Science is interesting

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http://science-documentaries.com

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Here you will find a collection of the best scientific documentaries available online. Focus here is on quality above quantity. There is an endless heap of documentaries that are "scientific" but in fact are not, instead filled with metaphysical ideas, UFOs, bio energies and other meta-sciences. You will not find those here. Other thing is the quantity of information in every documentary itself, often being very low but instead full of special effects and dramatic monologue. Hopefully you won't find those here either.

What you will find are informative, revealing, interesting, mind-boggling and above all scientific documentaries about the marvels of the world surrounding us, or the marvels of human ingenuity.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Mars, Dead or Alive

Despite the title, this is not so much about Mars, but about Mars rovers, technical issues about them and the people behind them. It is quite surprising too see how much technical problems they really had and how they solved them. Rovers are extremely complex machines, requiring many custom made parts unique to them. This makes them very difficult and expensive to test; breaking a 5 million dollar worth equipment during stress test is not a desired outcome, but still it has to be done. Documentary is filled with details like this and is really worth watching to appreciate the work that has been done there.