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named Apotheus will come within nineteen thousand miles of Earth.
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It will fly under our communication satellites. It'll be visible
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to the naked eye. NASA says we're safe, but on
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a cosmic scale, nineteen thousand miles is nothing. A nudge
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from solar wind, a tap from another asteroid, or a
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simple miscalculation is all it would take. We already know
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where it would hit. We know what would happen. Apothus
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is coming and it's a killer.
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Speaker 1: It sounds fancy, it's not. It's Steve.
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Speaker 2: He smells like cinnamon and calls everyone, can't it.
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Speaker 1: The story begins on June nineteenth, two thousand and four,
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two astronomers at kit Peak Observatory found a faint dot
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moving against the stars. They logged it as two thousand
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and four m N four and went back to work.
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Within weeks, observatories around the world were tracking it. The
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more data they collected, the more concerned they became. This
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asteroid's path looked like it might intersect with Earth's. The
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picture got clearer and scarier. The asteroid was big, fourteen
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hundred and eighty feet long, larger than the Empire State building.
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In December, scientists made a shocking announcement two thousand and
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four m N four had a two point seven percent
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chance of hitting Earth. On April thirteenth, twenty twenty nine,
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a one to thirty seven chance of impact, sixty seven
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million tons of rock and metal were roaring toward us
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at nineteen miles per second. The asteroid was officially named Apophus,
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the Egyptian serpent, god of darkness and destruction. It was
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rated a four on the Torino scale atterirno scale.
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Speaker 2: The clinics would have that debt no no.
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Speaker 1: The Terno scale measures the hazard of an impact at
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an explicit it. A zero on the Tono scale means
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no threat, A ten means no planet. Even a four
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is a concern. Apophus was the first object in history
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to reach that level. This was bad. The media went wild.
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Headlines screamed about the god of chaos. Cable news ran
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compdown clocks.
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Speaker 3: Hey when a cantbank clubs more accurate than their election predictions.
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Speaker 1: No, but scientists worked around the clock. In two thousand
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and five, they announced a pathus would miss the Earth.
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But they found a new problem. A region in space
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about half a mile wide. If a pathus passes through it,
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the chance of impact on the next pass isn't two
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point seven percent, it's one hundred percent. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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at three am looks abandoned. Most buildings are dark, but
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in the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, Marcia Singh
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stares at her monitor's run the Yarkowsky drift calculations for
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the third time. Solar radiation pressure on rotating asteroids causes
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tiny changes in orbit, tiny changes that add up over decades.
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Speaker 5: This can't be right.
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Speaker 1: The numbers came back wrong again. Apothus isn't following its
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predicted path. The deviation is small, zero point zero zero
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three degrees, but that's enough. The asteroid will thread Earth's
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gravitational keyhole, a twelve hundred foot region of space that
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will bend Apophus's trajectory, bend it directly into Earth outside
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Los Angeles sleeves fourteen million people who don't know they
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have ninety days left. The impact models show Catalina Island
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as ground zero.
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Speaker 6: Billy, check the path of two thousand and four MN
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four Are you seeing that?
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Speaker 4: Hang on?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what are you going to do? I
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have to call the president.
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Speaker 4: Marcia, go home, be with your family.
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Speaker 7: We now go to the White House where the President
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is about to make an emergency announcement.
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Speaker 8: My fellow Americans, I speak to you now with a
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heavy heart.
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Speaker 7: CBS News can now confirm that asteroid Apapas will hit
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Earth on April thirteen.
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Speaker 4: This is the Fox News alert.
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Speaker 8: NASA says the asteroid Apappus will impact Earth on April thirteenth.
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Speaker 4: Global preparations are underway.
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Speaker 8: A Papas will hit near California on April thirteenth.
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Speaker 7: Coastal regions are urged to prepare for immediate evacuation. The
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Department of Homeland Security has activated emergency protocols.
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Speaker 4: We now entered the final phase. Apofus will strike Earth
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on April thirteenth. Prepare accordingly.
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Speaker 1: On Friday, April thirteenth, twenty twenty nine, humanity will witness
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something beautiful and dangerous too.
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Speaker 2: Stands like my second wife.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to interrupt me right at the top,
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can you at least make the joke a little less hacky?
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Speaker 2: You had a streetman. Leave the comedy to the professional.
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Speaker 1: Apofue will pass just nineteen three hundred miles from Earth's surface.
