Wilderness Survival Skills
The obvious danger, when you’re working on a volcano, is dying. We know that at any point things could go south in a bad, bad way. We take respirators to deal with poisonous gases, we take hard hats to deal with small ejecta from the volcano …but there’s only so much you can prepare. When …
There’s an invisible, magnetic force field surrounding our planet, protecting us from harmful solar wind that could annihilate Earth. But, this protective blanket is also a swirling ring full of deadly radiation. And to leave Earth’s atmosphere, astronauts have to pass through it. The Van Allen belts are rings of energetically charged particles that have …
– It’s fair to say that we’re overdue for the big one and a lot of people think its gonna happen in the next decade or two. – What? – I have no idea what to do in an actual earthquake. – I don’t feel safe in this place. (speaking all at once) – I …
So historically there has been a huge divide between what people consider to be non-living systems on one side, and living systems on the other side. So we go from, say, this beautiful and complex crystal as non-life, and this rather beautiful and complex cat on the other side. Over the last hundred and fifty …
– [Narrator] Centralia, Pennsylvania is a ghost town. Nearly 3,000 people used to live here, but these days it’s almost completely abandoned. And it’s pretty eerie, but that’s okay because what we’re looking for is actually in the soil. Some 100 meters below us an underground fire is burning away. It’s what turned Centralia into …
When you die, there are a lot of things you can do with your dead body–bury it, cremate it, have your ashes loaded into fireworks so you can rain down on people on the 4th of July, but some people will choose to have their dead bodies, or body parts, frozen until technology of the …
Except for an extremely small number of lucky astronauts or the billionaire customers of Elon Musk, most of us won’t get the chance to escape Earth. But even though we’re stuck down here, everyone knows there are certain things you want to avoid up there. Don’t get blown out of an airlock, never vomit inside …
In our day to day lives, sometimes it’s hard to remember that we live on a planet that’s just a tiny speck in the vastness of space. And, that as we sit here, we’re vulnerable to asteroid strikes. They’re big, they’re fast, and they could really mess up whatever they smash into. Remember what happened …
You wake to the sight of serene blue skies, but something’s not quite right… the sound of wind rushing past your ears and the unnerving sensation of falling is your first clue. HOLD ON! You were in a plane when you went to sleep! GREAT SCOTT! You’re plummeting towards the earth! What are you going …