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rise above nature team

fun two years bar clamp

now

we harness the force of the universe

claiming powers that could destroy

but still report for freedom truth new beginning claiming powers that could destroy

but still report for freedom truth new beginning

is mankind turns towards the front

tears a few

amidst the chaos have an unforgiving planet most recent

for want all the pieces will fall into place

and a set of q-school unlock path for mankind to try for want all the pieces will fall into place

and a set of q-school unlock path for mankind to try

this is our story the story all

today

over seven billion humans on planet Earth in just four generations

our population has grown by five William

faster in the first 50 years of the 20th century

than the previous 50,000 and is mankind expands in an ever more crowded world

we face the ultimate challenge abusing the power of the plan

to propel us into the future

the midwest 1935 giant dust storms

raft American formalized

the worst drought US history raft American formalized

the worst drought US history

two and a half million people abandon the Great Plains

families driven off their farms heading in hope

for California them

him

life in rural america owes absolutely horrendous

dust storms could happen that could obliterate everything was

nearly impossible to prove food in that soil

in pimp

but one man plans to revive in pimp

but one man plans to revive

this barren land roswell cars

born and bred former instinctive

launch nor

he sells his comp morgan's on

that's everything on a wonder crop that'll become a key

to mankind's future hybrid corn

its crossbred to resist drought

disease so we can still grow in the scorched earth

Midwest

drives 2000 miles a week promoting

as hybrid seed slogan

an astonishing product produces

Daanish in results but the sea

cost fifty times more than ordinary

help

like you help

like you

your life wanna Garst

colleagues know you would say six or seven dollars a bushel your life wanna Garst

colleagues know you would say six or seven dollars a bushel

and you could almost see them reaching around to their hip pocket to get the

gun

answer board

I'm not interested get okay get off my lawn I just wanted to give you a chance

get of

it's a hard sell when a third of US forms are being abandoned

we had to sell corn I didn't read the Koran for money

we would need or sleep

Gorst gambles every

he gives farmers the seed for free

in return for sure their profits gives a chance

picture

across 50 counties in two states in the worst drought

ever miraculous growth

for cars isn't finished

he sells another revolutionary product taken from nature's chemistry set

nitrogen fertilizer

spew from volcanoes during the birth or plan

nitrogen makes up 70 eight-percent

Earth's atmosphere

it's invisible odorless and inner

and when scientists learn to isolate nitrogen and turn the gas into my tree

a nutrient essential for the growth compliance they uncover the key to

feeding the world's growing population

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cars to markets the new product the salesman's