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That's closer than our communication satellites for millions of people
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in the Eastern Hemisphere. It will appear at sunset, a
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bright point of light, as bright as any star. But
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this star will be moving fast, so fast you'll see
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it cross the sky in real time. From the ground.
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The event will be a spectacle. But for Apopus the
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flyby will be violent. As it passes, Earth's gravity will
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grab it, squeeze it, and twist it. These tidal forces
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could trigger landslides and quakes on the asteroid surface, changing
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its path. This brings us to the keyhole. A gravitational
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keyhole is a small region of space for Apophus, It's
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only about two thousand feet wide. If the asteroid passes
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through it in twenty twenty nine, Earth's gravity becomes a slingshot.
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It'll pull the asteroid back to where it started for
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a guaranteed impact on April thirteenth, twenty thirty six, Easter Sunday.
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Current calculations based on years of radar data from Goldstone
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and Aricibo show Apothus will miss the keyhole barely unless
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something changes. And that's what makes a pafas so dangerous.
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It's not solid rock. It's a collection of boulders and
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dust held together by gravity. And it's not a sphere.
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It's shaped like a skyscraper, so it has no primary axis.
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It doesn't rotate, It tumbles, and this chaotic motion makes
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subtle forces almost impossible to predict. The most important thing
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is the Yarkovsky effect. The sun heats one side of
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the asteroid as it tumbles. That heat radiates back into space,
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and this creates thrust.
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Speaker 2: Oh done, hol done.
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Speaker 3: Not everybody's mike, the grass tisted's that's nice?
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Speaker 2: How does that make dress?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 1: The heat causes gas to vent to which creates the thrust.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now I get it. I can also create thress
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by thinking is.
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Speaker 1: Bad me classy? This is just a tiny push about
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the weight of an apple. A tiny push is hardly noticeable,
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but over millions of miles it can change in orbit.
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NASA's own measurements show it's already drifting because of this effect,
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about six hundred and fifty feet closer to us every year.
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Right now, Apaphus is impossible to see. It's lost in
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the glare of the sun. It won't be visible again
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until it's twenty twenty seven. And during this blind spot,
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a small nudge from another rock could alter its path completely,
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and we would have just two years to recalculate everything,
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and two years to prepare for a city killer. Might
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be enough, but sometimes we only get hours. Sometimes city
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killers aren't found until they fly by. In fact, this
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happened last year. The President hasn't been seen in five days.
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His last public appearance was the announcement.
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Speaker 4: We have ninety days to solve this problem. America's best
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minds are working on.
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Speaker 1: Then he vanished official word secured at an undisclosed location.
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Everyone knew that meant Cheyenne Mountain. Anyone who had the
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means to escape didn't waste any time.
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Speaker 4: Once the risk hit X, they were gone.
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Speaker 8: Politicians, celebrities, people, You've watched your whole life evacuated while
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the highways jammed.
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Speaker 7: What we saw was an orderly panic among the ultra wealthy.
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Beverly Hills emptied almost overnight.
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Speaker 8: It was Beverly Hills first, no surprise there, Gulf streams
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and lear jets lined up like limos, taking off every
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ninety seconds.
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Speaker 7: The four oh five is a graveyard of abandoned vehicles.
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Speaker 2: Families walked for days into the Mojave.
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Speaker 1: The poor headed to ten cities in Nevada, desert camps
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with no water, no power, no plan, just distance from
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the coast.
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Speaker 4: Fuel ran out, Roads clogged.
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Speaker 7: Now tense cities rise like new towns, only no one
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planned them.
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Speaker 8: Three million people have fled Los Angeles in just fourteen days.
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Speaker 1: Three million people gone in two weeks. Gas hit forty
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seven dollars a gallon. Then the stations just closed. The
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tanker drivers stopped showing up. Why deliver fuel for worthless paper?
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Speaker 9: Markets remained volatile As the apopus timeline advances, commodities like iodine, tablets,
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fuel and foodstocks have surged in value.
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Speaker 1: The new currency is water, ammunition, and insulin. A vial
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of insulin costs three gallons of water if you can
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find it. We all got to watch apapas grow larger
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in the sky, a red star visible during daylight, getting
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bigger every day. Suicide hotlines stopped, answering to many calls,
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not enough volunteers. The volunteers had their own lives to
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worry about.
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Speaker 4: Prepared for the lights.
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Speaker 1: Religious movements started sprouting up.
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Speaker 10: As the world edge is closer to impact, religious fervor
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has surged.
