Catastrophe - Episode 4 - Asteroid Impact

[@JasonJason210]

I was waiting for him to say, "but don't worry - if this ever happens I have a cunning and subtle plan that will save us all."

[@andyrowlands50029]

I'm sure Baldrick has a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it :-)

[@ahshatmasell6751]

As cunning as a fox who was professor of cunning at Oxford university but has moved on to be the U.N. Secretary-General of cunning planning

[@clintonmiller1698]

Blackadder

[@laranjaghirga5058]

I was waiting to him to say : LEST DESTROY THAT ASTEROID

[@guyincognito7308]

@@laranjaghirga5058 "We Drill...."

[@bighandg]

Something no one has mentioned is how wonderful it is to have Baldrick of Blackadder narrating this doc.

[@orangebetsy]

Why hasn't he suggested a cunning plan??

[@dalecastellez5416]

Well let me be the first he's an amazing documentary narrator,and this goes to show just how good his episodes were and continue to be long into The future 🙋

[@michealtaylor7745]

@Dale Castellez The British narrators tend to be the best. Just saying.

[@dalecastellez5416]

@@michealtaylor7745 I'm in total agreement brother 🙋

[@safeysmith6720]

Something that has never been mentioned before is that history lovers like myself, who have watched many documentaries which have featured Tony Robinson as host, and have learned to appreciate this man long after his days with ‘Black Adder’. And now this history lover is currently pursuing interests in space, science, physics, etc.. So watch out… because I’m about to bring you under the microscope. Just like Tony Robinson will. So please don’t act like this is some cute novelty, because it isn’t. Historians will bring all science to it’s knees. Tony will force the questions which will either hold up your theories, or reduce them to fallacies. Do not take Tony lightly, for he comes for the truth. Any thin scientific theory will be quickly torn asunder by Tony Robinson, so give him more respect please and thank you. He is far greater than simply the man who played Baldric in Black Adder.

[@7884golfguru]

I used to hate history at school I’m now 70 and I love video’s like this Lol❤️

[@MelanieCravens]

Teachers make it so boring. Watching this is learning for the joy of learning.

[@indiana146]

I'm a metal detectorist I find history give it a go

[@A.D.540]

@@MelanieCravens true some teachers are good at bring joy ,when others just make board.

[@jimmirow]

I feel the same way!

[@jimmirow]

I have teached the golf swing for over forty years and I've found that the students take to new concepts better when they have an open mind. Un doing bad habits doesn't come easy so teaching in a way that keeps them interested is crucial. The benefit of understanding the science of the swing keeps their palate fresh and for instances like this I too am grateful for science and the platforms theyre delivered on

[@keep_walking_on_grass]

the fact that this isn't science fiction, and it already has happened a few times, gives me nightmares.

[@cdorman11]

30:52 Start of full answer; 31:56 Soot = burning of all world's vegetation; 35:08 6 mos of night; 36:23 Yucatan sulphur-bearing minerals acid rain kills vegetation further; 39:02 CO2 centuries of 20C increase; 45:45 eggs on surface susceptible to predation--alligator eggs underground, bird eggs tree, mammal eggs inside

[@judethaddeus9856]

THANK YOU!!!!

[@biotechdanc]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@g_y.rtz420]

Spoiler much? Smh my immersion

[@TJSaw]

Imagine if this asteroid hadn’t hit earth 65 million years ago but on July 20th, 1969 while Neil Armstrong was performing his lunar walk. He would’ve had a front row seat to the greatest destruction this planet has ever seen. And he would know that him and the lunar crew are the last humans in existence. 😱

[@annademo]

Very disappointed that you left out many important names from these events: 1978: Glen Penfield, the Pemex engineer, who found the first evidence (rings) of this crater formation. 1980: Walter and Luis Alvarez, who posited the KT impact as the extinction event. 1981: Alan Hildebrand, who posited the Caribbean area as the impact site. 1990: Hildebrand and Penfield found shocked quartz samples in Pemex drill samples. It didn't take some brainy chick in 1996 to put this all together. Ocampo and her team just confirmed what was already known. She says so herself her findings were the LAST piece of the puzzle. It would have been nice to recognize those who put together almost all of the puzzle before her.

[@shellbabaloona2201]

I wish he narrated more documentaries I love putting him on as I go to sleep.

[@theshibby1337]

I don't think anyone has ever actually watched this entirely. Everyone uses it to fall asleep 😂

[@remolalougarou6512]

Same here So chilling voice relaxing great knowledge , etc.

[@royharrison]

Yep exactly same

[@rgalletta58]

Try Morgan Freeman

[@nathanlynch5002]

Try Googling one of his characters in a comedy series called Blackadder. His character was called Baldrick.. 🤣

[@ikki76AMV]

"it was a very very bad day for the dinosaurs" well that's an understatement.... lol

[@CARLIN4737]

And the Cave men?

[@xc1971pp]

The asteroid impact theory for the K/T boundary is also know as the Alvarez Hipothesis because Alvarez was the first to come up with the theory based in the iridium and shocked quartz evidences and not the scientists presented here.

[@adamschannel8685]

Hypothesis*

[@Enonymouse_]

@Association of Free People Strong independent scientist who don't need no man!

