1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: from house stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always Charles W. 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, maker of some fine yarns, spinner of yarns, 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: your yarn spinner. I am uh, I guess I am 7 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: too to a certain extent, part time seamstress. Yes, but 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: you only make these suits of light formed by Matta doors. 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: That's right, Josh, Chuck. Yes, how's it going? It's great. 10 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear the interrupt with this. Why. 11 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, because I thought this is a pretty 12 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: interesting thing that we're doing. I agree. This is not one, 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: not two, but three articles in one that's right, combined 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: ms mashed, taken totally out of context and repeated incorrectly. Yeah, 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: we might be all over the place on this one. 16 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: Not necessarily. I've I've I've discovered a structure to this. 17 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: So and follow me. Okay um, let me give you 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: the intro first, Chuck, h have you heard of the 19 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: Kio satellite? No? Okay um. If you read Ben Bolan's blog. 20 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: You would have heard of age written about it twice. 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: Who yeah, um stuff, they don't want you to know. 22 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: It's Ben Bowling. Car Stuff's Ben Bowling, just a general 23 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: man about town of awesomeness, Ben bowl And he wrote 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: about the Kio satellite, which was originally conceived and I 25 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: think by a French artist named Jean Marc Philippe. So 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: if you didn't believe me that he was French, I'll 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: bet you do now. Um. And his idea was to 28 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: basically create a time capsule and launch it into space. Right, 29 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: so he had standard stuff, um, standard time capsule stuff. 30 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: You know, a drop of human blood encased in a 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: diamond with the human genome engraved on the outside of it. 32 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian's bikini. Yeah, um the uh, let's see a 33 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: sample of air water, Um, basically earth wind and fire 34 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: but without the fire and with air, and then a 35 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: CD of earth wind and fire which would be great 36 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: and water. Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't put 37 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: it in in. There would be a fun little ironic twist. 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: He got a bunch of um, a bunch of press 39 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: because one of the cool things that he's invited people 40 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: to do is to enter your own message whatever you 41 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: want to say, UM, up to six thousand characters, which 42 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: is still substantials, fure paragraphs. UM. And originally, since this 43 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,239 Speaker 1: was from you could send it your submission in via 44 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: regular mail or as Time Magazine put it in two 45 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: thousand electronic mail. UM. Now I'm quite sure you can 46 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: only go to Kyo dot org and enter through the website. UM. 47 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: But then all of this will be compiled into again 48 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: based on the Time magazine report a CD ROM. Now 49 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: it'll be transcribed onto some DVDs. UM. Now those things 50 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: should have been launched like five times. But he's seeking 51 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: private funding. It's a good idea. People are with it. 52 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: Has no one ever done this? No, But the the 53 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: whole point of it is is all this stuff is 54 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: going to be put into Seid like shot in the 55 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: space and it's going to be given I'm not quite 56 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: sure how a fifty thousand year orbit, and then after 57 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: fifty thou years it should fall to Earth hopefully be discovered. Um. 58 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: Within all this will be some sort of pictogram depicting 59 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: how to create a DVD player, and then interesting, some 60 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: future civilization would be like, oh it's a DVD, it 61 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: will just pop it in our DVD player and then, 62 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I can't believe what um Mitch mausch 63 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: fourteen had to say about about what life is like 64 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: on Earth fifty years? Yeah, what is this l well mean? 65 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: And he chose kio because apparently, k e oh are 66 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: the three most common phone names in all the world's languages. 67 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: It's a pretty good idea. I love it. At the 68 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: very least, it coincides with one of the articles. We're 69 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: talking about what will the Earth be like in fifty 70 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: thousand years? Boom intro done, nice job, Uh, And to 71 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: get the fifty thousand years, Josh, we are going to 72 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: also touch on the articles five years in five thousand years, 73 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: and through this I'm also going to be uh disseminating information. 74 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: I found a Live Science article that hit and and 75 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: they sort of culled um opinions from scientists all over 76 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: the world on what might be going on, and that's 77 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: all within the next two hundred years. And the story 78 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: is not good. Well, yes, so here's here's the structure 79 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: I mentioned previously, Chuckers. There's a couple of ways to approaches, right. 