Home - Michael Buble

Another summer day
has come and gone away
In Paris or Rome...
but I wanna go home
...uhm Home
may be surrounded by
a million people I
still feel all alone
just wanna go home
I miss you, you know
And I've been keeping all the letters
that I wrote to you,
Each one a line or two
I'm fine baby, how are you?
I would send them but I know that it's just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that
Another aeroplane, another sunny place,
I'm lucky I know
but I wanna go home
I got to go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far from where you are
I wanna come home
And I feel just like I'm living
someone else's life
It's like I just stepped outside
when everything was going right
And I know just why you could not come along with me
This was not your dream
but you always believed in me...
Another winter day
Has come and gone away
in either Paris or Rome
and I wanna go home
Let me go home
And I'm surrounded by
A million people I
still feel alone
Let me go home
I miss you , you know
Let me go home
I've had my run
baby I'm done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
it'll all be alright
I'll be home tonight

I'm coming back home"

When You Believe - Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey

Many nights we pray
With no proof anyone could hear
And our hearts a hopeful song
We barely understand
Now we are not afraid
Although we know theres much to fear
We were moving mountains long
Before we know we could
Oah yes
There can be miracles
When you believe
Though hope is frail
Its hard to kill
Who know what miracle
You can achieve
When you believe
Somehow you will
You will when you believe
In this time of fear
When prayer so often proves in vain
Hope seems like the summer birds
Too swiftly flown away
And now I am standing here
My hearts so full I cant explain
Seeking faith and speaking words
I never thought Id say
There can be miracles
When you believe
Though hope is frail
Its hard to kill
Who know what miraclea
You can achieve
(wh: you can achieve)
When you believe
Somehow you will
You will when you believe
They don't always happen when you ask
And its easy to give in to your fear
Ohhhhh
But when youre blinded by your pain
Cant see you way safe through the rain
Thought of a still resilient voice
Says love is very near
There can be miracles
When you believe
Though hope is frail
Its hard to kill
Who know what miracles
You can achieve
When you believe
Somehow you will
You will when you believe
You will when you believe
You will when you believe
You will when you believe
Just believe
You will when you
Believe

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

If I should stay,

I would only be in your way.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you. Hmm.
Bittersweet memories
that is all I'm taking with me.
So, goodbye. Please, don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
(Instrumental solo)
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I, I will always love you.
You, darling, I love you.
Ooh, I'll always, I'll always love you.

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Cracking the Maya Code

NARRATOR: Imagine explorers arriving to find our cities deserted; our books have perished in some unknown catastrophe; all that is left to speak for us are the written words we have carved in stone. The travelers cannot make sense of our mysterious script, but if they could, would they comprehend who we were?
In the jungles of southern Mexico and Central America, the ancient ruins of the Maya posed such a mystery. They revealed a civilization of stunning achievements, created in isolation from Europe and Asia. Their cities were full of strange inscriptions, fantastic, twisting forms called hieroglyphs. They were carved on monuments and objects, painted on pottery and written in bark-paper books.
For centuries, the hieroglyphs confounded explorers. What secrets did they hold? Were they merely pictures and symbols, or, in fact, true writing, expressing an ancient language?
MICHAEL D. COE (Author, Breaking the Maya Code): People threw their hands up and said, "Nobody's ever going to crack this script. It just can't be done."
NARRATOR: The quest would obsess artists and adventurers, archeologists and linguists, and the youngest recipient ever of the MacArthur genius award.
DAVID STUART (Epigrapher, University of Texas at Austin): It became very clear to me that the real task of code-breaking was getting through this morass of the tangled visuals of the script.
NARRATOR: After centuries of struggle, the stories of the Maya scribes are coming to life.
MICHAEL COE: We began to see blood everywhere in the hieroglyphs. It was a rather darker view of the Maya that shocked a lot of people.
NARRATOR: As the hieroglyphs reveal their meaning, a history of a lost world is emerging, transforming our view of the ancient Maya.
DAVID STUART: These were literate people. They had these fantastic stories to tell. And we really got this amazing understanding of how the Maya saw their world.
NARRATOR: Up next on NOVA, Cracking the Maya Code.PBS Airdate: April 8, 2008