[@patd4u2]

This was complete BS, you are correct about Alvarez finding the Iridium in the KT boundary in Italy back in the late 70s, and Glenn Penfield with the oil company finding the magnetic anomaly, and Hildebran finding the correct spot where the astroid hit, none of these scientists in this fake episode had anything to do with it.

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

I still don't understand how that proves that an impact caused the mass extinction, though. The Deccan Traps were open around this time. All the other mass extinctions were caused by flood basalt. So when we know such a venting event was open during a mass extinction, it is definitely a bit weird that people look anywhere else. There even seems to be a 1:1 correlation between the vent size and duration and the amount of species killed off. Except in this one case where an asteroid killed everything somehow. I just don't buy it. There is no mechanism I know of that really explains why species halfway around the world would have died because of this. But they did. All the non-avians disappeared. A short period of cold does not explain that for me. Life is rugged and very, very adaptable. You need more than a bit of cold. Most animal skin cells are very responsive to change as well. Scales are modified hair and will change quickly to insulate animals. Some of them somewhere would have survived if this was all because of a single asteroid.

[@cdorman11]

@@politicallycorrectredskin796 Yeah, my impression is that life was under tremendous pressure because of the volcanism and the asteroid finished 'em off. The volcanism was enough to wipe out plenty of land species but doesn't explain centuries of ocean acidification. The asteroid does. That the two catastrophes overlapped was very, very unlucky for life then (or lucky for us). theatlantic com/science/archive/2019/10/the-worst-day-in-earths-history-contains-a-warning-for-us/600466/ theatlantic com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/

[@neutronstargalaxy1092]

Good thing Jupiter shields the inner solar system of most astroids at or near this size.

[@GRasputin91]

It's incredible that the narrator walked away from the impact shockwave instead of getting thrown into the camera. Humans sure are a tough species

[@lingcod91]

Trying to be funny ? or trying to say . . . what are you trying to say ? Don't say it's satire, that's used to make people think. Are you some kind of denier or just a oddball ? Stop hinting and speak clearer. (and pick up a backbone while you are out).

[@legitbeans9078]

He got out of there just in time!

[@MicklowFilms]

@@legitbeans9078I was so scared for him!

[@howardbuckley1360]

Lol!!😅

[@cherylharris8539]

😅😅🤣🤣

[@yvettejones4991]

These kinds of documentaries are so fascinating to me.👍

[@MauriatOttolink]

Yvette jones Sorry only ONE thumbs up. You deserve 500!

[@markbates3180]

Only if they get it right. Nothing growing for 200 years makes it impossible for anything to survive.

[@pengy5340]

Try the Krakatoa documentary 👍🏼

[@Micha3lHinrichs]

4 years later your comment is still relevant.

[@JDHagan-jp8iz]

Why no mention of Walter and Louis Alvarez?

[@Geckobane]

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[@alexlubbers1589]

imagine the earthquakes and subsequent mega volcanic events that followed the already apocalyptic impact. The earth would have been ringing like a church bell while debris from the impact rained down, a magnitude 11 global megaquake with ensuing volcanic catastrophe. what a spectacular and terrifying chain of events.

[@janellc900]

How interesting that what you wrote is playing out to a good degree right now.

[@asherikamichaela8425]

Alex Lubbers There is apparently evidence that this actually happened. The Deccan Traps in India is said to have gone off around the same time. I think the asteroid's impact destabilized the traps so it released its store of volcanic material.

[@asherikamichaela8425]

James Meyers We will eventually, no matter how hard we try to prevent it. That's just how it works. Nearly all species that have ever lived are now extinct, and we sure aren't going to be the ones to be the odds. We try to extend our lives while we destroy others and just about everything around us. That evolutionary math just doesn't compute.

[@jaredphillips129]

Alex Lubbers I believe that’s the current theory. The asteroid impact was a catalyst, and it wiped out what was within the immediate area of effect, but the subsequent eruptions from multiple super volcanoes was what sealed the fate of most of the dinosaurs. The survivors evolved into the birds that we have today.

[@hyawmerha4581]

I wish I could see the dinosaurs in real life

[@222lightatoms3]

Catching that impact from the international space station would have been heart stopping.

[@tonyhutto3049]

Only one attempt to divert it? And the several nations that have nukes?

[@hareecionelson5875]

"wow" said the astronauts before the ISS was ripped to shreds by the orbiting debris

[@michaelbruns449]

Wow and they would probably just drift around up there until their food and water ran out, or until fragments hurled upwards slammed into their space station, like maybe what happened to the black knight satellite.

[@CinemaDemocratica]

Every time he says, "Seventy percent of the world's species -- *including* the dinosaurs!" you have to do a shot.

[@pvzey9402]

Everytime he says million , you have to take a shot.

[@infinite6951]

so fukced i htrown upall ovree myselg.

[@jasonc1899]

Came to say the same thing. I had to turn it off.

[@TampaBMan]

7 minutes in and I wish I brought a bottle of something other than water with me to watch this ;)

[@امفهدالشمري-م1ز]

ماندري الونه بجه محمد اخر اليله

[@suzannefranklin7946]

Just always hard to get my head around how this planet just keeps turning out life.

[@michaelbruns449]

Alien Terraforming and Extremeophiles.

