TV Review: ‘The Universe’ — Spaceship Earth

This episode of The History Channel's The Universe features a look at the distant past of the 3rd rock from the Sun, the planet we call Earth. After a brief, and frankly insulting to the viewers, catch-up of the most rudimentary and basic facts about Earth, the show takes a trip back in time almost five billion years ago, to when a supernova that would eventually turn into the Sun takes place. The show spends almost half of the show slowly working through the evolution of space debris into small rocks, into bigger rocks, and finally into something large enough to be called the infantile Earth...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!