NOVA Season 43 Episode 11 Life's Rocky Start 2015
Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. It's a theory of the co-evolution of Earth and life that is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet’s story.
- Released: 2016-01-13
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
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1. Dawn of Humanity 2015-09-16
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2. Arctic Ghost Ship 2015-09-23
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3. Secrets of Noah's Ark 2015-10-07
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4. Cyberwar Threat 2015-10-14
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5. Animal Mummies 2015-10-28
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6. Making North America: Origins 2015-11-04
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7. Making North America: Life 2015-11-11
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8. Making North America: Human 2015-11-18
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9. Inside Einstein's Mind 2015-11-25
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10. Secret Tunnel Warfare 2016-01-06
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11. Life's Rocky Start 2016-01-13
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12. Mystery Beneath the Ice 2016-01-20
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13. Himalayan Megaquake 2016-01-27
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14. Creatures of Light 2016-02-03
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15. Memory Hackers 2016-02-10
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16. Iceman Reborn 2016-02-17
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17. Rise of the Robots 2016-02-24
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18. Vikings Unearthed 2016-04-06
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19. Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped? 2016-04-13
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20. Wild Ways 2016-04-20
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21. Operation Lighthouse Rescue 2016-05-04
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22. Bombing Hitler's Supergun 2016-05-11