80 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: We're so we're talking about the fifty years from now, Um, 81 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: there there's one. There are two big questions. One will 82 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: humans be around each of these periods, And there's two 83 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: possible answers, yes or no. And then depending on the answer, 84 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: we choose you, we choose our own adventure, and we 85 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: end up with treasure or being chased by pirates. Right. 86 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: The other possible answer is okay, if humans are around, 87 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: how advanced is our technology and specifically how advances our 88 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: ability to tap energy, which apparently is totally correlated with 89 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: how advanced or technology will be? Right, So I guess 90 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: approaching the idea where humans aren't around for any of this. 91 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: Just go watch a documentary called Life After Us or 92 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: Life After People. I didn't get to watch it. It's cool, 93 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch. It's a very neat little hour and 94 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: a half documentary that was a mini series like some 95 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: time Ago on some other channel. Um, but it is 96 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 1: a neat little um documentary like what if? And it 97 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: shows like what how long? Basically the Earth will erase 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: any mark of humanity after we're gone? And it doesn't. 99 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: It takes a very it takes a startlingly short time, 100 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: and the dogs go feral and it's crazy. Really Yeah. Um, 101 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: but let's say humans are around, especially in that five 102 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: hundred years scenario. Well before we get there, can I 103 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: read some of these highlights and this is in the 104 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: next you know, up until so this in the immediate future, 105 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: some of us it will still be alive. I'll just 106 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: read a few of these. By the year just to 107 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: scare you. Uh, less rainfall could reduce agricultural yields by 108 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: up in some parts of the world. Uh. World population 109 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: will be seven point six billion by up to eight 110 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,559 Speaker 1: percent of the coral reefs in the world will be lost. Yeah, 111 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: because of increased ten richers in the sea and higher acidity. Right, 112 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: was it lower a cidity? I think it's higher. Acidity 113 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: is higher okay, um and the Arctic Sea could be 114 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: ice free in the summertime by the year twenty three. 115 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: And these are recording to you know. That was specifically 116 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: James Overland of the n O A A and Muin 117 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: Wang of the geophysical research letters from you dub So 118 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: I'm just not I'm not trying to preach some wacky 119 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: global warming conspiracies here quoting from other people. Okay, by uh, 120 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: ocean acidification okay, it is acid could kill off most 121 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: of the coral reefs. At least four hundred bird species 122 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: could become endangered or extinct due to deforestation and people 123 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: eating them. In Australia, all your Aussies out there, there 124 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: will likely be an additional heat related deaths per year. Josh, 125 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: it gets worse. Between one point one and three point 126 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: two billion people will experience water shortages and up the 127 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: six million people will go hungry. You know, it's crazy. 128 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: We we've talked a lot about this, like what happens 129 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: when we run out of water? Um, the climate porn 130 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: one where we like warned against exactly what we're doing 131 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: right now. Um, we've talked about a lot of this. 132 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: Go back and listen to it. Everybody agreed. Uh, sea 133 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: levels could rise in New York City by more than 134 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: three ft flooding Uh Brooklyn Queen's Coney Island. So let 135 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: me let me add something there. Three ft it's a 136 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: meter roughly, and there's um that's that's totally within the 137 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: predictions of sea level rise due to global warming. Right 138 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: about half a meter to two meters is what's predicted. 139 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 1: So one meter in there, if the sea levels rise 140 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: by one meter in the US will lose ten thousand 141 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: square miles of dry land in the southwest. If the 142 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,599 Speaker 1: sea levels rise one meter um in India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, 143 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: they will lose, respectively, six thousands square kilometers, thirty thousand 144 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: square kilometers and thirty four thousand square kilometers of dry 145 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: land lost. And believe me, Indonesia doesn't have much more 146 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: than thirty four thousand square kilometers of dry land to 147 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: give up, right um, and the total of twenty four 148 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: million people will be displaced. I know that that's that's 149 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: three ft that's think about it. I mean like, it 150 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: doesn't seem like much, but it goes, you know, a 151 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: ways back. Plus also we lose all those wet land buffers, 152 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: so erosion um really takes a hold as well. Well. 153 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: They also along those lines predicted that coastal population is 154 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: going to balloon to about five billion. People already live 155 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: along the world's most populous populated river basins, so everybody's 156 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,719 Speaker 1: gonna have to move back a little bit, everybody back up. 157 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: So while this is happening too, by the y, while 158 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: