Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. His offspring might be jumping tree branches as you wrote that.
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  2. That is such a beautiful story.
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  3.  @redwoodrebelgirl3010  It could have been re-enacted a few days after the real discovery when John decided he would make a video story with it.
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  4. Still possible. All that was filmed could have been re enacted just a few days after each real event (including the discovery of the baby squirrel).
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  5.  @chescarockwellgabriel  This was filmed in the 1980's you confuse television studio video broadcasting equipment (massive) and film or even VHS cameras (which were already portable though bulky and personal in the early 1980's). Also it would have been easy for him to stage each chapter of this story and film it just after it had actually happened. For example the discovery of the squirrel with the dog could be staged just after it actually happened he went back home get his camera, come back, put the baby squirrel where he discovered it and act monitoring his dog to "find" the squirrel again. Same for the coming back home of the squirrel. Was not filmed when it happened but the next few days squirrel would have returned making it easy to film it.
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  6. I remember IRC being the first remote connection computer software i ever used in 1993 in Europe. It was worldwide groups with virtual chat rooms. Netscape was the first browser i ever opened probably in 1994. I actually applied to a master's degree in a Usa university from that browser in 1996 and because of it i am writting this now from the Usa 27 years later.
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  7. Probably he took a habit to come by the window after that. Of course this was not the first return when it was filmed but still the true story.
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  8. It was tough love. John's instinct was right, it was that moment or never to give the squirrel his best chance at survival. Had he stayed indoors and become an adult he would have become impossible to keep and would have had ended his days in an enclosure in a zoo at the best. So John deserves all the praise.
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  9. It was really the best of circumstances. I believe the kittens and mama cat were crucial in raising a mentally healthy squirrel with models of his size to develop healthy habits for an animal of his size. The release timing was absolutely perfect, before he became an adult.
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  10. Please not .com they are no real technology companies only website interface and search engine but 90% commercials and tracking. It's the scum of technology.
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  11. fool. You're must be young and thus a numbrilist. Internet is nothing in the whole scheme of history.
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  12. or just disconnect it.
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  13.  @heythisisminenotyours  You must be one of the pigs.
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  14. Yet they release Gorillas and chimp in the UK these days and they arrive from Dover or land by plane.
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  15. I used to have a bird feeder that i cleaned regularly as it was assaulted by grey squirrels. But the strong acrid smell was from the birds guano. It actually smells like fertilizers and minerals, chemicaly but not in a bad way. As for the squirrel my guess is no smell.
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  16. There are two kind of people watching this. 1. Those who were of age to have a computer and understand it in 1994 2. The rest who were dust, fetuses or toddlers and have not lived that wonderful time when computers were more much more personable and exciting than today. The first group is very respectful and nostalgic of this program. The second group takes this for granted and feels entitled and a bit arrogant. To these i say, you'll be watching a similar program when you're older and younger generations will laugh about your crooked neck and miniature smartphone display when they'll be having wide angle virtual screens that extends to the periphery of vision. You'll be called the 2 feet myopic crooked neck generation.
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  17. I'll sometimes take the slowness and peace of making a trip to a classic bookstore (no not Barnes and Nobles which is an entertainment bookstore) over the hassle and hoop jumping, and having to hawk over your online order shipping to make sure it's not misdelivered, stollen, damaged, wrong product or a returned item sold to you as new. Plus i love to smell and feel new books from shelves. Then there is the random chance of seeing other people shopping and making an interesting encounter. All that no internet bandwidth will ever give you back.
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  18. With just one smartphone today you have the computing power of pretty much the whole stable of computers running in USa in 1982 put together. Except theirs were exceptionally immediate computers, no bs, no circumvoluted buggy OS and graphical interface, just you and the core of the machine.
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