One Strange Rock

A planet sculpted from cosmic violence. Earth is a very lucky planet. It has ended up the right size and in the right place. This only happened because of violent cosmic collisions. The crazy thing is, if things had been even slightly different with more or less collisions, we wouldn’t be here. We discover the moments that could have destroyed us, but instead made our planet what it is.

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space station was this very visual reminder that there's

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CHRIS: You get hit by rocks all the time,

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This place which is now very quiet was, at some point,

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But at the same time, this is where our story started and

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The edges of a huge crater,

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for billions of years through space before it gets to us and

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Some of the most valuable meteorites are carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

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WILL SMITH: Nicole didn't set out to fly on the ISS,

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WILL SMITH: Solid, liquid, gas.

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MAE: Without it they'd be no rivers, no ground water,

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watered by a storm from above,

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-Suggesting that both the earth and the moon had somehow

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it's big and close and has a lot of pull,

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WILL SMITH: The violent whack that gave us our moon,

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And then you look down at earth and you realize that's

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The world is constantly adjusting itself.

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chasing the rains, to gorge on ripening fruits.

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one that feels stable, safe, reliable.

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