the frakking sbs doco was on last night
[i find that much more 'informative'..
than travel or cheese or 'flowers' tribe

i recall a few days ago a doco
about how long is my piece of string
[i found it fancinating..stimulating much further thought]

[i was reminded of those thoughts just now
in reading about time...many thinking time to be the forth dimention..wrongly]

see length/breadth/height[are all arbitary measure units]
much like the piece of string...it all depends on a variable unit of measure..

[just as time is a vairiable unit
to measure progression accross repeatable periods..
by mechanical recording of a set juration]..its easier to comprehend things if we dont try to explain

but only by explaining
can we know we get it

so i will presume you saw the string...docco
measuring the string in units of measure[from cubit..to centimeters
to fractile distance at a microscopic level that measures the bumps]..of the electrons..

anyhow time is a phyco-logical concept
[held in our left brain..that needs logic]
sees things in riged catogories..it needs to rationalise concepts within]

like e=mc2..is such a flawed right brain theory
like energy..is it a measure of jules?
is it stationary/static..potential..*energy
or in motion..thus able to be changed by interefrance[friction/collision]

thing is c2 is the speed of light squared
and m= mass...so the insanity [illlogic]..of a heat energy
being equal to a mass...[weight]..times a speed of light times itself
well if you cant visualiase it[right brain]..its nuts

the same with in..'the piece of string' doc
where they said you cant measure an electron
[there they wrongly said it is here..but its there]
then twaddle off about..time travel illogic..
[of which i was just reminded]

ie zeno's parradox[of an arrow]
at any moment it is...lol..EITHER*

'where it is ...or it isnt'..[thats claptrap]
lets begin with the logic that an arrow is..[fullstop]
thus it cant not/be...[but lets continue the parradockx]

''it cant be where it isnt''
lol...'but...IF it is...where it is
...then it'..lol...'cant be moving''

the thing is an arrow which 'is'
is till it isnt..[moving or not]
if it moves...it cant be measured..
because by the time..it is known to 'be' there..its moved on

this is the same absurdity that leads to seing an electron...in two places..[if there is only one electron..then the law must reveal one electron...anything that says its in two places is simply speaking wrong]

anyhow back to your rotting salty cheese
and your little beasts eating grubs..on a movie stage
[whatever floats your boat]..

just dont presume
thats how life really is

at the speed of light
it would still take a thopusand generations
to get to the nearest star...

and its weight
will only be a potential energy...
with extra energy to be put in first

[regardless of how many times
the speed of light they try to spin to you
sems to be science]

just like the lies of genus evolution

Dear Poirot,

Thanks for the French film, "To Be and To Have." It sounds like my cup of tea. I'm adding to my collection - and anything that lifts one's spirits sounds great. I've just watched the DVD , "The Black Swan," and now I need something to cheer me up. Ballet will never be the same for me after viewing that film.

Thank you all.

Sharing your experiences makes life so much more interesting and by all means come up with other topics that we all can enjoy and share.

Experiences such as family history, experiences from early childhood,
traumas, life at school and beyond, life in rural Australia. Not many of us have had the benefit and experience of growing up and living in the outback.

Australia is an ever evolving society and documentaries on the origins of Sydney, Melbourne, and other major centres make interesting watching for the simple reason we never had the benefit of that knowledge in our history classes at school.

It is good to learn the minute details of our past history, no matter how obscure.

I've recently watched a documentary of travel made by the English Traveller who made his name on Monty Python, a series on major cities and destinations, covering Sydney, Rocks area, the back lane ways.
Which gave us a slight glimpse on the history which made interesting
listening, unfortunately it was too brief and one's appetite was wetted for more. Does anybody know of any docos on Sydney's Rocks area or Melbourne's lane ways or the sleazy side of our major cities.

Poirot

Thanks for the heads-up on "To be and To Have".

I know this is not a documentary, but if you enjoy watching both Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski playing off each other in a neat little thriller, watch "Una Pura Formalite" A Pure Formality - it is subtle and in my opinion (for what that's worth) underrated. Great for watching out for details - all the answers are there. Will leave you feeling good - trust me.

Aquarius

Ross Noble's travels around Australia - not so much sleazy underbelly, but very entertaining - he goes to some out-of-the-way places to do stand-up gigs.

Which has just reminded me of the wondrous Stephen Fry - his USA tour was a delight. Hilarious seeing him in a legal brothel in Nevada.