Car of the Future

NARRATOR: Eight hundred million cars. If you put them bumper to bumper, they'd circle the Earth about 100 times. That's how many cars are on the road today. They come in all shapes and colors, but have one thing in common.
DAVID L. GREENE (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): Our transportation system is almost entirely fueled by petroleum, more than 95 percent. A quarter of all the petroleum ever consumed in the history of the world was consumed in the last 10 years. So we're consuming it at an accelerating rate.
JOHN B. HEYWOOD (Sloan Automotive Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): What is scary is that projections suggest that by 2050 there'll be two billion vehicles, two and a half times as many as there are today.
NARRATOR: Many experts agree there's an energy shortage and soaring gas prices looming in the future, not to mention, melting ice caps from global warming and national security threats from dependence on foreign oil.
TOM MAGLIOZZI (Automobile Mechanic/Co-Host, Car Talk): Can I change the station?
RAY MAGLIOZZI (Automobile Mechanic/Co-Host, Car Talk): No, you can't. This is important stuff.
TOM MAGLIOZZI: This is scaring me. I don't like it any more.
RAY MAGLIOZZI: Oh, come on. Don't be such a sissy.
NARRATOR: Two brothers have embarked on a quest.
TOM MAGLIOZZI: Where are we?
RAY MAGLIOZZI: I don't know. We're not in Kansas any more, I can tell you that.
NARRATOR: They want to find out what's being done right now that will keep our cars moving in the future.
RAY MAGLIOZZI: Stand back!
NARRATOR: They're testing new technology and alternative fuels, and they're getting behind the wheels of vehicles that might take us down a new and different road.
Join Click and Clack, the guys from Car Talk, on their search for the Car of the Future, right now on NOVA.PBS Airdate: April 22, 2008

Space Shuttle Disaster

NARRATOR: The disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia, in 2003, was a blow to the nation; for NASA it was unthinkable.
JON CLARK (Flight Surgeon, NASA): We were at the landing site, and then all the cell phones started going off, with the astronauts that escort us, the family escorts. And then, boom, all of a sudden we're rushed to vehicles.
NARRATOR: Columbia was America's first space shuttle, and it redefined what a spacecraft could do: it took off like a rocket and landed like an airplane; it was reusable.
ROGER LAUNIUS (National Air and Space Museum): NASA really believed that space flight was going to become routine. And they really believed that it was their responsibility to build a vehicle that would make space flight something that happened all the time, with relative ease, comfort and inexpensiveness.
NARRATOR: But the loss of Columbia forced NASA to reevaluate the very idea of a space shuttle, just as the loss of Challenger, 17 years earlier, killed the dream of safe and routine space travel.
HOWARD MCCURDY (American University): They all kind of had conflicting design requirements, as a result of trying to get too many people agreeing on a single vehicle. The accident, in effect, was planned from the moment of the conception.
JOHN LOGSDON (Space Policy Institute): This is a tragedy: that it took the loss of seven lives to force the realization that there had not been a compelling, strong rationale for sending humans into space.
NARRATOR: The tragedy highlights deep questions now facing NASA, as it designs the next generation of spacecraft and determines the future of America's role in space. Up next on NOVA: Space Shuttle Disaster. PBS Airdate: October 14, 2008

Lord of the Ants

NARRATOR: Every so often, a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective of the world. Ed Wilson is such a man. His early fascination with ants launched a dazzling scientific career that led him to lift his eyes from the ground to explain the grand scheme of life itself.
When he wrote his book Sociobiology, tracing the origins of animal social behavior from ants to humans, he had little idea of the controversy it would trigger. Not since Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species has evolutionary biology caused such heated debate.
Undeterred by the furor, he went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Today, he campaigns for biodiversity and fights to conserve the world's endangered species.
Tonight on NOVA: Lord of the Ants.PBS Airdate: May 20, 2008

