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Cosmic Journeys – 14 – Cold Sparks & Black Holes – Energy Extremes of the Universe (2010)

DeadSociety — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:06:32 +0000

What’s the hottest place in the universe? What’s it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on out to the hottest and most violent places known. How and where do Earth and humanity fit within the immensely powerful scales

Cosmic Journeys – 13 – Venus Death of a Planet (2010)

DeadSociety — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:59:26 +0000

From the fires of our Sun’s birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life, while enveloping the other in acid clouds… high heat… and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn? Streaming-Madness.net – Watch Top Documentaries Online

Cosmic Journeys – Hubble – 20 Years of Space-Shattering Discoveries (2010)

DeadSociety — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:03:45 +0000

NASA’s tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope on its 20th anniversary in space. This beautiful video surveys the incredible accomplishments of this revolutionary instrument: everybody’s favorite telescope. Streaming-Madness.net – Watch Top Documentaries Online

Cosmic Journeys – 12 – Voyage to Pandora: Humanity’s first interstellar flight (2010)

OpenM1nd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:16:45 +0000

Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system. Remarkably, it’s anti-matter, the science fiction fuel of choice that could take us there. Normally, it’s only

Cosmic Journeys – 04 – Super Hurricanes (2009)

OpenM1nd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:12:30 +0000

Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? Enjoy another Episode of Cosmic Journeys. A SpaceRipTV original with Space.com. Streaming-Madness.net – Watch Top Documentaries Online

Cosmic Journeys – 01 – Crashing into the Moon (2009)

OpenM1nd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:33 +0000

Enjoy Episode 1 of Cosmic Journes. Half a dozen countries are launching missions to the Moon to pave the way for a permanent human presence. A SPACERIP TV original, in collaboration with SPACE.COM. Streaming-Madness.net – Watch Top Documentaries Online

Cosmic Journeys – 09 – The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12 (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:43:31 +0000

It’s the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, on November 19, 1969, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the moon in one of the most important of the Apollo flights. This video shows them making a pinpoint landing on a treacherous lunar surface, finding rocks, and generally having a blast. The program features

Cosmic Journeys – 06 – The Largest Black Holes in the Universe (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:18:36 +0000

We’ve never seen them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy, where they prey on stars, or swallow planets whole. Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe

Cosmic Journeys – 07 – How Large is the Universe? (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:16:39 +0000

The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end and what lies beyond its star fields and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see? These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of

Cosmic Journeys – 08 – When Will Time End? (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:14:33 +0000

Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet, even the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe. It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can

Cosmic Journeys – 10 – Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:12:00 +0000

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the

Cosmic Journeys – 11 – The Search For Earth-Like Planets (2010)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:09:38 +0000

The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in

Cosmic Journeys – 05 – Saturn’s Mysterious Moons (2009)

OpenM1nd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:07:33 +0000

Some 900 million miles from the Sun in the outer regions of our Solar System orbiting the planet Saturn lies a mysterious world. The moon Enceladus is enveloped in ice. Because nearly all of the sunlight that manages to hit its surface is reflected back into space, its one of the brightest objects in the

Cosmic Journeys – 03 – Mars, World That Never Was (2009)

OpenM1nd — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:55:09 +0000

Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth around 36 million miles. Thats when we pack our robotic emissaries off to the Red Planet. Timing their launches to spend the least effort to get there. These probes may pave the way for human explorers and, perhaps permanent settlers whll