Tornadoes strike a pig farm and airplane hanger. A burning tanker truck filled with 25 tons of styrene explodes in a tremendous explosion and fireball. Other fires and explosions include a Delta II rocket, a helicopter, a ship being scuttled and a bunch of balloons apparently filled with hydrogen instead of helium. A tri-motor airplane slides out of the sky.

Fires turn tank cars and a warehouse full of acetylene cylinders into flaming projectiles. A helicopter crash brings more helicopters to the rescue. Other crashes include a racing bike, dump truck, tank truck, freight train and a furniture bike.

A San Francisco mansion is swallowed up by a giant sinkhole; a helicopter crash turns into a life and death struggle for the co-pilot; an earthquake in Colombia triggers floods and landslides; a powerboat crash at 125 mph and survival after a plane crash.

8/20/07 - Future Fuels - In this episode, we ll meet the chemists, engineers, and designers who are finding incredible new ways to power planes, trains, and automobiles - using cooking grease, plant stalks, algae, hydrogen, viruses, and sunshine.

DISCOVERING ARDI begins its story with the 1974 discovery of Australopithecus afarensis in Hadar, northeastern Ethiopia. Nicknamed Lucy, this 3.2 million year old skeleton was, at the time, the oldest hominid skeleton ever found. As the Discovery Channel special documents, Lucy s title would be overtaken twenty years later by the 1994 discovery of Ardi in Ethiopia s Afar region in the Middle Awash study area. It would take an elite international team of experts the next fifteen years to delicately, meticulously and methodically piece together Ardi and her lost world in order to reveal her significance.

Black Holes,the most powerful destroyers in the Universe, the most mysterious phenomena in the heavens. For years they were only speculation, now modern astronomy is proving them frighteningly real and showing that they may well shape everything we see.

The first episode of this series focuses on a subject that has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years - stars. Right now in the Universe s giant furnaces stars are being born. See how their creation changed the cosmos forever, leading to planets and life itself.

Have you ever wondered how things are made? Find out how the everyday objects people use become the things they are. This is a must have series for kids of all age.

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