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Modern Marvels: Water (Spkg) |  | Artist: Artist Not Provided
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 82433
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 733961767070
EAN: 0733961767070
ASIN: B0013DT6NK
Release Date: March 26, 2009
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Product Description
Can new technology coax rain from the skies to help save drought-starved nations?
For over a decade, MODERN MARVELS has brought grand stories to life.
The ultimate celebration and investigation of engineering excellence.
Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
It's so powerful it can carve our landscape, yet so nurturing it can spawn life and support its intricate matrix. We take it for granted, yet compared to other natural compounds, it's a genuine oddity. MODERN MARVELS® paints a vivid portrait of this?common entity that's anything but. Watch it flow from huge irrigation machines that have revolutionized American agriculture and blast 200 miles into space from a newly discovered geyser on one of Saturn's moons (via computer animation). See it coaxed from the clouds by chemical injection, captured by innovative "fog-catchers", and cascade with artistic flair from compressed air jets at the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas.
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Mildly Interesting October 12, 2008
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Humans are 70% water, as is 70% of the earth's surface. However, only 2.5% of the earth's water is fresh, and only about 1% of that is available (eg. not tied up in ice caps).
Bottled water was a big U.S. industry in the year 1900 - however, it nearly was driven out of business by a process developed in 1913 for chlorinating tap water and making it safe to drink. The industry made a recovery beginning in the 1970s, though today about 25% of bottled water (including those made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi) comes from further filtering and sanitizing tap water.
Venice created the first sand filtration system for water, but its lead was not followed throughout Europe. Instead, most Europeans drank low-alcohol beer - just enough to kill organisms.
Water's high surface tension allows bugs and paperclips to float/walk on water.
One out of every 6,600 water atoms has a neutron included in the Hydrogen atom (heavy water). Thus, 2,000 tons of water can produce 2 oz. of deuterium. Deuterium is valuable because it slows neutrons (rather than absorbing them) and allows nuclear fission power generation with unenriched uranium.
The speed of sound is 5X faster in water - allowing whales to communicate over hundreds of miles.
U.S. farmers irrigate 50 million acres, using 405 of our available fresh water. A 130-acre pivot-point irrigation system typically revolves once every three days; sensors align each segment. Gravity irrigation is used for 60% of irrigation, though it is requires more water than a center-point system. Some believe only 20% of our underground water will remain by 2020.
An acre of corn transpires 4,000 gallons of water/day.
"Water" then provides background explaining the artistic fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Finally, "Water" tells us that one of Saturn's moons shoots water up some 250 miles, presumably due to underground volcanic heat.
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