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Looks much better if you click “watch in high quality” below the video window. This hour (43 minutes, No commercials) takes viewers on a journey to explore the eye-popping and often unprecedented engineering feats that are reshaping Dubai into a model for visionary urban development in the 21st century. Original air date 8/25/08 on Discovery Channel


The World Is Just Awesome

March 16th , 2011 | | In: Nature

To all fans of the whole world and all its sights and sounds, People around the world have been creating their own versions of our ‘Boom De Ah Dah’ commercial and uploading them to YouTube. We love them so much that we want to call out to ALL of our talented friends out there and ask you to show us YOUR version of the song! Simply upload your video to your YouTube page and then send us the link to your song. We will be posting the best and most creative submissions on our Discovery.com website, adding them to “The ‘Boom De Ah Dah’ Phenomenon” playlist and also featuring them on our Facebook and Myspace pages! Check here to see some of our favorite examples so far: www.youtube.com Let’s see what you can do! Discovery on Facebook: www.facebook.com Discovery on MySpace: profile.myspace.com


Extreme Engineering: Collection Two

March 16th , 2011 | | In: Nature

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Imagine driving across a bridge near the North Pole, leaving Alaska at one end and arriving in Siberia at the other end. What if you could visit an entire city built within a pyramid in Tokyo Bay or speed from New York to London in just an hour through a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean? These are just some of the mega-projects that come to life as builders and engineers design and construct the largest, most outrageous and awe-inspiring projects ever conceived. Each got-to-see-it-to-believe-it episode travels to locations at every corner of the world and features jaw-dropping computer animation, breathing life into these fantastic – yet possible – mega-projects. Tokyo’s Sky City: Plans are in the works for Sky City, the tallest structure on earth. Slated for Tokyo Bay, the towering, vertical city will house more than 100,000 people and provide for every aspect of modern life with parks, schools, homes, offices and shops. But would it be safe from disasters, includ… More >>

Extreme Engineering: Collection Two


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Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch

March 16th , 2011 | | In: Nature

Music video by Bloodhound Gang performing The Bad Touch. (C) 1999 Interscope Records


Wings: Evolution of Air Power

March 16th , 2011 | | In: Nature

  • Take to the skies as Discovery soars to the limits of mankind’s imagination and ingenuity in this comprehensive look at the majesty of flight. In PLANES: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE, learn how aircraft evolved into one of the most important inventions in history as experts probe the earliest 20th century designs that forever changed travel as well as modern warplanes that have revolutionized combat.

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Take to the skies as Discovery soars to the limits of mankind’s imagination and ingenuity in this comprehensive look at the majesty of flight. In PLANES: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE, learn how aircraft evolved into one of the most important inventions in history as experts probe the earliest 20th century designs that forever changed travel as well as modern warplanes that have revolutionized combat. Next in WINGS OVER AFGHANISTAN, witness as American forces launch an air campaign that combines covert action and sheer brute force in a way the world had never seen before. And get the exclusive inside track on the U.S. Air Force THUNDERBIRDS, who amaze millions every year as they defy death in precision-flying air shows. The rigorous training and breathtaking beauty of the Thunderbirds will astound and delight you!… More >>

Wings: Evolution of Air Power


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Lost Tapes

March 16th , 2011 | | In: Nature

  • Enter a shadowy realm where fact meets fiction, science meets legend, and nightmares come to life. Lost Tapes is a thrilling and intense series that dares to follow the bizarre creatures of urban legend. Using terrifying, raw, first-person accounts, 14 episodes take you to the most mysterious places on our planet for shocking encounters with the elusive skinwalker, haunting death raptor, horrifyin

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Even in the modern age reports of human encounters with mysterious and often dangerous beasts continue to surface. Lost Tapes is a first person, immersive experience of encounters with bizarre animals that science is reluctant to recognize – in our waters, in our woods, and in our skies – they live among us – you will believe…. More >>

Lost Tapes


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