Last Days on Earth

The Last Days on Earth is a 20/20 science special which aired on ABC[1][2][3] in August 2006 and has been aired on The History Channel.[4]

The show counts down the seven most likely ways in which human life could end, including gamma ray bursts, black holes, machine rule, asteroids, super volcanoes, nuclear war, pandemic flu, and climate change. It includes input from a number of scientists including Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking and Kevin Warwick. In 2007 it received an Emmy nomination[5] for its graphic and artistic design.

The Disasters

These are organized from least likely to most likely:

  1. Number seven was actually two alternate views of what could happen to a star and how it could destroy life on earth.
    1. Death of a Star: Gamma-Ray Burst
    2. Death of a Star: Black Hole
  2. Intelligent Machines
  3. Supervolcano
  4. Asteroid
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Plague
  7. Climate Change (Global Warming)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Last Days on Earth 20/20, ABC News, 2006-08-31
  2. ↑ http://leadercall.com/columns/x1593269326/Last-days-on-earth-part-II?keyword=secondarystory
  3. ↑ http://leadercall.com/columns/x1593269016/Last-days-on-earth/print
  4. ↑ Moon, Troy (2009-01-05). "End of the world still a big seller". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  5. ↑ Nominees for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 32 Categories Announced by NATAS Media Center, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, May 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.