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Speaker 9: The Church of the Final Days and the Apophus witnesses
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have emerged, offering hope and salvation for those who believe.
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Speaker 1: When official authorities dissolved, the local population took control.
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Speaker 7: The Los Angeles Police Department dissolved last week. Over half
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the four simply didn't show up. The chain of command
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collapsed overnight.
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Speaker 8: Four or five belongs to the Crypts. Now, their blue
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flags fly over improvised roadblocks. They're not attacking rival crews.
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They're screening vehicles and controlling movement. Crypts and Surrendius are
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distributing food, rationing medicine, even setting curfews.
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Speaker 4: Ma'am, it's not safe to be out. If you need anything,
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check with me. What used to be.
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Speaker 7: Gang turf in Los Angeles has now hardened into checkpoint states.
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Neighborhoods that want speared violence are now relying on it
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for structure.
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Speaker 8: Call them gangs, call them militias, but right now they're
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the only thing resembling law and order in the city
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of Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Society then collapse, It reorganized itself, The powerful fled, the
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poor weighted, and apothus kept coming. While some astronomers celebrated,
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another rock caused global panic. In late twenty twenty four,
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asteroid twenty twenty four YR four became the most dangerous
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object in modern history, a building sized rock. Its impact
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probability kept climbing one point five percent, than two point
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eight percent, then over three percent. That threat prompted China
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to establish its first ever planetary defense unit. They're recruiting
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astrophysicists under age thirty five. Their twenty thirty mission will
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try to deflect asteroid twenty fifteen XF two sixty one
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using a dual spacecraft approach, one to impact another to
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evaluate the results. International cooperation is growing because the truth is,
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we have no idea what's coming. NASA estimates there are
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twenty five thousand city killers crossing our orbit, and they've
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only found half. Thirteen thy five hundred are still out
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there somewhere, completely hidden.
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Speaker 2: Somewhere completely hidden. Hat you mean like the moon landing takes.
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Speaker 1: This detection gap creates nightmare scenarios. In twenty nineteen, asteroid
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twenty nineteen OK was found. It's four hundred feet wide.
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It was spotted less than twenty four hours its closest approach.
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It missed Earth by only forty thousand miles. A direct
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hit would have released thirty megatons of energy. That's three
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hundred times the size of the Hiroshima bomb, all with
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less than a day's warning. The problem is the Sun.
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Our telescopes have to look away from the Sun. Objects
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approaching from that direction remain invisible until they hit us,
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like in twenty thirteen the meteor that hit celliabigs. NASA's
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Eneo survey Or telescope is set to launch in twenty
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twenty seven. It will finally close this blind spot. It
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will use infrared and should find ninety percent of the
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remaining city killers within ten to twenty years. But until
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then we're defenseless against an attack from the direction of
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the Sun. To understand how devastating that kind of surprise
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can be, you don't even have to look up. You
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can look down because buried in a layer of sediment
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around the world is evidence of an impact that reset civilization.
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The last chinook lifted off from UCLA Medical Center at
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six am. Doctors stood on the helipad watching it disappear.
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They had patients on ventilators, premature babies, and incubators. They
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were not leaving.
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Speaker 9: LAX has gone no departures, no arrivals, just grounded planes
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and flickering monitors.
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Speaker 4: The terminals are empty now.
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Speaker 8: The last jet out of LAX lifted off at two
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seventeen PM, united to Denver, who was half full.
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Speaker 4: Those who could afford to leave already had.
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Speaker 1: Those who remained made their choice. The elderly couple in Brentwood,
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who'd lived there fifty years. They sat on their porch
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holding hands. They weren't leaving either.
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Speaker 7: For those still in Los Angeles, officials have confirmed that
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all remaining power will be shut off today at exactly noon.
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Speaker 8: The blackout is deliberate to reduce fire risk after the strike.
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Speaker 2: Please take this time to shelter and remain off the streets.
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Speaker 1: The power grids shut down at noon controlled shut down
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to prevent fires after impact. The emergency alert system broadcasts
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its final message.
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Speaker 8: Seek shelter, Stay away from windows, God bless America.
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Speaker 1: Then static Maggie powers and ICU. Nurse writes her patients'
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names on their foreheads with the sharpie. She figures when
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the building collapses, someone should know who they are. She
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has fourteen patients on ventilators. The backup generators have thirty
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hours of fuel. That means her patients only have thirty
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hours of life. Animals flee inland, Coyotes run through downtown,
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birds fly east in massive flocks, dogs howl constantly. Every
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animal except humans understands what the receding ocean means.
