SciShow | When Will We All Die?: The Statistics of Human Extinction

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Episode Title: When Will We All Die?: The Statistics of Human Extinction
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Description: Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming The Joy of Chance. Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 30 days free. We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a limited time on this planet. So the question is: when are we gonna go extinct? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/krug/teaching-Dateien/WS2011/Gott1993.pdf http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6363/652.full https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03072v1.pdf https://img.sauf.ca/pictures/2015-08-01/6d737412cb52abc475821fa8c1b541dc.pdf http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1205/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFzABwTFJo https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.4676.pdf https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt9tt5c711/qt9tt5c711.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/103/1/117.full.pdf Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/timelapse-shot-of-cirrus-clouds-against-bright-blue-sky-b7lycia8kgizcet7wo https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/polands-capital-warsaw-on-early-august-morning-gm862061436-142805283 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/4697753017/in/photostream/ https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gold-bingo-balls-fall-randomly-on-white-isonated-background-lottery-golden-balls-gm916223254-252128293 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-crowd-forming-a-world-map-population-and-social-media-concept-gm936347476-256138190 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hourglass-gm1030409866-276074436 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/nuclear-winter-urban-landscape-gm1129862623-298627241 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fossil-skull-of-homo-erectus-sapiens-neanderthalis-and-antecessor-gm487078841-38696552 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bushy-sheaf-of-wheat-isolated-on-white-background-gm846261998-138586983 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/alpha-channel-flames-and-fire-3-apxrjxz https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aerial-view-of-barringer-crater-in-arizona-gm157180662-1633560


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