[@red-uk5vv]

What an absolutely fantastic documentary. Very well put together and extremely interesting. Thank you very much for sharing this.

[@subakushelly2599]

Np

[@g_y.rtz420]

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[@subakushelly2599]

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[@larryhart4992]

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[@johnruiz6743]

Imagine the shockwave just going through the atmosphere before actual impact! Chelyabinsk was so much smaller yet caused a lot of damage just from the shockwave!

[@CEngelbrecht]

"We're due another one... soon", the man said, when Chunguska in 1908 was the latest known one. That 'another one' was Chelyabinsk.

[@njl51]

I could image a shockwave killing people and animals instantly.

[@janiestraub5964]

Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing🦕🦖

[@rongants6082]

An entire hour discussing the K-T asteroid impact, and not one mention of the Alvarez, father and son. Peculiar.

[@111bobgato]

Did 'Yang Schmidt' (at 6:56) come up with this, or the Alvarez father and son?

[@HeadOfBusiness]

The amount of celestial factors that went into the impact and the perfect conditions for mass extinction. Then the eventual perfect conditions for the evolution of mammals... Entropy is truly random yet coincidentally precise. I can't help but feel there's so much more than what we know or see. Such a terrifying and magnificent reality we live in.

[@tveetv2928]

Um, that was a waste of everybody's time. Please don't do that.

[@leecowell8165]

but unfortunately not for very long. in 100 years everybody and every animal we know today has been recycled. 100 years. an infinitesimal spec of time.

[@Mooman-vh6pq]

Thanks!

[@celticlass8573]

What a COOL OPENING!! The rock coming down was amazing!!

[@dannz2603]

Does anyone other than me appreciate how resilient and special our little planet really is, yes I'm sure most of you do, the fact that the Earth can rebound from such punishment is truly awesome. Would such an impact as described here have some affect on the Earth's rotation and orbit? P.S. I wonder when the next impact will be, best to live life to the fullest while we can I think.

[@WHEREISTHEREASON]

+Dan NZ Hello, Dan, I have often pondered that same question. I postulate ; The earth is rotating on an axis which is roughly 22 degrees off perpendicular from the plane of its orbit. It also wobbles taking roughly 26,000 years to complete one "wob". I believe this is the result of just such an impact. I have seen no correlating evidence of this but I am not the type to look. I have carried this to its logical (or so it seems to me) next step. Suppose humans were to correct this orbital anomaly? What if we employed hyper orbital tethered satellites H.O.T.S. at each of the poles. These H.O.T.S. would be semi satellite- sized hollow orbs into which we could pump (or suck, space is a vacuum) sand from the Sahara and muck from the Marianas trench. One tethered to the north pole and one at the south far enough out to gently tug the rotating axis back in line and then with just the right amount of spin (like the "English" on a pool ball) the tethered satellites were release at just the right moment to cause the planet to rotate on an ever shifting axis. The goals being; 1. Eliminate the extremes of sever summer and winter in favor of perpetual spring World wide, So that all areas of the surface got just enough sun light to be temperate. 2. Thaw out the poles and diverting that fresh water to the now excavated Sahara desert creating a huge fresh water lake from which to irrigate the entire area for farming, 3. Thaw out Antarctica and use it for all the deviants, miscreants and malcontents to live on ( with the money we would save on heating bills we could build a dome over Arizona and refrigerate it for the polar bears and seals) What we need ;1. A suction system to load the H.O.T.S. with maybe a space vacuum, 2. A one world government. Seriously, this is all tongue and cheek, Just something to mention at parties when everyone feels giddy( drunk, stoned, hallucinating, whatever). I realize it could never really happen. For one thing North Korea would never agree. Cheers.

[@dannz2603]

+WHEREISTHEREASON Thank you so much for the first rational and well thought out comment that I have read in a long time, your reply is very refreshing and reinforces my hope for the future of mankind, thank you. I read only this morning that a group of physicists in Canada have validated and proven my previously documented theory of gravity and my understanding of the universe as a whole 100%, and it has nothing at all to do with a so called "Big Bang" and I'll bet they are getting paid an awfully large amount of money to sit around and figure out what I could have told them for free :-( This was on TV; www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/what-happened-before-the-big-bang/15-12-2015/series-1-episode-1 I guess that you need a string of worthless letters and qualifications after your name before you and your understanding of the universe in which we live is taken seriously. All the best Dan

[@WHEREISTHEREASON]

I have, with age, become very suspicious of worldly titles. If they told me the sun was coming up tomorrow I would rush out and buy all the flashlights and candles I could find. Cheers

[@dannz2603]

+WHEREISTHEREASON Well save some matches for me :-)

[@panzerabwerkanone]

You need to watch the very first episode of the series. It explains just how a Mars sized planet collided with Earth changing it's rotation, axis, and created our moon. Creating the future earth where life would eventually thrive, then die, then thrive again and again.

[@mikeb2575]

each minute represents 3 million years, sounds like my local fucking job center...

[@Yetipfote]

HAHAHAHA good one! :D

[@keithseltzer7289]

😂😂😂

[@trahira9585]

LOL nice

[@davidbrooks960]

Sounds like an ex girlfriend!

[@reneegembala1445]

How did you get such a fast job center?

