#discoveringtheunknown

Planet formation is not a gentle process—it is violent. As stars are born, the force of gravity causes young solar systems to become cosmic billiard tables, kicking planets, comets, and asteroids into deep space. This is how rogue planets and interstellar objects are formed. Watch the full video for more information.

Deep beneath the deserts of northern Mexico lies one of the most extraordinary places ever discovered on Earth — the Cave of Crystals. Hidden for hundreds of thousands of years, this underground chamber is filled with massive, transparent gypsum crystals, some longer than city buses and weighing tens of tons.

Did you know that Octopuses have 9 brains? What if intelligence didn’t live in a single brain? In this episode, we will explore the alien intelligence of octopuses that exist in deep seas, where they have autonomous arms, RNA-edited brains, light-sensitive skin, and survival mechanisms that are a result of existing in the dark, under pressure, and with limited resources. Octopuses have an alien intelligence blueprint that is vastly different from ours.

Descend with us into the natural caves formed by the action of water, lava, and ice, into biomes that exist in the dark, and into the ways which humans have converted the dark into shelter, ceremonies, and cities. The dark is not empty space, but memory, building, and life encased in stone, from the ancient paintings hidden in the caves to the megastructures that exist in the dark, the likes of the “Derinkuyu Underground City” in Turkey and “Cappadocia.”