Hunting the Hidden Dimension

NARRATOR: You can find it in the rain forest, on the frontiers of medical research, in the movies, and it's all over the world of wireless communications. One of nature's biggest design secrets has finally been revealed.
GEOFFREY WEST (Santa Fe Institute): My god, of course. It's obvious.
NARRATOR: It's an odd-looking shape you may never have heard of, but it's everywhere around you: the jagged repeating form called a fractal.
JAMES BROWN (University of New Mexico): They're all over in biology. They're solutions that natural selection has come up with over and over and over again.
NARRATOR: Fractals are in our lungs, kidneys and blood vessels.
KEITH DEVLIN (Stanford University): Flowers, plants, weather systems, the rhythms of the heart, the very essences of life.
NARRATOR: But it took a maverick mathematician to figure out how they work.
BENOIT MANDELBROT (Yale University): I don't play with formulas, I play with pictures. And that is what I've been doing all my life.
NARRATOR: His was a bold challenge to centuries-old assumptions about the various forms that nature takes.
RALPH ABRAHAM (University of California, Santa Cruz): The blinders came off, and people could see forms that were always there but, formerly, were invisible.
NARRATOR: Making the invisible visible, finding order in disorder; what mysteries can it help us unravel? Coming up next, on NOVA: Hunting the Hidden Dimension. PBS Airdate: October 28, 2008

Alien From Earth

NARRATOR: It is the dream of every archaeologist who slogs through backbreaking days of excavation, the find that changes everything.
ABC NEWS REPORTER (Archival Footage): A team of Australian and Indonesian archeologists has discovered the remains of what's believed to be a new species of human.
HENRY GEE (Nature Magazine): This is a major discovery.
CHRIS STRINGER (Natural History Museum, United Kingdom): It implies we are missing a huge amount of the story of human evolution.
NARRATOR: Paradoxically, the discovery is huge because its pieces are not: a skeleton of an adult, the size of a three-year old child; a skull one-third the size of a modern human's. Could a race of tiny creatures, soon nicknamed "hobbits," have thrived at the same time as modern humans?
To many, the evidence is irrefutable.
BILL JUNGERS (Stony Brook University): This is not a little person. Absolutely, we're looking at a new species. NARRATOR: But some scientists just aren't buying it.
RALPH HOLLOWAY (Columbia University): It just invites tremendous skepticism.
JAMES PHILLIPS (Field Museum of Natural History): I don't believe it.
MACIEJ HENNEBERG (University of Adelaide): There is only one skull, so that's not a proof of anything at all.
NARRATOR: So is the hobbit a momentous find or a career-wrecking blunder? The answer may overturn our understanding of how we became who we are.
PETER BROWN (University of New England): I think we may have to rewrite the human evolutionary story. At the present, every textbook on the planet is wrong.
NARRATOR: An astonishing discovery, a bitter controversy.
CHRIS STRINGER: In this situation, one group of people are going to be 100 percent wrong, so it really is quite an extreme case.
NARRATOR: And now, four years after the unearthing of the hobbit, new evidence that may finally solve the riddle of its existence. Alien from Earth, up next on NOVA. PBS Airdate: November 11, 2008

Ocean Animal Emergency

NARRATOR: Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, there is a hospital unlike any other.
FELICIA NUTTER (Staff Veterinarian): This is definitely cutting edge.
NARRATOR: While its patients are bright, appealing and furry, they are also a critical barometer of the decline of our oceans.
This adult male sea lion's neck is entangled in some human garbage. He cannot eat and is quickly losing weight, so a team from the Marine Mammal Center needs to capture him and get him back to the hospital.
SHELBI STOUDT (Volunteer): If he's in your net, we want to try to get him into the bigger net. Our goal is to sneak up on him and surprise him, because no matter how sick or injured the animal is, all it has to do is roll over into the water and we can't get him.
Pull back.
NARRATOR: It's not all that easy. For this sea lion, the story has a happy ending. A month later he is sighted sunning himself on a San Francisco pier, and the entanglement had fallen off. But for hundreds of animals along the California coast, this hospital makes the difference between life and death.
Theirs is an all-out effort to save these animals from our increasingly troubled oceans. High-end veterinary science and a passion for marine mammals, right now on NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency. PBS Air date: November 25, 2008

My Way - Frank Sinatra

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full.
I' ve traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!

