2012: Mayan Calendar realities, galactic alignment, and ark ships w/ Fraser Cain
b'Mayan calendar \\n\\n
They had one! And so do we. They both end on some sort of the cycle and the world never ends because of our arbitrary selection of scope. Fraser is really tired of having to argue about this sort of thing with death-cultists. The end.
\\n\\n Galactic alignments \\n\\nNeutrino detection.
\\n\\n Heating Earth \\n\\nEarth\\u2019s layers. Discovering new and different regions of the earth\\u2019s internal structure via seismography. Rate of temperature increase. Effect on oceans. Heat retention and radioactivity.
\\n\\n Ark ships \\n\\nSpace settlement and Christopher\\u2019s disappointment. Seveneves as the gold standard for how to relocate humanity to space in an emergency.
\\n\\n Perpetuation of specieseses and culture \\n\\nShould we keep giraffes? Cows? Any larger fauna? Recognition of the complexity and energy-inefficiencies of the food chain. Surviving on crickets and phytoplankton.
\\n\\n Yellowstone \\n\\nYellowstone is no joke! Yellowstone supervolcano (more volcano conversation in our Volcano episode). Pyroclastic flow rates. Lake Toba (is larger).
\\n\\n Magnetosphere \\n\\nThe earth\\u2019s internal metal. Pole-flipping!
\\n\\n Tsunami \\n\\nPropagation of energy via wave through fluid and how it probably shouldn\\u2019t roll the ship. Asteroid impacts, landslides, and misplaced fossils.
\\n\\nAnti-apocalypse rant
\\n\\nFraser\\u2019s got some stuff to say on this matter, tell-you-what.
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