Discovery Channel: ScienceSæson 1
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A Discovery Channel presentation featuring the how's and why's of science on a range of related topics.
Hvor man kan se Discovery Channel: Science • Sæson 1
20 episoder
- Apollo 11: The Untold Story
E1Apollo 11: The Untold StoryAPOLLO 11: THE UNTOLD STORY aka FIRST ON THE MOON: THE UNTOLD STORY One-Hour Special for Discovery Science Channel / five When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in July 1969, Apollo 11 was hailed as the supreme triumph of American technology. But behind the flag waving lies a very different story: the untold account of how close the mission came to disaster. Now, nearly forty years later, men on that mission reveal what really happened on the first voyage to the moon. It's a tale of how primitive computer technology, coupled with human errors and mechanical failures, nearly caused the tragic loss of the crew. - Apollo 13: The Inside StoryE3
Apollo 13: The Inside StoryWhen a violent explosion tore through the fragile skin of the Apollo 13 spacecraft 200,000 miles from earth in April 1970, NASA mounted the most dramatic rescue mission in the history of human exploration. For the first time, Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell and Fred Haise, and their flight controllers, reveal just how close they came to disaster, the devastating extent of the damage, and the inside story of how human ingenuity overcame adversity. This is the ultimate survival story, in which three people’s lives hung by a thread, with oxygen running out, hundreds of thousands of miles out in space. - Einstein's Beautiful EquationE20
Einstein's Beautiful EquationE=mc². Albert Einstein's most famous equation explains things of sheer wonder and beauty – why the sun shines and how the Big Bang created the universe. But it also underpins the most destructive force ever unleashed on the planet – the nuclear bomb. Learn how Albert Einstein's great discovery went from being a mere set of symbols in a notebook to a weapon of mass destruction. It was a development so appalling to Einstein, that he would describe his involvement in the bomb as "his biggest blunder." Meet Leo Szilard, friend, colleague and the man who persuaded Einstein to use his influence to encourage construction of the bomb. It was Szilard who first came up with the concept of a chain reaction – vital to turning the power of E=mc² into a bomb – and who persuaded Einstein to write the fateful letter to President Roosevelt that would play a key role in the decision to build the bomb. But while both men were initially lauded for their contribution to science, they would in later years devote themselves to disarmament, global peace and the dismantling of the very bombs they helped create.
