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- Six german geologists explore the ground under the Namib desert to find traces of the break-up of the old continent Pangea into Africa and South America 130 Million years ago. Not only a journey into an early age of our planet, but also an adventure and a logistic challenge.
- 1982–6.4 (9)TV EpisodeDuring the 1790s French revolution, the still royal academy of science sanctions a project to create the metric system of universal measures on natural foundations, to substitute the chaotic feudal tradition of local and regional arbitrary measures. A key measure, for length, is to be the meter, defined as 1/10.000 of the meridian from equator to Northpole. A scientific expedition is the determine the exact length of the part of the one that goes trough Barcelona, Rodez and Paris by old-fashioned triangulation. Despite new advanced measuring equipment, the landscape and especially political circumstances, both wars and French internal regime brutality, make it a 9 year nightmare for the two scientists which start from opposite sides.