Every single scene opens with the same damn lines about how the giant crystals are super hot, super sharp, and super hard to walk on. What follows is very vague ramblings that don't make sense to a normal person like me. It was cool to see the context of the photograph that's been making its rounds across the internet (of the people standing on the giant crystals) but I don't think I leaned anything. It's 45 minutes of being reminded how dangerous it is and how the crystals are "softer than human fingernails" (a very specific comparison that doesn't really help) and being told that one of these non-descript scientists has a "mission" to complete. I'm no scientist, but if these crystals are all "red hot" and super sharp, why/how are they touching them so often without their gloves on and how are they constantly sliding across them? Why the fuck do they need to give samples to NASA? I don't know if I was supposed to take a course before I watched this, but the presentation screams "Discovery Channel" yet the material makes little sense to me. My favorite part is in the last seven or so minutes where they do a kind of epilogue on all the scientists that went into the cave (I have clue which scientist is which as they have no personalities) and they show us some geologist or whatever and they open his segment with a bunch of quick shots of him standing with his arms crossed and the smug look on his face and they're trying to make this nerd look like a badass. The best experience here is to watch the first ten minutes and then jump to the last seven minutes because everything in between is the same shit over and over with some jargon interspersed.
Every single scene opens with the same damn lines about how the giant crystals are super hot, super sharp, and super hard to walk on. What follows is very vague ramblings that don't make sense to a normal person like me. It was cool to see the context of the photograph that's been making its rounds across the internet (of the people standing on the giant crystals) but I don't think I leaned anything. It's 45 minutes of being reminded how dangerous it is and how the crystals are "softer than human fingernails" (a very specific comparison that doesn't really help) and being told that one of these non-descript scientists has a "mission" to complete. I'm no scientist, but if these crystals are all "red hot" and super sharp, why/how are they touching them so often without their gloves on and how are they constantly sliding across them? Why the fuck do they need to give samples to NASA? I don't know if I was supposed to take a course before I watched this, but the presentation screams "Discovery Channel" yet the material makes little sense to me. My favorite part is in the last seven or so minutes where they do a kind of epilogue on all the scientists that went into the cave (I have clue which scientist is which as they have no personalities) and they show us some geologist or whatever and they open his segment with a bunch of quick shots of him standing with his arms crossed and the smug look on his face and they're trying to make this nerd look like a badass. The best experience here is to watch the first ten minutes and then jump to the last seven minutes because everything in between is the same shit over and over with some jargon interspersed.
