Below are the images from the slideshow that accompanied Spooky Science Lab Live 2
(Season 3, Episode 12)!
Scroll through while you listen or afterward!
Enjoy!
“Hello and welcome to Spooky Science Lab Live 2…”
“Also known as…”
“What if we switch? So, [Dave is] going to talk about natural-world stuff, and Nick is going to talk about space.”
“As you can see in this artist’s rendering…”
“I want to go full Alderaan on this thing!”
“Another type of star could do the trick: the neutron star!”
“…neutron stars have a nasty habit of colliding with other neutron stars nearby…”
“And that would be the end of planet Earth.”
“Who here remembers the 1970s science-fiction TV show Space: 1999?”
“…brought all that rocky material together to form…the moon.”
“Let’s call it…Planet Doom.”
“…it would already appear in the night sky as four times bigger than the moon.”
“When the collision happens, millions of tons of superheated rock…”
“And that would be the end of planet Earth.”
“Have you ever noticed in science-fiction shows…”
“We weren’t alone.”
“Let’s start with the Neanderthals.”
“…Homo Longi, more commonly known as the Denisovans.”
“This is homo heidelbergensis…”
“…another species called homo erectus.”
“Let’s talk about the hobbits.”
“When we realized these skeletons belonged to a new species, they were named homo naledi…”
“There’s a species we call the Archaics.”
“What happened to everybody else? You may think you know the answer.”
“…we interbred with them.”
“That’s it for this episode!”
