Darwin's Voyage Done Over, Live 147
thrill12 writes "Almost 178 years ago, Charles Darwin set sail in the HMS Beagle, to do the now famous explorations that formed the basis for Darwin's On The Origin Of Species. Now, a group of British and Dutch scientists, journalists and artists set sail again to redo the voyage of the Beagle. This time, they are taking modern equipment with them and they have live connections through Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and Flickr. As they re-explore, and (re)discover, we can join that 8-month-long trip, live over the internet."
This type of educational movie making is good (Score:4, Informative)
The last time there was a truly made-for-the-classroom movie, it was called The Voyage of the Mimi [wikipedia.org]. It not only brought the crisis of dwindling humpback whale populations to elementary school students, it provided survival education lessons on avoiding contaminated foods, creating drinkable water, and building shelter. I'd not be so quick to dismiss edutainment, especially when it is in the pursuit of re-enacting one of the most important non-hard scientific studies of all time.
As an added bonus, you never know which child actor will grow up to become one of Hollywood's most popular and gifted actors.
Re:Live Video?!?!? (Score:3, Informative)
If you have the money it is actually not that difficult to do live video links using smallish satellite receivers. A laptop and an antenna the size of a briefcase is all you need to go live on television from anywhere in communication satellite range.
Re:Live Video?!?!? (Score:2, Informative)
The main partners in this project are the Dutch and Belgian broadcasting corporations. I saw the first episode and they seemed to be using the same satellite setup they use for live reports.
Re:Twitter etc... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Waste of time? (Score:1, Informative)
otoh. in Europe this is proving to be quite popular, in The Netherlands it's getting a prime time slot appaerently
maybe it's worth noting that... (Score:1, Informative)
there are also belgian scientists on board (not only dutch and british)
Re:Deification of Darwin (Score:3, Informative)
Falsified. Science can be tested and falsified.