341: Juice the Cloud (w/ Randall Munroe!)
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Asteroid Impact Explains One of the Biggest Mass Extinctions in the History of the Earth
Asteroid impact explains one of the kind of five big mass extinctions in the historical record. The other four are all associated with large volcanic outpourings. If you're driving across the the hudson on the bridge there, what you're seeing is,. i think it's the triassic a, the end triassic bar magmetic outpouring a large igneous province. And so these these eruptions are just like, the worst thing that can happen to life because they're associated with poison gases and rapid warming.
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