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Speaker 7: Scientists warn this is not a tide, it's a gravitational response.
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Something massive is pulling on the ocean.
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Speaker 8: The Pacific has pulled back over twenty feet since yesterday,
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like it's holding its breath.
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Speaker 4: Entire reefs are exposed.
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Speaker 7: Seismographs are now detecting micro quakes gravitational pulses every ninety seconds.
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Speaker 4: They're weak, but rhythmic. Every ninety seconds, the Earth flinches.
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Speaker 8: Experts say it's the gravity of what's coming, literally, and
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the ocean is trying to warn us.
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Speaker 1: The last text messages go out before the cell towers
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shut down. I Love you is sent eight hundred and
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forty seven thousand times in Los Angeles County. Most messages
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are never delivered. A pathice filled three degrees of sky,
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you could see a tumbling end over end a mountain
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in space, the last thing fifty million people would ever see.
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Twelve eight hundred years ago, Earth was emerging from the
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last ice Age. Temperatures were warming, massive ice sheets were melting.
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Then suddenly everything reversed. A comet about sixty two miles wide,
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broke apart and bombarded the planet. The evidence is found
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in a thin layer of rock found across four continents,
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the younger Dryss boundary layer, also referred to as the
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Black Mat. The black Mat contains evidence called impact proxies, iridium,
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shocked quartz, nanodiamonds, microscopic spuriles of melted rock at over
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forty sites. The concentrations of impact proxies are millions of
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times above normal levels. All date back to exactly twelve
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eight hundred years ago. A series of objects hit the
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North American ice sheet, causing mass flooding. Continents sank beneath
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the sea. The impacts triggered global wildfires. Then came the freeze.
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Speaker 2: Oo, a sting of icing fire.
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Speaker 1: Yes the freeze lasted twelve hundred years.
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Speaker 3: It's how lo it's going to take George Mutten to
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finish the books.
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Speaker 1: The devastation was total. Mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, American horses
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all gone. Seventy five percent of North American megafauna went extinct.
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Two thirds of the human population disappeared. The first widespread
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human culture in North America vanished from the archaeological wreckt
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This wasn't climate change, this wasn't overhunting. This was a
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civilization reset. And Comets are different from asteroids, and far
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more dangerous. Asteroids follow predictable paths. Comets arrive from the
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outer Solar System. They have long elliptical orbits, so they
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can show up with little warning and sometimes as little
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as six months. As I write this, comet three I
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at Liss is headed our way. It was spotted a
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few weeks ago. It'll make its closest approach to Earth
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in December. That's fast, so fast, there is not a
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thing we can do but watch and wait. Asteroids hit
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Earth at nineteen miles per second. Comets come in at
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forty five. A comet delivers more than nine times the
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destructive power than an asteroid of the same size. The
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most dangerous comet we know is Swift Tuttle, sixteen miles wide.
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A land impact would release energy twenty seven times greater
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than the Chickschu Lube dinosaur killer. One astronomer called it
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the sink most dangerous object known to humanity. Now, despite
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what mainstream scientists say, asteroids hit Earth all the time.
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But what about comets? How often do they hit us?
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Every one hundred million years, every ten million years, one
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million years. Nope, Comets of all sizes hit the Earth
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on average every three days. The flash came first. The
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sky turns white, not bright white. Everything within one hundred
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miles ignites simultaneously. The thermal pulse travels at light speed.
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By the time your brain understood the flash, your body
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was already vapor. That's mercy, instantaneous conversion from matter to energy.
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The blast wave expanded at maktu, a wall of superheated air,
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traveling eight hundred miles per hour. It flattened everything from
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San Diego to Bakersfield.
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Speaker 7: The fireball climbed sixty miles into the atmosphere, so high it.
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Speaker 4: Pierced the mesosphere.
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Speaker 8: It was visible from space from Phoenix to vegas. People
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saw it light up the sky. It didn't look like fire,
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It looked like a second sun. Then the horizon vanished.
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Speaker 10: Is that.
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Speaker 4: Los Angeles.
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Speaker 8: The temperature of the plume exceeded ten thousand degrees celsius.
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Speaker 4: What erupted wasn't smoke, It was Earth itself turned to gas.
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Seven states were hit by ejecta.
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Speaker 8: It wasn't just ash, it was fragments of Earth's crust,
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fused and glowing.
