The South Pole presented in this documentary is not the sparsely populated, static South Pole that people imagined, but a dynamic South Pole that changes at any time.
Antarctica has long been marked by humans.
Base Camp McMurdo Station is like a mining town, with indoor temperature controls, radio stations, bowling alleys, aerobics and yoga classes, and even ATMs... Crawler tractors and noise all around A construction site where scientists live in container-like houses.
The first thing you need to do to reach the South Pole is to survive in the poles.
In a simulated snowstorm course, instructors had people wear plastic buckets on their heads because in extreme weather, even standing face to face, they couldn't see each other clearly. People are tied to the same rope, and as long as one leads the wrong way, everyone else goes completely the opposite wrong direction.
All kinds of people come to Antarctica, including philosophers, bankers, biologists, tourism scientists... Antarctica is the gathering place for these professional dreamers.
Every person who comes to Antarctica has a different story behind it. Here, bankers drive buses, philosophers dig earth machines, linguists grow vegetables, and biologists give rock concerts.
These scientists are stationed in Antarctica all year round, and they study penguin life patterns, volcanoes, another world underwater, and search for neutrinos. No one can resist the temptation to explore the last uncharted territory on earth.
The earliest human exploration of Antarctica dates back to 100 years ago. Two British explorers left a wooden house in Antarctica, which was full of cans and items brought from Britain at that time. Today, the wooden house still maintains its original shape. Looks for people to enjoy.
People do their best to protect endangered species, but few people pay attention to the fact that three or four languages are going extinct every minute in the world.
At Penguin Habitat, there is a cool penguin researcher who has been researching businesses for nearly 20 years.
Living alone for a long time, he was very reticent, but he still told people an interesting fact. Penguins also have love triangles, but sometimes the love affair can happen because the female penguin needs to steal a rock from the male penguin.
Facing the endless Antarctic, will penguins feel lonely?
There is an interesting phenomenon: there is a penguin that neither goes to the sea with its companions nor returns to the habitat, it just walks towards the mountains. Even if people put it back in the habitat, he will immediately turn around and head for the big mountain.
This is like the fate of Oedipus, the reason is not clear, but there is nowhere to escape. In a few years, will human beings, like this penguin, go to destruction without hesitation?
Antarctica is almost the quietest place in the world. People walking on the ice can hear the sound of the heartbeat and the cracking of the ice behind them. Under the ice, there is another world in Antarctica.
Experienced divers describe the feeling of diving as walking into a cathedral.
The divers in the shot are also like astronauts floating in space. What they can see when they dive into the sea bottom looks pure and sacred. I think this is probably because in the face of nature, no matter what kind of skills humans have , appear small.
Human beings are always curious about the unknown, because these unknowns can enable people to unlock countless unknown passwords about themselves.
However, the temptation of this kind of exploration also makes people constantly approach the "blank areas" on the earth, and the Antarctic and Mount Everest are not disturbed because of human respect for them.
At the end of the documentary, through the mouth of the Antarctic philosopher Stephen Paschoff, he put forward thinking about the relationship between the universe and human beings:
"Through our eyes, the universe can understand itself, and through our ears, the universe can understand itself. Hearing our own harmonious voice, we are witnesses to the universe through which we perceive our own glory and splendor."
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