What is Digg?Sponsored by Threadless
All tees - $10 view!
threadless.com - Holy moley, all Threadless t-shirts just $10! Until the end of the year only at Threadless.com.
393 Comments
- blackjack75, on 06/06/2009, -3/+174Direct link to HD torrent download (and yes, this is 100% legal since this movie is released copyright-free).
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2657160 - inactive, on 06/06/2009, -2/+113pretty sweet that they put this up on youtube in HD.
- Cr00kie, on 06/05/2009, -22/+115I do not remember the last time a movie gave me goosebumps over the breathtaking beauty of earth and made me tear up a bit over how we treat this gift.
We must change else we will have no future on this planet. - dmatthams, on 06/06/2009, -4/+65anyone else find it ironic that the film is financed by a group of companies that survive on consumerism?
- christoast, on 06/05/2009, -4/+58Yann Arthus-Bertrand talks about it on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/yann_arthus_bertrand_capt ...
- nseb, on 06/06/2009, -21/+75George Carlin about Saving the Planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c - strevoir, on 06/06/2009, -11/+61Play like crap with 4GB ram and HD4850, ***** Adobe
- Foundation12, on 06/06/2009, -36/+83I'm about as hippy as an engineer/digger can get, but I very much dislike it when documentaries such as this whitewash nature. When it started talking about how trees benefit from having their leaves eaten by giraffes and how every species is good, they lost me. Acacia trees evolved big nasty thorns expressly to keep animals from eating their leaves (birds are the primary seed spreaders for Acacia trees). So to flat out say that plants benefit from being grazed upon, is childish. Even worse; is the "every species is good and important" sentiment, I dare say that malaria and any number of parasitic species do very little which could be characterized as "good".
The message that the Earth is beautiful and should be treated with care is a good one, but we shouldn't have to lie to ourselves about the dirty nasty parts of nature in order to care about the planet, after all, it's where we live. - omega09, on 06/05/2009, -11/+57Amazing Movie!
- iChopPryde, on 06/05/2009, -18/+61How does this not have more diggs? This is amazing and needs to be seen by everyone! It is such an eye opener to people who think we can just live on Earth without taking care of it and not pay any consequences, we need to evolve further we are getting there but hopefully we can reach it before we kill ourselves off.
- Rhythmismt, on 06/06/2009, -4/+43No. Learn ecology. Know how forests stay healthy? They have to burn occasionally, which creates the opportunity for renewal. Some Acacia trees can't even germinate unless the seed has passed through the digestive system of a giraffe. So yes, Giraffe grazing helps those tree populations, even though they're getting eaten.
As for whether or not "every species is good and important," good may not be the correct word, except that we can say that life is good and every manifestation of of life by definition is good. Nature just exists, though. There are no positives and negatives, just continuous creation and destruction.
This is a good example of human understanding of cause and effect being far too crude to understand nature. - inactive, on 06/06/2009, -12/+51Earth is beautiful....yep, still, after all the ***** its been through, its still beautiful.
(everyone above me got a thumbs up for there nice comments) - PorcusWallabee, on 06/06/2009, -0/+32yay for copyright free!
- TennisinneT, on 06/06/2009, -9/+38The planet isn't going to go anywhere. Just because it will no longer be able to support humans doesn't mean it will be 'ruined'.
I'm sure the Earth will be fine without us. - inactive, on 06/06/2009, -10/+38Planets dying and the best Digg can do is "Meh".
Nature is a bitch. And she is getting rid of most you soon. - nirvgorilla, on 06/06/2009, -19/+47Go ahead and Digg me down for saying the narrator is crappy. She is and you can't deny it.
- DrWarrior12, on 06/06/2009, -4/+27Or download the same HD file straight from youtube:
http://keep-tube.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube ... - MrWolf, on 06/06/2009, -6/+24Dubai is a human and environmental shame, obviously you don't know much about this place.
Progress can be a good thing, but it has a cutting edge; that's the whole point of the rethoric and you can hardly argue against this observation - Soniti, on 06/06/2009, -0/+18This is absolutely breathtaking from a filmmaking standpoint.
- swampflyer, on 06/06/2009, -13/+29I wonder how much jet exhaust was polluted into the atmosphere in order to get all those aerial wide angle shots.
- erhanaltay, on 06/06/2009, -15/+31You're right -- the images are stunning. But the rhetoric is misleading. It makes progress look like a bad thing. The tone of voice when it talks about the rapid development of China & Dubai is, frankly, insulting.
Cities are population dumps, those who move to cities automatically drop their birth rate. Technological development allows us to clean up the mess we make, this is why developing nations have worse environmental records than Developed Nations. - nedserb, on 06/06/2009, -3/+19I would interpret the script as underscoring functional interdependence. I don't think their treatment was childish. On a scale of the dirty nasty parts of nature, where do you place humans? Hell, in developed countries we've ceased to be biodegradable!
- Tendu, on 06/06/2009, -1/+14The landscapes often look like abstract paintings - amazing.
- bpwrinn, on 06/06/2009, -0/+13depends on the message you're looking for. Planet Earth = "Wow this is amazing." Home = "Wow this all we have and we're ***** it up."
- termerjur, on 06/06/2009, -2/+15*their
just kidding! :D - I dugg ya. - nedserb, on 06/06/2009, -2/+15Yeah, it is ironic. Doesn't take away from the message nor the messenger. It may well expose the commercial sponsors to hypocrisy, but that's their problem.
