Watch BBZ Horizon: Encounter with Jupiter (1980) Documentary Online


Covering the Voyager mission, this documentary starts by introducing us to Jupiters history and its impact on society and wisdom at the time.

Over many centuries, humans had believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe. Everything revolved around our planet. We were special. Divinely designed, the Universe was created purely for our benefit and Earth designed to home Yahwehs creation. Humans were on a pedestal so it would follow that Earth was at the centre of it all.

However…

In 1643, just before his death, Nicolaus Copernicus placed the Sun in the middle (now termed heliocentric cosmology). He came to this conclusion because the observed paths of the heavenly bodies made no sense yet with the Sun in the middle those paths became predictable and logical. An example of how observational evidence resulted in theory. The Suns new location knocked humans off their pedestal and relegated them to orbiting another body. The church hated it. In 1610, Galileo Galileis telescope was turned on Jupiter and, for the first time, saw the moons of Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto (reffered to as the Galilean Quartet). With these bodies orbiting Jupiter, Galileo provided further observational evidence that not everything went round the Earth.

The church hated it and put Galileo on trial for his life unless he renounced his statement and denied his evidence. Centuries later in 1977, the two Voyager probes were launcehd to tour the Solar Systems planets and moons in search of knowledge, wisdom and a spirit of adventure so that in learning more of the Universe we can learn more of ourselves, refine our current theories and apply them to better our own lives. This documentary examines how that knowledge was gathered, and in 1980 what were our interpretations of that data.

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