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Alaska State Troopers: The Wild West
12:00 AM to 01:00 AM
Meet the brave men and women fighting crime in the Seward Peninsula, an unforgiving region in western Alaska. During the winter, daylight lasts less than four hours -- leaving a lot of time for trouble under the cover of darkness. We'll ride along with Trooper Anne Sears, one of the few female troopers on the force, to bring in a man with a $10,000 felony warrant. Then, we join her husband and colleague Trooper Jay Sears as he interrogates a person he suspects of smuggling alcohol.
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Wild Justice: Born to Kill
01:00 AM to 02:00 AM
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Wild Justice: Gold Diggers
02:00 AM to 03:00 AM
Strange bear behavior sends the wardens patrolling for clues about bear activity. Biologist Klit comes across bears roaming on residents' land and rummaging through garbage. Since these bears have grown accustomed to human food, he sets a trap filled with cake, peanut butter and syrup to drive them back into the woods.
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Naked Science: Alien Safari
03:00 AM to 04:00 AM
Stargazers have been searching for extraterrestrial life for years, but now technology may be advanced enough to find it.. Travel to the most likely places in our solar system where alien life may be hiding.
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Naked Science: Comet Mysteries
04:00 AM to 05:00 AM
Throughout history, comets have inspired fear and awe. Today, these icy giants offer a unique view into how the planets formed and how life as we know it began. In Naked Science: Comets, NGC takes a close look at the experiments scientists are doing to gain insight into how the universe evolved and whether these icy giants also are capable of wiping out life as we know it.
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Human Footprint
05:00 AM to 06:00 AM
NGC presents Human Footprint, a groundbreaking special anchored by ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, which follows the cradle-to-grave consumption of the average American. The special goes beyond the sheer magnitude of what we consume, following the chain of production back to find out what goes into the making of what we use every day, from T-shirts to soda cans to laptop computers, and then literally displays what we each consume in our lifetime, using a typical American home as the backdrop.
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Naked Science: Extinctions
09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
NGC examines three mass extinctions on Earth to see what caused them and if they could happen again. Would humans fare any better than the victims of these previous disasters? Worse, are we now in the middle of a mass extinction we brought on ourselves?
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Naked Science: Death of the Universe
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
"Death of the Universe" takes viewers on an incredible journey through the cosmos in search of answers about how it is all going to end. Three theories about the universe's fate come to life as the program explores the battle between dark matter and dark energy, the forces that will determine whether the cosmos will collapse, freeze, or rip to oblivion. Spectacular never-before-seen graphics help explain the principles behind each theory, and backyard examples make some of the most complex scientific questions ever asked accessible to the viewing audience. In the end, viewers are provided with a greater understanding of where our universe has been, and what the fate of everything we know could entail.
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Explorer: Last Days of the Maya
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
What caused the sudden demise of the Maya in Central America 2,000 years ago? Human skeletons discovered in a cistern may hold the key to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world.
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Explorer: Doomsday Volcano
12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
Volcanologists make a stunning discovery when they dive into one of the largest, yet most mysterious, natural calamities in human history: the eruption of Santorini.
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Explorer: 24 Hours After Asteroid Impact
01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Explorer travels back 66 million years to break down the chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and changed the world forever. Visit a high-tech NASA lab where scientists use new technology to recreate the force of the blast and reveal the likely cascade of effects of the catastrophic impact.
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Aftermath: When the Earth Stops Spinning
02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
The Earth revolves at 1,000 miles an hour. But what if it significantly slowed and eventually stopped? Sea levels at the equator drop and locations surrounded by water would dry out. With a loss of atmosphere, the Earth could no longer support human life. And each side of the Earth will be stuck in day or night for six months at a time. The dark side is lethally cold and the light side is bathed in deadly solar radiation. See how humans and creatures might cope in this changing world.
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Inside the Border Warriors: Ground Zero
03:00 PM to 04:00 PM
Follow the Shadow Wolves, an elite unit of just 12 Native American federal agents charged with hunting down drug smugglers crossing into the United States through the Tohono O'odham Reservation located southwest of Tucson, AZ. Using ancient techniques that were once used by their ancestors to read the stories of the trail, these agents can track smugglers destinations and even cargo.
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Rock Stars: Bolt to the Finish
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Using brute strength, the Rock Stars stab three 10-foot, 60-pound anchor bolts into the 3 -inch-diameter holes in the cliff face at the Maid of the Mist.
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Taboo: Forbidden Love
05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Love can come in many different and bizarre forms. In Washington State, we meet a man with objectum sexual, who has an emotional, romantic and often sexual attraction to his car, named Vanilla. In Germany, we'll introduce you to the founder of the Objectum Sexual International Forum, who is in a loving relationship with the Berlin Wall. And we'll meet a married couple in California whose concept of monogamy has an odd twist she works as a professional sex surrogate.
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Taboo: Extreme Fighting
06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Humans have an inherent urge to fight. In some cultures, the boundaries of what is considered acceptable violence are extremely different. In Bolivia, Jos and his family kill a goat, then scatter its blood to the gods. These Quechua Indians believe blood spilled violently on the ground will fertilize the earth and ensure a good harvest.
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Wild Justice: Outgunned
07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Warden Boyd and his team take an unorthodox approach to catching poachers who kill bears just to harvest their gall bladders for folk medicine. Using real bear paws to mask his tracks and scent in order to fake a bear presence, Boyd hopes to lure poachers into a trap and catch them red-handed. While in San Francisco, Warden O'Brien organizes a saturation patrol of Chinatown, known as a hotbed for illegal trading in exotic species and animal parts.
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Snipers, Inc.
08:00 PM to 09:00 PM
Selling guns to snipers is all in a day's work for one small-town Tennessee family. Ronnie, the designer and businessman at the helm of Barrett firearms manufacturing, and his two children are responsible for creating the M107 sniper rifle. The world's first semi-automatic .50 caliber rifle, the M107s power and precision allow snipers to destroy multiple targets from more than two football fields away. NGC goes inside this family of firearm "rock stars" to follow the production of rifles- fr
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Doomsday Preppers: Bullets, Lots of Bullets
09:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Meet a group of people preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Texan Paul Range and his wife Gloria constructed a home out of nine shipping containers, and stockpiled over 50,000 lbs. of food in preparation for a day when the North and South Poles swap places, resulting in dramatic climate changes and natural disasters.
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Doomsday Preppers: I Hope I Am Crazy
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Kellene Bishop, a self-described foodie, amazes her friends by whipping up a dinner party entirely from shelf-stable foods, proving she wont sacrifice the finer things in a financial disaster. Dennis Evers has trained his children with special skills to withstand a catastrophic financial collapse. His oldest son shows us how he can fashion bows and arrows for security, his daughters weld and stockpile fuel, his wife cans massive amounts of food, and his son-in-law is working on a solar-powered
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Snipers, Inc.
11:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Selling guns to snipers is all in a day's work for one small-town Tennessee family. Ronnie, the designer and businessman at the helm of Barrett firearms manufacturing, and his two children are responsible for creating the M107 sniper rifle. The world's first semi-automatic .50 caliber rifle, the M107s power and precision allow snipers to destroy multiple targets from more than two football fields away. NGC goes inside this family of firearm "rock stars" to follow the production of rifles- fr
