One Strange Rock — 2018-2018 · 2 seasons · 11 eps

★ 8.7

One Strange Rock

Name: One Strange Rock
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018
Rating: 8.7

2018-2018 2 seasons 11 episodes

★ 8.7 (8,570 votes) Top 9%

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A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts.

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#1 8.6

S1E1 Gasp

Our perfectly calibrated, breathing planet. For those privileged few who have seen Earth from space, the very first thing they notice is the thin blue line of atmosphere that clings to our planet and sustains life. The story of how the Earth creates and regulates that oxygen is mind-blowing. From snowflakes in the arctic to plankton, desert sandstorms, and rivers in the sky; an incredible chain of connections reveal just how incredible our home is. Everything connects so life and planet breathe together.

S1E3 8.6

Shield

Earth protects itself from the sun. The David and Goliath story of Earth's relationship with its greatest threat, our seemingly benign Sun. The Sun is the big violent boss of the Solar System, throwing out devastating particles and energy. Without several shields, one generated by our unique planetary core, another by our atmosphere, and a third by our interconnected weather systems… life on Earth would never have survived.

S1E10 8.5

Home

There's no place like home. We wrap up the series with the story of NASA's most experienced female astronaut, Peggy Whitson, as she returns home to earth. We might possibly be the only intelligent life in the universe. Life is rare, complex life rarer, and intelligent life may be an evolutionary bad idea or dead end that is rarer still… and that means that it's possible that we humans may be the only thing in this huge and amazing universe that can appreciate its strangeness with awe and wonder.

4. S1E2 "Storm" 8.3
5. S1E5 "Survival" 8.3
6. S1E7 "Terraform" 8.3
7. S1E9 "Awakening" 8.2
8. S1E4 "Genesis" 8.1
9. S1E6 "Escape" 8.1
10. S1E8 "Alien" 8.1

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#10

S1E8 8.1

Alien

The freak accident behind complex life. All life on earth started as single cell bacteria and stayed like that for 2 billion years. Successfully spreading across the planet. So even if we do find alien life, what are the chances of that life being complex – like us? Vanishingly rare… on our strange rock, it's all down to a freak event, which accidentally happened when one cell ate another to create a kind of cellular power pack: mitochondria. This almost miraculous event transforms earth into a complex interconnected food web based on a competition for food. And at the top of the pyramid sits us humans.

9. S1E6 "Escape" 8.1
8. S1E4 "Genesis" 8.1
7. S1E9 "Awakening" 8.2
6. S1E7 "Terraform" 8.3

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Top Standout: S1E1 Gasp

Best Hidden Gem: S1E10 Home

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