Silver Screen Science - Lake Placid (1999)

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Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This June, by popular demand, we’re doing a Silver Screen Science double feature focusing on our favorite reptiles: crocs and snakes! One croc movie, one snake movie, both quintessential creature features of the 90s. This episode, crocs take center stage: Lake Placid (1999) Next time … Anaconda. The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.5	Hello, Will.
0:19.9	Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.1	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science.
0:25.3	Woohoo!
0:26.1	This is our series where we talk about the science in movies, particularly movies that overlap with our particular science of choice.
0:35.7	This month on Silver Screen Science, we are tackling a theme that our audience has been
0:40.1	asking for for a long time.
0:41.8	Yes, they have.
0:42.6	Crocs and Snakes.
0:43.8	Which gets so much attention in the main series podcast, but have gotten so little attention
0:47.9	on Silver Screen Science.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:49.9	We haven't really dealt with them in many of the movies.
0:52.8	To that end, this June, we will be doing a silver screen science double feature of Lake Placid and Anaconda.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:01.1	This episode, we are discussing Lake Placid.
1:05.2	This is a 1999 movie produced by Fox 2,000 Pictures and Stan Winston Studios.
1:12.2	Stan Winston of Jurassic Park fame, among other things.
1:14.8	Yeah, good at making Big Arcor Source.
1:16.6	And directed by Steve Minor.
1:19.3	As a reminder, when we do silver screen science, the whole point is to discuss the science in movies,
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