The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70

Re:The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70 by wallflower on Monday February 29, 2016 @09:24AM (#11195575)

If you haven't seen the Up Series, it is a documentary series about 14 children that were selected from different social classes in the UK. Each episode is seven years apart. It has had eight episodes.

56 Up was the first one I had seen. And it really does give you a sense of mortality and how quick life's years can go by, in a blur of routine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

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Re:The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70 by dsp1234 on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:18PM (#11198098)

The total running time of the entire documentary is 769 minutes.

There are 29.453.760 minutes in 56 years. There were 14 people, for a total of 412.352.640 minutes of lifetime.

That a speed up factor of 536.219. It seems like any biological system sped up 500k times it's normal rate is going to give a sense of mortality.

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Re:The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70 by wallflower on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:21PM (#11200760)

Thanks for your very sensible explanation - I'm going to have to borrow for next time a non-techie friend of mine says something about a film that covers a person's life (so I get an expected eye roll or worse).

Reminds me of a guy who shot 1 second every day for a year to make a video. He ended up on Ted's main stage and ended up making an app.

http://www.1secondeveryday.com/

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