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Speaker 4: Some of it traveled faster than sound.
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Speaker 7: Chunks of vaporized ocean rose miles into the sky, then
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hardened mid air before slamming down across the Southwest. Reports
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of burning fragments came in from as far as Colorado.
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Speaker 4: It rained fire.
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Speaker 1: The earthquake was a ten point five on the Richter scale.
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The ground rippled like water, then silence. People were too
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frightened to notice the Pacific Ocean was moving. Every year,
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our planet flies through invisible minefields left by disintegrating comets.
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We call them meteor showers. We give them pretty names,
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the Perseods, the Leonids, the Geminids. But these aren't harmless
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light shows. We're flying through the shadowed remains of giant
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comets At sixty seven miles per hour, and some of
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those fragments are massive. Remember swift Tuttle, the most dangerous
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object known to humanity. The persea meteor shower is caused
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by the Earth flying through trillions of pieces of debris
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from swift Tuttele trillions. And we're not just crossing one minefield,
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we're crossing a dozen. The Lionids can produce storms of
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hundreds of thousands of meteors per hour. The lerids come
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from a comet two and a half miles wide. There
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are twelve or thirteen meteor storms every year, sometimes more.
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Speaker 10: It takes the Earth several days to pass through. The
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Tory media stream is so big. The Torre media stream
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is full of filaments of debris. Some of those filaments
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are very small debris. Some of them are much larger
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debris and much more dangerous. We passed through it twice
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a year. I've likened it in the past to strapping
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on a blind fold and crossing an eight lane highway
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and just hoping that you don't get hit by a truck.
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Speaker 1: The meteor shower that's most relevant to us is the Torrets.
27:37
The debris field is almost twenty million miles wide. We
27:39
cross it every year. It has trillions of objects that
27:43
range from the size of grains of sand to the
27:45
size of cities. How many big objects nobody knows. It
27:49
could be ten, it could be one hundred. The government
27:51
doesn't like to talk about.
27:53
Speaker 11: The government knew that they couldn't do anything about it,
27:56
and they were starting the worried calls from their constituents.
28:00
What can we do about these things? You got to
28:02
do something about it, you got to stop it, and
28:03
they couldn't. So what they decided to do was to
28:07
just pretend that it wasn't real. They had the public
28:12
fears about the impacts, they decided to just deny, deny, deny,
28:16
just say, don't worry, there's no problem. We've got it
28:20
under control. When they didn't.
28:22
Speaker 1: The Tunguska event in nineteen oh eight happened during the
28:25
peak of the torrets. A fragment just two hundred feet
28:28
wide exploded over Siberia, flattening eighty million trees. If that
28:32
happened over New York, Paris or London, those cities would
28:36
be gone. We don't really need to be hit by
28:40
a giant object to cause planetary chaos. We don't have
28:43
to be hit at all. Every year, about fifty objects
28:46
passed closer to the Earth than our satellites. Losing our
28:49
satellites would cripple the global economy, phone service, the Internet,
28:53
the banking system all gone. And that's terrifying. But in
28:57
twenty twenty two, for the first time in history, humanity
29:01
fought back. The Pacific Ocean recoils from the impact. Eight
29:25
minutes ago, a popas punched a twelve mile hole in
29:28
the seafloor. The water rushed in, hit molten rock, exploded
29:32
into steam. Now it's coming back.
29:39
Speaker 8: What was once shoreline is now seabed, fish carcasses rocked
29:43
beneath a baking sun.
29:45
Speaker 1: Downtown has four minutes left.
29:57
Speaker 7: A tsunami of unimaginable scale one hundred and fifty meters
30:01
high is sweeping through Los Angeles. Entire districts have been
30:04
erased in seconds.
30:08
Speaker 1: The whole ocean is coming.
30:10
Speaker 8: Imagine a skyscraper made of water moving at four hundred
30:13
and fifty miles per hour.
30:14
Speaker 4: That's what hit Los Angeles this afternoon. Entire neighborhoods are gone.
30:18
We are witnessing the unthinkable.
30:20
Speaker 8: A wall of water over five hundred feet high has
30:22
torn through Los Angeles, moving faster than a commercial jetliner.
30:26
Speaker 1: The wall of water doesn't break, it maintains its height.
30:29
Speaker 4: What hit La was no way.
30:31
Speaker 8: It was a moving cliff of ocean, one hundred and
30:33
fifty meters high, traveling faster than fire.
