Please designers, don't build sites like this. It looks super cool and fancy, but even my Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and the lastest build of Chromium was sluggish as hell.
I've never been a fan of JS and this is why I have it disabled by default in Chromium. Just whitelist the domains you make use of and the rest of the internet is smooth sailing.
Glitzy eye-candy does not inspire confidence in a scientific expedition. Planes shooting across the screen... and everything boiled down into talking points just detract from what might be a serious scientific study. The total effect left me feeling uneasy and not trusting the project. Science should be about the steak, not the sizzle.
Even the name, Dark Snow, sounds like a bad Hollywood horror movie. Maybe they really are really on a mission to discover frozen aliens beneath the Greenland ice sheet. There is nothing sexy or cool about Greenland, it's a bleak desolate place, which is why it's called Greenland, to trick people into settling there. I guess Dark Snow is trying the same trick.
