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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from American Jewish World Service, |
| 0:04.7 | committed to the fight for human rights, |
| 0:07.0 | supporting advocates and grassroots organizations worldwide, |
| 0:10.7 | working towards democracy, equity, and justice at a.jWS.org. |
| 0:17.6 | Planet Earth, 66 million years ago |
| 0:21.6 | the moment just before |
| 0:24.4 | the end |
| 0:25.5 | the wind |
| 0:27.5 | the wind The wind tickles a patch of ferns. |
| 0:44.6 | The shadow of a pine leaf dances lazily over a footprint in the dirt. |
| 0:52.3 | Somewhere nearby, a lumbering beast stops mid-stride. |
| 0:57.2 | It's a hulking mass of a creature, three horns, teeth like shears, |
| 1:01.7 | and it swings its head down in a low arc, listening. |
| 1:13.4 | Then suddenly. |
| 1:23.1 | A flash of light, thousands of times more blinding than the sun. |
| 1:24.4 | An asteroid. |
| 1:26.2 | The size of Mount Everest. |
| 1:31.3 | Enteres the Earth's atmosphere, moving incredibly fast. Ten times faster than the fastest bullet from a rifle. |
| 1:35.3 | In the blink of an eye, this asteroid will crash into Earth's surface on the edge of the ocean, |
| 1:43.3 | with an impact equivalent to 5,000 times. |
| 1:46.5 | The combined destructiveness of the entire nuclear arsenal |
| 1:50.6 | at the height of the Cold War. |
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