some places are flooded, other places gonna be drying out. 159 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, desertification, And we've talked about that. It's about 160 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: that and then flash forward, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will 161 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: be much higher than any time during the past six 162 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand years, Ocean pH levels will be the 163 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: lowest they've been in the last twenty million years, and 164 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: the ability of things like coral crabs, oysters, any kind 165 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: of shelled fish exoskeleton probably isn't going to be alive 166 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: in a quarter of all species of plants and land 167 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: animals could be driven to extinction. So that's okay, So 168 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: let's say chuck that tomorrow. Everybody's like, we're going all 169 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: wind power. Everybody just prepared for some dark couple of years. 170 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: But we're gonna be fine. We're done doing fossil fuels tomorrow, 171 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: and we don't put any more anthropogenic c O two 172 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: into the atmosphere. If we did that, within a few 173 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: decades ce A two levels would go back to normal 174 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: whatever you could consider normal without human contribution. But then 175 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 1: about years from now, we could expect to enter another 176 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: ice age, which the last a hundred thousand years. So 177 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: you're starting to get the idea that humans just being 178 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: us on a planet, just burning fossil fuels, dead plants 179 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: and animals for energy. It's as extremely primitive as you're 180 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,559 Speaker 1: about to see. Um, we are in trouble one way 181 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: or the other. Oh yeah, and dude, that's not even 182 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:30,079 Speaker 1: talking about extinction level events that are gonna happen at 183 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: some point. That's normal glacial stuff that may happen millions 184 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: of years from now. But at some point something will 185 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: destroy humanity. Okay, yes, agreed. But over the short term, 186 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: say five years, we have, Um, we have a a 187 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: big challenge to stay alive. Um. We have to basically 188 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: become Our technology has to outgrow the frequency of catastrophic events, 189 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: things like a meteor comment and ice age client a change. Um. 190 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: And that's Michio Kaku talking. Um. But if we can, 191 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: if our civilization can advance fast enough that we can say, oh, 192 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: there's a comment that's coming and there's going to be 193 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: a mass extinction event. Luckily our technology is sufficient that 194 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: we can go out there and destroy it before it 195 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: gets anywhere near Earth will be fine. Well, we should 196 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 1: be able to ensure our survival at least here on 197 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: the planet. And the way to do that is to 198 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: go from what we are now, which is essentially a 199 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: type zero civilization, to a Type one civilization. Yes, we 200 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: should go ahead and mention this that's very important. Uh, 201 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: the Kim Kardashian scale. That's twice in one episode. I 202 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: don't even know it. I don't even know who she is. 203 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: Hardly that's good, okay. Uh. Russian astrophysicist Nikolai kardas Chev 204 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: um put forth his theory that our technical advancement is 205 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: in direct correlation to how much energy we can consume 206 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: and tap into harness. Yeah. Yeah, uh, type one, which 207 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: we're not even there yet. We're type zero right now. 208 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: As we can harness everything on this planet period, every 209 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: kind of energy we can tap into, right, but it's 210 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: um it should be any type of energy that's available 211 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: that's non extracted. Basically, any kind of non harmful energy 212 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: is kind of the caveats, So it's basically solar radiation, 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: nuclear fusion, that kind of thing. We use a billionth 214 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: of the Sun's No, there's a billionth of the Sun's 215 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: energy available to us on Earth through solar radiation. We 216 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: currently harness a millionth of that. So we have a 217 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: ways to go. But if you look at our progress 218 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: over the last hundred years, we were harnessing like zero 219 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: of it pretty much, and now we're harnessing a million, 220 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: So it's quite possible, according to Michio Kaku, that will 221 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: be able to harness a UM within a hundred years. 222 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: Well yeah, they say that. Over the past ten thousand years, 223 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: are scientists estimate that we have evolved a hundred times 224 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: faster than at any other time. So if that continues, 225 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: then hopefully we can keep pace. I mean, just look 226 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: at our advances in lighting over the last hundred years. 227 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: I mean that we went from fire to incandescent light 228 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: bulbs to compact fluorescence. Um. Yeah, I feel like we're 229 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: we're exponentially advancing. Agreed. So if we moved to a 230 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: type one, we harness a hundred percent of the energy 231 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: on the planet, we become UM. By definition, according to Cardaschef, 232 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: a planetary a truly planetary species, where like we probably 233 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: have a universal language, we're all communicating via the internet, 234 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: like we are earthlings, and we no longer see ourselves 235 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: as Americans or Mexicans or Latvians or um whoever? Right, right, 236 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: exactly um. And as a result, our technology should be 237 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: advanced enough that we can control roll things on the 238 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: planet that threatened us, like I say, just or climate change. 