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10 Ways The World Could End

Der CBC Podcast Quirks und Quarks hat zum Jahresende eine ungewöhnliche Top 10 Liste erstellt. Zehn Wissenschaftler schildern wie das Ende der Welt aussehen könnte und wie diese Weltuntergangsszenarien tatsächlich und nicht nur im Kopf von Roland Emmerich geschehen würde.

1. Dr. Ray Jayawardhana, Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, explains what will happen when the expanding sun engulfs the earth and roasts the planet.
2. Dr. Vicki Kaspi, a Professor of Physics at McGill University, explores the irradiating effects of a giant gamma ray burst.
3. Dr. Laura Ferrarese, a Senior Researcher at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, suggests that a rogue black hole may set its voracious appetite on Earth.
4. Dr. Peter Brown, a researcher with the Meteor Physics Group at the University of Western Ontario, tells us what will happen if a giant asteroid plunges into Earth and pulverizes us.
5. Dr. Richard Peltier, Director of the Centre for Global Change Science at the University of Toronto, has a chilling scenario: the earth becomes a Popsicle planet and puts a freeze on photosynthesis.
6. Dr. Jo-Anne Brown, an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Calgary, explains what would happen if the galactic magnetic cloud were to collapse.
7. Dr. Sabine Stanley, an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, says the reversal of Earth’s magnetic field may cause us some trouble.
8. Dr. Peter Sutherland, a Professor at McMaster University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, explores what would happen if a nearby star were to go supernova.
9. Dr. Sarah Barnes, a Canada Research Chair in Magmatic Metallogeny at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, talks about the possibility of a gigantic super-volcano blowing us to smithereens.
10. Canadian SF writer Robert J. Sawyer imagines an Earth under alien invasion.

Ten Ways the World Could End (MP3, 22MB)

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December 10, 2008 | In Other | No Comments

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