Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time

Eons: Surviving Deep Time

PBS

Natural Sciences, Science

4.9 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time! Season 2 of the Eons podcast is a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past?

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0:00.0	If you were suddenly dropped back in time half a billion years ago into the Cambrian period,
0:05.1	could you survive?
0:06.2	Do you like slime?
0:07.1	No, I'm going to have to learn to like it.
0:09.4	What about 252 million years ago during the gigantic volcanic event that caused the biggest
0:15.2	mass extinction of all time?
0:17.1	I don't like it, Callie. I got a bad feeling about this.
0:19.4	What about 66 million years ago in the aftermath of a giant space rock hitting the Earth?
0:24.6	Is any of that even left, or is it just all charred and burn?
0:28.6	On season two of the Eons podcast, we'll explore the most common question we're asked by our audience.
0:35.6	How long could a human survive if they were dropped into a
0:38.7	particular period of the geologic past?
0:41.6	You could totally make a sweet armor suit out of arthurura.
0:45.8	I mean, we just have to find a dead one.
0:47.2	Oh, yeah.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.4	Okay.
0:48.9	Each episode will look at a time period from all angles.
0:52.6	We'll cover apex predators, food sources, environmental
0:56.2	hazards, and massive climatic events. That might attract the big terosaurs. We would be easy
1:02.3	pickings at that point. I've seen 800 of them, and now they're all I eat, and I'm so tired of them.
1:08.2	Oh my God. We're going to look so good. You will not want to mess with us
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