WHY THE NEED FOR PLANETARY DEFENSE:: 3/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by Greg Brennecka (Author)
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🗓️ 14 January 2024
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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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| 0:32.0 | I'm John Bachelor. Impact is the book. This is meteorites that fall to Earth and what we've learned about our solar system, about life, about water, about our understanding of where we come from. Impact is the book, how |
| 0:46.6 | rocks from space led to life, culture, and Donkey Kong. Greg Brenica, a cos Chemist, is here. |
| 0:52.6 | And Greg, you teach me there are three kinds of meteorites that fall to earth, |
| 0:56.8 | our classifications. |
| 0:58.4 | What are they? |
| 0:59.5 | And you study one particular kind of meteorite, I believe, the CAIs. |
| 1:06.5 | What is that? First, the three kinds. Thank you. |
| 1:09.3 | Okay. Well, I guess I'll have to slightly correct you there's a a lot more than three kinds |
| 1:13.9 | i think there's there's three main kinds of contracts |
| 1:16.4 | uh... so i'll just uh... you know kind of break it up into that |
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