player sewn into feel cars to markets the new product the salesman's

player sewn into feel

in a distinct power and

per night

written into the grass in the midwest clear message

for the future written into the grass in the midwest clear message

for the future

today almost every industrial farm uses nitrogen fertilizer Garst

becomes an international farming consultant and one of the largest seed

suppliers in the world

we found out that the food supply is not finite

that we can actually continued to increase it to match the increase in

population

in 30 years

the world's population grows from to bill you

$2.3 billion ok fifteen years later

four billion and rising but with new crops in fertilizers

we've grown more in the last 100 years and in the previous ten thousand

fertilizer allowed us to grow

more faster more productively

could win crease for food supply I'm

as our numbers explode so does the scale and reach you human

on

1942

mankind's first truly global war

in Europe Nazi Germany

dominant in Europe Nazi Germany

dominant

in the pacific Imperial Japan the largest state in the US

alaska dangerously close to Asian

and isolate

ready

hand

go

now

eleven thousand american soldiers lazy impossible trial

the Alcan Highway to link alaska

to West Coast Canada and the rest United States

in engineering challenge welcome back to calm

in command General William home

decorated war hero

engineering genius

battling some of the most rugged terrain on the planet

on lock a building boom

with the Alcan Highway shows is it

modern civilization can project itself

into the wilderness with incredible speed me

the challenge ahead

1500 miles forest and tundra

of 200 rivers

I'll in the highest mountains in North America

and

this

but

hoax greatest obstacle

time up

just eight months to complete the hard way

before the Alaska wintom

in hopes command

corporal refines Sims from Philadelphia

one

nearly 4,000 african-american soldiers in the last a third

the work for

we were in Little Miss he saw nothing but

treaties pine trees

seven teams hundreds of miles apart

racing to meet in the middle

with the third the road unfinished disaster

permafrost

a layer of frozen ground Oct 2003

be

exposed bible does

it melts into sinking my

we only found out about the permafrost when it was too late

drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck

below outta sight drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck

below outta sight

the army's losing the battle against nature its stake

the security of the United States time

is running out

ok alaska

army engineers racing to build the Alcan Highway

a supply route that'll help launch the greatest road building boom

in mankind's history but the project

stock and bond

this was an extraordinary effort Laskin Road became

mired in mind vehicles can move general hold has a radical idea

Hey

ditched the ball does engineers become

tax map the only thing to do with to make a mad

timber branch corporal refined Sims

leads a team laying a solid foundation corduroy

and old Roman technique reinvented

but progress comments from fourteen miles a day

just one

for thousands of years the key to mankind's ambition

engineers

no longer prisoners and geography

rewrite nature

we overcome each nuanced by force

will

com disability sheeps

not just our existence but the fact that

we are the predominant life form on the planet

winter closing in two teams

one block

11 battle the web complete the final stretch

bitter cold home of a lost 11 battle the web complete the final stretch

bitter cold home of a lost

while many animals completely untamed wilderness

men's down on the side of the road and wept in pain the

October 29 1942

temperatures heading from -50

today two wins in a row

corporal refined Sims

becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men

are becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men

are

equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts are

equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts

dirty Bowman within six years

US Army is racially integrate your

more

the Alcan Highway complete

part over sixteen thousand mile road

the world's longest drivable round

running the length up the American

huge step forward and but such demand for more roads we seen

roads now literally certain plan

within half a century world is

wrapped in network rose

long enough to stretch to the moon

20 time

the

awhile warfare on a global scale pushes us to connect the world

and reshape it also

unleashes a new terrifying sources power

that could support human life on Earth for millions of years

world literary

on August 6 1945 com world literary

on August 6 1945 com

two miles above the Pacific Ocean

am

bomber pilot colonel Hall turbines

30 years old a military prodigy

on a secret mission in World War two

intimate spock

12 Sinai times one for each man on board

captured is not an option

they know too much

the

over 5,000 use in 14,500 more

up to 3.5 film have died

battling to exert maximum force

at maximum dist

each new generation

a new weapon

you talk about to launch races and this has been going on since beginning of

time

are you could be with us to conclude with a bigger step mankind has never

known a weapon like this

the ultimate projection of power

the atom bomb

code name

little boy

target your regime Japan

up

first the bomb needs to be on

Captain William Parsons

one of its designers Captain William Parsons

one of its designers

mom commander

you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly mom commander

you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly

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now must refitted no churches

cora

the bong ranged

born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago the bong ranged

born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago

before the birth from our plan dorm

until scientists split it saddens

unleashing an apocalyptic power

when I later species or fuel unleashing an apocalyptic power

when I later species or fuel

our future

gone 850 miles from Japan

an american B-twenty nine bomb

the enola gay carries the most destructive weapon in the history of

mankind

had been entrusted with the most frightful weapon ever devised I thought

yes

we're gonna kill a lot of people by God we're gonna save a lot

lives we have the power that we have always reserved only for God we know how

to

to and everything it's inhuman power that pervades

every single part of our lives today

the men aboard the Enola Gay new every single part of our lives today

the men aboard the Enola Gay new

what they had to do and they focused on the details at that mission in order to

execute

no one really knowns what's gonna happen execute

no one really knowns what's gonna happen

once this bomb believes that aircraft

9:14 a.m.

