Comments on: Discovery Project Earth

By: carmen

carmen — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:09:21 +0000

i thought the algea expeiment would have been the best bet. the only problem i saw was the fact that whereas yes the tubes did their job albeit for a short period of time, they didn’t take inot consideration the material they were useing. salt water eats thru silicone based materials! anyone who has ever had a salt water tank would know that. and if they didn’t a quick trip to an aquarium would have given them the answer they needed to alliviate the problem. personally i think some of the projects were absolutely absurd. for example the ice sheet, sorry that was silly BUT i will say the wind and water powered boats were very impressive! if it hadn’t have been for the war at the time i beleive we would be seeing a lot of boats like it today! anyhow that is my opinion too many onions and only two viable experiments to were if they would have put just a little more effort into it they would have had what they truely wanted besides ratings.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:16:12 +0000

I have watched about 5 shows in a row this morning and it seems that there must be much information missing in their content ie. testing the solar shield lenses for vibration by launching them on $200K rocket, much cheaper to use a vibration cell such as those used by NASA et. al. And with the pumps to pull deep water up to the surface to promote algae growth, the main insturment to see if the pump worked, a thermometer to measure cold water coming up from depth had no backup device. This seems quite strange to me. On projects that cost big bucks a simple backup should be affordable. I certainly hope there is much missing in these episodes elsewise it makes me think these are being done to promote the channel and not science.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:28:25 +0000

In “space sunshield” does anyone know or estimate the cost of the rocket that crashed?

By: Healthy Shana

Healthy Shana — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:43:41 +0000

I agree as well Carol

By: Carol from Oregon

Carol from Oregon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:25:11 +0000

I don’t know if I like a rocket going down into the sea to land at the bottom in the ocean floor to store excesses of danger…interesting the tests being done tho on how the numbers dropped down. It’s too bad it just couldn’t be used for something else instead of storing…the best idea is to stop or to be able to lower the risks of the problem.
Carol f

By: Carol from Oregon

Carol from Oregon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:31:07 +0000

I would like to know what you think of pruning dead limbs from the forest of trees? Do you believe that a forest fire should be allowed to run it’s course?
I believe in maintaining the forest before fire season-this is a minority thinking. I would like footwear to be designed so I (or ?) would not be making a disturbance on the land. I would like volunteers to be in a line like sand bagging but instead using their energy to bring back the pruning of dead branches. The branches would be brought back to a dump truck to be transported for fire wood-for people who need to stay warm, or later for bio fuels, or another kind of power plant for energy. I see no reason to argue about the forest if it’s burnt up. I also don’t like the idea of having poison oak, ivy, sumac, or any other plant that gives off allergies or poisons into the air.
Carol
no science experience just a USA citizen

By: Carol from Oregon

Carol from Oregon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:18:24 +0000

Orbital Power Plant.
I have heard that microwaves are not safe for humans? The trial run did seem to work tho. I feel like rockets could avoid the panels up in space. I worry about birds flying in the path way, or airplanes getting flight pattern information wrong… I like this idea, but I would not want star ‘wars’ over this idea or prices to be a problem.
I hope that this idea works..if it is cost effective.
Carol

By: Carol from Oregon

Carol from Oregon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:12:18 +0000

I watched Space sun shield. I have my doubts of this one. With all those lenses, I thought they would be destroyed when another space ship came up to orbit from Earth.
Won’t blocking the sun make it so the business who use solar power on Earth have less power?
What about comets or space debris hitting the lenses.
I think it is not a good idea to spend money on.
Carol

By: Airship Shawn

Airship Shawn — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:20:23 +0000

Having just watched the “infinite winds” episode I am very disappointed to see yet another “airship expert” succeed in only attempting to drag the industry back a hundred years. Being used to this, my disappointment should really be focused on the “task force” that showed little ability to really engineer but rather only understand how to set up pointless experiments that will perhaps look good on TV. The inability to get the simplest facts right that need no scientific background (such as that Elizabeth City is in North Carolina, not Virginia and the fact that this Canadian expert has no right to pretend that this North Carolina facility is his own) shows how little the program seems to be interested in meaningful “projects.” I in fact do believe in the concept presented, I just wish that real experts and real science could be presented some day.

By: Carol from Oregon

Carol from Oregon — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:31:22 +0000

Hi Healthy Shana
I think it’s sad the seeds for the mango’s can’t be planted by hand…(even having the wish that it grows up strong and healthy while planting can’t be done..so impersonal)
I do understand that planting by hand-would be time consuming and costly. Having so many helicopters could be too?
Is it more costly to have ships with people who want to help plant or is just people being on the land-more costly?
It’s too bad volunteers on cruise ships couldn’t row out and plant them…well I hope the design works better if dropping them from the sky is the only answer.
If the seedlings do grow, can they survive the high waves?
Carol