The Universe: Season 6

Reseña del editor Season 6 de la serie pionera THE UNIVERSE lleva a los espectadores más lejos que nunca, a los extremos de nuestro sistema solar, donde el caos y la catástrofe traen drama épico a los planetas, incluidos algunos de los días más horribles de la Tierra. A través de un impresionante CGI, presencie los dolores de nacimiento del sistema solar, conmocionados por una supernova cercana, y soportando más de 700 millones de años de bombardeo brutal por asteroides mortales; cataclismos colosales que dieron forma a los planetas y transformaron sus climas para siempre; y sorprendentes nuevos descubrimientos científicos que revelan una historia infernal de continuidad devastación en el oído th. Y viaja a los márgenes del sistema para explorar la posibilidad de que el Sol tenga un gemelo malvado, una estrella monstruosa conocida como Némesis sospechosa de causar cada extinción masiva en la historia de la Tierra. En un estilo de vanguardia, The Universe presenta imágenes asombrosas de la NASA y las opiniones de los principales astrofísicos para investigar aún más profundamente la historia de mil millones de años del mundo más allá de la Tierra. Amazon.com This cosmically entertaining History Channel series recalls the classic Monty Python sketch in which a door-to-door documentarian cannot interest his audience in mollusks until he steers the subject to the creature's sex life. The Universe isn't peddling sex, but catastrophe and apocalypse, all excitingly rendered in state-of-the-art CGI. Season six continues to explore the "mysterious, mind-blowing secrets of the universe" with thrilling countdown episodes such as "Catastrophes That Changed the Planets" (insert your own Kardashian joke here) and "Worst Days on Planet Earth." Other action-packed episodes explore the birth of the solar system, the sun's "evil twin," UFOs, and surviving a crash landing on Mars. But this season also boldly goes where the series has not gone before. One episode takes a fantastic voyage into "The Microscopic Universe." Perhaps the most provocative is "God and the Universe," which asks if science is finding "elusive evidence of God." Beyond most of the episodes' preoccupation with "carnage on a colossal scale" (an episode about comets cautions viewers to "brace yourself for these frozen intruders from the great beyond"), The Universe makes advanced concepts accessible for a general audience and boasts an admirably diverse roster of male and female scientists, who present some impractical (but fun) experiments to clarify their theories. But more, between all the collisions, eruptions, extinctions, and "orbital maelstrom," season six may spark profound and thoughtful discussions about why we are here and our place in the universe. --Donald Liebenson