The Science Channel

The science channel is a television channel from the same people behind the discovery channel, it focuses specifically on scientific issues. The channel focuses predominantly on space science, such as astronomy, human science and other topics in science related to humans aren’t usually broadcasted on this channel. This channel can be watched on television and also on pod casts.

I recently watched a documentary about the discovery of new planets, which was titled our destiny.

The documentary was very simple, explaining how new planets were discovered and by whom. The documentary has a narrative text which describes what’s on the screen and features several guest speakers from universities that carried out research in to the topic. In this documentary research that the scientists were doing was simplified to a point that their work seemed trivial. Although taking away from the scientists achievements, it was probably necessary so that the audience could have a better understanding of the topic.

The documentary takes advantages of visuals using a lot of actual pictures and footage of events in space; however during this no information on what these pictures depict is given. These are simply used as they are appealing to the eye, they have no informational value.

The Science channel explains scientific topics very simply making it easy to understand for lay audiences and even children. The channel however only looks at a small part of science and what it does look at is oversimplified. It is a very interesting channel and I would recommend it to anyone interested in space science.

By George Banjo