Seth Shostak <sshostak@seti.org> Popcorn and pandemonium. false 2009-11-09T00:00:00-08:00 <p>Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right?</p> <p> We’ll separate the science from the fiction in doomsday movies. From the 2012 prophesy of the Mayans … to colliding worlds … to abrupt climate change, find out which among this crowd of cinematic scares are for real, and which aren’t worth the price of popcorn.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li><strong><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/morrison.html">Dave Morrison</a></strong> - Astrobiologist, NASA Ames Research Center</li> <li><strong><a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html">Phil Plait</a></strong> - Astronomer, keeper of <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/">badastronomy.com</a>, and author of <i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670019976?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670019976">Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670019976" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></i></li> <li><strong><a href="http://amesteam.arc.nasa.gov/CVs/cv_rothschild_lynn.html">Lynn Rothschild</a></strong> - Astrobiologist, NASA Ames Research Center</li> <li><strong><a href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/index.html">Ken Caldeira</a></strong> - Scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology</li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/revision-esceptica-el-fin-del-mundo-en-las-peliculas/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right?</p> <p> We’ll separate the science from the fiction in doomsday movies. From the 2012 prophesy of the Mayans … to colliding worlds … to abrupt climate change, find out which among this crowd of cinematic scares are for real, and which aren’t worth the price of popcorn.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li><strong><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/morrison.html">Dave Morrison</a></strong> &#8211; Astrobiologist, <span class="caps">NASA</span> Ames Research Center</li> <li><strong><a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html">Phil Plait</a></strong> &#8211; Astronomer, keeper of <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/">badastronomy.com</a>, and author of <i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670019976?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670019976">Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670019976" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></i></li> <li><strong><a href="http://amesteam.arc.nasa.gov/CVs/cv_rothschild_lynn.html">Lynn Rothschild</a></strong> &#8211; Astrobiologist, <span class="caps">NASA</span> Ames Research Center</li> <li><strong><a href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/index.html">Ken Caldeira</a></strong> &#8211; Scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science&#8217;s Department of Global Ecology</li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/revision-esceptica-el-fin-del-mundo-en-las-peliculas/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> 267 image/jpeg DoomsdayAtMoviesMED.jpg 11561 Guests: David Morrison, Phil Plait, Lynn Rothschild, Ken Caldeira AWA_09-11-09.mp3 262034694 false Skeptic_Check_Doomsday_at_the_Movies 2009-08-10T00:00:00-07:00