National Geographic presents the first accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) technology. Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history behind the distant celestial bodies in the solar system.
This spectacular, epic voyage across the cosmos, takes us from the Earth, past the Moon and our neighboring planets, out of our Solar System, to the nearest stars, nebulae and galaxies and beyond – right to the edge of the Universe itself. When you finish this video, you will walk away from it with an awareness that you never had before, of the unseen astronomically massive universe that we float around on like a spec of dust in the ocean.
This video takes you on a journey through the universe as if you are watching a Sci Fi adventure. Yet you constantly have to remind yourself that what you’re seeing is really out there.
Here’s the full documentary below:
This stuff disturbs me. When you really think about what is out there and how we were created and everything it’s quite scary. Is it all going to end? How? When? Why? How do we exist anyway….presumably at some point in time there was nothing….so how the heck did anything come to be…..How can something come out of nothing. Bla bla bla…..I’ll stop now as I could go on for ages, lol. x
I absolutely love this documentary. I watch it at night in full cinema mode and tend to nod off about 2/3 of the way through. Not because it’s boring but because it’s incredibly relaxing.
After hearing that the American version was voiced by Alec Baldwin ( ‘the world’s greatest actor’ ) i had to try that one too but, surprisingly, i think Sean Pertwee still wins out.
Either way it’s still brilliant viewing.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/27/atheist-groups-billboard-targets-closet-non-believers/
Hmm:- maybe this will cure the insomniac in me then
I’vve had around 4 failed attempts today for getting these two videos watched in one swoop, it seems the first time you “disturbed me while I was cleaning my room”, the second my wandering around the web, third, a call to come out and play in the snow and finally the fourth a nice big Dominos Pizza. The 5th better be the whole way through and I’ll be skipping that part where it says how the sun may run out some day!!
Odd, things like this do exactly the opposite for me. Don’t expect it to cure insomnia, create it maybe!!
Eyes wide open and mind racing. You’ll never sleep again.
Ooh, just woke up with keyboard print on my face…
This was splendid! Thanks for sharing! But I do find it odd that in going to the edge of the universe means going to the beginning. There has to be an expanding edge, but they aren’t really going there at all. They’re just talking about what we can see of the universe, which is more of a history of the universe than anything else.
Great video, improperly named.
Finally had a chance to watch this, and it’s quite interesting. However I found the commentary to be a bit over the top at times. It’s was a little too heavily peppered with speculations that are a little too speculative. I even think some of it is just plain flat out wrong.
As weemis said, it is pretty much the journey to the beginning of universe. I was curious as to what lies at the edge of the still expanding universe; bit disappointed in the end to find the beginning of time-space being referred to as edge.