One Strange Rock - Season 1 - Eps 8: Alien
The freak accident behind complex life. All life on earth started as single cell bacteria and stayed like that for 2 billion years. Successfully spreading across the planet. So even if we do find alien life, what are the chances of that life being complex – like us? Vanishingly rare… on our strange rock, it's all down to a freak event, which accidentally happened when one cell ate another to create a kind of cellular power pack: mitochondria. This almost miraculous event transforms earth into a complex interconnected food web based on a competition for food. And at the top of the pyramid sits us humans.
About One Strange Rock
Title: One Strange Rock
First Air Date: 2018-03-26
Last Air Date: 2018-05-28
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.6/10 (from 78 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: National Geographic
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Protozoa Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Nutopia
Synopsis
A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts.
Cast
Will Smith
Self - Host
