NOVA scienceNOW | Did You Know?
iBrfiJZ96nQ • 2007-06-25
Transcript preview
Open
Kind: captions
Language: en
I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson your host Nova
ScienceNOW did you know that there are
more stars in the universe and there are
grains of sand in all the world's
beaches did you know that more than half
the oxygen we breathe it's produced by
life in the ocean did you know that
while we're always told that Sun rises
in the east and sets in the west in fact
throughout the year it will rise and sad
at different points along the horizon
did you know you know who wanted to
measure the length of a coastline you
can't from high above it looks simple
but as you zoom in the coastline becomes
more and more intricate you begin to see
the shapes of peninsulas and jetties and
boulders zoom in some more you get the
perimeters of grains of sand did you
know molecules are so small that there
are more molecules of water in a cup of
order then there are cups of water in
all the world's ocean did you know that
Nova ScienceNOW is on this summer right
here on PBS
Resume
Read
file updated 2026-02-13 13:00:00 UTC
Categories
Manage