Could Humanity be Wiped out Like the Dinosaurs?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is there a killer asteroid with Earth’s name on it? The dinosaurs ruled for many millions of years before coming to their violent end. Will humanity prevail or are we doomed to succumb like the dinosaurs? It’s a question that will keep you up at night. No wonder our listeners Zarin and Pablo wanted to know more.
To find out, Anand Jaggtia heads to Denmark to see first-hand the evidence for a giant asteroid impact, written into the rocks at Stevns Klint. And we will hear from scientists at Nasa who are keeping a careful eye out for asteroids on collision course with Earth. Also, we discover that asteroids have a lot to answer for, maybe even our own existence.
Do you have a question we can turn into a programme? Email us at crowdscience@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the podcast edition of Crowd Science from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:05.0 | originally broadcast on the 31st of December 2016. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Anan Jagatia and this is producer Louisa. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, though. Hi Louisa. Hello, though. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi Louisa. |
| 0:14.0 | So the topic of this edition is quite a fitting one for the end of the year |
| 0:18.0 | as we're going to be investigating the end of the world. |
| 0:22.0 | Here's the program. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, you're listening to Crowd Science on the BBC World Service. I'm Anand Jagatier. |
| 0:30.0 | Every week on this show we take one of your questions and hunt down the scientists |
| 0:35.5 | and researchers around the world who can help us find an answer. Today's crowd science |
| 0:40.8 | was inspired by a question from listener Zarin in Bangladesh who wrote to us on |
| 0:45.3 | Facebook. She wanted to know, could humanity become extend in the same way as the dinosaurs? |
| 0:54.0 | A question about the end of humanity. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, that's a cheery way to end the year. |
| 0:59.0 | Could the human race suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs. |
| 1:03.0 | To answer this, we're going to have to find out more about what exactly topped the dinosaurs, |
| 1:08.0 | and is it likely to happen to us? |
| 1:10.0 | We'll be coming close to extinction ourselves on the steep cliffs of Denmark. |
| 1:14.0 | This rock does seem very crumbly. Look, it just crumbles in my hands. |
| 1:17.0 | You can hear that breaking apart. |
| 1:19.0 | And there's a huge bit of a landslide just literally over the corner. |
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