239 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: So if we can do that, then we ensured our 240 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: survival here on Earth, at least from those sort of 241 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: natural disasters. Exactly. Good point, Chuck, because we could always 242 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: kill ourselves via war or something like that, or we 243 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: may enter the Singularity before we've sufficiently attached ourselves. The 244 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: machines become post human, and if the Singularity takes off 245 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: before then we are doomed. All right, let's get through 246 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: these next to it real quick man. Type two means 247 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: we can summon the power of an entire star system. 248 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: That's pretty pretty impressive, which um Freeman Dyson, Yeah, physicist, 249 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: he said that his his whole thing is that um, 250 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: a type two civilization could like basically put a gaggle 251 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: of satellites around a star and um like harvest its 252 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: energy like that. Yeah, and he just for the record, Uh, 253 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: michio Ki who says we might be able to get 254 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: to type one in a hundred years and Dyson says 255 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: it's going to be more like two. Still A sounds 256 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: too bad, No, I mean that's a that's leaps and 257 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: bounds from where we are now. And Type three, Josh, 258 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: the geekiest of all. We can command energy on a 259 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: galactic scale. I don't even know what that means. I 260 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: think basically it means like, um, so we can get 261 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: other solar systems. Yeah, we can harness the energy of 262 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: more than one star at once, and we would have 263 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: power beyond anything we could conceive of. Probably also by 264 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: that time, that would, I guess, mean that we were 265 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: capable of interstellar travel, which would probably mean that if 266 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: there's anybody else out there, we're contacting them, which hopefully 267 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: doesn't mean we're at war with them, but probably does 268 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: at least at first. So you mentioned technology growing, It's 269 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: a little something called Moore's law. Uh, computer speed and 270 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: complexity levels every eighteen months. If that continues, then potentially 271 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: in the not too distant future, there could be a 272 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: lot of robotics going on controlling these things instead of people, 273 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: or in addition to people. What do you think about that. 274 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: I think that if we're not already fused to those machines, 275 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: machines were slaves, which is trans humanism. Yeah, right, which 276 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: I mean if you're looking at it, over a hundred years, 277 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: we're so close to mastering genetics that there's if we 278 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: stay on this track, it's pretty much impossible that we 279 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: won't have diverged from evolution, taken ourselves out of natural selection, 280 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: because we'll be able to fix ourselves. So well that 281 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: really the only thing that we just genetics alone, the 282 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: only thing we wouldn't be able to fix probably is death. Well, 283 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: don't be so sure. Uh, there's a Cambridge University geneticist, 284 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: Aubrey de Gray who has said these famous words, the 285 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: first person to to be one thousand years old is 286 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: certainly already alive today. Uh, and whether they realize it 287 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: or not, barring accidents in suicide, most people that are 288 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: forty years old or younger now can expect to live 289 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: for centuries. She's definitely on me, Aubrey. Maybe not British, 290 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: perhaps he or she Weslie Leslie definitely sherlock out there 291 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: as far as his or her predictions. But scientists do 292 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: think that we are. I mean, they can already extend 293 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: the age in other mammals and laboratories, and we're funding 294 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: it to the tune of two point four billion dollars 295 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: a year anti aging. So yeah, who knows. And we 296 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 1: talked about this before. To cryonics. Cryonics is all coming 297 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: back together. Uh, let's see what else, chuck. So five 298 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: years we will most surely be around, I would say, 299 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: and we will either be a suffering primate species in 300 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: the sweltering he or freezing um and and iceage that 301 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: began because we abandoned fossil fuels without thinking it through. Um. 302 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: But we'll probably still be around, right, especially if you 303 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: look at catastrophic global change, it will probably be okay, 304 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: most of us will be those of us in life. Um, 305 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: what about five thousand years from now? Seventy two? Are 306 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: the seven thousands now? Yeah? Seven seventy yeah, two twelve. Yeah. 307 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: This this thing is blowing my mind so much. I 308 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: don't even know a year it is now. Uh. Robert 309 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: Lamb wrote this one, and he says that if we 310 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: reach that type one status, then that's great news because 311 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: then we've been able to stave off ecological disaster by 312 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: being able to control these things and harness energy elsewhere. 