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9/11: Science and Conspiracy |
NGC conducts a forensic investigation to test the tenets of some of the most common conspiracy theories of 9/11 and the mysteries surrounding the attacks. Using high-tech forensic experiments, CGI re-creations, eyewitness footage and in-depth analysis by experts and "truthers," 9/11: Science and Conspiracy examines the alleged conspiracies and available evidence. Then we take a fascinating fly-on-the-wall position as the theorists observe the scientific results and react to the conclusions. More Info) Categories: 9/11, Science, Conspiracy Duration: 01:30:23 Date Added: 2011-06-06 00:00:00 Views: 547 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!  Add To Playlist
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Aftermath: Population Zero |
Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. What would happen to the world without humans? How long would it be before our nuclear power plants erupted, skyscrapers crumbled and satellites dropped from the sky? What would become of the household pets and farm animals? And could an ecosystem plagued with years of pollution ever recover? Related Series: (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Science Duration: 00:00:00 Date Added: 2011-08-17 21:55:35 Views: 1147 Rating: N/A  Watch Full Documentary Here!
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An Inconvenient Truth |
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather: floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced, a catastrophe of our own making. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom think again.From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sunda (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Nature, Science Duration: 01:32:37 Date Added: 2010-12-08 00:00:00 Views: 468 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Attack Of The Sun |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: Massive solar eruptions could threaten our high-tech society. The year was 2003... with Halloween approaching... 93 million miles away... an angry sun began to vent its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface... a sign of rising tension within. (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:18:18 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 456 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Black Holes: The Other Side Of Infinity |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: The Milky Way is just one of over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. And our Sun -- it's just one of over a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way. We used to think of each star like our Sun -- as a friendly beacon amid the long night of space. Now we know better. The universe wields violence beyond comprehensi (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:22:58 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 389 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Cosmic Energy Powers Of 10 |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on out to the hottest and most violent places known. How and where do Earth and humanity fit within the immensely powerful scales that defi (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:21:32 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 335 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Crashing Into The Moon |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: A whole new space race has begun. Over the next decade, the United States... Germany... England... Japan... India... China... Russia... and even a few private companies... have plans to send rockets to explore the moon. They will map the lunar surface... search for clues to its origins... and find (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Technology Duration: 00:17:42 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 333 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - How Large Is The Universe? |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end... and what lies beyond its star fields... and streams of galax (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:20:13 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 426 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Is The Universe Infinite? |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: Explore the biggest question of all... in 1080p. Since ancient times, we've looked into the night skies and wondered: How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed us to cast our gaze deep into the universe. Astronomers have b (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:23:54 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 327 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Saturn's Mysterious Moons |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: Some 900 million miles from the Sun... in the outer regions of our Solar System... orbiting the planet Saturn.... ...lies a mysterious world. Enceladus is enveloped in ice. Because nearly all of the sunlight that manages to hit its surface is reflected back into space, it's one of the brightest obj (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:18:40 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 380 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Super Hurricanes |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? September 12th, 2008. A hurricane named Ike is headed toward the beaches of Galveston Island in Texas. The eye of the storm, where the most intense winds are, is still hundreds of miles awa (More Info) Categories: Nature, Disaster, Science Duration: 00:19:37 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 336 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Supermassive Black Hole In The Milky Way Galaxy |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And ye (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:20:09 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 261 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - The Asteroid That Flattened Mars |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth... around 36 million miles. That's when we pack our robotic emissaries off to the Red Planet, timing their launches to spend the least effort to get there. Some fly around it... snapping pictures... Others la (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:20:13 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 325 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - The Incredible Journey Of Apollo 12 |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: It's the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, on November 19, 1969, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the moon in one of the most important of the Apollo flights. This video shows them making a pinpoint landing on a treacherous lunar surface, finding rocks, and generally having a blast. The program featur (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Technology Duration: 00:20:35 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 368 Rating: 7.00/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - The Largest Black Holes In The Universe |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly... yet we know they are there... Lurking within dense star clusters... Or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy.... Where t (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:18:48 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 277 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - The Search For Earth-Like Planets |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future A (More Info) Categories: Space, Science, UFO's and Aliens Duration: 00:21:29 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 325 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - Venus: Death Of A Planet |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: From the fires of a sun's birth... twin planets emerged. Venus... and Earth. Two roads diverged in our young solar system. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life. While enveloping the other in acid clouds... high heat... and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn? (More Info) Categories: Space, Science Duration: 00:22:09 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 311 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cosmic Journeys - When Will Time End? |
Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
In This Episode: It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory checks out. Special thanks to Ivan Bridgewater for use of footage. Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet... as life changes and evolves from second to second. More Info) Categories: Space, Science, Mystery Duration: 00:21:15 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 323 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Dangerous Knowledge |
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane t (More Info) Categories: Science, Disaster Duration: 01:33:09 Date Added: 2011-06-09 00:00:00 Views: 494 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Life and Death |
In the final episode of this ground-breaking series about Charles Darwin's legacy, Andrew Marr discovers how Darwin's ideas are helping us to save ourselves and all life on earth from extinction. Marr argues that Charles Darwin is the father of ecology. The modern environmental movement was built upon his insight that all life on earth is linked by a delicate web of connections. He also discovers that Darwin's dangerous idea is inspiring scientists to create a 'flotilla of Darwinian Noah's Arks' (More Info) Categories: History, Science, Survival Duration: 00:58:41 Date Added: 2011-09-06 16:38:03 Views: 563 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!
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