PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: jb1842 on July 31, 2019, 01:01:08 PM
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Usually I'm pretty excited for shark week. But the past few years it seems Discovery has sort of called it in the past few years and sort of sucks now. Nat Geo had better shark shows the past few weeks. Anybody else feel that way?
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All the networks owned by A&E like Discovery, History Channel, etc suck now. Many of the shows have leftist messages, and where they can insert man made climate change and more gun control they do. Horribly unwatchable.
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All the networks owned by A&E like Discovery, History Channel, etc suck now. Many of the shows have leftist messages, and where they can insert man made climate change and more gun control they do. Horribly unwatchable.
I like forged in fire and alone on history.
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I like forged in fire and alone on history.
Never saw Alone. I do like Forged in Fire.
Mountain Men is about the stupidest show I’ve ever seen. The biggest hick, Eustice, acts like he’s a hundred miles from civilization. I used to live in North Carolina and he could literally walk to Blowing Rock, a touristy Town in the mountains.
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I want to school at Appalachian for a few years until skiing caught up with my grades. Yeah, he definitely isn't out in the middle of nowhere. It's a 2 hour walk to the ABC store in Boone because of hills, but less than a 15 minute drive.
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I want to school at Appalachian for a few years until skiing caught up with my grades. Yeah, he definitely isn't out in the middle of nowhere. It's a 2 hour walk to the ABC store in Boone because of hills, but less than a 15 minute drive.
They sell alcohol in Boone now? Back in the day you had to drive to Blowing Rock. I seem to remember there being a problem with drunks driving back to the dorm.
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Never saw Alone. I do like Forged in Fire.
Mountain Men is about the stupidest show I’ve ever seen. The biggest hick, Eustice, acts like he’s a hundred miles from civilization. I used to live in North Carolina and he could literally walk to Blowing Rock, a touristy Town in the mountains.
How about "Alaska Bush People"? Ya know, that family that lives out in the bush of Alaska, living off the land and forging their own way?
Yep, oh, never mind that the father was born into a super wealthy Texas family and is worth millions, and he and his family, when not filming, live in SoCal in a mansion. And also, while filming "in the wild of Alaska" once done they go into the town that's just a couple of miles away till the next day of filming........
Yep, "reality TV"........... ::)
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I don't remember what channel Bear Grillis was on, but wasn't it revealed that he was often staying in hotels instead of the Bush like he portrayed?
Reality TV = FAKE TV
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Sharks are apex predators. Their numbers and health reflect the health of the pelagic and marine ecosystems. Most sharks are doing horribly by most measures. and no, I never watched shark week and don't plan to. Its their world, we only swim in it.
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Sharks are apex predators. Their numbers and health reflect the health of the pelagic and marine ecosystems. Most sharks are doing horribly by most measures. and no, I never watched shark week and don't plan to. Its their world, we only swim in it.
What do you base that upon? I'm a SCUBA diver, and have been for 25 years. The people I've talked to that run dive operations, and other divers say they're seeing more sharks now than ever before. Yes, anecdotal, but that doesn't mean its not true.
I do know this, Shark has become a common, sport fish that many people now eat, so commercial operations are now fishing for them specifically. However, we are seeing a pretty large and visible shark population, and more coastal sightings of sharks.
So is the air the "BIRDS WORLD" and we only fly in it?
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What do you base that upon? I'm a SCUBA diver, and have been for 25 years. The people I've talked to that run dive operations, and other divers say they're seeing more sharks now than ever before. Yes, anecdotal, but that doesn't mean its not true.
I do know this, Shark has become a common, sport fish that many people now eat, so commercial operations are now fishing for them specifically. However, we are seeing a pretty large and visible shark population, and more coastal sightings of sharks.
So is the air the "BIRDS WORLD" and we only fly in it?
Shark populations have been decimated for years. What I've read (mostly in scientific journals) is most species have suffered declines in numbers and adult size.
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Shark populations have been decimated for years. What I've read (mostly in scientific journals) is most species have suffered declines in numbers and adult size.
Shark Change! Panic! Send your money to Government!
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Shark populations have been decimated for years. What I've read (mostly in scientific journals) is most species have suffered declines in numbers and adult size.
These say otherwise.
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/white-shark-populations-are-growing-here-s-why-s-good-news/
https://time.com/2916040/us-great-white-shark-population/
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These say otherwise.
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/white-shark-populations-are-growing-here-s-why-s-good-news/
https://time.com/2916040/us-great-white-shark-population/
Perfesser just stated he read this in his preferred scientific journals, so the discussion is settled. ::)
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Perfesser just stated he read this in his preferred scientific journals, so the discussion is settled. ::)
Post of the day! You won the Internet.
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Shark populations have been decimated for years. What I've read (mostly in scientific journals) is most species have suffered declines in numbers and adult size.
This is correct. Sharks are overfished by Asian countries primarily for their fins. An estimated 100 million sharks are caught every year and most are “finned”, the tail and fins chopped off and the live but helpless body tossed back into the ocean. Because sharks have a very long breeding period and take a long time to reach breeding maturity, this level of fishing is destroying the population.
Being the top predator, they play a major role in the ocean ecosystems. They control the beta predators like grouper who eat the herbivore fish. When the lower predators are not controlled, they over feed on the plant eaters, reefs suffer and species die off.
Also a diver and I have absolutely seen the change in the reefs. Last summer I dove the same reef in the Keys as I did 30 years ago when I first certified and the difference was incredible.
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These say otherwise.
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/white-shark-populations-are-growing-here-s-why-s-good-news/
https://time.com/2916040/us-great-white-shark-population/
If they have started to turn up, that’s good news, but most species are still down over 90%. There are not enough sharks in the oceans to supply the growing taste for shark fin soup and Asian restaurants show no sign of letting up.
Down in the keys, there are some protected reef areas. There are some that are prohibited to be in, fishing, diving, anything. I talked with one of the divers authorized to do monthly fish surveys there and she said the fish there are incredible. Nassau grouper 3-4 ft long, pan fish the size of a garbage can lid. Fish that you see growing to 8-12” with small clusters have school of thousands and are 2-3 ft.
It should all be like that.