Nature Tech: Lifepower
Will plants teach us to replace gasoline with hydrogen? Could the anatomy of a grasshopper be a model for the ultimate off-road vehicle? Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature's designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature - they are
taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.
Visually, this series is an attractive, fast-paced mix of stunning natural history shots, computer-assisted design and CGI graphics of futuristic inventions, ultra-modern, spacey architecture and high tech as well as scenes of the world's leading designers and engineers at work.
taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.
Visually, this series is an attractive, fast-paced mix of stunning natural history shots, computer-assisted design and CGI graphics of futuristic inventions, ultra-modern, spacey architecture and high tech as well as scenes of the world's leading designers and engineers at work.
"Lifepower" focuses on Nature's energy production and conservation methods and speculates on future solutions to one of the most pressing problems of today's humanity.
00.00.04 Sunlight shining through tall deciduous forest
00.00.09 Cheetah and gazelle running
00.00.15 Kangaroo hopping through outback
00.00.22 Hawk/falcon soaring (check later)
00.00.30 Cavemen gathering around a fire, smith beating metal with a hammer, etc
00.00.56 Smokestack spewing black smoke
00.01.02 Mechanical mill parts turning
00.01.08 Computer motherboard, hands tapping on keyboards
00.01.51 Nature tech title card
00.01.58 Snake, some species of viper, emerging from tree stump to prey on a mouse
00.02.09 Preying mantis and a cricket
00.02.22 Large furry dragonfly captures an insect
00.02.33 Wasp attacking another bug
00.02.53 Chameleon extending tongue to catch lizard
00.03.23 Footage of "ecobot", robot that eats flies
00.05.03 More footage of deciduous forests
00.06.14 Archival footage of demolition
00.06.25 Fossils, overlaid w/ shots of fire and time lapse of sun setting
00.07.29 Solar panels
00.07.51 Moth flying towards camera (it is blue in colour with spotted wings, there are too many moth types for me to identify it)
00.07.58 Another moth, this time with red fur on its back
00.08.15 Magnification of moth eyes
00.09.03 Scientist coating plate of glass with light sensitive coating
00.09.30 Closeup of moths-eye coating layer
00.10.10 Closeup of arctic poppies tracking the sun
00.10.48 Gemini house in Austria, with rotating solar panels
00.12.02 Computer animated model of the inside of a leaf cell, models of chloroplasts, etc
00.13.35 Satellite footage of Earth, sun
00.14.20 Footage of space shuttle
00.14.59 Hybrid car, followed by hydrogen fuel cells
00.17.23 Water dripping off of leaves
00.17.33 Multicoloured leaves floating down a river
00.17.56 Waterfall
00.18.20 Termite nest in middle of savannah
00.18.53 Termite soldiers making nest
00.19.29 Scientist reading temperature inside the nest
00.21.35 JCB tool slicing nest in half
00.23.15 Workers injecting nest with gypsum mixture
00.25.10 Gypsum structure of termite nest tunnels
00.26.05 Scientists scan termite mound by taking thousands of photos
00.27.01 Computer model of termite mound
00.28.20 Vegetables being cut, browsing the internet at high speeds
00.28.40 Cockroach on vegetables, a cell phone
00.29.50 Cockroach hairs being observed in a laboratory
00.30.40 Footage of surface of Mars, and spider-like Mars rovers
00.31.41 Ormia fly facing camera, about to prey on mole cricket
00.32.36 Ormia larvae on body of mole cricket
00.32.53 Ormia fly being studied in laboratory
00.34.05 Microscopic detail of ormia ears
00.35.04 Smoke beetle clinging to side of leaf
00.35.16 Closeup of smoke beetle sense organs
00.35.29 Said sense organs being studied in laboratory
00.35.58 Forest fire
00.36.43 Smoke beetles mating
00.37.19 Honeybee on purple flower (look later), slow motion footage of honeybee flying
00.37.49 Many bees in commercial hive
00.38.28 Bees in tunnel experiment designed by Australian students
00.39.49 Microscopic detail of bees' eyes
00.40.35 Caltech student studying fruit fly in wind tunnel
00.42.41 Model of Mars rover on surface of Mars
00.43.10 Wood ant colony, eating other insects
00.44.13 Robots mimicking wood ant colony social structure
00.46.20 Russian woman painting ants in forest, ants interacting
00.47.12 Truck like robots making their way across a field
00.48.12 Swarm of Mars rovers
00.48.47 Satellite composite of Mars, Earth, nondescript planets
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