[@mrgummage]

Wasn't expecting Tony Robinson. What a blast from the past!

[@broadspear8425]

Last Extinction Level Event was Only 12000 years ago, could happen again at anytime, have a nice day 😀

[@johnhaar3439]

⁰+

[@sincrooks6844]

Your point being?

[@papakurt4162]

@@sincrooks6844 To let you know that no matter how hard we try, one day our cities will burn and the streets will run red with blood. The masses will consume themselves for a meager chance of survival, and yet their charred, eviscerated corpses will only be fodder for rats and roaches to fight over. Our bones will be smashed to dust and our memories will die with our doomed ancestors. But hey, you don’t have to pay back student loans in the apocalypse so fuck it! Send that asteroid over here lmao

[@shermdog6969]

And here we make a big deal out of covid. Yup we're screwed.

[@N0MN0MS]

Hey sis, I can’t do this today 😀

[@RobSinclaire]

"Take from me all but my most bitter experiences, for it is from these I have learned the most"

[@mrloop1530]

That's nice. Your own words or where is this quote from?

[@RobSinclaire]

Greetings - it is a 'French Proverb' or saying as I recall. When I can remember where I got it from I'll elaborate. PS: I guess we can both just 'Google it' ha, ha!

[@mrloop1530]

Well, actually I did try to google it, but I couldn't find anything on it :-)

[@RobSinclaire]

Me too, nothin on Google. I'll keep thinkin and get back to you. Rob

[@RobSinclaire]

I thought I would find the "Take from me all but my most bitter exp..." in my old Webster's Dictionary which I have lugged around for so many years (there's a section called "Foreign Words and Expressions") but I didn't find it there. I did find however: "The Heart has Reasons that Reason knows not of" (another French saying) which made the search worth while! Rob :O) PS: I will continue digging around for the Phrase in question. My hunch now is that it may have appeared in something Victor Hugo wrote on Shakespeare (which was a commentary (3 volumes of!) on his Son's translation of same into the French).

[@lavrenzo84]

this is no doubt the best movie about asteroid impact !

[@nickequeall6135]

Seen this before on the science channel and loved it, saving this video 😁

[@danielbrown1724]

Baaalldriiickkkk!! "Yes my lord.....I have a cunning plan"

[@chelseahulmston9056]

Under rated còmment

[@craftypam9992]

It's difficult to take this seriously, every time he speaks, he should say something silly and clever

[@MrBoybergs]

:)) Robinson has presented some really excellent history documentaries though. Clever bloke......

[@hobbiesstuff9850]

So who else feels sorry for the computer generated dinosaurs 😭

[@annhendrickson5223]

So true. Hahaha!

[@tinacollins9213]

Me

[@alvinmorris5404]

@Sicarri ! no and you can't make me!😆

[@michealtaylor7745]

The CG dinos represent all those dinosaurs that Did cop it 65 mya . So I feel bad for those dinosaurs that were alive when it hit.

[@riverlady982]

Don't worry the CG Dinosaurs didn't feel a thing 😉 No Dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this episode. 😆

[@abarthist54]

...so long and thanks for all the fish.

[@pieterallenmasterblue1402]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you listen to the dolpins

[@teacherpiet3082]

Sean Johnstone hitchhikers guide to the galaxy don't panic. 42

[@constantined9015]

RIP Douglas Adams!!

[@freedomstonemycology9894]

Haût Marine lives: "we NEED plenty of fish" ...humans went into snapchat instead...

[@rajo8493]

Astroid fall on Earth has 1to 3 percent possibility due to planet Jupiter

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

I noticed that Luis & Walter Alvarez were never mentioned, they formulated the theory of a "Killer Asteroid".

[@assrammington7961]

It’s peer reviewed. They’re not the only scientists who thought of that

[@merveilmeok2416]

This is wonderful video, one of the best videos I have ever seen. The facts and even the theories included are pristine and the montage and smart. Wow.

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

your comment is very positive, rich in emotion an synonym, almost by-the-book structure... one of the best comment out there, gj bro

[@jacobgustavsson5418]

32:56 They've been working on the simulation since 1905, how about that.

[@catjohnson2522]

LOVE this series! I wish they’d do an updated version!

[@whirledpeas3477]

You are living the updated version!

[@bellakatherman1477]

There was video i saw a while ago called The Last Day of the Dinosaurs. I can’t find it anymore, but it was so good and i watched it over and over. I wish i could remember what channel posted it.

[@sillytrash8502]

@@bellakatherman1477 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHSWhmeGj8iSadU Hope you active 2 years later cause I think I found what you're looking for. Discovery Channel - Last Day of the Dinosaurs 2010 (HD Better Quality)

[@simmons7972]

The initiation scene of the documentary is kinda funny, the guy talks normally about the topic while the asteroid collides and creates mass panic and destruction through the place

[@HighOnScience]

A shoutout for a channel that is one of my favorites, Kurzgesagt. The episode called "The day the dinosaurs died, minute by minute" really strikes home a feeling of dread even if the channel is well know for using rather cute animations. They have a really good group of writers and the narration is as always top notch.

