I wanted to see more made up alien life and worlds, not the same shots repeated over and over.
Having some Earth context was helpful, but learning about the scientists personally/professionally, a guy paragliding, seeing one scientist crying, some other BS, and repetitive explanations and examples of a single concept made this more of an Earth biology lesson. There are already a load of documentaries about life on Earth.
We also saw humans eating honeycombs multiple times, because we obviously can't imagine humans eating. Oh, and we saw some baseball.
Plus, the intelligent aliens would have been able to create magnetic fields/shields to shield their escape domes, and have robots that can manage an EMP, rather than just winging it.
Also, we wouldn't want to harness all the Sun's energy output that reaches Earth, because we need that for heat energy and light energy for life. There was no mention of nuclear energy (fission or fusion), just inefficient and expensive to harness and transmit solar energy.
Clearly an environmental agenda rather than a realistic energy agenda... although, fortunately, fossil fuels weren't demonised, rather they were actually shown as being the positive building blocks of our civilisation to this day.
Solar energy is an energy source still to harness, but with current Earth resources and the need to conserve the solar energy for the environment rather than our own needs, it is an impractical option unless harnessed in space where it will not obstruct Earth or other planets from receiving their share of solar energy.
This was shown with the solar panels closer to the alien star, and is definitely an option for the future, assuming we can mine for resources on asteroids and barren worlds where it will not damage our own planet's ecosystem and resource supply.
Having some Earth context was helpful, but learning about the scientists personally/professionally, a guy paragliding, seeing one scientist crying, some other BS, and repetitive explanations and examples of a single concept made this more of an Earth biology lesson. There are already a load of documentaries about life on Earth.
We also saw humans eating honeycombs multiple times, because we obviously can't imagine humans eating. Oh, and we saw some baseball.
Plus, the intelligent aliens would have been able to create magnetic fields/shields to shield their escape domes, and have robots that can manage an EMP, rather than just winging it.
Also, we wouldn't want to harness all the Sun's energy output that reaches Earth, because we need that for heat energy and light energy for life. There was no mention of nuclear energy (fission or fusion), just inefficient and expensive to harness and transmit solar energy.
Clearly an environmental agenda rather than a realistic energy agenda... although, fortunately, fossil fuels weren't demonised, rather they were actually shown as being the positive building blocks of our civilisation to this day.
Solar energy is an energy source still to harness, but with current Earth resources and the need to conserve the solar energy for the environment rather than our own needs, it is an impractical option unless harnessed in space where it will not obstruct Earth or other planets from receiving their share of solar energy.
This was shown with the solar panels closer to the alien star, and is definitely an option for the future, assuming we can mine for resources on asteroids and barren worlds where it will not damage our own planet's ecosystem and resource supply.