Bob Mehew
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just seen BBC News - A rare glimpse in the cave of crystals an advert for BBC2 program tonight Tuesday 19 January "How the Earth made us"
Naica Cave - Mexico's Cave of Crystals
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More info & clips: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qbvyc
Will be available on iplayer afterwards - it's the first 10 minutes.
Mike
Will be available on iplayer afterwards - it's the first 10 minutes.
Mike
cap n chris
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Nice eye candy; in true BBC tradition the educational element seems levelled at the UK's lowest intellectual category. S'good stuff for the masses.
Peter Burgess
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That's exactly what I thought. Long gone are the days of intelligent science on BBC2. Remember those days?
cap n chris
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Indeedy, Peter: as a youngster I used to revel over Horizon but the more recent incarnations of it are execrable pap.
If only BBC (and other channels) could get the quality of the narrative content to match the fabulous photography. That would be worth watching with the sound on.
If only BBC (and other channels) could get the quality of the narrative content to match the fabulous photography. That would be worth watching with the sound on.
Peter Burgess
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Here, I thought you'd given up the delights of watching the gogglebox!
cap n chris
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InterwebnetTV, Peter.
cap 'n chris said:
Peter Burgess said:
Did both of you really not find the clip stunning?
I'm sure you're both good blokes, but why do you have to pour your charmlessness on things like this?
Your Mother should have told you - if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything.
Peter Burgess
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Yes Sir. Sorry Sir. We were referring to the science, not the pretty pictures.
underwhere
New member
Brilliant pictures, negligible science/geology, excitable but uninformative script, continuity errors in the Qanat underground canal.
Oh, for the Horizons of yesteryear.
Oh, for the Horizons of yesteryear.
RobinGriffiths
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Old OU Geology videos are what you really need. A great one with Leslie Judd explaining the significance of the Rookhope borehole comes highly recommended.
Robin
Robin
Peter Burgess
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It would have been better on radio, but only with a good sound engineer, don't you think?underwhere said:
RobinGriffiths
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Do they actually let people walk up crystals as shown in some of the pics on their website, or are they photo-shopped in. I've yet to see any marker tape.
http://www.naica.com.mx/english/index.htm
If I was paranoid, I might think this was some elaborate hoax!
Robin
http://www.naica.com.mx/english/index.htm
If I was paranoid, I might think this was some elaborate hoax!
Robin
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george
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It is a hoax - that bloke was 3cm tall.
RobinGriffiths
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http://www.manataka.org/~manataka/page1985.html
I've been looking on the web for some sort of conservation statement on the caves, but the only stuff I come across are sites with pictures of people walking on and touching the crystals. Given the uniqueness of the formation I would not have expected this. If you were to walk on a pristine calcite floor in muddy boots in this country you would be crucified. So, do they have some strange system of boot exchange to ensure that you only walk on the crystals in soft, mega clean slipper type footwear or what?
Robin
I've been looking on the web for some sort of conservation statement on the caves, but the only stuff I come across are sites with pictures of people walking on and touching the crystals. Given the uniqueness of the formation I would not have expected this. If you were to walk on a pristine calcite floor in muddy boots in this country you would be crucified. So, do they have some strange system of boot exchange to ensure that you only walk on the crystals in soft, mega clean slipper type footwear or what?
Robin
RobinGriffiths
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Possibly, but if someone decided that the new Head of the Valleys road was to destroy Craig a Ffynnon in 10 years, I wouldn't be getting all my mates to wear orange boiler suits with company logos on the back to go and stand on calcite floors to be photographed before it's too late.
Are there any links to actual science being done at this site ?
Robin