313 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: But he also points out, like we said earlier, warfare, 314 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: warfare and uh self destruction might do away with us. Sure, 315 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: if we're gonna type the chief type two status, then 316 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: the sky is the limit or the galaxy is the limit? Right? Well, 317 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: that's the one with interstellar travel, I believe, um. And 318 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: then he also talks about diverging through trans humanism post humanism, 319 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: where if we take ourselves out a natural selection, that 320 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: will probably looking back, be a point where it's a 321 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: significant as Homo sapiens diverging from Neanderthals or whatever happened 322 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: back there, because you know, there's a lot of speculation 323 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: that humans are like six Neanderthal and like tem percent 324 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: something else, and like we're we we very much interbred 325 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: with these um individuals we were competing with as well. Interesting, 326 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: so I guess it wouldn't be diverging, but um, say 327 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: the extinction of UM Neanderthals and the skyrocketing of Homo 328 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: sapiens because think about we're talking about fifty years ago. 329 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: Fifty years ago, Home of Sapiens were just now reaching Europe, 330 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: and Neanderthals were very much still around and alive and 331 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: possibly taken to the seas because they think that they 332 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: were the first ones to UM basically build canoes. Yeah, 333 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: they've gotten a bad rap and they're just now starting 334 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: to be understood. Interesting. Yeah, if you don't know your pass, 335 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: you don't know your future. Josh, Well, that's the that's 336 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: kind of one of the basis of this this little 337 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: exercise we're doing now. It's kind of like if you 338 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: look at where we've come, especially if you're talking about 339 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: how quickly we're progressing. I mean five hundred years ago, um, 340 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: who was it? Pontsa daily On discovered the Turks in 341 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: the cake coos in fifteen twelve, twenty years after the 342 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: Age of Exploration began, Like at where we are now, 343 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: we go to Turks and cacause right now, if we 344 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: had a lot of money, dude, we can go to Mars. 345 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: Not really not us, but we can land things on 346 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: a robotic cameras. That's like the beginning of the new 347 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: Age of exploration. But humans, they'll colonize Mars at some point. 348 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: I look that that's another question to this whole thing 349 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: as well, like what will the Earth look like? If 350 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: you look at the first two in five years and 351 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: five thousand years. Robert took a really ethnocentric view of it. 352 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: He made it about humans. But you kind of wonder, 353 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: especially in the five thousand year thing, like will we 354 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: just be like Earth is kind of played out. We're 355 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: gonna leave and there won't be anyone here, will be 356 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: on Mars or will be somewhere else, and the Earth 357 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: will just be like, Man, I'm glad I thought this 358 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: guys would never really rape and me while my junk. Yeah, 359 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: I believe so, man, do we need to talk about 360 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: actual procession? This is the one. Yeah, we kind of 361 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: do because this one if you ask me, fifty thou 362 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: years from now, No, humans won't be around. I don't 363 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: think so. But we'll have either left or we will 364 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: have diverged so much from humans as we are now, 365 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: they we won't be around. And if we, if there 366 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: are like human descendants, uh, they will be at such 367 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: peace with the Earth that like we can talk about 368 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 1: it almost in its natural state of what it will 369 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: look like in fifty years. I'm going with the extinction 370 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: level event. Okay, but let's back up and talk about procession. 371 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: Do you understand this? Yeah? So basically, you know, the 372 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 1: Earth as it rotates around the sun, or as it 373 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: revolves around the sun, it also rotates spins on its axis, 374 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: the imaginary line that goes from the south pole in 375 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: the north pole. The thing is is it doesn't spin 376 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: in a perfect tight spiral. And we talked about this before. 