Episode 3— The End of the Earth: Deep Space Threats to our Planet
Aired June 12, 2007 · 45 min
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The episode explores how various cosmic threats, including asteroids, comets, gamma ray bursts, and solar activity, pose potential dangers to life on Earth.
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Erik Thompson
as Narrator
Rob Roy Britt
as Self - livescience.com
Russell Schweickart
as Self - B612 Foundation
Neil Degrasse Tyson
as Self - American Museum of Natural History
Don Yeomans
as Self - NASA
Stan Woosley
as Self - Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Rene Ong
as Self - Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Gibor Basri
as Self: University of California, Berkeley
Robert Caldwell
as Self - Dartmouth College
Marc Kamionkowski
as Self - Caltech
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