but is there any other way to describe Attenborough?
Dave is now 90 - he's had a s
t hot innings, but sadly he won't last forever. One of the few things the BBC does well; I have a feeling this is the end of an era...My wifes' favourite animal is a turtle.
FFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
FFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
Digger said:
FlyingMeeces said:
Although I was a bit worried for Gordon Buchanan, am sure that leopard was probably only curious but 
I'd be absolutely bricking it in his shoes!
That bit looked cgi. . . I'd be absolutely bricking it in his shoes! B.J.W said:
My wifes' favourite animal is a turtle.
FFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
Good news.. (apart from the squished ones anyway)FFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
https://twitter.com/BBCEarth/status/80805036719593...
The man is indeed a legend. FlyingMeeces said:
Did strike me that an initiative to turn some street lights and signs off that one full moon night per year might help the turtle hatchlings out, bigtime.
Light pollution is a big problem - and in many cases, much of it can be avoided.There is a warehouse opposite where I work that has floodlights lighting the loading bays. Fair enough - the lorries have to be able to see where they are going and the workers need to be able to work safely with good visibility.
The thing is though - the floodlights are pointed and angled in such a way that they project their light not only downwards to the area it's needed - but also onto the white roof (thereby reflecting it skyward) and also some of it ~30 degrees from the horizontal skywards........who is this light helping?
With a better design and/or installation directing more light towards where it is needed - they could probably install less bright lights and get the same level of illumination.
Borroxs said:
Digger said:
FlyingMeeces said:
Although I was a bit worried for Gordon Buchanan, am sure that leopard was probably only curious but I'd be absolutely bricking it in his shoes!
That bit looked cgi. . . I'd be absolutely bricking it in his shoes! 
Having said that, if you ever watch cats and I assume the larger cats stalking prey or each other before some potential pawsicuffs you'd be forgiven
Davel said:
Maybe a big neon sign pointing to the sea would have helped them!
Really sad to see the turtle bit. Surely they could have done something locally to deal with the issue.
End of a brilliant series!
Really sad to see the turtle bit. Surely they could have done something locally to deal with the issue.
End of a brilliant series!
There is a project that is helping the turtles locally:
http://www.barbadosseaturtles.org/pages/resources/...
B.J.W said:
My wifes' favourite animal is a turtle.
FFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
Try dressing upFFS Attenborough, you are still quite nimble for a 90 year old. Couldn't you have bent down and turned a baby turtle or two back towards the sea? She was sobbing all night and I was on a promise, which never happened!
Bloody national institutions spoiling my evening!
P.S - also feel very low that last night was probably the end of an era that has defined most of childhood and adult life going all of the way back to 1979.
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