The first episode is indeed a journey through time and space. The cosmic calendar is very vivid. It compresses the history of the universe into one year. It was only on 9/15 that there was DNA life for the first time. December 26 is the mother's day of the universe. Just planting. The earliest ancestors of human beings were all in Africa, and the total number was only 10,000 people. It is difficult to imagine that the total population today can reach several billion people. The earliest human city on the ground in Turkey today is about 10,000 people. It has no windows and the entrance is on the roof. Obsidian can be used as a mirror. There is also a fable. The contract between the two major ethnic groups has brought prosperity to both ethnic groups. A descendant of one of the ethnic groups broke this contract, bringing huge disaster to both ethnic groups. The two races are the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom, and this descendant is human. In the Hall of extinction, creatures on earth have experienced five extinctions, and the sixth mass extinction finally has a name, that is the Anthropocene, and humans are the cause of the sixth mass extinction. The special effects are good, the host is sincere, let's watch. The second episode is like Philosophy and the animal world. It begins with the birth of a child and an introduction to rabies, and ends with Ashoka. What is the difference between humans and other animals? Is it possible to speak, to stand, to use tools, to trade, to raise offspring, or to enslave other animals? It is refuted with intuitive facts, none of which is true. Perhaps the biggest difference is that human nerves can make them feel different. About Kin Let's choose this question. The program team approves it, but the book "The Selfish Gene" advocates that behind all animal behaviors are the choices made by genes for their own survival. In the cruel experiments on rhesus monkeys in the 1960s, fifteen monkeys had to pull up chains at the same time to electrocute another unrelated rhesus monkey, and only in this way could they get food. The show said that two-thirds of the rhesus monkeys did not do so. Similar experiments have also been done on humans. Under the order of an authority figure, electric shocks are made to people who are invisible in another room. About one-third of the people will eventually resist the authority and are unwilling to continue to execute the order. In fact, thinking about it now, this may be the change of genes and the shaping of human beings by the growth environment. In order for the genes to continue, the genes do not know which method can be successful. The safest way is not to put all the eggs in it. In a basket, there are people with various selection modes, and in the end, the genes can be passed on. So the question is, how much of our behavior is doomed? Where does our free choice begin? In the third episode, the special effects of this film are really not bad, colorful and shocking. The Milky Way was born around 3/15 of the cosmic calendar, the solar system was born on 8/31, and life appeared on the earth on 9/21. Cyanobacteria is the longest-lived life. It was invincible in 2.7 billion years. It filled the atmosphere with oxygen, and a large number of anaerobic organisms died. Oxygen was actually a poison and pollution in that era. However, it is also because of the presence of oxygen that among the more than 5,000 kinds of minerals on the earth, 3,500 of them are born with oxidation. The reason for the explosion of life in the Cambrian period may be that animals have evolved to have their own skeletons and are more able to survive. Ozone, which is generated by oxygen, forms a protective layer that blocks solar radiation, and animals can finally go ashore and live under the sun. Goldschmidt is a genius. He was originally from Switzerland and his ancestors were Jewish. He boldly declared his identity, but he was so famous that he was forced to work for the Nazis. Successfully rescued to Norway. He believed that peridot was the cornerstone of life, and his will required his urn to be made of this stone, the founder of interdisciplinary research. NASA divides planets into five categories, and has made no statement at all. There is no mutual influence between us and the planet. It is possible that one category is the moon, and the fifth category is that there may have existed creatures in the past, and may also exist in the present and the future, such as Europa, Another is Saturn's moon Enceladus. The 360-degree panoramic glass ball of the program group leads the audience into the ocean inside the satellite, where the gravitational force is smaller, and the volcanic column on the seabed is far higher than the height on the earth, where life molecules are forming. Stars make worlds, planets and moons make life, There is really nothing special about human beings. We are just a by-product of the evolution of the planet. We are not a purpose at all, we are just an accident. Even if it is a small accident, it is really something to be proud of to be able to understand the mystery of the evolution of the universe. Episode 4 is the brain. Epilepsy was considered a sacred disease in ancient Greece, but it was actually a problem with internal communication in the