Feelings - Morris Albert

Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl; you'll never come again.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.
Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
and feelings like I've never have you again in my heart.
Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl; you'll never come again.
Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
and feelings like I've never have you again in my life.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feelings again in my arms.
Feelings...(repeat & fade)

Eveything - Britney Spears

Notice me, take my hand
Why are we strangers when
Our love is strong
Why carry on without me
Everytime I try to fly, I fall
Without my wings, I feel so small
I guess I need you, baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, it's haunting me
I guess I need you, baby
I make believe that you are here
It's the only way I see clear
What have I done
You seem to move on easy
And everytime I try to fly, I fall
Without my wings, I feel so small
I guess I need you, baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you, baby
I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song's my sorry
At night I pray
That soon your face will fade away
And everytime I try to fly, I fall
Without my wings, I feel so small
I guess I need you, baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you, baby

I Need You - The Beatles

You don't realize how much I need you.

Love you all the time and never leave you.

Please come on back to me. I'm lonely as can be

I need you.

Said you had a thing or two to tell me.

How was I to know, you would upset me.

I didn't realize, as I looked in your eye's.

You told me.

Oh, yes you told me, you don't want my loving anymore.

That's when it hurt me, and feeling like this,

I just can't go on anymore.

Please remember how I feel about you.

I could never really live without you.

So come on back and see. Just what you mean to me.

I need you. I need you. I need you.

Rat Attack

NARRATOR: It is 1959: in this remote corner of India, freshly dug graves, too numerous to count, speak of an unfathomable horror. In the forests, men desperately search for food, as famine stalks the countryside. Mothers dig up roots to fill bellies. Some hike hundreds of miles to find rice for their starving children.
But it is the cause of this calamity that totally defies explanation. It is a natural disaster unlike any other, one that comes, not on the wind, like a cyclone or drought, but on four legs and by the millions. It is a plague of rats.
RICE FARMER 1: The rats just kept coming and coming, until they completely destroyed my entire rice field.
NARRATOR: Now, exactly 48 years later, an almost identical plague is sweeping the country again. Across the region, colossal armies of rats rampage through the countryside, obliterating rice crops, leaving nothing.
Local tradition says the rats pour out of the bamboo trees, that the forest gives rise to the plague. But what is the real cause?
Scientists know little more about this onslaught than they did almost half a century ago. That's about to change.
Biologists are racing to the scene of an event so steeped in myth, they don't know what they'll find.
KEN APLIN (Australian National Wildlife Collection): Rats everywhere, watching us.
NARRATOR: And they don't have much time to figure it out.
KEN APLIN: Everything we've seen suggests that come August, at harvest time, there's going to be huge numbers of rats in the forest and that their crops are going to be destroyed.
NARRATOR: Is there any way to avoid it?
It's a Rat Attack, right now, on this NOVA/National Geographic Special. PBS Airdate: February 24, 2009

The Bible Buried's Secrets

NARRATOR: God is dead, or so it must have seemed to the ancestors of the Jews in 586 B.C. Jerusalem and the temple to their god are in flames; the nation of Israel, founded by King David, is wiped out. 

WILLIAM G. DEVER (University of Arizona): It would have seemed to have been the end, but it was, rather, the beginning. 

NARRATOR: For out of the crucible of destruction emerges a sacred book, the Bible, and an idea that will change the world, the belief in one God.

THOMAS CAHILL (Author, The Gifts of the Jews): This is a new idea. It was an idea that no one had ever had before.

LEE I. LEVINE (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Monotheism is well-ensconced, so something major happened which is very hard to trace.

NARRATOR: Now, a provocative new story from discoveries deep within the Earth and the Bible.

EILAT MAZAR (Shalem Center): We wanted to examine the possibility that the remains of King David's palace are here.

WILLIAM DEVER: We can actually see vivid evidence here of a destruction.

AMNON BEN-TOR (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Question number one: "Who did it?"

NARRATOR: An archaeological detective story puzzles together clues to the mystery of who wrote the Bible, when and why.

GABRIEL BARKAY (Bar-Ilan University): And it was clear that it was a tiny scroll.

RON E. TAPPY (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary): I immediately saw very clear, very distinct letters.

P. KYLE MCCARTER (Johns Hopkins University): This is the ancestor of the Hebrew script. 

NARRATOR: And, from out of the Earth, emerge thousands of idols that suggest God had a wife.

AMIHAI MAZAR (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): We just found this exceptional clay figurine showing a fertility goddess.

