Thursday, December 12th TV listings for Discovery Science Canada
How It's Made Gingerbread Houses, Horse Trailers, Bottom Rolling Hangar Doors, Toy Figures
Featured: gingerbread houses; horse trailers; bottom rolling hangar doors; toy figures.
How It's Made Steel Shipping Drums, Police Whistles, Miniature Train Cars, Glass Blocks
Find out how steel shipping drums, police whistles, miniature train cars and glass blocks are made.
Mighty Ships Avataq
Avataq carries everything from food and furniture to mining equipment and explosives to Quebec's inaccessible northern regions. Conditions are so extreme, she makes only three trips a year, all in the short summer season.
Mighty Cruise Ships Viking Sea
Viking Sea is the second ocean-going vessel launched by the owners of Viking River Cruises; it features fine food, dramatic destinations, and Scandinavian décor.
Mighty Planes NOAA
Slicing through the eye wall of a hurricane, pounded by howling winds, blinded by rain and hail, NOAA's hurricane hunting WP-3D Orion aircraft flies where other planes refuse to venture. Witness the action as Hurricane Leslie threatens Bermuda and Canada.
Mighty Trains Tren Crucero
After a $280 million restoration project, passengers can one again enjoy Ecuador's Tren Crucero flagship luxury train.
NASA's Unexplained Files Pluto's Stranger Things
Astronomers find evidence for alien technology around a distant star; the first pictures of Pluto show that something might be moving across its surface.
NASA's Unexplained Files Rise of the Planet Killer
A mission to Mars captures an image of a strange structure on the Red Planet. Files from the first Apollo mission record an eerie sighting on the dark side of the moon. A planet-eating star gives scientists a glimpse of Earth's terrible demise.
Outrageous Acts of Science Man vs. Nature
We're pitting Man vs. Nature. Find out who comes out on top when a glass-breaking gorilla and a speed-racing sea lion face off against a snowman in the desert and an underwater wheelchair.
How It's Made Gingerbread Houses, Horse Trailers, Bottom Rolling Hangar Doors, Toy Figures
Featured: gingerbread houses; horse trailers; bottom rolling hangar doors; toy figures.
How It's Made Steel Shipping Drums, Police Whistles, Miniature Train Cars, Glass Blocks
Find out how steel shipping drums, police whistles, miniature train cars and glass blocks are made.
Mega Marine Machines Salt Miner
In Baltimore, engineers design and assemble a state-of-the-art, mega-bucket wheel dredge; they now must disassemble it and move it to Saudi Arabia where it will operate in one of the toughest dredge conditions in the world.
Outrageous Acts of Science Grand Masters
Featuring a man who can drift two cars at once, a snake that can open doors and the world's best three year old basketball player.
Outrageous Acts of Science Man vs. Nature
We're pitting Man vs. Nature. Find out who comes out on top when a glass-breaking gorilla and a speed-racing sea lion face off against a snowman in the desert and an underwater wheelchair.
Mighty Planes Antonov 124
The Antonov 124 is the world's largest serially manufactured cargo plane. Built to move Soviet military vehicles and equipment, they are now in constant demand moving everything from locomotives to whales anywhere in the world.
Featured: signal poles; coffee filters; marble saws.
Features pocket knives; soapstone products; electric pole transformers; and snowshoes.
How It's Made New
Featured: tin whistles; horn products; Formula F race cars.
How It's Made New
Featured: motorcycle goggles; handbuilt jukeboxes; vacuum excavators; pewter shaving sets.
MythBusters Transformers
Adam and Jamie tackle two tall tales of mechanical metamorphosis, which sees them try to turn a car into a motorcycle and a bicycle into a boat.
Masters of Disaster Hellfire Havoc New
When doomsday comes, an antique flamethrower could be the key to surviving, and using cutting-edge tech, a team of expert engineers restore it to brave the dangers of End Times.
How Do They Do It? Almonds; Snowblower; Detergents
Find out how billions of bees produce a million tonnes of California almonds, how winter snow is cleared in Norway, and how the toughest of stains is removed.
How Do They Do It? Suspension Bridge; Crossbows; Tracking Clothes
Find out how they make cables strong enough to support a 50,000 ton bridge, how modern hunters use medieval weapons to catch prey, and how they track clothes items.
MythBusters Transformers
Adam and Jamie tackle two tall tales of mechanical metamorphosis, which sees them try to turn a car into a motorcycle and a bicycle into a boat.
Featured: tin whistles; horn products; Formula F race cars.
Featured: motorcycle goggles; handbuilt jukeboxes; vacuum excavators; pewter shaving sets.
Featured: signal poles; coffee filters; marble saws.
Features pocket knives; soapstone products; electric pole transformers; and snowshoes.
Masters of Disaster Hellfire Havoc
When doomsday comes, an antique flamethrower could be the key to surviving, and using cutting-edge tech, a team of expert engineers restore it to brave the dangers of End Times.
Mighty Planes Antonov 124
The Antonov 124 is the world's largest serially manufactured cargo plane. Built to move Soviet military vehicles and equipment, they are now in constant demand moving everything from locomotives to whales anywhere in the world.
Secret Space Escapes Toxic Leak
A toxic ammonia leak endangers an entire crew and a cosmonaut narrowly survives re-entry, only to be stranded in the wilderness. Also, a spacewalker's helmet fills with water, threatening to drown him in space.