brain, and people of that era believed that thoughts came from the heart, not the brain. Haha, human cognition is really progressing. Human beings can have today's computer, not overnight, but the problem is that the brain will not be preserved well and will not leave fossils. It is speculated that it should be like a city, starting from the center and developing around it, regardless of adding new buildings, new functions, new Structures are added, and old buildings are still functioning. Phrenology, this is not credible. It was all the rage at the time and still used this method to judge a person's talent and criminal tendencies. Even the British princes at that time were inevitably judged. Paul Broca, by studying a patient with brain atrophy and loss of language ability, identified a region in the brain that is related to human language ability. This area is Broca's area. The Egyptians believed that people went to another world when they were sleeping, and they attached great importance to dreams. Mosso studied a brain-injured child in a mental hospital. The child suffered from multiple epilepsy and was abandoned by his parents after the brain injury. The team of doctors connected the device to observe the child while he was sleeping, and speculated that the brain waves during dreaming were different from normal. After nearly dying in an accident, Hans Berger developed a strong interest in brain waves and secretly studied it for 20 years before committing suicide in 1941. If the information stored in the human brain is turned into a book, it can be filled with 4.6 billion books, haha, the question is who will read this thing. Science fiction works often have settings in which organisms can communicate without talking. This is also the case in an episode of "Kino's Journey". People are eager to fully understand each other. They drink the medicine given by scientists and find that they fully understand each other. The idea of is very scary, because we are not always full of love and kindness to others, but fortunately this medicine can only work within a certain range, the end result is that all people in this city can not be approached, it turned out to be in love The people who now only dare to live across the street. This is how distance produces beauty~ Our pursuit of beauty may eventually lead us to hell. The fifth episode, this film is too poetic and sensational. Some geniuses die too early, John Goodricke, Pneumonia was observed at night. Kuiper, the name is familiar, this child has excellent eyesight when he was a child, and can see the sky very far. The outermost asteroid belt in the solar system is named after him. Harold Urey, born poor, worked hard to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is very contradictory to the previous Kuiper, but they have a common genius student Carl Sagan, who gathered the top forces in various fields, promoted the progress of astronomy, and founded Icarus magazine. Sagan said, I am like a child of a divorced couple, and I am the only bridge between them. Counting 1,000 stars every second on the beach at the end, you obsessive-compulsive disorder. Episode 6, FAST, is even more spectacular up close than far away. Maybe aliens have explored the earth millions of years ago, maybe we are just like ants in the eyes of aliens. The 60-year-old spruce is still a baby. It can't grow too fast. There is air in the cells, so it can't withstand the wind and snow. The underground mycelium, Mycelium, is a huge network of communication, and it also rescues its own kind and delivers nutrients to trees that have been cut down. In order to reproduce, plants evolved flowers, bees collected nectar and became vegans, and the world became colorful at the same time. In other words, the special effects are so rich and realistic that I can't tell the difference between the real and the fake. Maybe they are all special effects. Frisch discovered the secret of bee dance, and what seems to us to be messy is that we don't understand each other's language, and scientists believe that bees also dream. The bee colony will hold a meeting to decide the address of the next new home, speak publicly, and conduct democratic evaluations. There is no black box operation to slander opponents, because the interests of all bees are the same, don't envy others, it is impossible for human beings, since we have private ownership, only It can be to seek common ground while reserving differences. In the seventh episode, the Cassini Huygens, the sensationalism of this episode is the most obvious. It is said that this is also introduced in "The Universe makes sense", and the amount of information is much larger than this. The show also featured a Cassini memoir, and invited Galileo, Huygens, and Cassini, all of them to appear, with animation effects. Good-looking is good-looking, but I still don't like the sensational type. When Cassini was invited by Louis XIV to preside over astronomical work, he said I would stay for two years, but the work was so interesting that he never returned to Italy, and the family presided over astronomical work for the next 125 years. Shargei, this one is too miserable. He lost his mother at the age of 5 and lost his father at the age of 13. He was admitted to a famous university for only 2 months. He