NARRATOR: Powerful evidence sheds new light on how one people, alone among ancient cultures, finally turn their back on idol worship to find their one god. 

CAROL MEYERS (Duke University): This makes the god of ancient Israel the universal God of the world that resonates with people—at least in Jewish, Christian and Muslim tradition—to this very day.

NARRATOR: Now, science and scripture converge to create a powerful new story of an ancient people, God and the Bible. Up next on NOVA, The Bible's Buried Secrets. PBS Airdate: November 18, 2008

The Spy Factory

NARRATOR: Halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., is a hidden city, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, NSA. Here, tens of thousands of mathematicians, computer scientists, analysts, linguists and voice interceptors work in absolute secrecy.

JAMES BAMFORD (Author, The Shadow Factory): For those in the know, the joke was that NSA stood for "no such agency." For those on the inside, the joke was that NSA stood for "never say anything."

NARRATOR: NSA's job? To secretly listen in on telephone conversations, email communications, anything and everything that might warn of plots to do harm.

ERIC HASELTINE (National Security Agency, Director of Research, 2002–2005): The scope of what happens at NSA is mind-boggling. I don't think the average person can even begin to conceive of the staggering depth and breadth of what they have to do.

NARRATOR: But was NSA doing its job before the 9/11 attacks? It's a question that has never been thoroughly investigated.

MICHAEL SCHEUER (Former Central Intelligence Agency Analyst): None of this information that we're speaking about this evening is in the 9/11 Commission Report. They simply ignored all of it.

NARRATOR: But author James Bamford has investigated and come up with a chilling tale of terrorists, living in San Diego, communicating with bin Laden's operations center in Yemen, moving freely about, and all the while, NSA is listening in.

JAMES BAMFORD: But the NSA never alerted any other agency that the terrorists were in the United States and moving across the country towards Washington.

NARRATOR: Since the 9/11 attacks, NSA's role has grown even bigger, along with its license to listen in on Americans here and abroad.

ADRIENNE KINNE (Former National Security Agency Voice Interceptor): It was incredibly uncomfortable to be listening to private, personal conversations of Americans. It's almost like going through and finding somebody's diary.

NARRATOR: But is this flood of information making America any safer? Looking into The Spy Factory, right now on NOVA. PBS Airdate: February 3, 2009

The Big Energy Gamble

ANNOUNCER: ...governor of the great state of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
NARRATOR: The man they call "the governator," California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, is waging war.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (Governor of California/Film Clip of Press Conference): So we are moving in every direction in order to bring down our greenhouse gas emissions.
NARRATOR: The enemy is global warming, and he wants the rest of the country to follow where he is leading.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: California, even though a little tiny spot on the globe, barely can find it, but the power of influence that we have over the rest of the world is an equivalent of a whole continent.
NARRATOR: He plans to slash California's carbon dioxide emissions in a move that could affect people's jobs, homes, even the cars they drive. He promises no one will suffer, but some think he is leading the state towards disaster.
MARLO LEWIS, JR. (Competitive Enterprise Institute): If there were a mandate to cut energy radically, in one particular state, that state would see its economy implode.
NARRATOR: The plan is bold, laying out a whole new energy landscape, with thousands of new wind turbines, solar panels and green industries. It even takes on cars, in a place where the car is king. Could California serve as a model for national energy policy, or are the risks too great?
VIJAY VAITHEESWARAN (The Economist): There's no question that California is rolling the dice with its energy policies. It is a risk. But the bigger risk, I would say, is the risk of inaction in the face of climate change.

NARRATOR: The Big Energy Gamble, up next on NOVA. PBS Airdate: January 20, 2009

Arctic Dinosaurs

NARRATOR: High inside the Arctic Circle, in one of the most unforgiving environments on the planet, two teams of paleontologists investigate a 70-million-year-old mystery। They've unearthed dozens of dinosaurs—adults and juveniles—their bones jumbled together, fossilized, then locked in permafrost for eons, until now.

KEVIN MAY (University of Alaska Museum): Well, there's two pieces of bone right here.

RON TYKOSKI (Museum of Nature & Science): It's as if somebody took 15 Pachyrhinosaurus, dumped them in a blender for 30 seconds and then poured all the mess out into a large batch of concrete and let it solidify for 70 million years.

