Joe Rogan | The Danger of Future Asteroid Impacts w/Graham Hancock

the Joe Rogan experience and our fears that you were just discussing earlier about how soft we are in comparison to past civilizations in terms of like our ability to live off the land that's one aspect that bothers me but one of the big ones that bothers me is the fact that everything is digital all of our information is stored on hard drives you bet and if that goes down there's not much left do you have paper books and and you know few thousands of years imagine what would be left yeah we would lose all of our advancement well I can I can speak to this at a personal level there was a time when I was an excellent map reader and I I I could navigate anywhere with with maps you know my wife Santa and I did huge journeys in Mexico back in the early 1990s in really cheap hire cars with maps and we found our way everywhere without any problem today I can hardly use a map the skill of using a map has elapsed within me why because of GPS GPS technology has come along and it's and it always tells me where I am and being a bit lazy I just accept that that technology but then I had cause to ask myself this just the other day supposing GPS supposing all the satellites go down and there's no GPS is the whole the whole industrialized human race is gonna suddenly be lost all those uber drivers who don't know their way from A to B and who rely entirely on their GPS is they won't know they won't know where they're going and it's and it's true with digital data the digit digital data unlike unlike print data is very fragile and requires programs in order to access and interpret it that are much more complicated than simply cracking the code of a lost language I mean the programs vary between different phone platforms a varied computer platform because it's just it's so fragile and it's so I mean I don't know if there's any precautions that have been taking place to preserve this information in case of like what Robert Schoch described a coronal mass ejection or something clear down all the satellites yeah no I don't think I don't think preparation has been made and I don't and I don't and it's very clear that that preparation is not being made for the risk of another cosmic impact and again a point that I'd like to make about this is that we are it we are in a sense in a place where history can repeat itself that there are certain cycles at work the work on the comet impact twelve thousand eight hundred years ago has very clearly and specifically identified the debris trail of that comet and that debris trail is the torrid meteor stream and it's called the torrid meteor stream because it appears to emanate from the region of the sky in which the constellation of Taurus sits it doesn't it's within our solar system it's an optical illusion the torrid meteor stream is a giant complex of debris it is 30 million kilometres wide what you had was an original comet that might have been a hundred to two hundred kilometres in diameter a small moon which fragmented and broke up into multiple multiple parts and those parts began to spread out along the whole orbit of the torrid meteor stream and to widen the whole thing widen so it's like a giant tube of debris and the evidence and the argument is that twelve thousand eight hundred years ago several large bits of that debris fell out of the torrid meteor stream and impacted with the earth the problem is that the torrid meteor stream still exists and our planet still passes through it twice a year and those passages take place in June and in November and each passage takes 12 and a half days and the same group of scientists who are who are looking at the evidence for the impacts twelve thousand eight hundred years ago are deeply concerned that we may face future impacts from the torrid meteor stream that there are still large objects up there this is not theory this is a fact there's a comet up there called comet Encke II which is part of the torrid meteor stream it's a large fragment of the original giant comet comet Encke II has a diameter of I don't know five or five or six kilometres there's there's nineteen recognized huge objects within the torrid made history and calculations indicate that there may be as much as 200 droids within the torrid media stream of a diameter of a kilometer or more which would have catastrophic effect if they if they hit the earth and responsible astronomers regard the torrid meteor stream as the greatest collision hazard facing mankind at the present time and it's not something that we need to fall into despair about because it's perfectly within the level of our technology to do something about it what could they do well to give you an example commercial interests are looking right now and the technology is there to mine asteroids we can go to asteroids if the if the commercial interest is high enough we can go to them we can mine them we can extract minerals we can bring them back to the earth the same technology would allow you to move asteroids or comets fragments you don't want to blow them up with a nuke that would be a really bad idea that would that would turn one large object into multiple smaller objects which could cause equally massive devastation and and would be very difficult to predict where that devastation was going to fall what you want to do is to nudge them and move them out of a dangerous orbit into into a less dangerous orbit and and and the evidence is in the next 30 years we are going to be passing through dangerous filaments of the torrid media stream and if we were smart we would be devoting some resources to protecting our cosmic environment just as where there are many issues that we need to devote resources to unfortunately the one that's most attractive to our politicians at the moment is warfare we devote limitless resources to technologies of mass destruction there really is no end to the amount that we're prepared to spend on that in terms of our so-called security we feel somehow we're making ourselves more secure by having these incredible weapons and spending