Dr. Steven Novella
speaker
11,445 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3d ago
Dr. Steven Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Russia blowing up a satellite and the implications of that, you know, the Kessler syndrome where it might flood low Earth orbit with debris.
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So we lose basically the ability to have satellites.
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So this morning we're chatting.
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What would that really do?
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What would it do?
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What would the effect on our lives be if we had no satellites?
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Within a relatively short period of time.
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Yeah.
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And the answer is a lot.
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It would affect us a lot.
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But we expanded the conversation to, we thought we always like to start our live shows with a light and funny conversation.
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So we thought we'd talk about the end of civilization.
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Just from a lighthearted perspective.
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Whimsical look.
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How fragile is our modern civilization, our modern society?
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Could something like a CME, which is a coronal mass ejection, another way that we could wipe out our satellite infrastructure and more, our grids could go down.
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And it's going to happen on like a timescale of decades, not millennia.
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Right.
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We're getting hit with them all the time.
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It's just a matter of how strong they are.
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