Building the Future

Science Documentary hosted by Garry Parker, published by Discovery Channel in 2010 - English narration


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Building the Future
Building the Future is a landmark series from the Discovery Channel about humankind's phenomenal ingenuity in engineering and shaping the world around us. Each program focuses on a simple human need - shelter or water, energy or safety - and explores how that basic requirement has led to some of the most incredible, awe-inspiring achievements of our species. We will take the viewer on journeys around the globe to see the projects that seem to defy the laws of physics or constraints of climate. And we will move through time to marvel at what was achieved centuries, even millennia, ago by our ancestors. However epic the scale of construction, however mind-boggling the technological statistics, humans are the heart. We will see every project through a personal lens - an archaeologist uncovering an ancient wonder, an engineer grappling with present-day problems and dangers, a designer dreaming of the future. And we will never forget that nature has a habit of fighting back - the possibility of failure is always present, and the higher we build, the harder we fall. This is not just a story of success ... Our planet has often brutally let us know that we have overstepped the mark.



3)  Surviving Climate Change 
At the start of the 21st century our ambition seems only matched by our ability to engineer the world around us. But our very success is putting us on a collision course with the forces of nature. Now, as we pump billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, we are potentially creating the most lethal man-made natural disaster in history. Global warming may be the greatest threat to our future survival. Building the Future: Surviving Climate Change reveals humankind's remarkable ability to fight back and how now, more than ever, our engineering ingenuity must provide the answers to our most basic need - protection and safety from the deadly extremes of nature.



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 * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
 * Video Bitrate: 2159 kbps
 * Video Resolution: 720 x 416
 * Video Aspect Ratio: (16:9)
 * Frames Per Second: 29
 * Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz)
 * Audio Streams: 2
 * Audio Languages: English
 * RunTime Per Part: 43.Mins
 * Number Of Parts: 4
 * Part Size: 701 MB
 * Source: DVD
 * Encoded by Harry65



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1)  Further Information 
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/building-the-future/photogallery/photogallery.html