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.

Not to mention it's almost impossible to pay attention to what the page was about. Something to do with that RS article that's also on the front page?

Super herky jerky on my 2013 Macbook Air. Needs a serious rafactor. Use requestAnimationFrame properly plz.

Seemed mostly fine on my old 2Ghz iMac with 2GB RAM and Chrome 28.0.1500.71. But I still agree with you, all the graphical effects were distracting.

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.

Who put honey on my trackpad?

it's great to see crowdfunded science pick up! Obviously I've got a vested interest in this and watching very closely...

Thought this was Snowden related from the title.

It is. By eating up your memory, this site starves NSA malware.