trillions of dollars on them but the cosmos doesn't give a [ __ ] about any of that the cosmos is out there with these with these giant giant objects which have a far greater explosive power than all the nuclear weapons stored on earth at the present time the comet shoemaker-levy 9 which hit Jupiter in 1994 had a total calculated explosive power of 300 Giga tons if you took the entire nuclear arsenal of the world today and blew it but once it would yield 6.4 gigatonnes so these objects are producing catastrophic results on a scale that far far beyond anything that we ourselves could do with nuclear weapons it's time we spent a bit less time and money on weapons of mass destruction and a bit more on looking after this beautiful garden that we call the earth and that is our home and it will be the home of our children and our children's children I'm a grandfather now I feel passionately about this we need to look after this planet it's our responsibility as a human species to do so and one of the challenges it's not the only challenge there are many many other challenges one of the challenges is to pay attention to our cosmic environment and to realize that the cosmos can intervene cataclysmically in the human story and that the torrid meteor stream in particular may have been a hidden hand in human history that there may have been other impacts in the last thirteen thousand years that effect have affected and changed the course of humanity on this earth and the ancients were very good at paying attention to the sky we ourselves have amazing tech to study the sky but for some reason we're ignoring this problem of cosmic impacts and that's incredibly irresponsible because as I said a moment ago it is a solvable problem it is within the limits of our technology it would require a global cooperative effort to sweep our cosmic environment clean but it could be done and a side product of that global cooperation might be a friendlier more nurturing more loving more positive human community it is very odd that we have this infantile nature even as grown adults and world leaders that we don't we do like to nor imminent danger as long as it hasn't affected us in the past yes there's no real moment we can point to other than Tunguska in you know photographic history or modern history where you could take pictures of things we had and if I can if I can pose you on that very point the evidence is compelling that the Tunguska event was an object that fell out of the torrid meteor stream that happened at the peak of the bethe turrets in June 1908 that it is extremely likely that that Tunguska object came from the torrid meteor stream because we were passing through the torrid media stream at exactly that time and what the Tunguska object is estimated to be between sixty and a hundred and ninety meters in diameter so it's not a very big object it's not a kilometer scale object it's it's it's it's big but it's not that big it doesn't even hit the earth it it's an air burst it explodes in the sky above fortunately an uninhabited area of Siberia but the devastation is huge it wasn't even noticed for some years afterwards until scientific teams went in and studied the area and discovered that eighty million trees across 2,000 square kilometres had been completely flattened by that air burst and to put that in context 2,000 square kilometers is the size of London so anybody who knows London is aware that there's a Ring Road around London called the m25 if that air best had taken place over central London everything of London out as far as the m25 would have been gone completely is that what it looks like today pretty close it seems like hundred years later this yeah which which revealed the extent of this of this damage so it's just stupid of us not to pay a bit more attention to this especially when we have the tech to actually do something about it we have that that nature though when it comes to climate changes a curious denial there's a denial of the role of cataclysms in the human story and there there is even a word for that in science and it's called uniformitarianism and and this is a particular philosophy of science where the view is that everything as we see it in the world today is how things have always been so if we don't see cataclysms today and they're not playing a major part in our story today then there weren't cataclysms and they didn't play a major part in our story in the past that's why although it's before the time of human beings when the evidence that the dinosaurs were made extinct by a comet or an asteroid first came out Lewis and Walter Alvarez the father-son team who were behind that science ridiculed mine their colleagues and they were told is absolutely absurd of course no cosmic event could have made the dinosaurs extinct they spent 10 years taking that ridicule until they found the crater in the Gulf of Mexico since then the whole scientific community has accepted that the course of life on this planet was radically changed by a cosmic impact and you know I like to joke about it but it was a cosmic impact that was big enough literally to turn dinosaurs into chickens because that's what's left of the dinosaur line is you know the birds and at the same time skulking in those primeval forests is this little mammal and it looks a bit like a shrew 65 million years ago going nowhere but dinosaurs ruled the earth then the cosmos intervenes the dinosaurs are swept out of the way and what happens the mammals start to evolve very rapidly and they start to occupy niches that were previously closed to them and the bottom line is we would not be here the human species would not be here we would not be having this conversation if the dinosaurs had not been made extinct 65 million years ago so these are world-changing events and my argument is that such a world-changing event occurred between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven thousand six hundred years ago and it's high time we paid more attention to it [Applause]

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Published: Tue Apr 23 2019