Could We Stop An Asteroid? Feat. Bill Nye
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We've all witnessed the beauty of a shooting star, but what would happen if an asteroid was on a collision course for earth? Could we detect it ahead of time? And more importantly could we stop it? Bill: I belive I have an answer, now you see, asteroid impacts are serious business, when I was in second grade Ms. McGonigal told us that the dinosaurs the ancient dinosaurs died out because they had small brains ...Maybe like... my old boss. But even she knew that was kinda lame, that theory was nothing. It turns out in my lifetime people found this crater, off Chicxulub, Mexico. This crater was so big, how big was it, it was so big that an asteroid hit the earth (or impactors hit the earth). Threw so much stuff into the Earth's sky it was b...
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We've all witnessed the beauty of a shooting star, but what would happen if an asteroid was on a collision course for earth? Could we detect it ahead of time? And more importantly could we stop it? Bill: I belive I have an answer, now you see, asteroid impacts are serious business, when I was in second grade Ms. McGonigal told us that the dinosaurs the ancient dinosaurs died out because they had small brains ...Maybe like... my old boss. But even she knew that was kinda lame, that theory was nothing. It turns out in my lifetime people found this crater, off Chicxulub, Mexico. This crater was so big, how big was it, it was so big that an asteroid hit the earth (or impactors hit the earth). Threw so much stuff into the Earth's sky it was b...
