Nervous Habits - Episode 67: Planet-Killing Asteroids, Cataclysmic Climate Change, and Other Existential Threats: The Science Behind “Don’t Look Up” with Aerospace Engineer Stefanos Axios

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by longtime friend and aerospace engineer Stefanos Axios. Stefanos and I explore issues including…

—The likelihood that an asteroid like the one featured in Don’t Look Up will collide with the earth in our lifetimes, and what could be done in that scenario to prevent an extinction event...

—How exactly you would die from an asteroid collision, and finally…

—Why Don’t Look Up is arguably the most powerful allegory for climate change depicted in any movie.