CONTINUAL BOMBARDMENT: 1/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by Greg Brennecka (Author)
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth’s early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet. While meteorites have provided the raw materials for life to thrive, they have radically devastated life as well, most famously killing off the dinosaurs and paving the way for humans to evolve to where we are today.
As noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka explains, meteorites did not just set us on the path to becoming human, they helped direct the development of human culture. Meteorites have influenced humanity since the start of civilization. Over the centuries, meteorite falls and other cosmic cinema have started (and stopped) wars, terrified millions, and inspired religions throughout the world.
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| 0:04.8 | People do strange things, don't they, Alice? |
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| 0:12.4 | who in 2022, followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on. |
| 0:17.5 | Entirely normal behaviour. |
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| 0:21.5 | For this series on British Scandal, we're taking you inside number 10, |
| 0:24.6 | covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss. |
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| 0:34.8 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:37.8 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:40.7 | Asteroids, meteors, comets. |
| 0:45.1 | The material we swim through on the planet Earth and our solar system. |
| 0:49.6 | I welcome Greg Brannocky. |
| 0:52.2 | Greg is the author of the new book, |
| 0:54.4 | Impact, How Rocks From Space, Lead to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong. |
| 0:58.6 | He's a cosmochemist and a staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore |
| 1:04.9 | National Laboratory in California. |
| 1:07.8 | Right now, however, he's going to travel with me to Normandy, France. |
| 1:12.0 | The year is 1803. |
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