377 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: It's not like a a patent manning throw. It's more 378 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: like a tim tebuff throw. It's got a little wobble 379 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: to it, you know what I mean. So at any 380 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: point in time, the Earth is wobbling between I think 381 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: twenty one two point one twenty two point one. Okay, 382 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: So if it's a twenty twenty two point one, it's 383 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: a lot closer to being vertical, perfectly vertical, which means 384 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: that there's a lot less difference in the seasons. If 385 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: it's over at a twenty four point five degree angle, 386 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: the seasons are so different that they could actually be 387 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: about lopsided from where they are now, where in the 388 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: northern hemisphere we would have um summer in the winter 389 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: and vice versa. Um. That's just that's just over like 390 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: a sixteen thousand year cycle, right. There's also something else 391 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: called um obliquity, which is a forty two thousand year 392 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: cycle UM, which is kind of like the the extreme 393 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: of procession. What does that mean? It's the same thing, 394 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: but it's over a longer period. That's the one with 395 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: the tilt, okay, where the toil goes fully back and forth. 396 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: Got you, and then you have eccentricity, And this one 397 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: is more about the revolution around the sun, right where 398 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: the orbit of Earth around the sun is it goes 399 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: over a I think in ninety two thousand year year 400 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: ninety seven thousand year cycle. It goes from a close 401 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: to a perfect circle too in the lips and as 402 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: it's going through that when you factor in obliquity and procession, Chuck, 403 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: what does this all mean? At some point you have 404 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: a much colder Earth than in other points, which is 405 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: what it counts for ice ages. They think that's right 406 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: about every Uh, well, they last for about a hundred 407 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: thousand years and in between, which is where we are now, 408 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: we got about ten thousand years of pretty good weather. Yeah. Um, 409 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: we are, like I said, right smack in the middle 410 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: of the one. And scientists think, um, the next ice 411 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: age will reach its peak in about eighty thousand years. Yeah, 412 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 1: so as far as our fifty thousand your prediction, not hours, 413 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: but the fifty thou your prediction, we will not likely 414 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: be in the next ice age, although ice will be encroaching. 415 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: They think as far south as like New York City. Well, 416 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: not necessarily, because I did. I ran across the study 417 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: that said the next ice age we'll start about fift 418 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 1: dred years from the time that carbon dioxide levels don't 419 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: exceed like two forty five parts per million volume. So 420 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: when's that I don't know because we're way above that now, gotcha. 421 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: But it would have to come back down. And then 422 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: once that happened, in about fifteen hundred years, we'll be 423 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: in an ice age. Again. This is all scary stuff, 424 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: but I think about it. That's if we have an 425 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: advanced to a type one civilization. If we have, then 426 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: we'll have figured out how to write the Earth on 427 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: its axis and there it will just be spring all 428 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: year round and everybody will just be happy as larks. 429 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: It's like Guatemala, it will land of eternal spring. That's right. 430 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: Are we two extinction level events? Yes, this is the 431 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: one that will be the toughest to deal with. I 432 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: think so busta rhymes the extinction level event. Uh. If 433 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: you look back, like we said, you got to look 434 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: back to your past and your future over our four 435 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: billion plus history of the Earth. Um apocalypse is global 436 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: apocalypse has happened. It's unavoidable, whether or not it's an 437 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: impact event like an asteroid or a comment or some 438 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: sort of gas related expelling event which happened, or the 439 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 1: scariest of all, Now that I've read up on it 440 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: the super volcano, which is pretty scary, like tectonic activity 441 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: basically causing a volcano that would block out the Sun 442 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: for ten to twenty years. Yeah, which is what happened 443 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: at the end of the Permian Period, which I don't 444 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: think it was coincidence that the supervolcano erupted at the 445 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: end of the Permian Period. I think it ended the 446 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: Permian period two million one years ago. Yeah, million years 447 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: the great Dying, as they call it, the Permian Triassic 448 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: extinction event. And they don't know that it was it 449 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: was a super volcano, um the eruption of the Siberian traps. 450 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 1: They don't know for sure, because you can't know something 451 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: happened two hundred fifty million years ago. They think it's 452 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,959 Speaker 1: could have been an impact event, maybe uh uh anoxia, 453 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: which is when the oceans became really depleted depleted of oxygen, 454 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: maybe some other gas event, or maybe a combination of 455 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: the super volcano and anoxia and an impact event sort 456 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: of all converging to basically wipe out most every living 457 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: thing on the planet. Yeah, like of all marine species 458 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: and um, how much of all land vertebrates. That's crazy. 