Real astrophysicist reacts to Netflix's Don't Look Up

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Don't Look Up is available to watch on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com

For more information on NASA's DART mission to redirect an asteroid see: https://youtu.be/EMPSjOAgNmI
and this NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/

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00:00 - Mining a comet
37:30 - Introduction
01:39 - Control desk in the telescope dome
02:43 - Lasers and adaptive optics
03:44 - Subaru Telescope & Planet 9
04:49 - Discovery using blink vs static images
05:43 - Display screens and FITS images
07:16 - What would Carl Sagan do?
08:32 - Planetary Defence Coordination Office
09:10 - Sizes of dangerous asteroids/comets
09:43 - Is 6 months warning realistic?
11:05 - Can this information be "classified"?
12:14 - Science is a different language
12:57 - Could the government hide something like this?
14:57 - Supernova searches
16:46 - The nuclear option for destroying dangerous comets
18:34 - "Don't Look Up" frustration boils over
20:20 - A comet with two tails
21:51 - It actually happened?!
22:19 - THAT ending
23:02 - Final thoughts
25:10 - Bloopers

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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on *how* we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.

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