[@jasonu3741]

love that channel

[@lizzy66125]

yes very good episode

[@TheNaturalebeauty]

I'm checking it out now. Thanks

[@johnmccallum7143]

Even though they didn't mention Louis & Walter Alvarez, the father & son who discovered the KTT boundary it was a good documentary. Those poor Dinosaurs felt the wrath of what hell is like, I'm just glad most of them didn't even fell it very long.

[@johnmccallum7143]

​@@user-zp6ff2gr4nagreed, it's a shame that they went through all of what happened on that frightening day in this planet's history and they don't even credit the father and son scientists who figured out what actually happened. Other than that it was a good documentary.

[@alextheexplainer4167]

I have never realized how devastating the KT extinction relay was

[@lifewriter7455]

Love the way he walks when he talks. Makes it all so special. Alive. 🖤

[@Flightstar]

Please include the year of program production.

[@jakecooper5855]

39:14 How terrifying is the demon in the ash?

[@shanefranklin2848]

yo check the beirut blast angry zues face

[@dalecastellez5416]

I've seen a lot of world ending catastrophes but this is just amazing 🙋

[@nfia2024]

Clear, concise, and zero fluff.

[@jackquestions8256]

I gotta admit seeing a huge astroid coming to earth would be amazing to see as I'm sipping a beer before I go

[@MrHendo747]

Sorry mate, but most likely wouldn't see it coming at all... Here's A NASA quote published in Forbes Mag... "With so many of even the larger NEOs remaining undiscovered, the most likely warning today would be zero,” NASA informs us. We would see nothing at all until suddenly, just as the impact occurred, we noticed a “flash of light and the shaking of the ground as it hit.” Then poof".... Probably better that way maybe?

[@nicholilarson8369]

People somewhere will see it enter. I wouldn't mind going that way. Better than how most folks kick it.

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[@fodicky4]

I hope they also noted that there was an earthquake magnitude far above the scale of the most powerful earthquakes recorded today, that happened soon after impact. Terrestrial Science is just simply amazing.

[@kwanming4751]

The impact created an earthquake bigger than 10 on the scale that's 10,000,000 times the size of anything today.

[@rimmipeepsicles1870]

I think around mag. 11.

[@Ironpancakemoose]

It feels kina weird learning about science from Baldwrick. (black adder reference)

[@geoffblankenmeyer7081]

Now eat your turnip.

[@paganphil100]

@@geoffblankenmeyer7081 : Shaped like a "thingy" ?

[@tracybarrow6477]

😂😂😂Yeah, love that show though.

[@hareecionelson5875]

Even though I know it's true, I can't believe a word he's saying.

[@DouggieDinosaur]

38:57 "The impact released billions of tons of greenhouse gas - the equivalent of *3,000 years of modern fossil fuel burning."* This raised global temperatures and didn't return "to normal values for *several centuries* after the impact." Only several centuries? Ray Kurzweil estimates solar power will provide 100% of our energy needs in 5 years (Ray is rarely wrong). I'm no longer worried about our carbon footprint.

[@scott-qk8sm]

It really is incredible how we are actually here to think about it all. And in such time scales we will quickly vanish without a trace as time continues onwards; at least we have a few space probs out there that will forever be testament to us once being in existence...fair well

[@oldman2800]

George Carlin saving the planet

[@hotdog9262]

yes we will end one way or another, if we don`t expand into other solar systems. moving continental plates will make sure all traces of us to ever have existed is erased

[@dalecastellez5416]

Or those records could bring on our own destruction 🙏

[@tyzxcj34]

31:50 layers in the Earth show record of event that occurred.

[@freneticgamer4174]

LOL- I love the way the dinosaur just turned into a puff of fire 29:28

[@ivanivonovich9863]

Evolution is not a destination. It is a journey! We do not know where it will lead, nor if we will be there to enjoy the day.

[@DaChillSpot-MacMechi]

Time changes today. And I'm up watching some of the most amazing docs ever. This was 🔥🚒

[@TheKaiTetley]

A burning fire engine? Huh?

[@OldSchoolGamer503]

Thanks bro I like all this kind of stuff I have a shit load on my youtube right on man keep doing your thing more people need to look up instead of down

[@sharonlycorish3668]

Let us pray that we do not bite such a bullet anytime soon. Truly mind boggling catastrophic. To think that such a collision will happen again is terrifyingly depressing.

[@michaelbruns449]

Any moment of any day actually and especially if approaching us from the direction of the suns blinding glare, which is around fifty percent of our earth bound viewing abilities made totally useless.

[@andrewgibson7610]

I pray that it will happen 🤣

[@davidclark3872]

I do enjoy Tony Robinson's documentaries, he makes it, so that anyone can understand.

[@crunchyfrog63]

Overall an enjoyable documentary, but I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the Alvarez father/son team was never even mentioned, let alone credited with this discovery. It makes me wonder what else they got wrong.

[@brittneystreeter493]

Omg!!! I was going to comment regarding that. That’s BS, considering both of them had people literally laughing at their theory.

[@brittneystreeter493]

It seemed like they were purposely avoiding their name. “The scientists”.

[@mikecroly4579]

I am .also very surprised at the lack of attention of the Alvarez's; father and son..very odd..

[@1littlelee]

because they theorized it NOT discovered it, look up the meaning of "theorized"

[@jamesaritchie1]

They get a tremendous amount "wrong" though this was all believed before more recent discoveries.

