Honestly, I had an extremely hard time following this movie, but I did get some information out of it in the end. What I gathered was that there was a scientists that theorized about an extremely large flood that possibly sculpted the area around Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Oregon. He said that this happened around 2 million years ago. The scientists had many critics that did not believe any of his information until more evidence was presented. In the Montana area, there were traces of an ice dam that melted and sent out millions and millions of gallons of water, which completely destroyed everything making these rocky areas. The channeled scablands in the Washington Area and it is a soil free landscape made by the glacial floods. Debates over the scablands and their formation happened for decades and it is now considered to be one of the greatest debates in the history of environmental sciences. Overall, it was hard for me to fully follow the computer graphics that was taking us across this area, but I thought the movie was interesting.
For me, the most interesting part of the movie was the persistence of the scientist. Yes, I did learn something about how a part of our nation could have possibly been sculpted, but I think that there is a larger lesson resting in the movie. Even after so many people told him that his research and findings were incorrect, he continued to try to get his research out to the world. He never gave up and, because of that, his information is no longer getting criticized like before. I think that this is an extremely important message that anyone can get through the movie and it is an important message as well, especially for scientists and researchers. Without persistence, we would not be so medically and technologically advanced as we are today.
Channeled Scablands pictured below:
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