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In 1983, trailblazing astronaut Sally Ride blasted out of Earth's orbit, opening the world of space travel for women. Watch the stories of other pioneers who have followed her path to the stars. Since the US space program began in 1958, NASA has ach
国家地理2008年
This is Wild Chronicles. I am White Matthews. At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, an infant gorilla named Wumundi gets some tender loving care from a dedicated keeper and lots of attention from curious visitors. He is on with a keeper all the time 24 hour
国家地理2008年
They're the big, hairy spiders of our nightmares. And it's no wonder we are afraid. Tarantulas are the biggest of all the arachnids. These spiders are killing machines perfectly adapted to their habitats. And the biggest and battiest of them all is t
国家地理2007年
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy wit
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Dale Aden has been farming most of his life, just like his father, and his fathers father. I am a third generation farmer on this land. His land is in Okabena, Minnesota, right along the Okabena creek, where for many years, Aden watched helplessly a
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Two cheetah cubs think they've found an easy meal when they catch a gemsbok calf, until they are confronted by the calf's protective mother. It's morning in the Kalahari, and this female cheetah has discovered that her cubs are growing ever more ind
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Transcript (by myconsent, for reference only) Scientists on Thursday released results of a landmark study to record the diversity of life in and around Australia s reefs. The scientists from the Census of Marine Life have reported finding hundreds o
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From the air, Namibia looks almost uninhabited . Boom towns near depleted diamond mines lie abandoned. Shipwrecks dock the beaches of the skeleton coast. Salt pans, the largest in Africa , reflect sterile white light. 1,200 feet high sand dunes cres
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh, victims of the worst cyclone to hit the country in a decade were desperately awaiting aid on Monday as the official death toll climbed to over three thousand. With relief aid pouring in, rescue teams ba
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For something that could revolutionize the world, its come along very slowly. The fuel cell was invented in 1839, but there was little development until the 1950s when NASA started to use them in space where they are still used today. Now, after yea
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The tantalizing mysteries of Stonehenge may have come one step closer toward being solved. New radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials there indicate that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3,000 BC until well after
国家地理2008年
All may seem calm along these beautiful stretches of British coastline.But there is a battle being fought on the beaches of Britain.Its a fight for survival against the mighty force of the North Sea. Erosion of this coastline has been going on for t
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Transcript (by myconsent) The European Space Agencys deep space probe Rosetta transmitted high-resolution images of an asteroid millions of miles from Earth. Rosetta caught up with the Steins Asteroid Friday night in the asteroid belt between the or
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From its northern border with Peru, Chile stretches some 2,700 miles to the bottom of South America, longer than the distance from New York City to Los Angeles. Strung out along its entire length are the Andes Mountains. Here among these rocky peaks
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The Shaolin monks of China are famous for fighting skills and acrobatics, but above all, for their ability to somehow manage their senses. Does this really not hurt or do they just not mind the pain? To prepare themselves for their grueling acts, th
国家地理2008年
Here in the Timor Sea off northern Australia, take a look at a creature that seems to have the soul of a riverboat gambler. It moves through turf dominated by large hungry predators, and it fights these predators in a way that will astound you. This
国家地理2007年
(and I'll be) an orphan. But my mom and dad adopted me and I'm pretty happy. Today was one of the most emotional workdays I've ever had. The anxiety and the anxiousness was just something that I have never witnessed before. This is the moment, you kn
国家地理2007年
Here in the South American rainforest, you're watching what should be a joyous event, the laying of hundreds of eggs by a mother frog. In truth, only a very few of these eggs will blossom into full frogdom. Drought will take a toll, and predators wil
国家地理2007年
After the call to 911, once the cops and the coroner have gone, things must be put back in order, even when things will never ever be the same. It's gruesome work, but someone's got to do it. When a life ends in the worst possible way in the vicinity
国家地理2007年
Jesse Marcel remains convinced that there was one thing in the debris that could only be extraterrestrial. He described small metal-like I-beams with hieroglyphic symbols. The metal beam like our small miniaturized I-beam, and had these perplexed vio
国家地理2007年