Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery
Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm almost embarrassed for my species that you can be so blind to everything experts have been telling you and you got to wait for people to almost die to say, "Oh, I guess...
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Astrophysicists have been telling people for decades, at least since the ‘80s, that earth orbits the sun in a shooting gallery and asteroids hit Earth. They put life and civilization at risk. It was the 1980s where we finally concluded what was the primary reason that the dinosaurs were taken out of the tree of life. that an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is today Mexico. In fact, the Yucatán peninsula, there’s a 100-mile diameter crater there that is left over from this impact. And we learned over the decades to follow that you didn't have to just be there to die, you can be on the other side of the earth and still die from that explosion because that explosion alters the ecosystem. Fires that are triggered everywhere put...
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Astrophysicists have been telling people for decades, at least since the ‘80s, that earth orbits the sun in a shooting gallery and asteroids hit Earth. They put life and civilization at risk. It was the 1980s where we finally concluded what was the primary reason that the dinosaurs were taken out of the tree of life. that an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is today Mexico. In fact, the Yucatán peninsula, there’s a 100-mile diameter crater there that is left over from this impact. And we learned over the decades to follow that you didn't have to just be there to die, you can be on the other side of the earth and still die from that explosion because that explosion alters the ecosystem. Fires that are triggered everywhere put...
