Visit to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In this video: how realistic is a giant comet impacting with Earth in just 6 months?
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00:00 – Mining a comet
37:30 – Introduction
01:39 – Control desk in the telescope dome
02:43 – Lasers and adaptive optics
03:44 – Subaru Telescope & Planet 9
04:49 – Discovery using blink vs static images
05:43 – Display screens and FITS images
07:16 – What would Carl Sagan do?
08:32 – Planetary Defence Coordination Office
09:10 – Sizes of dangerous asteroids/comets
09:43 – Is 6 months warning realistic?
11:05 – Can this information be “classified”?
12:14 – Science is a different language
12:57 – Could the government hide something like this?
14:57 – Supernova searches
16:46 – The nuclear option for destroying dangerous comets
18:34 – “Don’t Look Up” frustration boils over
20:20 – A comet with two tails
21:51 – It actually happened?!
22:19 – THAT ending
23:02 – Final thoughts
25:10 – Bloopers
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👩🏽💻 I’m Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on *how* we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don’t know. If you’ve ever wondered about something in space and couldn’t find an answer online – you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
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