NOVA - Season 32 Episode 2
NOVA - Season 32 Episode 2 - Documentary TV Shows 55:14. story about "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.
- 1. Origins: Earth is Born2004-09-28
- 2. Origins: How Life Began2004-09-28
- 3. Origins: Where Are the Aliens?2004-09-29
- 4. Origins: Back to the Beginning2004-09-29
- 5. The Most Dangerous Woman in America2004-10-12
- 6. America's Stone Age Explorers2004-11-09
- 7. Great Escape2004-11-16
- 8. Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land2004-11-23
- 9. Welcome to Mars2005-01-04
- 10. The Boldest Hoax2005-01-11
- 11. Supersonic Dream2005-01-18
- 12. The Viking Deception2005-02-08
- 13. Saving the National Treasures2005-02-15
- 14. A Daring Flight2005-02-22
- 15. Wave That Shook the World2005-03-29
- 16. Hitler's Sunken Secret2005-11-08
- 17. Newton's Dark Secrets2005-11-15
- 18. Storm That Drowned a City2005-12-14