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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
9-3-2014
1.
Standing Up in the Milky Way
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Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey is an upcoming American documentary television series. It is a follow-up to the 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage which was presented by Carl Sagan. The new series' presenter will be Neil deGrasse Tyson. The executive producers are Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow. It was originally announced that it would premiere in the 2012–13 United States network television schedule, but a June, 2012 Twitter update from Neil deGrasse Tyson indicates a Spring, 2014 release. Episodes will premiere on Fox and also air on National Geographic Channel on the same night.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
16-3-2014
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Some of the Things that Molecules Do
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Life is transformation. Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd and all the other canine breeds we love today. And over the eons, natural selection has sculpted the exquisitely complex human eye out of a microscopic patch of pigment.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
23-3-2014
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When Knowledge Conquered Fear
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There was a time, not so long ago, when natural events could only be understood as gestures of divine displeasure. We will witness the moment that all changed, but first--The Ship of the Imagination is in the brooding, frigid realm of the Oort Cloud, where a trillion comets wait. Our Ship takes us on a hair-raising ride, chasing a single comet through its million-year plunge towards the Sun.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
30-3-2014
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A Sky Full of Ghosts
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The Ship Of The Imagination visits the Europe and North Africa of the 11th century, to the golden age of Islam, when Arabic was the language of science. While there, we’ll meet Ibn al-Haytham, the brilliant physicist who first understood how we see and how light travels. Perhaps his greatest invention was the scientific method, itself.
We’ll also meet the 19th century penniless Bavarian orphan who was rescued by a Prince – and grew up to discover the signature hidden in the light of every star and to found the science of astrophysics.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
6-4-2014
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Hiding in the Light
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An exploration of how light, time and gravity combine to distort our perceptions of the universe. We eavesdrop on a series of walks along a beach on summer nights in the year 1809. William Herschel, whose many discoveries include the insight that telescopes are time machines, tells bedtime stories to his young son, John, who will grow up to make some rather profound discoveries of his own.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
13-4-2014
6.
Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
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Science casts its Cloak of Visibility over everything, including Neil, himself, to see him as a man composed of his constituent atoms. The Ship of the Imagination takes us on an epic voyage to the bottom of a dewdrop to discover the exotic life forms and violent conflict that’s unfolding there.
We return to the surface to encounter life’s ingenious strategies for sending its ancient message into the future. Neil takes us on a journey along the neural network in our brains, from a molecule, the scent of lilacs, to a memory.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
20-4-2014
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The Clean Room
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The little known but heroic story of a boy from Iowa that can’t really be told without going all the way back to the time long before the Earth was formed – to the origin of the elements in the hearts of stars. This kid from Iowa would discover a full-proof but incredibly arduous way to learn the Earth’s true age.
In the course of his Herculean efforts he stumbles on a great crime. No matter what it costs him he will not rest until the killers are stopped. In the course of his struggles he attracts a nemesis, a man who exemplifies the misuse of science. This is an exploration of science at its best and worst – and an example of how a single person can change the world for everyone’s benefit without ever committing a single act of destruction or violence.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
27-4-2014
8.
Sisters of the Sun
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The Ship Of The Imagination travels to Australia to see the stars as sharply as our ancestors must have seen them. We are searching for Eta Carina, some 7500 light years away, and the evil twin that will gravitationally torment it – not to become a mere supernova, but a hypernovae – that will one day light up the night in the southern hemisphere like another full moon!
We’re on a voyage of exploration of the lives and deaths of stars, including our own, travelling through the Window on the Future to experience the last perfect day on Earth.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
4-5-2014
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The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
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Our world of high technology and instantaneous electronic communication with each other and with our robotic emissaries at the solar system’s frontier, is de-mystified through the inspiring life story of the man whose genius Albert Einstein revered.
As if in a dream we travel to the moment in Einstein’s childhood when his father gave him a simple toy that made him understand that something deeply hidden must lie behind all things
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
11-5-2014
10.
The Electric Boy
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The Ship of the Imagination takes us on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms, its oceans, its continents, and all living things.
We’ll meet the man who solved one of the central mysteries of geology, but died knowing he was the laughingstock of his field. We’ll meet the woman who proved him right and discovered the single largest feature on the Earth.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
18-5-2014
11.
The Immortals
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Must we die? Are there beings in the cosmos who live forever, traveling on an endless journey down the river of time? Red dwarf stars live for trillions of years. What would intelligent beings do if they had an eternity to develop their understanding of the universe?
Join Neil on a trip to the Cosmic Calendar of the Future and the historic events on Earth that happen in the first seconds of January 1st of the new Cosmic Year.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
25-4-2014
12.
The World Set Free
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Neil traces the surprisingly lengthy history of the awareness of global warming and the technology of alternative energy, taking the Ship of the Imagination to intervene at some critical time travel nodes.
We conclude with a breath-taking vision of the magnificent future that is scientifically and technically within our grasp, if we will only awaken from our stupor and seize it.
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Seen it: Yes
60 min.
1-6-2014
13.
Unafraid of the Dark
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We’ve traveled such a long way together, from deep inside the heart of an atom clear out to the cosmic horizon, from the beginning of time to the distant future…We’re ready to perform an experiment. It’s a thought experiment so all you’ll need is brain. If you do it correctly, the vastness and mystery of the cosmos is the inescapable result.
We witness Martin Behaim creating the first globe of the world mere months before Columbus discovers another continent or two.
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