The Doomsday Argument
PBS Space Time · Season 2019 · Episode 39
Since the dawn of humanity around 100 billion people have lived. How many will live in the future of our species? We might hope for a trillion times that if we colonize the galaxy. But a simple statistical argument tells us that the doom of our species is much, much closer.
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Season
2019
Episode
39
Air Date
09/Dec/2019
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
18 min
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Since the dawn of humanity around 100 billion people have lived. How many will live in the future of our species? We might hope for a trillion times that if we colonize the galaxy. But a simple statistical argument tells us that the doom of our species is much, much closer.
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