Steve Irwin

lunarlos · 2006-09-20T01:40:41+00:00

Ya know I was thinking of letting this one go, but nope, I must commentas this topic has been discussed on this group and on other forums,even non-rocketry forums.Please visit this link, then come back and read on: the article gets pulled, I will copy it here)Sep 19, 8:18 PM (ET)LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau said Tuesdaythat while he mourns the recent death of "The Crocodile Hunter," SteveIrwin, he disagrees with Irwin's hands-on approach to naturetelevision.While promoting his new two-part TV special, "Jean-Michel Cousteau:Ocean Adventures - America's Underwater Treasures," Cousteau calledIrwin's death "very, very unfortunate."He had "a lot of respect" for Irwin, who he didn't know personally, andhis "environmental message," Cousteau said.But, he added, Irwin would "interfere with nature, jump on animals,grab them, hold them, and have this very, very spectacular, dramaticway of presenting things. Of course, it goes very well on television.It sells, it appeals to a lot people, but I think it's very misleading.You don't touch nature, you just look at it. And that's why I'm stillalive. I've been diving over 61 years - a lot many more years that he'sbeen alive - and I don't mess with nature."Irwin died Sept. 4 when a stingray's barb pieced his chest while he wasfilming an underwater sequence at the Great Barrier Reef. Irwin was 44.============================================================44 is too young for ANYONE to die, but in my honest opinion, SteveIrwin had beat the odds too many times. I was personally TURNED OFF byhis "Jerry Springer" style approach to nature programs. How the *#$^is jumping on the back of a Croc TEACHING anything to anyone. Howabout I walk up behind you and jump on your back! WOW we just learnedthat you don't like people jumping on your back!And I just wonder how many animals have been tortured and killedbecause kids and some adults see Steve Irwin BOTHERING, molesting, andhandling creatures? How many dogs...

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tdstr 19 years ago

Pretty damn entertaining show at that. Check out the thermite experiment they did;

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Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75

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Tweak 19 years ago

Good stuff, does it come on US television?

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tdstr 19 years ago

Doing the Dish Network at the Novak complex and IIRC it's on the G4 channel 191 on monday nights.

Looks like it would be a blast(all puns intended) to work on the show.

Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75

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Tweak 19 years ago

I get G4 on DirecTV, so I will check it out. Thanks!

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Darrell D. Mobley 19 years ago

ME? Rock_It? God no.

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Darrell D. Mobley 19 years ago

I'll settle for "extremely lame".

Yeah, but not doing that means you don't have to hunt for content to put there. It's a form of "autopilot". Or doing the least amount to get by. Hey, I saw a rocketry website that was run that way...

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Darrell D. Mobley 19 years ago

Not Jerry, the person who was piling-on about Irwin's death.

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Darrell D. Mobley 19 years ago

Go cart or a wheel chair? ;-)

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Dave Grayvis 19 years ago

You're both right.

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Dave Grayvis 19 years ago

It does to the monkeys.

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Darrell D. Mobley 19 years ago

Now that was cool.

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lunarlos 19 years ago

Ok, I AM SOLD! I'll but that for a dollar! Off to make my own Thermite!

Lunar

Darrell D. Mobley wrote:

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Mario Perdue 19 years ago

Really? Damn, I'm sorry I missed that episode...

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Guy Fawkes 19 years ago

"Tweak" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@news.giganews.com...

Yeah, for now. He's got massive brain injuries so his condition could deteriorate over time.

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