NARRATOR: The startling discovery that these ancient reptiles, "thunder lizards," lived and thrived in the arctic has taken scientists by surprise.

ANTHONY FIORILLO (Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas): It challenges everything that we think we know about dinosaurs.

HANS-DIETER SUES (Smithsonian Institution): Finding polar dinosaurs was important because it provided whole new insights into the biology of dinosaurs.

NARRATOR: How did they survive in such an extreme environment, and what was the real reason they were driven to extinction?

ROBERT SPICER (The Open University, U.K.): There's a lot of questions out there. And it's not as simple as, "Everybody died because a rock came in from space."

BOBBY FITHIAN (Alaskan Permafrost Miner): Fire in the hole!

NARRATOR: From millions of years in the past, a story of survival against all odds: Arctic Dinosaurs, right now on NOVA. PBS Airdate: October 7, 2008

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

NARRATOR: It's one of the most profound mysteries in the natural world, an amazing transcontinental odyssey: the migration, each year, of millions of Monarch butterflies from Canada, across America, to Mexico.
CHIP TAYLOR (University of Kansas): You got a butterfly that's originating in Toronto, or it's originating in Detroit, Michigan, or it's coming down from St. Paul, maybe even Winnipeg, and it's moving south, and, somehow, it finds its way to Mexico. Could you do that?

NARRATOR: Starting from a tiny caterpillar, blossoming into a beautiful butterfly, these delicate creatures will fly thousands of miles in a feat of endurance and navigation unlike anything else in nature.

LINCOLN BROWER (Sweet Briar College): They've never taken a long flight in their lives, and they're on their way to an area that they've never seen before. Somehow they're recognizing landmarks, or following streams or following the Sun. They're following something.

NARRATOR: They're on their way to a remote area, high in the Mexican mountains. And they get there every year at exactly the same time.

BILL CALVERT (Zoologist): Butterflies have dazzled humans for millennia. It's a beautiful little creature, and on top of that, it migrates 2,000 miles, and this just staggers the mind.

LINCOLN BROWER: I think the Monarch butterfly is one of the most magnificent animals in the world. And it's unique in terms of the entire animal kingdom. There's nothing like it.

NARRATOR: Next on NOVA, The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies. PBS Airdate: January 27, 2009

Is There Life on Mars?

NARRATOR: Is there life beyond Earth? To find out, we might look no farther than the planet next door. Mars may be our best hope for resolving the ultimate mystery of creation.
STEVE GOREVAN (Honeybee Robotics): It is the one planet out there that is Earth-like enough that we can imagine that life might have taken hold on that world. 

CHRIS MCKAY (NASA Ames Research Center): If we go to Mars, will we find that, yes, the same events that led to life on Earth, happened independently on this other planet? 

PETER SMITH (University of Arizona): And if we find evidence on our very next planet, Mars, then you have to say that has to be so common across the Milky Way, across the universe, you know, that we are not alone.

NARRATOR: Mars has more in common with our world than any place we know of in the universe, but it's still a world away. Getting an astronaut there to search for life is beyond us. So, for now, we must resort to the next best thing, robots. Mars today is a busy place. Three satellites orbit it, three Landers ponder its surface. They're finding a wealth of clues.

STEVE SQUYRES (Cornell University): Holy smokes! I'm just blown away by this.

MICHAEL HECHT (Jet Propulsion Laboratory): When that first data comes down, the sense of astonishment is indescribable. Oh wow!

JOHN COATES (University of California, Berkeley): We would never have thought of looking for organisms like this on Mars.

NARRATOR: But they're also discovering that, in its past, Mars had some dark secrets.

SAMUEL KOUNAVES (Tufts University): Life can survive, survive in pretty harsh conditions, but there are limits.

ANDY KNOLL (Harvard University): Around four billion years ago, there was a cataclysmic event. 

DAN McCLEESE (Jet Propulsion Laboratory): And this was big. This thing went, wham, right into the planet.

NARRATOR: Four and a half billion years ago, two young planets emerged, both brimming with promise, but something went very wrong with Earth's twin. Is There Life on Mars?, up next on NOVA. PBS Airdate: December 30, 2008