- dstz, on 06/06/2009, -5/+18"But the rhetoric is misleading. It makes progress look like a bad thing. The tone of voice when it talks about the rapid development of China & Dubai is, frankly, insulting."
Saw the documentary yesterday on French TV and i agree with you wholeheartedly. I still watched to the end because the photography is so good, our Earth rarely looked that good on our little screens. Maybe you could watch it while listening to something more pleasant :)
As a side note the commentary is a little more uplifting at the end of the documentary and acknowledges that many countries do great things already, but still i agree that this commentary is nerve wracking at moments. - DarkAngelPT, on 06/07/2009, -0/+13"HOME is a carbon offset movie
http://www.actioncarbone.org"
Things need to be done, planes burn fuel...that's how it is.
Sitting on your ass to prevent poluting won't do any good. Getting out and trying to change things so that doing anything on life won't cause as much impact as it does now, might be a better idea. - Baskinghobo, on 06/06/2009, -2/+14Why are people digging this person down? There's no denying that downloading from bittorrent is slower compared to downloading from a server so this guy has linked to a youtube downloader. And yes, it's still legal
- veskris, on 06/06/2009, -3/+15The narration is over the top. It sounds like the writers were trying too hard to make every sentence more meaningful than than if taken at face value, and the delivery is just over-dramatic.
- inactive, on 06/06/2009, -0/+11I know I had the same problem, I had to boot into my second vista installation where it played sort of smooth, try adding &fmt=22 at the end of the link, helped a bit. I'm using vista ultimate 64 bit sp2, my specs: E8400 at 3.8 ghz 4 gb ram corsair and gtx 260, ***** adobe indeed. The documentary is very good I watched it last night with my mom and dad.
- TommyTikal, on 06/06/2009, -5/+15That is the most blatantly right-wing tech blog I've yet encountered...
:( - Brassbud, on 06/06/2009, -2/+12Cool footage, but I find it's best to watch on mute.
- JekJob, on 06/07/2009, -0/+10Maybe they were just standing on a tall ladder.
- pacerx, on 06/06/2009, -1/+11It's more of a we are already thoroughly ***** movie.
- AOmega, on 06/06/2009, -3/+13It just seems like they were trying to be too poetic, I didn't like it.
- Lagstorm, on 06/06/2009, -2/+11They didn't copyright it and want you to download and distribute it to everyone FREELY! If it makes you feel naughty by calling this pirating then to each his own.
Do what you want cause a pirate is free. - erhanaltay, on 06/06/2009, -0/+9Termerjur, I was not referring to my personal feelings. When you hear something patently false, it annoys you. I come from a country that has undergone tremendous progress in the past few decades -- Not so long ago Turkish cities and villages were dumps. Everyone had small coal stoves and generators and the air, rivers, and land were filthy.
Now, with large, industrialized power plants & natural gas, the environment is much more healthy yet the standard of living has also increased enormously.
There's no doubt in my mind that 'sustainable living' will only be possible through continued technological advancement -- which will only come out of developed countries that currently 'exploit' resources like oil, iron, platinum. - inactive, on 06/06/2009, -1/+10It's called a 'movie'. Did they just unfreeze you?
- Rhythmismt, on 06/06/2009, -0/+9Earth IS a de facto closed system.
- Knowa22, on 06/06/2009, -2/+11It sounded like Glenn Close to me. Yeah I just watched 'earth' the other night (which is the feature length film from the 'Planet Earth' series,) which was narrated by Patrick Stewart, and I have to say its hard to beat a soothing British accent when it comes to narration.
- MrWolf, on 06/06/2009, -2/+10The environmental reality is quite depressing, whether you like it or not
- Rouglead, on 06/06/2009, -2/+10Some one explain to me how this is a good documentary? I watched it the entire thing, it just sucked. The narration jumped from one topic to another, she repeated the same thing over and over again. It felt like i was watching a propaganda film trying to convince me that everything in the world is bad.
The only good thing was the visuals. The rest of it was just dumbed down and example would be trees make wood. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 06/06/2009, -0/+8Remember, it is not the Earth that we threaten. It is only ourselves.
- FrozenPie, on 06/06/2009, -0/+8We're made of star dust! o.O
- rectifier, on 06/06/2009, -0/+8I was just joking. Why so serious?
- IcedKasz, on 06/07/2009, -1/+8Let's turn this around, just for something to think about. How difficult would it be to completely (100%!) annihilate the Earth? If we're talking about the biomass, we'd have to unleash the mother of all infectious diseases, or simultaneously launch all of our nuclear missiles. ALL of them. Even then, the radiation would help spark life somewhere down the line.
If you're talking about destroying Earth the rock, now THAT would be a challenge. I look forward to boson inspired black holes, or fusion plant explosions to help see this through to the end.
...I'm just saying. Destroying the Earth would be goddamn near impossible, but I believe humans are up to the task. - michelsonmorley, on 06/06/2009, -2/+9This would be 10 times better if I could turn off the narrator's voice and still have the music.
- BigmasterJay, on 06/06/2009, -1/+8Because I care about people beyond just the ones I come across during my life.
- Awesomoore, on 06/06/2009, -7/+14I enjoyed this more.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 404 discussions
