Yeah, sure. Well, I grew up in Manhattan, right across from the Hayden Planetarium. I would wander the hallways of the planetarium and come upon a meteorite and the universe was sort of my backyard because of that. And that really set me on a trajectory that I continued following when I went to college, went to Harvard and studied
thousands of power outages. Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci is tracking the storm for us. First of all, what makes this a category one hurricane? Yeah, good to see you. You know, when it comes to hurricane strength, we talk about it via the Saffir-Simpson
There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. Meteorites don't. The same with amino acids.
And no one could land this airplane. Meteorology, of course, is a very important part of it.
There's hundreds of other ones. A meteor is careening towards the earth.
their normal size. Now, he is a Nazi hoping to reinvigorate the 4th Reich and take over the world, and he has in front of him a meteor that makes its victims twice their size, but completely docile, and some fat bees who want to sleep. And he thinks, I'm going to take the bees.
get the core to either come closer or reform, but you might weaken it a little bit. So, a lot of complex mesoscale localized meteorology at play here, and the global more coarse weather models are having a tougher time picking up on that. I find it interesting as well that it's slowly uh losing progression or its forward speed.
It’s a lot like a weather report. A meteorologist can’t tell you if or when it will rain, only that there might be rain somewhere during a certain period. Forecasts deal in probability.
Yeah. That's right. And so because these might come into the picture as well, can we talk a little about what meteors and meteorites and meteoroids are. Yeah. So there's a lot of confusion about that.
There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. Those meteorites have molecules, lipid, fat-like molecules, that when you put them in water and you dissolve the meteorite, they actually form these cell-like structures, which
So I'm going to tell you how we do that now a little bit hopefully. So meteorology in Ireland goes back quite a lot. You've all heard of Boyle's law, have you?
We know that nucleobases like adenine are in meteorites, so we imagine there might have been ways for nucleobases to be delivered, or synthesized. We know carbohydrates are in meteorites. That's work with George Cooper, just right up at NASA Ames. And we know there must have been phosphate there. So, we're sort of on the way. This is what we imagine would necessarily be there. Then, I say that there must have been amphiphiles
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of sunlight and you know it's not coincidental that those uh that sort of appearance you have in all those burck photography meteorologists and scientists and weather scientists became a bit less interested in the individual Cloud because they're looking at the whole these enormous weather systems
It's true that nature is also changing it. Because a big meteor came along and wiped out an entire world millions of years ago. So we have Earth, which is where we are.
And then when it comes through the atmosphere, it becomes a meteor . So we had the meteor shower recently. You can see little pieces coming through.
There's hundreds of other ones. Is a meteor careening towards the earth?
And I'll talk a little bit about the technology. This one is a meteor about to hit the Earth. When it happens, that picture.
Does anyone here program? Do you all know Meteor ? Yeah. It's pretty awesome.
are all meteor impact spaces every single one of them. But they were huge collisions probably three, four billion years ago. Huge. Those things are 500 miles across. Dave and
formed by meteor impacts or by volcanism, volcanoes. So we had a lot of that, as a matter of fact, I found a field of cinder cones which many of you know is kind of a last eruption.
isolated waterspout or tornado. You know, hurricanes, tropical cyclones are big spinning systems. And there's an old expression in meteorology that big spin contains little spin. Big whirls have smaller whirls within them. Sometimes, some of the thunderstorms or the convective cells, the individual clouds within those hurricane feeder bands or
From iron meteorites— very old space rocks that likely formed the core of ancient worlds— geologists know the Earth’s core is made of the same metals,
What explains the meteoric rise in the popularity of podcasts?
And be it like meteorites, or the nuclear war, or the advanced of the double edged sword, the technology.
So there's a lot of confusion about that. So a meteorite is literally just a piece of rock from space on another planet. So on earth, we can go and collect meteorites sitting on the ground.
just floating about in space, but little pieces of it. So it's a meteoroid in space. And then when it comes through the atmosphere, it becomes a meteor .
If that rock makes it to the surface, if it doesn't explode in the atmosphere and completely disintegrate, a piece of rock on the surface is the meteorite. So the great thing about them is that we can collect them. Sometimes and we can actually see them fall.
So that's-- we've done it a bit, but we need to do it more. But we have meteorites in the meantime, which can really help us out. So the asteroids all live-- well, not all live-- but are mainly collected in the asteroid belt, which is this region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
So now that we have a handle on kind of what all the players are-- the comets and asteroids and the solar system, and the meteors , of course, once they get here-- let's talk about how they're going to kill us all. Great. So one of the things that you talked about in the book is you kind of point out that comets and asteroids giveth,
Is there a meteorologist they can get a hold of?
of the solar system. There's plenty of meteorites from Mars on Earth. There is meteorites from Earth on Mars.
There's plenty of meteorites from Mars on Earth. There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. People have actually estimated the probability, given a number of factors, of life transferring between planets starting on Earth, ground zero,
There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. They're found in meteorites.
There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. They're found in meteorites.
There is meteorites from Earth on Mars. They're found in meteorites, but we don't have proteins or very complex polymers of amino acid in meteorites.
There's a meteoric rise, there's this exponential increase in the interest.
So anyway, we take our observations. We construct a meteorological model using the known physics of the atmosphere. And then we feed them into a very powerful computer, which is our European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting.
You know the way it's getting brighter in the evenings. But statistically and meteorologically, the coldest months in Ireland and in the Northern Hemisphere are December, January, and February. So it doesn't matter how you define something, as long as everybody knows why you're defining it.
She did the meteorology observations, and she also helped in his studies.
Imagine a meteorological model, which reports that tomorrow there is an equal probability of rain, hail, or shine.
These are the meteorologists who are going to produce the math.
from the meteorological university, some government work units came to protest.
There was a meteorologist.
seeing how those meteoroid impacts would correlate to changes in the structure and composition of the lunar atmosphere.
I had opted for meteorology because that was what my high school offered in place of physics for the underachievers.
It's like this meteorological, bizarro world where there's no sun ever.
And no one could land this airplane. This depends on meteorology.
This is like a meteorite hit.
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