ABC News will broadcast a special 2-hour edition of "20/20" on Wednesday August 30, which will discuss many of the existential risks covered here and in the Astroroach podcasts. Dang it, I never did get around to sending them a video! Anyway, I'll be curious to see their take on the subject.
"'Last Days on Earth' goes beyond science fiction to science fact. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, it will take viewers on a journey that is both breathtaking and terrifying, from the outer reaches of the universe to the inner world of DNA, with an round-the-globe tour in between.
'Of all the generations of humans that have walked the surface of the Earth — for 100,000 years, going back when we first left Africa — the generation now alive is the most mportant,' said Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York.
'The generation now alive, the generation that you see, looking around you, for the first time in history, is the generation that controls the destiny of the planet itself.' "
Really? Then we're screwed.
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