The Earth would have to be lucky to not only pass by another star but also be captured, but it's definitely a possibility. Even if humanity were extinct by this point, the heat from the new star could (at the right distance) make Earth habitable again, and microbes that survived in the deep crust from geothermal heat could repopulate it - or entirely new lifeforms could emerge.
omg they would have archaeological evidence of humans and make uncanny models of what we looked like. only for martian humans to eventually come back into contact with earth be like wtf is this. but then the new earthlings would think THEY were the ones who looked uncanny so the religious nuts say the martians are demons or smth..
5:30 As far as how high of a risk that is, remember it's 1:100,000 over 5 BILLION years. In your industry you're talking 1:1 million over the lifetime of a plant which is only a few decades (current nuclear tech has only existed for less than 100 years after all). I've also suggested this to several other channels that do reactions to Kurzgesagt's Futurism and space videos, but there's another channel that is very worth a look into. The name is "Isaac Arthur" and that's the basis of his entire channel. The key difference is that Kurzgesagt does videos that are very short and very broad while Isaac spends 20-40min per video and will often dedicate entire playlists to some of these broad concepts. For a very direct comparison he has a video discussing Stellar engines called "Fleet of Stars". From a personal perspective, you might be interested to see some of his videos on what Futurists see as the theoretical potential for nuclear power and propulsion.
5:30 But the chance is 1 in 100k for the next 5 BILLION years.. I don't assume nuclear power plants operate on that time scale (but maybe you're a time traveller, who knows?) If the time was shorter it would be scary.. But in 5 billion years the sun will consume the earth anyway?
If the chance of nuclear accidents were 1/100000 every 5 billion years as you're saying, the probability of having two accidents in the past 50 years would be 1 in ((5000000000/50)*100000)^2 which gives us a 1 in 250 sextillion chance. I am not 100% sure about the calculations but the odds should be between 1 in a quintillion and 1 in a septillion
Please do more of these, its always nice to have a ''expert'' 's point of view on this :D
Of course! I love doing these!
The Earth would have to be lucky to not only pass by another star but also be captured, but it's definitely a possibility. Even if humanity were extinct by this point, the heat from the new star could (at the right distance) make Earth habitable again, and microbes that survived in the deep crust from geothermal heat could repopulate it - or entirely new lifeforms could emerge.
omg they would have archaeological evidence of humans and make uncanny models of what we looked like. only for martian humans to eventually come back into contact with earth be like wtf is this. but then the new earthlings would think THEY were the ones who looked uncanny so the religious nuts say the martians are demons or smth..
But if earth gets captured, we would have be very lucky to land in a more or less habitable orbit.
5:30 As far as how high of a risk that is, remember it's 1:100,000 over 5 BILLION years. In your industry you're talking 1:1 million over the lifetime of a plant which is only a few decades (current nuclear tech has only existed for less than 100 years after all).
I've also suggested this to several other channels that do reactions to Kurzgesagt's Futurism and space videos, but there's another channel that is very worth a look into. The name is "Isaac Arthur" and that's the basis of his entire channel. The key difference is that Kurzgesagt does videos that are very short and very broad while Isaac spends 20-40min per video and will often dedicate entire playlists to some of these broad concepts. For a very direct comparison he has a video discussing Stellar engines called "Fleet of Stars". From a personal perspective, you might be interested to see some of his videos on what Futurists see as the theoretical potential for nuclear power and propulsion.
5:30 But the chance is 1 in 100k for the next 5 BILLION years.. I don't assume nuclear power plants operate on that time scale (but maybe you're a time traveller, who knows?)
If the time was shorter it would be scary.. But in 5 billion years the sun will consume the earth anyway?
Someone needs to make a book or a movie about this
I think it already exists, I think it's called "A Pail of Air"
Reminds me of the wandering earth...
4:28 well that’s comforting and reassuring… just slightly higher chance than nuclear facility accidents. Those never had accidents, right?
5 billion years...
If the chance of nuclear accidents were 1/100000 every 5 billion years as you're saying, the probability of having two accidents in the past 50 years would be 1 in ((5000000000/50)*100000)^2 which gives us a 1 in 250 sextillion chance.
I am not 100% sure about the calculations but the odds should be between 1 in a quintillion and 1 in a septillion
Fermi paradox solution, alien space craft are just hijacked rogue planets?
Degrees Celsius above absolute zero... 🤔 Someone should come up with a better name for that scale...
should boltzmanns brain be in there 'somewhere'?