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[moktir]

I watched a nature show  just recently and there was a piece done on Cicadas. They are large flying insects that spend about 17 years of their lives under ground as "nymphs" and after that long period one night they all emerge from under ground and climb the trees where in the dawn they shed their skin and all become ariborne at once. They fly like

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[seymour_glass]

hey i saw that same show...it was very strange...there was just so many of them...and i agree david attenborough is a great narrator...one of the best parts of the planet earth series...

[moktir]

I think they had Cicadas in the Planet Earth. I finally got to watch the complete series. The Cicadas part also appears in the Life in the Undergrowth. Very fascinating!

[seymour_glass]

yeh i believe you are right and it is in planet earth too...but i did see the one the other day, i think it was on channel 5 or something...

[purple_dwarf]

Long periods of solityde are not that great even for loners. A person becomes less tolerant and less prone to compromising, used to ones own ways.
Yeahhhhhh..... (looks wistfully at the sky). The more you spend away from society... you don't miss it. What I find funny is that it's easier to stay isolated in a big city than in a small city/town/village.

Also, Six String Samurai is a fantastic film. It's gotta be on James' top 10 films list.

[moktir]

Yes, I kind of agree on the loneliness and big/small city. I'm having trouble deciding whether I think of Vancouver as big or small though. It's big in size and population, but it acts as really small... That's another story.
I definitely agree about the movie. It's high up on my charts too.

[big_paul]

I would like to second James' suggestion that Six String Samurai is worthy of top ten movies lists.

Same goes for "rope". You know the case "Rope" is based on, Leopold and Loeb? Two weird-ass hyper-intelligent kids (according to wikipedia one of them spoke 15 languages) decided to kill some kid 'cause they thought they were Nietzschean ubermensch or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

[moktir]

That's a fascinating article about L&L. I just had a chance to read it now. The start of their criminal career reminded me of natural born killers although I didn't like that movie very much. I have to see Compulsion with Orson Welles (listed under the movies also influenced by them).

[big_paul]

Yeah, they're a pretty nutty case, aren't they? Now I gotta check out 'Compulsion' too...

[mactoub]

in other news: today I've heard that some submarine going through underwater currents around Antarctica has found a new species of Sea Spider (looks super amazing).

[purple_dwarf]

Deep sea creatures are mind blowing, weird and cool.

[sergio6000]

To add to your Elvis fix, this was a big hit in Quebec. I think I may have mentioned this to you before: Elvis Gratton: Le King des Kings. Plot Summary: A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089085/