"the woman recording this (Lindsay Phillips) is a meteorologist and storm chaser and this is not her first close encounter with a tornado. You'd think she could hold it together a little better."
Therefore she knows how dangerous they are. So she has every right to be scared, right? And in any case, I think she holds it together pretty well! I've have been crapping myself.

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I didn't even really think about it, but if it was a John Williams-esque score that probably contributed to the Spielberg feeling.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

@dag
Issy and I saw this last night and dug it. JJA really nailed the style and feel of a Speilberg flick, with some help from the composer, Giacchino, who did an impressive John Williams homage. I don't think the film had the depth of an ET or Close Encounters, but it was still 2 hours of pure inner child fun. And as far as plot holes go, this is intended as a childhood fantasy. If this were Cloverfield, those kids would have been eaten in the opening frames of the film.

@dag

Issy and I saw this last night and dug it. JJA really nailed the style and feel of a Speilberg flick, with some help from the composer, Giacchino, who did an impressive John Williams homage. I don't think the film had the depth of an ET or Close Encounters, but it was still 2 hours of pure inner child fun. And as far as plot holes go, this is intended as a childhood fantasy. If this were Cloverfield, those kids would have been eaten in the opening frames of the film.

That is too funny! >> ^aspartam:

Press 8,1,3,2 once the video loads.
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Edit: It seems numeral navigation is switched off on videosift. Open the video in youtube to experience what I'm trying to share.

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"SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011). The comet, probably part of the Kreutz family of comets, was discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov. In this coronagraph the Sun (represented by a white circle) is blocked by the red occulting disk so that the faint structures in the Sun's corona can be discerned. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection blasted out to the right just as the comet is approaching the Sun.

Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields."

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sounds like the notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Cool stuff. It's always great to get close to nature, but not forgetting they're big beasts.

Reminds me of this one:

http://videosift.com/video/A-close-encounter-with-wild-lions

A little more at stake there though!

I love some of Gilliam's work (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits), like some of it (The Fisher King, Baron Munchausen) and really disliked one enough to stop watching it (Brothers Grimm).

I love some of Kubrik's work (Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange) like some of it (2001), hate others (Eye's Wide Shut)

I love some of Speilberg's work (Indiana Jones 1-3, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Hook, 'Poltergeist' as he pretty much directed it), like some of it (Close Encounters, ET, Always), but there's nothing I have seen of his that I hate, in fact the closest I've got is with AI, even though I loved to death some of the decayed robot stuff. (Indiana Jones was close to me hating it, but really only the end really shits me)

I love Speilberg's work as he has quite the diverse catalogue and really hits it out of the park more often than not.

Maybe the fact that I don't really hate any of his work demonstrates that he is 'safe' and doesn't challenge you.

I have not seen the entire catalogue of any of these directors, but they are all superb, all different and all have made amazing contributions to the artform of cinema.

>> ^youdiejoe:

only thing missing was "Can't turn you loose" from the Blue Brothers movie playing as the cops come around the corner...


I love the Blue Brothers. Blue Man Group sucks.

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>> ^visionep:
I wish they had put something else in frame to get some sense of scale. These little guy's are tiny. They have some similar jellies at the Long Beach Aquarium and I'm guessing from the size of the specs around these ones you could probably fit 5 or 6 in a teaspoon if not more.


http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?id=779321
"It grows to a length of six inches."

This reminded me of Close Encounters, now if only somebody added some sound effects.

And of course, I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.

I'm with 'drunk gwiz665' on this one: Fake!


But, seriously:


These close encounters can be explained by quick shifts in temperature, said Joe Desloges, a river specialist and geography professor at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Desloges explained that the frozen circles are actually ice pans, or surface slabs of ice that form in the center of a lake or creek, instead of along the water’s edge.
As water cools, it releases heat that turns into frazil ice – a collection of loose, needle shaped ice particles that can cluster together in an ice pan. If it accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a hanging dam – a dense, heavy piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre.
But he admits that the near-perfect circular shape of the Mississauga ice pan is very strange.
“Normally, you do not get edges of the ice pan so clean and even. It may occur when a pan forms quickly, then melts a bit before starting to refreeze,” he said. “There is the chance that these can form so perfectly, but not common at all.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/12/18/man-stumbles-on-round-spinning-creek-circle.aspx

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i gotta say, i love the fact that you created your username on a lark due to a random comment thread a long time ago, and are still around and posting with it. awesome.

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That bear is wasting a lot of calories that it could be using for hibernation...
Tx budday. I do my best.