What a 2,000-year rebound means for life on Earth

40:53Like 2,000 years later these guys are already like, "Wow, no one is alive. I have all the sun to myself." Right. >> You know? Like so so the speedy recovery shows just how resilient life is. >> Yes. Right? To have This is not This is not like bacteria. This is plankton. So, this is pretty complex life. >> Mhm. Sure, it's still like, you know, single cell to fewer Yes. >> that many cells, but it's still it reestablished itself within a geological heartbeat. >> Yeah, which is which is un- I mean, it's unbelievable. And it's sort of, you know, there's all of the um you know, when people look at the history of this planet and there's all these epics that are kind of opaque to

41:34us. >> Mhm. Um and, you know, how many times have we seen these either regional or global ecosystem collapses and then, you know, rebirths. And there could be a number of them. And given how quickly now we're seeing the recovery from the asteroid from 66 million years ago introduced again, simple life, but so quickly. Um it does recalibrate, you know, how you think about a variety of sort of the catastrophe scenarios you see in movies. >> Yeah. Mother Earth will be okay. Yeah. >> Humanity may not. >> Yeah. But Mother Earth will be fine. And and and life will continue to find a way to live and prosper. I want to make a funny or not a like a quick side note

42:15about helium 3, which is for anyone who's a fan of For All Mankind, the Apple TV show, that does the revisionist history about uh who got to space first and the moon first. >> Yeah. Uh spoiler alert, uh one of the battles and one of the reasons for the moon permanent moon base location is that uh massive deposits of helium 3. Oh, okay. That makes sense. >> Which then allows them to power Yeah. all the stuff locally and then if you have and then there's all the movies where we run out of energy on Earth, we need to go to the moon to go get I think also um that's part of the plot point in uh uh Don't Look Up was that there was helium 3 on the moon and the tech guy wanted to go mine it or some crazy nonsense. Yeah. >> So, it's like it's one of those things people hear about in pop culture quite

42:56often, uh but not necessarily knowing real-world applications. So, this is a very interesting uh maybe non-traditional Mhm. uh use of of of the helium 3 isotope in terms of identifying Fantastic. We love a dinosaur story. We hit AI, genetics, neuroscience, paleontology. We had a great round two of Are You