30:36
Speaker 6: I have to get to the roof.
30:38
Speaker 1: It tears through the city at two hundred miles per hour,
30:40
dragging cars, homes, and people with it.
31:15
Speaker 7: Initial estimates suggest tens of millions are gone, Entire cities,
31:19
entire families simply vanished. We don't have exact figures yet,
31:24
but we know what's missing.
31:25
Speaker 4: The silence from Los Angeles. That silence speaks for millions.
31:34
Speaker 1: But more than California is affected.
31:36
Speaker 7: This is not just California, This is not just the
31:40
United States.
31:41
Speaker 1: This event is global.
31:43
Speaker 4: Catalina Island is gone, not underwater, gone erased. The impact
31:47
event struck with such force it ceased to exist. The
31:50
Pacific shelf fractured. We are no longer talking about local devastation.
31:55
This is global.
31:56
Speaker 1: There was no.
31:56
Speaker 7: Degree, no island, just a column of plasma where land
32:00
used to be. Catalina didn't sink into the ocean, it
32:03
was atomized.
32:04
Speaker 4: This is going to affect all of us.
32:06
Speaker 1: This impact event is global. The dust and debris in
32:12
the atmosphere blocked out the sun, photosynthesis stopped, the Earth's
32:17
temperature dropped by almost ten degrees, a new ice age
32:21
was triggered, and humanity went underground. Right now, we're working
32:36
on technology to spot asteroids and commets early enough to
32:39
give us time to prepare. So what if we spot
32:41
one coming? What can we do?
32:43
Speaker 3: Geggie Stie, you like jest to hear you breathing?
32:48
Speaker 1: Please don't watch a spell?
32:49
Speaker 3: Are us sleeping while you foul? I'm dreaming? Okay, that'shpe
32:55
my life any sweet serin?
32:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's enough.
33:00
Speaker 2: Fine.
33:01
Speaker 3: You might be blind asteroids, but you should have seen
33:04
navagedden Joke Covin.
33:06
Speaker 1: On September twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, NASA's Dark spacecraft
33:10
slammed into the asteroid Dimorphous at fourteen thousand miles per hour.
33:14
The concept was simple but revolutionary. Take a twelve hundred
33:18
pound spacecraft, crash it into a five hundred foot wide asteroid,
33:21
see if we can change its orbit. The results exceeded expectations.
33:26
Dark changed the asteroid's orbital period twenty five times more
33:29
than required. It proved we can move space rocks. But
33:33
the mission also revealed a problem, the rubble pile dilemma.
33:37
Dart was far more effective than predicted because the asteroid
33:40
wasn't a solid rock, it was a loose pile of rubble.
33:44
The impact created a massive plume of debris that acted
33:47
like a rocket engine, supercharging the push. This means our
33:50
best defense is also messy, chaotic, and difficult to predict.
33:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Spirit air Lines, that was a cheap shot.
33:57
Spirit Airlines is on time. About is by all money checks.
34:01
Speaker 1: Anyway to move an asteroid requires years of warning for
34:05
a surprise city killer. Our only short notice option is
34:09
a nuclear device. The Outer Space Treaty of nineteen sixty
34:12
seven prohibits placing nuclear weapons in space. Now, in an emergency,
34:16
the world would probably waive this restriction, but it's never
34:19
been tested. We have the technology, the talent, and the
34:23
money to create the tools we need to defend the planet.
34:26
The one thing we can't manufacture is time, and time
34:30
is not on our side. The first days underground were chaotic.
34:56
Two million people crammed into the Moscow Metro, half a
34:59
million in the London Underground. Every subway system on Earth
35:03
became humanity's last refuge. People fought for platform space, killed
35:08
for corners to sleep. The strong took the train cars.
35:11
The week got the tunnels. The filth was unbearable, no
35:19
working toilets for millions. Disease spread fast, cholera, dysentery. Bodies
35:24
piled up in maintenance tunnels. The smell made people vomit,
35:28
which just spread more disease. Then organization emerged, not democracy, survival.
35:37
Speaker 4: We're going to need everyone to pitch in. It's the
35:40
only way we survived down here.
35:43
Speaker 1: Former military officers established order. I think we can convert
35:49
most of these tunnels to living quarters.
35:51
Speaker 8: Top priority is getting power back online.
35:55
Speaker 1: Engineers got generators running. What's the vaults on this twelve fifteen?