a 60-second morning Tom below them

the city of 350,000 people

okay

bud

I'm

tibbetts has 43 seconds to escape the blast

cool

I'm

T

no

I'm an explosion

10,000 times harder in the service at the song

bomb kills more than 60,000

instead

I'm

no

three days later a second atom bomb

I'm what japan surrendered

and

it's the most fear something

this world can unleash that's why

we've only seen to history of the world since 1945

mankind has been living in the Atomic Age

today there over 19,000 nuclear warheads

able to destroy our species twenty times over

and with atomic weapons we finally

at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far

and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far

and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental

of forces with such awesome

destructive power

my the with the terrible weapon on

also calms revolutionary source of energy the my the with the terrible weapon on

also calms revolutionary source of energy the

the

them nuclear power now the third largest generator of electricity

the man with the potential to power our planet

for billions in years when

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in the 20th century

technology in science are the key to enhancing our world

I human life takes a giant leap forward

I in a hospital in South Africa

1967 capetown

christiane born on

a medical pioneer with 20 years experience

apparent to reengineer the human body

the patient Louis which can skew former boxer

an hour killed I without born arts ground-breaking surgery

the world's first heart transplant it was the central moment that showed

everybody

that technology and science Mary together could accomplish the

unimaginable

improving human life in

key to the operation a new technology

in the life support machine the apex

up human ingenuity technology has always improved arlyne

enabling us to bypass the limits of our bodies

in advance for them

fast than any other species I'll

now man and machine United

to reengineer life cell

bernard has done fifty heart transplants on dogs

but never on human I'm not ready for this

the dogs didn't survive for long enough

what right do I have to experiment on a humid

the pivotal

wash can skews had three previous heart attacks

his critically ill a fist-sized muscle

vital to the live every person on the planet

them the human heart

beach two and a half billion times in an average life

one missed be beach two and a half billion times in an average life

one missed be

can be fatal first step

remove the dying heart and hook up wash can ski to a life support machine

it will do the work the heart good

home

ought never seen a chest like this before a human

without the heart kept alive by machine

some so seekers the human heart

organ a bar ports into a metronome our bodies

thought they could be removed replaced and the patience to live

unimaginable 3

hours into the operation with the patient's blood

mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart

before it dies be mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart

before it dies be

in born are jump starts the new heart

to the table go ahead and shocked

shop

the heartbeats

but it still powered by a machine

it has to be on its own wash can ski but it still powered by a machine

it has to be on its own wash can ski

will die

home

the first ever heart transplant an operation like

revolutionized modern medicine at a critical stage

after three heart attacks Louis which can ski

has a new horns still powered by a life support machine

the but when Christian Bernard turns the machine of

newhart falters

the

blood pressure drums it's failing the

blood pressure drums it's failing

wash hands his heart spent im

his life hangs in the balance with it the future of medicine

Christian Bernard risk was not just his career lost tourist dreams have many who

believe we could do organ transplantation successfully it was just

a gimmick

to save wash can skis life Bonnard puts him back on life support

and tries again newhart

beats and keeps beating without

the machine

the most complex operation in history

a success

mechanical hearts trapping other organs a success

mechanical hearts trapping other organs

the thought we could regenerate tissue all this came about

because one brave man was able to accomplish when im

unimaginable feet short was all possible

bernard's procedure has saved over 75,000 lives

in the United States alone

surgeons perform over 2,500 heart transplants a year

our organs replaceable

reengineer

new body parts new technology a new

mankind

but is science and technology free us from the limits of our bodies

across the world they are also key to a new

victory in the struggle for individual rights in just

cellmark Alabama 1965 600 african-americans

demand change inspiring and global fight

for freedom amelia boynton

53 years old civil rights activist since high school risk-taker

absolutely committed to change absolutely

hero absolute marching for the right to vote

blocking her way centuries of discrimination

racism rules in the south but only 25 percent to flax and southern states

are registered voters

volunteer Boynton helps them sign up X

X

useful mine

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can you write hit the gym I can help

