Wednesday, April 21st TV listings for Discovery Science Canada
Learn how crosscut saws, haggis and collectible firearms are made.
Alligator bags; lockers; bench planes; deployable flight recorders.
Mighty Ships Resolute
The Tyco Resolute lays high-tech fibre optic cables across the world's oceans.
Mighty Ships MV Fairplayer
The jumbo Fairplayer is the biggest and strongest in a new class of heavy-lift mega-ships and it's built to transport super-sized equipment. When two gigantic on-board cranes begin to load, it's like watching something out of a science fiction movie.
How Do They Do It? Chewing Gum, Fish Hooks, Legoland
Find out secrets behind chewing gum, fish hooks and Legoland.
How Do They Do It? Opal, Stunt Planes, Nougat
Featured opal, stunt planes and nougat.
Airplane Repo Wounded Warbird
Kevin Lacey greenlights Heather Sterzick's first solo repo, but she pays the price for her mistakes. Mike Kennedy returns to his old stomping grounds in Puerto Rico to recover a relic from the old family business.
NASA's Unexplained Files Secret Aliens
An astronomer records an unusual radio signal from beyond our solar system. FBI agents find classified documents at the home of a NASA scientist. When scientists discover strange DNA in the octopus, they examine if their origins could be alien.
NASA's Unexplained Files Stonehenge on Mars
When NASA spots a something on Mars that resembles Stonehenge, they investigate what could have made this strange structure. Scientists discover a mysterious hole in Saturn's rings. An ancient tribe claims contact with alien visitors.
The Explosion Show Blowing Up Hollywood
Tory Belleci and Streetbike Tommy go behind-the-scenes at a premier Hollywood special effects company to reveal the secrets of the world's greatest movie explosions and how cutting-edge tech pushes cinematic carnage to new heights.
Savage Builds Building Iron Man
Adam Savage teams up with a daredevil inventor to build an authentic Iron Man suit that flies and stops bullets just like Tony Stark's.
Savage Builds Wheel of Death
Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War II, and using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.
Savage Builds Mad Max Melee
Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a deadly fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of Mad Max, and using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.
Savage Builds Forging Excalibur
Adam Savage teams up with a world-class swordsmith to forge a replica of King Arthur's sword Excalibur, and their investigation could reveal if the legendary blade was made from iron brought to earth by an extraterrestrial visitor.
How the Universe Works Secret World of Nebulas
Nebulas are the strange structures of cosmic gas and dust where stars are born and die, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of these mysterious places.
Tequila, waterbeds, flip flops and silver.
Featured: composite propane cylinders; salsa; water-pumping windmills; dragsters.
Dirty Jobs Vomit Island Workers
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched Herons on the filth-covered island.
Dirty Jobs Wild Goose Chase
A team of workers round up a flock of wild geese in the tundra, with airplanes.
Made by Destruction Chairs, Flower Pots, and Turntables
Inside a plastic bottle is an ultra-modern chair. Instead of rolling into oblivion, retired rubber tires roll into flowerpots. It's the perfect way to listen to Heavy Metal, a piece of steel bridge is resurrected into a turntable.
Made by Destruction Coins, Speakers, and Race Cars
X-ray film is mined and refined into gleaming pure silver coins. The last of the heart pine beams are being reclaimed from ruins and crafted into speaker cabinets. Carbon fibre bikes hit the road -- recycled as Formula Lite racecars.
How Do They Do It? Leather footballs; Mussels; Helmet
A look at how things work, and some of the most amazing examples of everyday objects.
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.
Dirty Jobs Vomit Island Workers
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched Herons on the filth-covered island.
Dirty Jobs Wild Goose Chase
A team of workers round up a flock of wild geese in the tundra, with airplanes.
Tequila, waterbeds, flip flops and silver.
Featured: composite propane cylinders; salsa; water-pumping windmills; dragsters.
Made by Destruction Chairs, Flower Pots, and Turntables
Inside a plastic bottle is an ultra-modern chair. Instead of rolling into oblivion, retired rubber tires roll into flowerpots. It's the perfect way to listen to Heavy Metal, a piece of steel bridge is resurrected into a turntable.
Made by Destruction Coins, Speakers, and Race Cars
X-ray film is mined and refined into gleaming pure silver coins. The last of the heart pine beams are being reclaimed from ruins and crafted into speaker cabinets. Carbon fibre bikes hit the road -- recycled as Formula Lite racecars.
How the Universe Works Secret World of Nebulas
Nebulas are the strange structures of cosmic gas and dust where stars are born and die, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of these mysterious places.
Monsters Inside Me Hijackers
A suspicious parasite is running rampant in Virginia and has taken a child as its victim. In Michigan a brutal killer has invaded a travellers blood and a monster attacks a boys brain in Florida.