Avoiding Armageddon With Dr. Carrie Nugent
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week is all about looking for pieces of space, whether they’re in orbit or in Antarctic ice. First, asteroid hunter Carrie Nugent talks about chasing down elusive celestial bodies and why she doesn’t like talking about what it’s like to be a woman in science. And then we talk about meteorite hunting with the hosts of Undiscovered, a new podcast from NPR’s Science Friday team.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:14.0 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Greta Johnson and I'm Tricia Bobita |
| 0:21.0 | and before we go any further this week we need you to hear something very important. |
| 0:25.0 | What hit us? |
| 0:28.0 | Small asteroid fragments. |
| 0:30.0 | This morning, how big with those? |
| 0:32.0 | Those were nothing. The size of basketballs and |
| 0:36.0 | and vaults. |
| 0:37.0 | This new one you're tracking. How big? |
| 0:39.0 | It's the size of Texas, Mr President. |
| 0:41.0 | It's what we call a global killer, the end of mankind. Half the world |
| 0:46.2 | be incinerated by the heat blast, and the rest will freeze the death and nuclear winter. |
| 0:50.4 | Basically the worst parts of the Bible. In case you couldn't tell that is the trailer from the 1998 hit film Armageddon. |
| 0:58.0 | This is like a sci-fi romance which has Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, lived Tyler. |
| 1:03.6 | Do not forget Steve Bussemi. |
| 1:05.2 | Oh yes, that's all very important. |
| 1:07.1 | Who suffers from spoiler alert, space madness |
| 1:09.8 | in this movie? |
| 1:10.8 | I totally forgot about that. So this is a movie about how there's an asteroid |
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