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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Supernover Explosion Nearby?

Life on earth goes back close to three billion years, we can see that there were species that lasted for a while. Is that something that's somehow inevitable? Or is it the case that an asteroid hit the earth and they died out? I don't think we really know the answer to that, but i think it's an interesting question. What sort of exubstential threats which might like, you know, make our species go extinct, might exist? There are certainly things that erm a you know, could happen that are really bad.

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