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by Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan and 2 others
The Ship of the Imagination embarks on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms, its oceans, its continents and all living things. Later, American geologist Marie Tharp creates the first true map
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“Congratulations. You're alive. There's an unbroken thread that stretches across more than three billion years that connects us to the first life that ever touched this world. Think of how tough, resourceful and lucky all of our countless ancestors must have been to survive long enough to pass on the…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Few animals larger than a hundred pounds survived the catastrophes of the late Cretaceous. The dust cloud brought night and cold to the surface for months. The dinosaurs froze and starved to death. But there were small creatures who took shelter in the Earth. And when they emerged they found that th…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier....This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of u…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com