Looks much better if you click "watch in high quality" below the video window. This hour (43 minutes, No commercials) takes viewers on a journey to explore the eye-popping and often unprecedented engineering feats that are reshaping Dubai into a model for visionary urban development in the 21st century. Original air date 8/25/08 on Discovery Channel
Five thousand years ago--nearly two millennia before the Romans built their first mud huts--ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental masterpieces whose scale, beauty, and sophistication still boggle the mind. Hosted by actor and art historian Peter Weller, the feature-length EGYPT: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days of the reign of Ramses the Great in 1212 BC, from dazzling obelisks to the 700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza.
A four minute preview of Jacque Presco's Hi-Tech design of the future. The age where everything will be FREE and run with clean environmental energy. A MUST WATCH! The Venus Project, Inc is a constitution that elevates Jacque Fresco's visual sense of the future with the aim to amend society by soaring towards what they claim resource-based economy and the blueprint of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource direction and progressed mechanisation, concentrating on the welfares they arrogate will add to society. The establishment was commenced by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995.It presently functions beside The Zeitgeist Movement, which runs as an activist network, granting members to transmit and process projects inside the movement. Future by Design, a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was brought forth in 2006. The name of the organization arises from Venus, Florida, where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research facility is located, near Lake Okeechobee. Inside the center are ten constructions, designed by Fresco, which display the architecture of the future. The Venus Project introduces a forward, raw charge for humankind that implies nothing lower than the absolute redesign of our culture. There are numerous people nowadays who are absorbed in the critical problems that are presented in our modernistic society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a turn down in the Earth's ...
It looks much better when you "click watch in high quality" under the video window. The hour (43 minutes, no advertising) takes the viewer on a journey to explore the amazing feats of engineering and often unprecedented transformation of Dubai into a model for visionary urban development in the 21st Century. Original 25/08/2008 Discovery Channel