Really, really excellent.

While we are on the subject of British esoteric History I give you a scene from the movie Bronson. Which was about the most infamous prisoner of Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson_%28prisoner%29#Occupations_and_projects

^Played by the Great, Tom Hardy. Favorite actor by far today. Just watch him as Heathcliff in the BBC's Wuthering Heights. Or, for that matter, as Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist.

He plays "mentally twisted" expertly!

Recreational genealogy seems have a strong pull, but it seems almost as meaningless as astrology.

You only share 12.5% of your genes with each of your 8 great-grandparents, and genes can have very different effects depending on which other genes are present. If you want to know who you are, look at yourself, not your great-grandparents or anybody else.

Very good points chilaxe, but I would argue it is slightly more relevant than astrology is. 12.5% of 1 particular person is a good deal more meaningful than 0% of any given group of stars and knowing what your ancestors accomplished is infinitely more fascinating and encouraging than any constellation that happened to be nearby when you were squeezed out.

Still I understand what your saying, you make what you are not your genes.

I love this -- it's fantastic. And this has nothing to do with the video, but at 6:18 Stephen and his mother are in the car together driving along and all I can think is "OH MY GOD GET THE HELL INTO THE RIGHT LANE, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!"

>> ^chilaxe:

Recreational genealogy seems have a strong pull, but it seems almost as meaningless as astrology.
You only share 12.5% of your genes with each of your 8 great-grandparents, and genes can have very different effects depending on which other genes are present. If you want to know who you are, look at yourself, not your great-grandparents or anybody else.


That is true, but you should also consider possible effects from epigenetics.

Read the wiki entry, it's quite fascinating.

Excerpt from wiki:
In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above) -genetics. These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell's life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism;[1] instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently.

very moving. Very much worth watching right to the end.