[Youtube Review] The ultimate story of answering boring questions seriously

Vox is a channel in the United States that makes special deconstructed films, ranging from politics to pop culture. It has cooperated with Netflix for 3 seasons of "explained". I really like the intro style of each episode, the sound bite of old films and newsreels, good in style.

This film is called "Who made these circles in the Sahara?" At first I actually mistakenly thought it was trying to deconstruct The eye of Sahara before watching it, but it wasn't. (The Eye of the Sahara is a super-giant geological mystery)

"This is a story about the limits of what you can find out on the internet.

About all the different ways of looking at the same thing"

The story is that a reporter found a post in the reddit discussion area, and some netizens found on google earth that in the Sahara desert in Algeria, a North African country, there are multiple circles composed of dots, which are connected into multiple circles with a length of 150 kilometers, and there are hundreds of circles. There is only desert. Journalists tried to conduct investigations on the Internet.

Spoilers below, recommend watching the video first

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The answer to a suspected paranormal geographical phenomenon, from google earth to historians, oil field experts to water conservancy technology, desert tour guides to canned sardine fish experts, and finally found to be scars from the colonial era. boom! Super mind-blowing!

The good thing is that it shows how many angles were used for this mystery. Although there are many experts and online information, in the end, traditional methods, field investigations are also needed.

Another wonderful one is the French canned sardine expert! When you specialize in something that is very far from the ground, the incident itself is very small, but as long as someone studies, collects, and records, in the end, this knowledge will be connected with the so-called orthodox academic knowledge.

The reporter emailed Bob, an oilfield scholar in Chuzui, and he responded with a good analogy. Although it is the same word, as long as half a century has passed, it is already two worlds in technology.

After watching it, I found that the length of the film is 27 minutes. Regardless of Vox’s decision to Youtube, it is considered to be very long, but the story is smooth. It is expected that the footage shot by this project will be massive, including each online visit, the entire desert trip, and interviews with several local residents. Wait, these 27 minutes are too much.