[@dynjarren5454]

Would you want to be warned? Not me

[@CinemaDemocratica]

I dunno, could be a fun couple of weeks.

[@ranjapi693]

It depends.. but being able to say goodbye to my family and get front row seats with my brother would be an end worthy.

[@davefarr4596]

There is a good chance that there are sister impact craters since these meteors have a tendency to break up on entry when they hit the atmosphere,one would think to consider.

[@user-bx7nw1ve6y]

How to turn a 5 minute explanation into a 50 minute odyssey: Say everything 5 times.

[@PibrochPonder]

That’s the formula most American TV programs use.

[@johndouglas1891]

That's 25 minutes.

[@chriswalsh6140]

I only watch this documentary to hear a scientist say "KAPOW", Peter Schultz has way too much fun in his job 😂😂😂

[@roadsidetees2024]

That was probably way more fun than shooting a ball bearing at a panel for the ISS.

[@chriswalsh6140]

@@roadsidetees2024, is that what you do, I mean work in connection with the ISS?

[@MiniLemmy]

I’ve always wondered why it’s called the KT boundary layer when it’s spelled ‘Cretaceous Tertiary’

[@nanrod]

Cretaceous is from the latin word for chalk while the abbreviation K is from the German equivalent, Kreide.

[@christopherfitch7705]

I'll bet you showed the impact 25 times

[@walther7147]

christopher fitch did not count? Shame!

[@garethaustin3137]

0:45 He got out of there just in time!

[@Noodles37UK]

Don't worry, people, Baldrick will have a cunning plan...

[@TommoWommo]

Ahhh the memories...

[@Noodles37UK]

Thomas Holt Have you been eating dung, again?

[@TommoWommo]

No. I just watch the Black Adder series

[@Noodles37UK]

Thomas Holt Whole lot's great, perhaps the best was series 2. A Danish person put the whole lot up, but they eventually got copyrighted. The very ending in 1917 was sad as hell.

[@TommoWommo]

my favourite had to be the WW1 series

[@Silo-Ren]

I love Pete and his energy every time I see him on tv. It's like him seeing the experiment for the first time every time. " Kapow " lol

[@annettegower2962]

Pete? Lol his name is Tony

[@Silo-Ren]

@@annettegower2962 No ... lol at YOU ! See, if you knew anything about the Cosmos you would've figured out that I was talking about famous scientist Peter "Pete" Shultz from the Ammes Institute knuckle head. 😆 ... Oops! 😂

[@russcooke5671]

The cameraman that filmed the impact is owed 65 million years back pay. At a grand a week that’s about 168 billion quid. 😂❤

[@iagree5313]

"Silly dinosaurs for all standing in the same place.." Hugh, MTW

[@VergilFan]

29:25 Dinosaur: Oh my gawd, the economy!! 🤣

[@alexburt6995]

"The economy was doing great right up until the meteor" - Tyrannosaurus Trump

[@OldKingSol]

The graphics were good, but they'd have been better if they would've actually made the clouds on whatever background image they were using actually move as the entire atmosphere was supposedly being disturbed. ;-) Nice doc at any rate, that's my only criticism.

[@nikanau2041]

I also was distracted all the time by that clouds...

[@druidriley3163]

No one ever shows exactly how it was because a meteor traveling that fast would hit the ground almost immediately. It wouldn't make a majestic terrifying vision blazing across the sky, it would just scream into existence out of nowhere and impact in 3 seconds.

[@adoggiedogg]

The camera man got some amazing pictures of the asteroid impact.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Wow, that's original 🤣

[@Eternalsfan]

There’s reason to believe that a massive SuperVolcano caused the extinction of nearly all life on earth.

[@tajhealthnature8570]

Actually it so easy..we 🐜 on earth

[@accessaryman]

here's some food for thought, if the asteroid was as large as stated at 22:18 and travelling as fast as stated, with the sizes of both the asteroid and the earth, with its layered construction, wouldn't the asteroid have split the earth in two, with it velocity and mass, and the earth thin surface crust, it softer inner layers, would it be just a huge planet exploding, I can picture the earth surviving if there were a series of smaller asteroids hitting the surface, but one large one like the one at 22:18 all I see is the earth disappearing, ?

[@andycano5756]

The Earth is thousands of miles thick, with a dense core. A six mile piece of shit is insignificant to descend very far.

[@accessaryman]

there is a lot to learn about mass and velocity, a solid mass such an asteroid 6 miles long crashing onto the earth crust at 3 to 4 miles thick with a soft molten center and its hard core you'd get a huge splatter, and the dispersal of bits of earth through out our galaxy, fairly simply id have thought, maybe you'd better research the earths layers, before you tout your knowledge.

[@mrs.schmenkman]

Well...the calculation of the size of it is based on the hole it left. Maybe you could calculate the size yourself?

[@larrydaniels6532]

Owen, the Earth is 8,000 miles in diameter, the asteroid is 7 or 8 miles in diameter, in relation to the volume of the globe, it is basically a speck. A speck with the kinetic energy of a trillion Tsar warheads. The atmosphere was that of blast furnace, everything that could burn, did burn. Every land-based animal was dead in less than 12 hours, only burrowing animals and sea creatures lived to see the next day. Even the huge asteroid that created our moon did not SPLIT the Earth in two!

