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If We Had No Moon

If We Had No Moon

Without the moon, humans wouldn’t exist. Life, if it had started at all, would be in the earliest stages of evolution. Days would last four hours, winds would blow at hurricane force and there would be a dense and toxic atmosphere resembling that of Venus.

Luckily, 50 million years after the formation of the solar system, our proto-planet was hit by a celestial body more than twice the size of Mars, which formed the moon. In this one-hour special, viewers will learn what Earth was like before the moon and what Earth would be like if the moon disappeared.

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Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the...
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We journey half a billion miles from the earth’s surface to a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating...
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We can’t compare anything on earth to the biggest things known in space. The Lymann Alpha blob is a bubble...
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Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, ‘What time is it?’ It’s a simple question and it sounds...
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A voyage through space and time with Professor Stephen Hawking. The series charts Professor Hawking’s quest...
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Approximately 5 billion years old and just under 333,000 times the mass of Earth, discover the enchanting...
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A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black...
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A fantastic Horizon (one of my favorites) that looks into the research on Dark Matter (with a twist of comedy...
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Only a man with the brain the size of Stephen Hawking’s would seriously accept the challenge of answering...
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ESA’s anniversary DVD film Hubble – 15 years of discovery covers all aspects of the Hubble Space...
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This documentary investigates one of the most controversial questions of the past hundred years… are we...
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In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest...
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After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won’t just land on the...
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Scorched by their proximity to the sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds. One gouged with craters from...
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Without the moon, humans wouldn’t exist. Life, if it had started at all, would be in the earliest stages of...
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A stellar explosion, the supernova is the sensational death of a star. It can shine as bright as 100 billion...
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250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was...
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The great PBS science series Nova scores another hit with Mars: Dead or Alive, capturing all the excitement...
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On January 3, 2004, a compact rover named Spirit, cushioned inside a pyramid of balloons, hurtled through the...
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The Mandelbrot set – someone has called it the thumb-print of God – is one of the most beautiful and...
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For centuries scientists and philosophers have marveled at an eerie coincidence. Mathematics, a creation of...

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