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The show "Modern Marvels" on History Channel

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Just watched an hour show the other night on "Containers." Call me a loser but I love this show.

Saw the engineering disasters one again the other day. Good stuff.

Learned something new the other night when they were talking about the strategic oil reserves, they said the oil is stored in underground salt mine caverns and not storage tanks. Since oil is less dense than water, they just pump water down in the caverns to "float" the oil up to the surface to be pumped out.

Thought that was pretty neat.
 
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I actually have chilled to the History Channel because it seems to be a lot of re-runs here. Mythbusters (aw, that poor bastard Buster) is a lot of fun to watch. Engineering Disasters and Seconds Before Disaster are very popular as well.
 
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vrbryant said:
Modern Marvels = Good
Hands on History = Better
Mail Call = Best
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HAnds on History is good...

I think my problems with Modern Marvels and Mail Call are in issue of detail level...

On Mail Call I'd really like to know more about a lot of the things they talk about... mostly because I know the answers to most all the questions, probably 90%, and in 50% of the cases I probably know more than they explain about the things. So, its not a lot of new info.

Modern Marvels on the other hand... sometimes just bores the shit out of me with the minutiae of crap I could care less about. Engineering Disasters 17? Come on... I got bored after Engineering Disasters 5. On the other hand I could watch the Autobahn one for 5 hours (the opening of that where they test drove the Porsche got my attention) Seige Machines? Keep it coming. Yeah the Quarries one was good, etc... but some of them bore teh snot out of me at the same time...
 
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AKAKBUCK said:
HAnds on History is good...

I think my problems with Modern Marvels and Mail Call are in issue of detail level...

On Mail Call I'd really like to know more about a lot of the things they talk about... mostly because I know the answers to most all the questions, probably 90%, and in 50% of the cases I probably know more than they explain about the things. So, its not a lot of new info.

Modern Marvels on the other hand... sometimes just bores the shit out of me with the minutiae of crap I could care less about. Engineering Disasters 17? Come on... I got bored after Engineering Disasters 5. On the other hand I could watch the Autobahn one for 5 hours (the opening of that where they test drove the Porsche got my attention) Seige Machines? Keep it coming. Yeah the Quarries one was good, etc... but some of them bore teh snot out of me at the same time...
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Maybe "Modern Marvels: Dildos" would get your attention.
 
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The scary thing is that there are only two shoes that I watch on regular TV anymore...Lost & My name is Earl (which btw is the funniest damn thing on the air at the moment).

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I would like Mail Call better if I didn't have to listen to R. Lee Ermey's incessant yelling.
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By far are the best parts are when he is actually interacting with military personnel or the people demonstrating whatever the piece of equipment in question is...it's at those times that you can tell he's just an old jarhead who really digs the stuff. It's just the staged parts where he's reading letters by his hooch that are lame.

Definitely watch the one where he goes to the Knob Creek rifle range down in KY, it's obvious the old fart is having a blast and it's fun to watch.

When R. Lee is just being R. Lee he's compelling...it's when he's playing DI for the dinks that he gets old.
 
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Muck, I'm a fan of Earl (and the Office) and was watching TNT over the weekend...think it was Remember the Titans with Denzel Washington and noticed Earl's Bro played a rather large OLman. Dude has dropped a few pounds. He's good at playing the dumb hilljack.
 
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