36:04
That's right. Nice doctors created triage stations. The dead were
36:11
processed into fertilizer. Nothing could be wasted. We lived off
36:18
mushrooms until led lights were brought in from the bandoned
36:21
cannabis farms. Thousands of hydroponic gardens came online. Subway tracks
36:35
were ripped up, replaced with growing beds. The Circle Line
36:38
became London's farm. Still we mostly ate mushrooms, but within
36:53
six months the tunnels transformed art appeared on walls.
37:05
Speaker 6: You better not write any dirty poems over there. No promises.
37:14
Speaker 1: Children's classrooms in old ticket boots. An economy emerged. Calories
37:20
for labor, labor for medicine, medicine for hope. Take three
37:24
drops with a meal and you'll feel a lot better.
37:27
Speaker 11: Thanks so much, Doc.
37:29
Speaker 1: Moscow's metro became a city, same with Paris, New York.
37:33
Tokyo organized efficient alive. Babies were born underground. They'd adapted perfectly.
37:40
They'd never known the sun, so they didn't miss it.
37:55
PAM Radio Networks connected the colonies.
38:01
Speaker 4: Tulsa Town, This is Dallas.
38:02
Speaker 11: How copy Tulsa Town here, solid copy.
38:08
Speaker 4: Dallas, Detroit. Do you read any chance you have a
38:14
spared diesel? We might be frozen Toronto, but we're still Motown.
38:18
We got you. Appreciate it Motown.
38:21
Speaker 1: Baltimore's got your back. You can count on us.
38:25
Speaker 4: Hang in there, Milwaukee, We've got water filters to spare.
38:28
Speaker 1: Chicago saves our bacon again.
38:30
Speaker 4: Thanks again, Wendy City, Thank.
38:32
Speaker 12: You, Boston, We owe you one go Red Rock. Don't
38:37
push at Boston. Break one nine, breaker won nine. Minneapolis here,
38:43
anybody reading this?
38:45
Speaker 7: Winnipeg here, you are five by five Minneapolis, loud and clear.
38:51
Speaker 12: It is so good to hear your voice, Winnipeg, How
38:53
are you doing up there?
38:55
Speaker 4: Cold copy that.
39:14
Speaker 1: The surface was still too cold and dark to survive.
39:17
The air was still toxic, but small trading parties would
39:23
go from colony to colony moving goods. In just a
39:34
few years, trade routes were established. Every colony soon had
39:37
access to all the others. The martial law that first
39:43
organized the colonies naturally fell back to elected leadership and cooperation.
39:48
This was more than survival, This was civilization. The story
40:01
began with a single asteroid Apofus, that threat led us
40:04
to a hidden history of cosmic impacts and the terrifying
40:07
realization that thousands of other city killers are still out there.
40:12
So let's separate fact from fiction. Fact Apofus is no
40:17
longer a threat. The initial two point seven percent impact
40:20
probability was real. The current data says it will miss
40:24
us and the gravitational keyhole in twenty twenty nine. Probably fact,
40:31
we can move asteroids. NASA's Dart mission proved it. The
40:35
kinetic impact or worked, but because asteroids aren't solid, there's
40:39
no way to predict the outcome. Fact a major impact
40:44
happened in human history. The evidence for the younger, driest
40:47
impact eight hundred years ago is overwhelming. Platinum spikes, nanodiamonds,
40:53
and the black matt point to a fragmented comet that
40:56
reset civilization. It's not a question of will it happen again,
41:00
but when? And the big fiction we're perfectly safe. We
41:05
are not, but we can change that. For four point
41:09
five billion years, life on this planet has been at
41:12
the mercy of random cosmic violence. That's no longer true.
41:15
We're the first species in Earth's history capable of seeing
41:19
the threat coming and the first with the power to
41:21
stop it. The question is no longer about ability, It's
41:24
about will Apothus was transformed into a symbol of fear.
41:29
I think that's a good thing. These objects should inspire fear.
41:33
One medium sized asteroid releases more energy than all the
41:36
nuclear weapons in the world. We need to pressure our
41:39
leaders and the scientific community to take this seriously. Apothus
41:44
will be here in a few years. It'll be hard
41:46
to ignore a mountain zipping across the sky. I hope
41:49
it becomes the wake up call we desperately need, because
41:52
we have two choices. Be motivated by the disaster that
41:55
almost happened, or be ignorant of the disaster that definitely will.
