Deep Impact : Episode 54
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Deep Impact
What: Morgan Freeman is president and a mountain-sized comet is heading towards earth. What do we do?
Directed by: Mimi Leder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Teia Leoni, Elijah Wood
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Show Notes
Citizen Astronomy
People. Computers. Computer vision. KIC 8462852.
E.L.E.
Extinction level events. Dinosaur impact. Impactor scales.
Impactor Types
Meteors, meteorites, meteors, comets, asteroids.
Avoiding Impacts
Gentle (nuclear bombs), and less gentle (gravity tug) methods of redirecting impactors.
Earth Impacts
Tunguska, dinosaur impact. The difference between a small number of large impacts and a large number of small ones.
Humanity’s Fate
Floods, atmospheric disruption, a world aflame from the heat of a million impactors.
Goodbyes
I’ll see you next Tuesday.
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