Bob Mehew
Well-known member
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"
cap 'n chris said: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.
cap 'n chris said: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 said:That's exactly what I thought. Long gone are the days of intelligent science on BBC2. Remember those days?
It would have been better on radio, but only with a good sound engineer, don't you think?underwhere said:Brilliant pictures, negligible science/geology, excitable but uninformative script, continuity errors in the Qanat underground canal.
Oh, for the Horizons of yesteryear.
RobinGriffiths said: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.
If I was paranoid, I might think this was some elaborate hoax!
Robin
Glad i'm not the only one. thank you!
O. G.
RobinGriffiths said: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
Could this be something to do with the plan to let the chamber re-flood once they've finished mining?