The BEST episodes of Space
Every episode of Space ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Space!
Sam Neill presents a hugely ambitious project, a massive undertaking using state-of-the-art computer graphics to show us how stars and the universe exploded into life.
#1 - New Worlds
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2001
Even if we avoid destruction by asteroids, we face eventual melt-down, as our Sun is getting progressively hotter. New Worlds looks at where we could go to escape this fate and talks to scientists who are already exploring how we could turn a planet like Mars into a Noah's ark for the earth's animal and plant life. It may even be that humans have to change themselves genetically to survive.
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#3 - Boldly Go
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2001
If humans are ever to reach deep space, there will need to be some revolutionary changes in transport. Boldly Go demonstrates how ion propulsion and solar sails may become effective means to galaxy-hop and considers 'wormholes' as ways to cheat time and space.
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#4 - Staying Alive
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2001
Staying Alive shows just how dangerous the Universe continues to be. Life on Earth has been nearly eradicated on twenty occasions by massive asteroids, most dramatically causing the extinction of dinosaurs. Another cataclysm is due any time now.
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#5 - Black Holes
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/5/2001
Black Holes are the Universe's ultimate monsters, sucking everything into their super-dense centres. There are an estimated ten million of these cosmic killers in our galaxy and once created they never die. What are the chances of Earth having a fatal encounter?
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#6 - Star Stuff
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/2001
In Star Stuff we learn that all life on Earth, including humans, comes from outer space - every single molecule of our bodies originated from an unimaginably large hydrogen cloud created by the Big Bang - and there are even serious claims that life was carried to earth by meteors.
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