459 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: This eruption the Siberian Traps super volcano erupted for one 460 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: million years and it took the volume of lava was 461 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: between one and four million cubic kilometers and it took 462 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: thirty million years for the Earth to recover. That's a 463 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: big dying. And it was also the only known mass 464 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: extinction of insects in the history of the Earth, because 465 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: usually insects will live through stuff. Yeah they're fine, but yeah, 466 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: this one wiped out. Apparently there used to be big 467 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: scary insects. Yeah, there was like a cockroaches like three 468 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: ft long, and dragonflies just as long. And so the 469 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: super volcano took care of that, and it could take 470 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: care of us one day very well. May of course, 471 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: that is if we're here and we haven't figured out 472 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: how to advance to even a type wine civilization. If 473 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: that's the case fifty years from now, we deserved it. 474 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm surprised there hadn't have been a super volcano movie. 475 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: I think that's what that one with Pierce Brosnon was 476 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: shooting for it to kind of missed the mark well 477 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: because it was just local. Yah, It's like, oh no, 478 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: it'll destroy parts of Los Angeles, not cover the world. 479 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: That's it man. So I think that said definitively what 480 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: will happen on Earth five thousand and fifty thousand years 481 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: from now? And if you are around in fifty thousand 482 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: years and we're wrong, you can send us an email 483 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: and complain about it. Yeah, and tell us what you 484 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: thought of the Keyo satellite. Yes. Uh. If you want 485 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: to know more about what the Earth will be like, 486 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: type those words into the search bar how stuff works 487 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: dot com. We have some pretty cool future stuff on 488 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: this website. And I said the search bar, which means 489 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: it's time for listening to my old Josh. I'm gonna 490 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: call this Cannibalism on the High Seas. Just finished listening 491 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: to the podcast and the dinner party. Uh. You mentioned 492 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: this is one of the very few instances of cannibalism 493 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: and human history. Uh did you say that? Um? Yeah, okay, 494 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: I did, all right. I was just picking up William 495 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: Aaron's work. I recently learned of another one that I 496 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: thought it would share the story of the whaling ship 497 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,479 Speaker 1: to Essex. We talked about that in the in this 498 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: Weird ND this weird position right now because we have 499 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: recorded the whaling episode. Oh, talk about that, but it's 500 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: not out yet, okay, point time is catching up with us. Um. 501 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: The Essex took off a whaling expedition from Nantucket to 502 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: South America in the eighteen hundreds. The ship harpooned a 503 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: sperm whale, then exacted revenge by ramming the small whaling 504 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: skill but also a large boat, which sank. The large 505 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: boat would sank quickly. Twenty men made it into a lifeboat. 506 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: There's many rations and equipment that they could get aboard, 507 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: and we're a drift for ninety days, um, as we 508 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: can expect. Once the rations insanity began to run low, 509 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: they began casting lots to see who would be the 510 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: unfortunate savior. To the rest of the party. The interesting 511 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: anecdote that our instructor told us and she took a 512 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: class apparently, uh. Rather than just outright shooting the short sticker, 513 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 1: they would wait, sidle up close and mutter reassurances like yeah, 514 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: you know, you're doing okay for now, We've got a 515 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: couple of days. If we wait, we might hit land. 516 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: And then suddenly spot something up on the far side 517 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: of the ship, and the man turned to look capal. 518 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: He became dinner. It's just like so ruthless. Everything's gonna 519 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: be okay. Look over there. I'm not sure how true 520 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: this is, And in the case of cannibalism, it's hard 521 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: to say if that approach is more humane or not. 522 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: I can only think I probably wouldn't want to see 523 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: it coming. The boat finally made it. Uh in there 524 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: and there were only eight of the twenty men left. Um. 525 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: And apparently this inspiration for Moby Dick, which I think 526 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: is what we're talking about, right. And there's a whole 527 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: book on the Essex. It's supposed to be awesome. So 528 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: that's from Ashley with two e's awesome. Thank you very much. UM, 529 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: thanks for that. Very weird. It is weird the way 530 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: time works. I could have stopped that, but I just 531 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: figured that's fun. Already told her I read it. UM. 532 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: Let's see if you have a note about something that 533 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: we've already talked about but hasn't been released, we will 534 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: be very impressed. See if you can do it, UM, 535 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: send it to us as a tweet UH at s 536 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: y S a podcast. You can get with us on 537 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: Facebook at facebook dot com, slash Stuff you Should Know, 538 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: or you can send us an email at Stuff Podcast 539 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: at Discovery dot com. 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