One Strange Rock (2018)

Stephen Campbell April 16, 2019

★ 7/10

**_Does what it aims to do_** > _Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed._ - Mahatma Gandhi Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, and made by Will Smith's production company (Smith is also the presenter), _One Strange Rock_ is essentially about the experiences of eight astronauts, and how their time in space led them to see Earth with new eyes. That, in turn, is used as a jumping off point to examine several different branches of Earth Science, with each episode focusing on a specific astronaut and dealing with a specific topic; the planet's respiratory system, the Theia Impact theory, how the planet protects us from the sun, the origin of life, the Permian-Triassic Extinction, the possibility of colonising another planet, how life has both transformed the Earth and been transformed by it, the evolution from single celled microbes to com…