[@DeedsResearcher]

Fascinating!

[@Gatheri1]

excellent work @naked science.

[@irkaboysen8713]

I really feel bad for the dinosaurs! One of the saddest things ever happened to a species...! :(

[@maddogwillie1019]

Don’t feel to bad for the dinosaurs….thanks to their lack of intelligence they live on the planet for over 65 million years…while humans, supposedly the smart ones, have only live on the planet for about 300,000 years and will be lucky to make it for another 150 years….once again proving being smart doesn’t mean being wise.😁

[@dariussykes5798]

In biblical terms that’s not how the dinosaurs die

[@maddogwillie1019]

@@dariussykes5798 "biblical terms"...whats that mean?....I don't remember reading the word dinosaur in the bible...

[@bondsan]

6:21 it was the daleks

[@Shaden0040]

Actually it was the Cybermen and Adric.

[@yvonnethompson844]

five years ago, but, i'ma say it.. the Silurians saw to the lack of the extinction!! they sent up arcs!!

[@TheRdamterror]

@@yvonnethompson844 maybe the guy is death by now i wonder how many people ar talking to death people on youtube lol

[@JustinLHopkins]

Interesting to think we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that 1 asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, paving the way for mammalian dominance.

[@dannz2603]

+Justin Hopkins I do wonder what life on earth would now be like if the dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out and how they would have evolved?

[@JustinLHopkins]

Dan NZ Me too. I've read what scientists have to say about the topic and they all seem to agree that we wouldn't be here. Luckily, all of he mammals were rodent size back then so they were able to burrow into the ground and survive. It's kind of mind blowing to think that without sheer dumb luck we wouldn't be here.

[@dannz2603]

+Justin Hopkins Yes very true, we were indeed lucky. Earth could easily have turned out to be a Mars like planet but Earth did retain its strong molten iron core.

[@CoopyKat]

+Justin Hopkins Nope...I'd like to see what Earth would be like after Dinosaurs went through another 65 million years of evolution!!

[@JustinLHopkins]

CoopyKat Me too. I'm wondering if they would have evolved sentience.

[@benthekeeshond545]

@1:50, the collision between earth and another huge space body that created our moon. If that was true, that collision must had knock the earth either toward or away from our sun. That must be the worse collision our earth ever experienced.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Wouldn't it be funny if the Black Adder made a surprise appearance;-).

[@criminaltimesinfinity3418]

adam*

[@billhardy7870]

Why were Luis and Walter Alvarez, the father/son duo who explored the world and presented this theory in 1980 not even mentioned in this video? In 1980 "Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, along with nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Michel, "uncovered a calamity that literally shook the Earth and is one of the great discoveries about Earth's history" from Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez

[@rahul.murali]

Jealousy and inferiority complex. Thats why.

[@assrammington7961]

The impact site was uncovered in the 70s by PEMEX scientists, Antonio Camargo and Glen Penfield. Just because they guessed there was an impact doesn’t mean they’re special lmao. Actual scientists are peer reviewed and collaborate. Stop trying to make the Alvarez’s the next Albert Einstein cuz they made a good guess, you cringe weirdo

[@jim.franklin]

Very disappointed - the fact is the Impact theory started back in the 1970's and was made public by Louis, a Nobel prize winning physicist, and his son Walter Alvarez, a geophysicist and geologist, around 1980 - it took many years for people to accept their theory, and the fact is that they linked the K-T boundary to the impact event - citing the presence of Iridium, Osmium and other rare Earth metals at concentrations that could only have come from the impact of a Nickel-metal body which they estimated to be about 10km across (6 miles). Walter Alvarez is still with us, he is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. It is wholly wrong to suggest different researchers proposed this for the demise of species 66 million years ago, and it is wrong for any researcher to attempt to claim that crown.

[@scottiebones]

Good documentary, thanks

[@osslv]

That’s a misstatement, dinosaurs didn’t disappeared, some of them survived as birds. Duh.

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

And members of the UK 'royalty'

[@mikaelaseabourne4557]

I mean... The 70% figure they repeat a million times probably covers that, don't you think 😂😂😂

[@janiemiller825]

Good point 🤔 💭

[@NxDoyle]

At least he didn't say "dinosaurs didn't disappeared". Duh.

[@Token528]

i witnessed something strange around 10 years ago when i was living in San Diego . I was driving down one of the main streets with a perfect view of the sky in front of me, and this was around 9 pm at night which was pitch black sky and all of a sudden a giant circular ball reminiscent of an asteroid which has a blue trim and was black on the inside, was ready to come into the earths atmosphere when it bounced 3 times off what looked like a forcefield around the planet then went back into space ... what could that have been ? if it was a meteor , wouldn't one bounce have been sufficient to send this thing back into space? what would make it bounce 3 times before it finally left . This was a very real experience for me and i still have no answers

[@samwell2386]

what

[@Token528]