these go to the back line X

wide authorities blocked their path with red tape and police intimidation

my

on

all ok

my

why

up

the only option protest people up

the only option protest people

new like she did that

you protest in the south new risk

life and limb

they do use dangers but they also were driven

for this struggle for equality

it's very hard to bottle up the notion of freedom

once it's been on court sadly as long as there's been humankind as long as we're

around

there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy

and repression their destination there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy

and repression their destination

state capital Montgomery home

on

had determined to stop them

Jim Clark

world war two aircraft goner selma share

deputize is every white male over 21 world war two aircraft goner selma share

deputize is every white male over 21

joining 200 state troopers 1

but this confrontation won't go 1c

I'll on the ground his local cameramen

Lauren Spierer's news hungrier

committed tough as nails

the journalist

with the biggest story of his life up the journalist

with the biggest story of his life up

new technologies

will harness the power of mass communication information it will travel

further and faster than ever before

a three minute warning disburse

go home a three minute warning disburse

go home

but the protesters won't back down

or ninety seconds later

the police attack

40 Kansas tear a

use largely on the receiving end 40 Kansas tear a

use largely on the receiving end

activist Amelia pointed

a matching the courage and the fear

the day have to confront as club a matching the courage and the fear

the day have to confront as club

and foot and hand is smashed upon

then in till they're driven into the ground

point left for dead should be unconscious for

Tuesday

world news watch

Selma Alabama

police attack a nonviolent protest

civil rights activist

million point is 150 were injured

by key to any protest movement in the modern age

tell 'em

up journalist Lawrence peers

russians film to New York

15 minutes raw footage russians film to New York

15 minutes raw footage

in Iraq's ABC's sunday nite moves

the bird breaking TV news

by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television the bird breaking TV news

by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television

over seventy percent of the adult population

watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence

45 million viewers television main har watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence

45 million viewers television main har

and brutality local so local

it was in your living that had never happened before

in history nice X

nation couldn't look away people were amazed

however grainy however black and white at the immediacy of those images

the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives

you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives

you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights

but those pictures you couldn't turn off

within 15 days but those pictures you couldn't turn off

within 15 days

President Lyndon Johnson proposes the Voting Rights Act

out mowing voter discrimination

landmark legislation a turning point for civil rights in america

media for the masses means repression won't go one seem

in a world of instant communication

everyone has a voice

the new communication helps too

row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the the new communication helps too

row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the

air

equalizing the classes equalizing

cultures the greater the numbers

the stronger the bombs in the world cultures the greater the numbers

the stronger the bombs in the world

connection

we are the product of our history a hundred thousand years ago

the emergence have an extraordinary species

one thing that defines humanity is

skill anything that you learn to do

that nature did program skill anything that you learn to do

that nature did program

a hunger to survive fuels to power

to invent me innovator survive the innovators

had success or thirst for knowledge to invent me innovator survive the innovators

had success or thirst for knowledge

a quest to explore

this is what we do never content with where we are

we're always looking over there and over there may mean this is what we do never content with where we are

we're always looking over there and over there may mean

oceans or mountains or continents away

we forge connections contact

can bring calm

wanna striking things like humans is there's never any human society

that hasn't had war maybe

its necessary to our evolution

mankind's most enduring enemy disease

I'm confident in our lifetime will ex-president pandemic

that a similar in scope to double by play now we have an advantage

now we know what's possible we know what we can do to stop it

we know we can do to cure people back to will you signs

be back things we fear the most

yet in our darkest moments fine be back things we fear the most

yet in our darkest moments fine

like with all we've learned we face the future

history is the world map and without it

there is no way to navigate the future

it's not possible

now a new journey into inner space

most important place for us to investigate the body now

is the brain more to enter the next well

I'll longevity and wealth and health among them

that same instinct to discover ourselves will fuel the exploration

over are your numbers what unlock

the power the Sun

in reach out into space

there's a human me to investigate to explore

to to see new lands and I think that drive will eventually lead us

to other planets the next step

new home

there's no question humans will be going to mars

probably within the lifetime people rely

the mine

that

by that

by

on

story mankind is only just beginning

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