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Bas
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 Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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enjoy! 
The Trigger Effect
PS pay attention to flight 911 for you more mystically inclined doomers 
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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wow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| MattSavinar wrote: | | wow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it. |
It's already on your site too. You could attribute it to peakoil.com instead of po.com...
Recommending it after a maximum of twenty seven minutes including time to post it on your site, it must really make an impression.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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25 minutes into it. Now the city has collapsed and we're fleeing out to the hinterlands where it's either kill or be killed. "What in your comfortable urban life has prepared you for this?" asks the host.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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28 minutes into it and it looks like we've killed the owners of the farm and are now fumbling about trying to hook up a plow to some cows.
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davep
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| MattSavinar wrote: | | 25 minutes into it. Now the city has collapsed and we're fleeing out to the hinterlands where it's either kill or be killed. "What in your comfortable urban life has prepared you for this?" asks the host. |
I'm going to have to watch it now, and I was about to go to bed. 
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| A great find! I watched this 20+ years ago in my college analytical chem class and remember being a bit freaked out over it, even though I was drunker than a skunk the night before. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| MattSavinar wrote: | | wow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it. |
ah, thanks Matt, it is good, and such an oldie too; I think it was made in the late seventies or early eighties.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| Bas wrote: | | MattSavinar wrote: | | wow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it. |
ah, thanks Matt, it is good, and such an oldie too; I think it was made in the late seventies or early eighties. |
1975, as he mentions the 1965 blackout being "10 years ago".
Not to disappoint folks but at about 30 minutes it goes from "doomer's wet dream" where we're out at the farm contemplating having to kill the resident farmers to "interesting documentary about the development of agriculture and civilization."
Maybe it will pick back up . . .
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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at 37 minutes now we're examining egyptian artifacts. on a wall they've got tax collections being depicted. pretty funny actually.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| MattSavinar wrote: | | at 37 minutes now we're examining egyptian artifacts. on a wall they've got tax collections being depicted. pretty funny actually. |
maybe a glimpse of post doom society?
...and you know I'm not such a doomer myself....
PS unfortunately part 2 through 6 are not available online.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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WTF???
Was this made in the dark ages? They show people SMOKING on an airplane!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| I recorded this in 1978 and have been using it ever since in my teaching. Good that it is online as my videotape is getting rather worn ! The others in the series are also all on the theme that inventions don't come from thin air but rely on incremental advances made by others. This episode is the best IMO. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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| They actually made 3 seasons of Connections, a total of 40 episodes. I'm downloading season 1, got to ep 5 already. I predict i'll have a very sedentary weekend in front of the PC |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: The Trigger Effect (doomer approved documentary) |
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This reminds of a super-obscure doomer movie called "Deadly Harvest"
From their description: " My God! How bleak can it get?! The movie details the plight of North America when global weather patterns shift causing crops to freeze and harvests to be lost. The government realizes that there is no food left and before long, it's every man for himself. " |
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