In case you couldn’t tell, I really-really like the aurora. While I was watching the episode poor Marian was getting emails about every 5-minutes with “hey did you know….” or “oh wow” She was a good sport about it ![\":mrgreen:\"](\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f8507_icon_mrgreen.gif\"){kind=icon}
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“Alien Wind<\/a>” follows at 9pm ET\/PT. NatGeo takes us to the outer planets and to the surreal world of Titan. We are introduced to the exo-planet HD 80606b, a thoroughly nasty place in the binary star system of Struve 1341<\/a> and features some of the pretty cool observations that have been done.<\/p> Finally at 10pm ET\/PT: “Deadly Dust<\/a>”. I never considered dust to be all that interesting, but you know, after seeing this I have a new appreciation. I mean, while I am complaining about the coating of “Smead Road” that appears all too regularly in my house, I can think – it could be worse. And I’m sorry, chasing down dust devils in the desert has to be fun! They give us a “what if” scenario of a Mars sized dust storm here on Earth, be glad it won’t happen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" National Geographic has a trio of shows coming up on Sunday May 16, 2010 you will want to see.The first is called “Cosmic Fire”, and airs at 8 pm ET\/PT. The episode explores solar storms and talks a great deal … Continue reading