42:24
Blue sky just a patch above Boulder, Colorado, real blue,
42:30
the first clear sky to cut through the green haze
42:32
that covered Earth for almost two decades, eighteen years after impact,
42:38
to the day the first baby was born above ground.
42:41
Don Mitchell of the Boulder Colony, Well, I guess technically
42:45
she's from Boulder, Colorado, the first child in a generation
42:48
to grow up with a clear sky overhead, not concrete
42:51
and rebar sky. Of course, Dawn doesn't remember any of
42:56
this down doesn't understand the irony and importance of her name.
43:00
All ten year old Dawn knows is that she's a celebrity,
43:03
and she loves it. She's here to celebrate her birthday
43:07
and the tenth anniversary of sky Day as we now
43:09
call it, and the opening of the Catalina Crater Memorial. Wow.
43:14
Ten years went fast. It took eighteen years for the
43:17
dust to settle. Literally, atmospheric models said fifty years. They
43:21
were wrong. Earth heals faster than we calculated. When the
43:25
sun returned, the Earth warmed quickly. The extra co two
43:28
in the atmosphere saw to that the plants loved the
43:31
co two. By the time humans had the courage to
43:33
take off their helmets, nature was already back in full swing.
43:37
Grass trees green everywhere. Most of the planet's infrastructure was destroyed,
43:46
but the small barred Seafault survived. Norway's ice protected it.
43:50
Speaker 9: After the impact, our ancestors had to reorganize society down
43:54
here in these metro tunnels to survive.
43:57
Speaker 1: About six months after sky Day, the first wheat harvest
44:01
came in eight thousand tons, enough to feed thousands of people.
44:05
Real bread, not mushroom paste, not fungus cakes, actual bread.
44:11
My colony had to wait almost a year for our
44:13
wheat rations, but for fresh baked bread it was worth
44:16
the weight. Nobody who lived through the impact is on
44:19
a low carb diet. I promise you that.
44:22
Speaker 8: And this children is what scientists call an extinction level event.
44:26
Speaker 9: The thermal pulse alone would be devastating.
44:30
Speaker 1: Almost eighty percent of animals are gone extinct, Elephants, rhinos, hippos,
44:36
just about every large mammal too big or too slow
44:38
to find cover is gone. Dawn won't miss the elephants,
44:42
but a lot of us older folks will. Cities rose again,
44:48
but different. Every building has a deep bunker. Impact shelters
44:59
are mendatory. School Children run drills every month asteroid warning
45:04
ninety seconds to shelter. They practice in the dark. They
45:07
practice holding their breath. They practice saying goodbye.
45:11
Speaker 13: I love you.
45:13
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna make it say.
45:15
Speaker 1: I love you so much.
45:18
Speaker 12: I hope you're safe.
45:19
Speaker 1: Me and the boys are heading east.
45:22
Speaker 14: I hope you get this.
45:24
Speaker 15: I love you more than Edie my mom.
45:26
Speaker 1: Please text me back.
45:28
Speaker 14: I'm so scared. I wish I could tell you. I'm sorry.
45:31
Speaker 10: I'm so sorry.
45:35
Speaker 1: The memorial at Catalina stretches around the entire crater, twelve
45:39
miles of black granite, four billion names.
45:43
Speaker 4: Where is Grandpa's Name?
45:46
Speaker 1: The International Apophas Detection Grid went online last year. Ten
45:50
thousand satellites, armed ground stations are in every continent. If
45:54
an object larger than a basketball gets within a million
45:56
miles of us, we can see it. Our ground and
45:59
space based ail guns can kill it. It took a
46:02
third of the Earth's twelve to build the system, but
46:04
with four billion dead, nobody complained about the cost. The
46:08
grid is there to make sure that, no matter what
46:10
the universe throws at us, we'll never worry the memorial
46:15
is here to make sure that our children never forget
46:19
Happy sky day.
46:35
Speaker 2: Echo fish right there.
46:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a hecklefish. Yeah. Oh my goodness, there he is.
46:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
46:45
Speaker 14: Yeah, and give him a kiss like you always do. Yeah,
46:48
you always give heckle fish kiss. Oh that's so nice.
46:53
Oh yeah, give hecklefish hugs. Say thanks, Heckelfish. Thanks a.
47:02
Oh it's so good. Yeah, that's so good. That's so good.
47:09
Speaker 11: At you.
47:12
Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you, heckle Fish.
47:14
Speaker 6: Thanks AJ, thank you so much for hanging out today.
47:29
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47:31
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