The End of the World
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
From supernova explosions, to super volcanoes, Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst and Dr Robert Massey are running through the checklist of big bad things that put our planet at risk. Special thanks goes to Professor Chris Impey from the University of Arizona and author of How It Ends, and Dr Mike Cassidy from the University of Birmingham.
Things we promised we'd put in the show notes:
NASA worksheet - https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/10Page5.pdf
Recent Betelgeuse paper - Saio et al. (2023; Betelgeuse in carbon fusion stage) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Is that how you spell existential? |
| 0:01.0 | It is. |
| 0:02.0 | I was sitting right down. |
| 0:03.0 | I was like, existential. |
| 0:05.0 | Existential. |
| 0:06.0 | Exist-endial. |
| 0:07.0 | Anyway. |
| 0:09.0 | The earth might get hit by a big rock. |
| 0:13.0 | That's another thing to keep you up at night. |
| 0:15.0 | The universe is all about reduce, reuse, recycle, right? |
| 0:17.0 | Is the end of the world worth panicking about? |
| 0:20.0 | Hello. to recycle, right? Is the end of the world worth panicking about? |
| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, |
| 0:37.2 | science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smith. We're back for 2024 and putting the happy in Happy New Year |
| 0:39.7 | because what could be a cheerier start to the year |
| 0:42.1 | than an episode about the end of the world, |
| 0:45.8 | at least astronomically speaking, anyway. |
| 0:49.2 | It's been on our radar for so long |
| 0:51.6 | and this is the month to do it, apparently. |
| 0:58.2 | January. So from supernova explosions to super volcanoes we're running through the checklist of the big bad things that put |
| 1:03.6 | our planet at risk and could mean the end of everything as we know it I I mean... Just perfect, really. |
| 1:12.2 | You know, like... |
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