The Universe - The Day the Moon Was Gone

Seizoen: 4 - Aflevering: 2 / 49 - Eerst uitgezonden: 25 augustus 2009 - Episode ID: 383236

Without the moon, Earth would be a very different and desolate place today--four hours of sunlight with pitch-black nights, steady 100-mph winds spawning giant hurricanes that last for months, and virtually no complex life forms, much less humans. Safe to say, we probably owe our very existence to the moon. But what if it suddenly disappeared?