was drafted in the outbreak of the First World War, recuperated after the war, and changed his name to prison again. The leader of the Soviet moon landing program, Korolev, refused the invitation of the other party and died in World War II. It is his pseudonym Kondratyuk who designed how to go from the earth to the moon, the rocket rotates around the moon, the lander is released, the lander takes off again, and returns to the earth. How did Saturn's rings form? Research shows that the travel time is about 100 million years. The reason is that the satellites are too close and are torn apart by tidal forces. This distance is called Roche's limit, All glittering names. In the eighth episode, light is both a wave and a particle. It is really wonderful. Whether you look at it or not will affect the final result. Abbot's flat country, creatures in the two-dimensional world cannot understand the three-dimensional world, and the host finally gave it a hand. No matter how far apart the two separated particles are, even in the entire universe, they can still communicate with each other. But once one of them was observed, the connection between them was severed. What kind of strange speed is this, and how does it communicate information? If everything has been decided in advance, there is no such thing as free will. In the ninth episode, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union are all secretly studying the power of the atomic bomb, not mentioning it in public publications, and secretly you are chasing me. It's just that Pandora's Box can't be closed again after it's opened. The large number of nuclear tests carried out by several major countries after World War II left a lot of nuclear pollution to the ocean and atmosphere, which was not stopped until the mothers protested. The success of the United States is due to the large number of immigrant talents. Among the thousands of people in the team, only two are natives. Before the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902, locals believed that even if the volcano erupted, they would have enough time to flee. In reality, the outbreak was so violent that it reached the village in minutes rather than hours, and only 2 of the 30,000 people survived. In the shadow of nuclear war, we have nowhere to run. In the tenth episode, Lapita's animation did a good job, this is the nation in the city in the sky. Our ancestors, due to various reasons, possibly natural disasters or overpopulation, have been exploring new frontiers until they spread the footprints of human beings all over the earth. The space telescope that uses sunlight and the spacecraft that use photons to navigate, shown in the film, are very dazzling and possible. According to scientists' assumptions, we can break through the speed of light. Just like the principle of the Big Bang, we don't move by ourselves, but in space. If there is such a speed, cosmic travel is not a dream. But has our morality reached that height? We destroy our homeland, we kill each other, we are jealous and angry, and only by changing for the better can we ensure that we do not bring disaster to the new planet. Perhaps civilizations are so far apart, this isolation is a kind of providence, and if they are too close, they may have been slaughtered long ago. Episode eleven. At the beginning, whose child was that, he was held by the host in the middle of the night and told a story under the starry sky in the wild. Is this a special effect? The children were very curious and cooperative throughout the whole process. The animation of this episode is the Trojan War. Apollo falls in love with the beautiful princess Cassandra of Troy, If the courtship fails, curse her with extraordinary language ability but the prophecy will not be believed. She could see the disaster coming, but no one listened, only to watch the terrible language come true, and everything was irreversible. In the 1960s, scientists successfully predicted that human activities will bring about the extinction of life on earth, as well as the rise in global temperature, the Anthropocene is coming, the road ahead is still uncertain, one leads to extinction, the other leads to hope. , the direction is determined by each person's choice. The last episode, quite good, especially the imagination of future life, light, elegant and harmonious. It has only been more than 400 years since Galileo first pointed a telescope to space, and now we have been able to send probes beyond the solar system. The six mass extinctions did not make life disappear, and life was unprecedentedly tenacious. Human beings are just a branch of this tree of life. During the process of evolution, some branches fell off, and some continued to grow. Those lost worlds can be reproduced with technology, with thousands of buildings rising from the ground, flowing water, and smoke from cooking, which is very suitable for making games. It is mentioned that if there is an encyclopedia of the universe, how will the earth be written in it? Take a look at "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", it says, harmless, after thinking about it and then changing it, mostly harmless. This book is highly recommended, the kind that can be heard by one person.
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