on NOVA tonight
Jan. 6th, 2009 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiis the 'Prisoners of the Ice" episode, where they go back to try and find out what happened to the lost Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
It's horrifying but fascinating - the things those men went through, and in many ways how unnecessary it all was. But I love stuff like this - going back to revisit what we thought happened with modern forensic techniques and re-opening the book on a story like this. It's that same part of my brain that watches "Secrets of the Dead" and other similar programs.
I love history because I never outgrew "But WHYYYYY???? And THEN what happened?"
It's horrifying but fascinating - the things those men went through, and in many ways how unnecessary it all was. But I love stuff like this - going back to revisit what we thought happened with modern forensic techniques and re-opening the book on a story like this. It's that same part of my brain that watches "Secrets of the Dead" and other similar programs.
I love history because I never outgrew "But WHYYYYY???? And THEN what happened?"
