Size Matters

In this episode, Planet Earth grows to outlandish proportions causing lying down to become the new standing up, the sun gets big ideas giving us a 20,000 year winter before blowing up in the biggest explosion since the big bang, we meet a dog the size of a dinosaur and Joe himself turns into a 15m giant. Along the way, we take a ride in a Eurofighter typhoon to find out what 10G feels like, sit on a giant pumpkin and meet the world’s tallest man. Which all goes to show that size really does matter.

In this episode, Planet Earth shrinks to half size causing altitude sickness and a cosmic disaster, the sun gets as small as a sun can be, turning Earth into a frozen eyeball. We also see what happens to a man who shrinks to the same size as a wasp. Along the way, we find out why small creatures have superpowers, meet Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest woman and learn why a smaller planet would mean earth turning into Mars.