Apophis is a Killer and it's coming | Ground Zero: California
Added 2025-08-11 05:43:29 +0000 UTCOn April 13, 2029, an asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our communication satellites. For the first time in human history, millions of people will watch a mountain-sized space rock race across the night sky.
NASA says we're safe, but Apophis is just the beginning. Scientists estimate 25,000 city-killer asteroids cross Earth's orbit, and they've only found half of them.
The other 13,500 remain completely hidden, somewhere in the darkness of space. Every three days, fragments from ancient comets bombard our planet.
Just 12,800 years ago, a cosmic impact reset human civilization and triggered a freeze that lasted over a thousand years. The evidence is buried in rock layers across four continents.
Today, we have the technology to fight back, but time is running out. The question isn't whether another impact will happen—it's whether we'll be ready when it does.
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This episode... The story was so moving I was working at my computer in a shop full of guys crying lol they're like what's wrong.. not me being like the unity is so beautiful 😭😭😭 They think I'm nuts 😅😅
Tiffany
2025-10-26 00:13:49 +0000 UTCMay Melody’s memory be a blessing.
Aurelius Echo
2025-10-20 21:14:46 +0000 UTCNo, AJ and company, Apophis-scale or even city-killer-sized asteroids and comets aren't threats to humanity, the people who sell us wars are. When they're not selling themselves as our saviors from asteroids and comets, things that they've been able to deal with for decades, one of their most dangerous techniques for keeping people from paying attention to the (mostly) men behind the curtain of the transnational military technology and logistics business is called "limited hang-out." https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/limited-hangout https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/limited-hangout https://news.clearancejobs.com/2014/02/23/a-limited-hangout-allow-spies-to-tell-one-truth-to-hide-another/ https://spyscape.com/article/spy-glossary https://spyscape.com/article/spy-glossary I haven't seen or listened to the episodes more recent than this one, but if anyone reads my comments they'll likely learn more about how limited-hangout works, as applied to a show such as The Why Files, if they're not already familiar with the concept. [Did anyone read this or any of my other comments? Please like them or tell me why I'm wrong. I value open source information and ideas that are new to me. ]
Steve Pisani
2025-08-29 18:50:01 +0000 UTCDo those who promote, provoke, support, and constantly prepare for real and imagined wars and catastrophes, such as Apophis-scale asteroid and cometary impacts of our one and only planet, manipulate the publishers and writers of every transnational media outlet, those with with more readers, listeners, viewers, or subscribers than a certain size threshold selected by said warmongers? According to the late, late-night canoeing advocate, former CIA Director William Colby, they did. Given their ongoing and uninterrupted success at keeping military spending high and their coffers overflowing, there's no reason to believed they ever stopped. https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977 https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/27/archives/cia-will-keep-more-than-25-journalistagents-personnel-not-covered.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-mockingbird https://fcpp.org/2021/06/28/the-cias-media-assets/ Most people who work for the CIA are patriots, or at least public servants who could earn better compensation in the private sector. But a few former 'company' people and others in the US intelligence community as well, do go to work for major military contractors after they 'retire' from government service. Those 'formerly' in charge of operational planning, technical services, and counterintelligence are particularly prized in the 'defense' industry. https://www.pogo.org/analysis/the-pentagons-revolving-door-keeps-spinning-2021-in-review https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-revolving-door/ https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-industry-agenda-military-industrial-complex/ All of that has everything to do with stoking fears of Apophis-scale asteroids and comets, because military contracts for imagined or exaggerated threats pay just as well as dangers posed by real enemies or other potential disasters. Psyops people who work for the transnational war business might better be thought of as 'drug company reps' who offer things of value to media influencers to, when requested, fan fears among the 'persuadables' in their audiences.
Steve Pisani
2025-08-29 18:21:55 +0000 UTCall that organization and rebuilding wouldn’t happen humans would just kill each other into extinction
Sqk
2025-08-25 17:47:29 +0000 UTCGreat job on this one AJ and team. The AI has come a long way, really amazing. I came down here not to thank you for the show this week, but to thank you for being such a stand up guy AJ. You didn't have to put that in at the end, but you did. I cried, I am still crying, knowing there is hope even when all is lost, for our children. Melody you will live on forever, and to all the families ever who have lost a child, my heart and love goes out to you. Every single one of you. - I could never know that feeling before I had children of my own, now that I'll hopefully be a grandfather soon, the fight to make things better for all the children of the world is stronger in me than ever before. Rest in Peace Melody.
Anthony Blacker
2025-08-23 05:53:53 +0000 UTCThat ending made me cry
Steven Chell
2025-08-20 22:29:03 +0000 UTCWhat is amazing is that life on this planet has survived this long at all! You’d think the impact rate would be much higher even after this solar system’s millennia. Raises a lot of questions…
David “Kiwi” Keller
2025-08-14 23:13:25 +0000 UTCMe too. I was already on the verge of tears with all the heart-rending survival stories, but Melody touched my heart. ❤️
David “Kiwi” Keller
2025-08-14 23:10:55 +0000 UTCI really liked this episode! Loved the story telling ! You did got me crying at the end .. fly high angel 👼🏼 melody ❤️
Gushi 1011
2025-08-14 16:36:36 +0000 UTCAnother great episode! Kind of a buzz killer, but very well done. Lol. I'm always looking forward to the next one! Thank you!
Mark Kemmerer
2025-08-14 01:13:05 +0000 UTCWow. Great job as always. Thanks WF?
B B
2025-08-14 00:32:07 +0000 UTCWOW ! That was insightful, educational, exciting and incredibly moving. Im in !
Sandi Mahaffey
2025-08-11 08:16:32 +0000 UTCAmazing work! <3
Jesse Reese
2025-08-11 08:01:55 +0000 UTC