@MARK FAUX 1. Compared to a full moon : how large would you estimate this silhouetted object being ? it was big, hold your fist up to the sky, about that big 2. How long did you witness it ? Few seconds, mins ? few seconds was all there was 3. Do you remember what part of the San Diego sky it was in. i was driving down Rosecrans toward the freeway , i was going downtown 4. Did it have a traveling direction : South to North, North to South etc ? just came at us, and bounced a few times then shot back into space 5. You said it was around ten years ago : Could it have been in October of 2013. When the entire USA government shutdown ? Since you were in San Diego at the time you should remember that. No it was more than 10 years ago ... sometime between 2001 - 2006 .. best i can tell you. Please please try to remember as much as you can. Again the info you can possibly provide is extremely important. Best regards & i look forward to your reply. Wish there was more to tell, but that was it

[@bernardedwards8461]

You obviously saw a large bolide striking the upper atmosphere and doing a few skips like a stone bouncing across a pond. It was travelling too fast to be captured by the Earth's gravity, which was perhaps just as well. Penetration to the ground would have produced an explosion similar to the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which did a lot of damage a few years ago. I once saw a smaller one which probably impacted the surface, but shone as brightly as the moon for several seconds and lit up the countryside. Two hit the sea for every one that hits the land.

[@jimogrady1651]

Love this documentary another great documentary is catastrophe life on earth after an asteroid collision, same scenario as the dinosaurs but happenes to us

[@jamesstreet856]

It's a true story. It just hasn't happened yet. There's one out there right now that's coming straight for us. Maybe it's still in the asteroid belt. But it's coming. We just don't know how long it will take to get here.

[@avianraptor2]

"70%.....including the dinosaurs." Could you say it like 50 more times?

[@rprbeantown1]

Upload the next catastrophe

[@chriswalsh6140]

I'm going to watch Blackadder next 😂😂😂

[@kieranjohns8852]

😂😂😂😂

[@philliphampton5183]

The dinosaurs had a cunning plan.

[@bobsnabby2298]

All on these animations where the asteroid hits the earth, is the speed of the impact way too slow. If the asteroid arrives in 60 times speed of sound, that is about 20km/second, that would travel through the thicker atmospehere in less than 2 seconds, on the vids they last like 10 seconds.

[@richardsilva-spokane3436]

adven ture my thoughts, too. I’d like to see a true representation of what it would be like: blinding light, scorching heat, then the aerial shock wave, the impact, etc. all within a few seconds.

[@CandyGirl44]

@Marki Faux sounds like blackmail to me! Hope nobody ever pays it, and it is released to the public anyway!

[@dalecastellez5416]

This gentleman knows what he's narrating he's the best in the business folk's 🙏

[@kwanming4751]

Two events ended the reign of the dinosaurs, the K.T impact & The Deccan traps mega volcanic erruptions. However the dinosaurs were doomed from the start as evolution was moving on and their time was rapidly coming to an end.

[@iamrocketray]

They didn't go extinct they just evolved into crows and herring Gulls etc.

[@ritaduplessis1625]

Lesson for dinosours....do not pick up the smoking habit, it will kill you.

[@punkgrl325]

@@iamrocketray You mean birds?

[@larrydaniels6532]

Not really, the asteroid had the kinetic energy of 1 trillion Tsar warheads. It created a world-wide inferno that burned every combustible item on every continent. No animal could take a breath in an atmosphere as hot as a blast furnace. In less than 12 hours every land-based animal had perished, the only animals that saw the next morning were small burrowing animals, underground nesting birds, and sea creatures.

[@KeyRestrictionsSux]

Man this was a well produced documentary. Not that I learned something new, but I think it covered pretty much everything concerning the KT-impact event. Well I guess widescale volcanic eruption was left out as a possible contribitor of the KT-extinction event. It would make sense to me if an impact of that size would trigger a shockwave through the earth and trigger some releases on the tectonic stress zones and heat up some volcanic chambers. Well since I don't have a scientific background I wouldn't know the impact would be big enough for such event to occure.

[@periurban]

It may have happened in a smaller way about 12,000 years ago, possibly accounting for the various legends of the flood. There was likely a vast conflagration after an object nearly a mile across hit Greenland when it was covered with ice. The resulting debris wiped out most life on North America, which might explain why many large species disappeared. The impact also may have damaged human civilisation, setting it back to the stone age. Some say the megalithic structures we find in Egypt and South America predate this impact.

[@michaelbruns449]

Most likely your correct.

[@legitbeans9078]

You are not correct.

[@periurban]

@@legitbeans9078 We will probably never know, but something of the ilk is possible. I just watched Hancock's new Netflix show, and he goes into a lot of detail, gets a few things hilariously wrong, but does raise some important questions.

[@blakemeding7917]

Wow! What you just said is absolutely garbage. Hancock is a huckster.

[@Pdstor]

21:40 I thought they were doing some "camera lens is getting droplets on it from all the water" crap until I realized that wasn't the effect they were aiming for.

[@robertmedzai8163]

This documentary was awesome to watch and loads to learn . I love this guy doing the narrating doesn't put me to sleep at all . After watching this I have 1question if there was another meteor so big is the world prepared for it or is it going to be catastrophic end of the world . Please could you try and do a documentary on this Topic if possible , Could we be prepared for this or not , are the governments of the world united for such an event or would it be the end of us ?.

[@thomasewing2656]

It would be the end of us.

[@wildone8397]

Pretty much.... No ☹️