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Comment by Harold Davis on May 4, 2013 at 10:36am: BBC Horizon Project Poltergeist

(Missing Neutrinos)

Comment by Harold Davis on May 3, 2013 at 5:24am: How Life Began

"Origins: How Life Began," zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how it happened. Join the hunt for hardy microbes that flourish in the most unlikely places: inside rocks in a mine shaft two miles down, inside a cave dripping with acid as strong as a car battery's, and in noxious gas bubbles erupting from the Pacific ocean floor. The survival of these tough microorganisms suggests they may be related to the planet's first primitive life forms. Host astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson deepens the search by investigating tantalizing and controversial chemical "signatures" of life inside three-billion-year-old rocks and meteorites found around the world.

Comment by Harold Davis on May 2, 2013 at 9:54pm: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design - Did

God Create The Universe?

Professor Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Is there a god who created and controls the universe in which we live? To answer this controversial and age old question, Hawking takes us on a journey through humanity's history of appraising our place in the Universe - from Vikings facing down eclipses to the laws of modern cosmology. Using the laws of physics, Hawking argues that the universe can pop into being from absolutely nothing, that there was no time before the creation of the universe and therefore, no room for a Grand Designer.

Comment by Harold Davis on May 1, 2013 at 4:34pm: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design - The Key to the Cosmos

THE KEY TO THE COSMOS (S01E01)

Hawking poses the ultimate of ultimate questions: Why does the universe exist and why does it follow rules and laws? What's the point of the enormous, endless cosmos, and why is it so perfectly tuned so as to allow life to exist? Get ready for a brain-expanding journey - from Newton's ground breaking discovery of gravity, through hidden extra dimensions to a muti-verse of billions more universes where anything and everything is possible. This is Hawking's legacy, a profound, beautiful and exciting story that will reveal the ultimate theory of physics, changing the way you think about the cosmos forever.

Comment by Harold Davis on May 1, 2013 at 4:32pm: Through the wormhole - The Higgs Boson

The discovery has been called "monumental" because it appears to confirm the existence of the Higgs field, which is pivotal to the Standard Model and other theories within physics. Nicknamed the "God" particle, by the mainstream media and by publishers the name is strongly disliked by many physicists, who regard it as inappropriate sensationalist.
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Comment by Harold Davis on April 30, 2013 at 6:43pm: Buzz Aldrin's Mission to Mars

Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon in 1969. Now, his sights are set on Mars! His new book, Mission to Mars, tells us his vision for space exploration. Get it here!

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Buzz Aldrin is on a quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11 and as an aerospace engineer, Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.

Do you dare to dream big? Then join Aldrin in his thought-provoking and inspiring Mission to Mars!

Video courtesy Image Space & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center; NASA JPL/Caltech; NASA/JSC; Lunar rover video supplied by Onyx Media, LLC/Getty Images. Music: "Mars," Nick Ingman/Terry Devine-King, Audio Network Plc.

Comment by Harold Davis on April 29, 2013 at 8:47am: Martian Mega Rover - National Geographic Documentary

Surging with confidence after the phenomenal success of the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, NASA scientists and engineers had big plans for the next mission -- a mega rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, aka the Curiosity rover. "There was a group adrenaline rush throughout the entire Martian community," says engineer Gentry Lee, "that was almost like, 'we can do anything!'" This would be rocket science on steroids -- a roving laboratory built to last years, not months, and travel a dozen miles or more over rugged Martian terrain, carrying a dream payload of scientific instruments designed to settle once and for all the question of whether Mars is or was ever was a place that could support life.

Martian Mega Rover, premiering tonight at 10P, tells the gripping, inside story of how those ambitious plans collided with enormous technical challenges and setbacks that doubled the budget and forced the launch date to slip more than two years. Veteran writer/producer/director Mark Davis, whose Emmy winning 2008 NGC production Five Years on Mars told the story of the Spirit and Opportunity mission, spent years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, capturing the dramatic mix of anxiety, despair, and elation that played out over the long struggle to get the Curiosity rover to the launch pad and on its way to Mars. He describes the experience: "The work these people do and the way they handle pressure is the most impressive thing I've ever seen. It's been a privilege to watch it happen it from the inside." Along with the human drama, Davis also brings the rover to life, visualizing the challenges it will face landing and operating on Mars with vivid, photorealistic CGI by Mars visual effects specialist Dan Maas.

Comment by Harold Davis on April 29, 2013 at 8:41am: Two Alien Oceanic Earth-Like Planets Found?

A planetary system 1200 light years from Earth may contain two worlds entirely covered by global oceans. Kepler 62e and 62f are in the habitable zone of a roughly Sun-like star. Each planet is slightly larger than Earth.

Credit: SPACE.com / NASA Ames Research Center / Kepler Mission

Comment by Harold Davis on April 27, 2013 at 5:46pm: "Nova" Finding Life Beyond Earth

We used to think of our neighboring planets and moons as mostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take hold. Today, however, we have discovered life in unexpected environments on Earth, and scientists are finding a wide range of dynamic environments elsewhere in the solar system — places where life forms might also flourish.