Cosmos a spacetime odyssey episode 14
Shades of green and brown dominated during the age of the dinosaurs, until Orchids the first specie of flowers that arrived on Earth it’s also the most diverse. Plants cover the surface of the earth for hundreds and millions of years, before the first flower was put on Earth. Artificial photosynthesis could help with the current problems with global warming. If we could figure out the trade secrets of photosynthesis we would not need any other source of energy. The solar paneled biosphere collects six times more power than our entire civilization, impressive. During the day it gathers solar energy, while at night it stores it. It slows down things to show us how it works there are two shifts one during the day and one during the night. A chloroplast is creating sugar, to see how it’s done we need to get smaller to atomic scale it shows us the heart of the molecular complex. We are in the Cosmos, contained within a dew drop we are on an industrial mission. To see where they keep their chlorophyll we would need to shrink down to a microscopic size, if we could steal their secrets we could make a revolutionary discovery. Stomata are where plants breathe through, it’s their mouths they can survive without us, but without them we animals wouldn’t be able to survive. These creatures of lived through every extinction throughout history, the Tardigrades. Neil introduces an animal that’s been around for a long time, for every one of us there is a billion of them they are extremely small creatures that they can’t be seen with a mere man’s eyes. Atoms with matter do funny things, temperature moves fast to make bonds weaker creating evaporation to water. RECAP: There are more atoms in your eye than in the entire universe Neil mentions how he’s made up of 3 billion and billion and billion atoms. Tune in at 9 Pm EST on NBC and we’ll be recapping it right here for you but in the meantime, hit up the comments and let us know your thoughts on the show so far. Tonight is going to be another interesting episode of Cosmos for sure and you’re not going to want to miss a minute.
Did you watch last week’s episode? We did and we recapped it right here for you. Later, William Herschel discovered the infrared and the signature hidden in the light of every star, eventually unlocking one of the keys to the cosmos in the all-new “Hiding in the Light” episode. On last week’s episode the Ship of the Imagination traveled back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physicist Ibn al-Haytham discovered the scientific method and first understood how we see, and how light traveled. Tonight on NBC Carl Sagan’s stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY returns to NBC with a new episode called, “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still.” On it, a look at exotic life forms that are invisible to the naked eye an examination of the parts of the brain responsible for the sense of smell and memory a journey beneath the Earth’s surface to discover a mysterious particle.