Horizon · SEASON 15
The Message in the Rocks
Episode 5 · 1978-02-17
- Documentary
Episode overview
Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.
60 minutes
Season 15 episodes
1. Living Machines1978-01-06
2. A Land for All Reasons1978-01-20
3. I Don't Want to Be a Burden1978-01-27
4. Zero G1978-02-03
5. The Message in the Rocks1978-02-17
6. The Eddystone Lights1978-02-24
7. Light of the 21st Century1978-03-10
8. The New Breadline1978-03-24
9. Now the Chips Are Down1978-03-31
10. Explosions in the Mind1978-07-14
11. One Small Step1978-07-21
12. The Tsetse Trap1978-07-28
13. A Whisper From Space1978-08-04
14. Prisoners of Hope1978-08-11
15. On a Different Track1978-08-18
16. Careering into Science1978-08-25
17. Cashing in on the Ocean1978-09-01
18. Bags of Life1978-09-08
19. Innocent Slaughter?1978-09-15
20. The Beersheva Experiment1978-11-03
21. Divers Do It Deeper1978-11-10
22. The Big Sleep1978-11-17
23. The Vital Spark1978-11-24
24. The Red Deer of Rhum1978-12-29
