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how will mankind's reign on earth00:00:04
meet its end someday the human race00:00:07
might be just more dust in the universe00:00:10
will it be through natural disaster00:00:13
global war00:00:15
or something far more ominous00:00:19
our darkest nightmares coming true00:00:23
a plague of infected cannibals sweeping00:00:26
the earth00:00:27
zombie apocalypse is frightening because00:00:30
theoretically it can be real00:00:32
science fiction becomes reality if00:00:35
aliens wanted the earth00:00:37
they'd take it it wouldn't be like the00:00:39
movies00:00:40
technology runs amok do we really want00:00:44
machines that think for themselves leading to a00:00:48
breakdown00:00:49
of all we hold dear within a few days00:00:52
you could turn our civilization back a00:00:54
thousand years00:00:55
as deadly predictions and modern science00:00:58
collide00:00:59
we cannot support our population we've00:01:02
planned our society00:01:04
into a dead end around the world00:01:07
people are preparing i have all of the00:01:10
practical00:01:11
preparations so that we can survive if00:01:13
we need to00:01:15
you wake up you look out of the window00:01:17
the world's gone crazy00:01:19
this is run for the hills stuff00:01:28
this is countdown to apocalypse00:01:33
[Music]00:01:37
ancient apocalyptic prophecies from the00:01:39
likes of the maya00:01:41
nostradamus and the book of revelation00:01:44
have long foretold00:01:45
of a world on the edge of ruin00:01:49
is it human nature to want to know when00:01:52
the end will come00:01:53
we'd love to know how much time we have00:01:55
left what is the real risk i mean what00:01:57
what what is most likely to kill you while00:02:00
some doomsday scenarios focus on acts of00:02:02
god00:02:03
and others on the dark works of man00:02:06
a third category where science and00:02:08
humanity converge00:02:10
present some of the most horrific00:02:12
possibilities of all00:02:14
these scenarios long relegated to the00:02:16
pages of fiction00:02:17
have become ever more plausible in our00:02:20
time00:02:23
there's something about zombies that's00:02:25
very primal00:02:28
it's plague it's cannibalism it's the00:02:31
dead walking the earth00:02:34
you wake up you look out of the window00:02:36
the world's gone crazy00:02:38
your neighbors are trying to attack you00:02:40
and if you get bitten00:02:41
you become a zombie too00:02:44
zombie apocalypse is frightening because00:02:48
theoretically it can be real and we00:02:51
don't have the tools00:02:53
and we don't have the organization to be00:02:56
able to effectively fight it00:02:58
while zombie films have terrified00:03:00
moviegoers for nearly 50 years00:03:03
in 2012 a real zombie-like attack in00:03:07
miami brought fears of flesh-eating monsters00:03:10
on the front pages00:03:11
around the world a man called rudy00:03:14
eugene00:03:16
attacked a homeless man chewing off00:03:19
three quarters of his face it was almost00:03:22
like something out of a horror movie00:03:24
when law enforcement arrived on the00:03:26
scene a vision of00:03:28
true horror unfolded before their eyes00:03:31
the00:03:32
crazed man looked over at them with00:03:34
flesh hanging out of his mouth and00:03:36
growled at the police00:03:39
he was finally subdued by the police00:03:42
but subdued with multiple shots00:03:46
it took a lot of bullets to stop this00:03:48
individual00:03:50
this was cannibalism but for real00:03:53
this was zombies but it was happening on00:03:56
the evening news00:03:57
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although this horrific attack appears to00:04:01
have been an isolated incident00:04:03
could zombie-like phenomena such as this00:04:05
spread wider00:04:07
and if so how00:04:11
the answer may be found in the00:04:12
microscopic killers00:04:14
that have decimated populations00:04:16
throughout human history00:04:20
one of the most terrifying elements of00:04:21
zombies is that they are00:04:23
an infection they infect us they're00:04:26
essentially a virus with legs and teeth00:04:28
spreading across the planet00:04:31
so they're the personification of our00:04:33
worst fears of the worst disease we00:04:35
could possibly face00:04:37
mankind has faced these sorts of00:04:39
unexpected nightmares before00:04:43
in medieval europe the black death wiped00:04:46
out maybe one in three of the population00:04:48
spanish influenza killed more people in00:04:51
191800:04:52
who had died in the entire first world00:04:55
war00:04:56
we could have another pandemic tomorrow00:04:58
or we could have another pandemic in00:05:00
another 20 years00:05:01
what's certain though is we will have00:05:04
another pandemic00:05:05
at some time in the future if you told00:05:08
any researcher in the late 1970s that00:05:10
there was going to be00:05:11
a deadly sexually transmitted disease00:05:13
that was going to kill00:05:14
millions upon millions of people00:05:15
worldwide is going to be completely00:05:17
incurable00:05:18
they would say that's ridiculous hiv hit00:05:21
us completely out of the blue00:05:22
and that's what happens with new00:05:24
diseases00:05:26
diseases can emerge suddenly with no00:05:29
warning anywhere on the face of the00:05:32
earth and we may not be ready00:05:38
could the global spread of an existing00:05:40
disease00:05:41
lead to a zombie-like pandemic00:05:44
a look around the world paints a00:05:46
surprisingly bleak00:05:47
picture nature is full of diseases00:05:51
and plagues that turn people into real00:05:54
life zombies00:05:55
the so-called nodding disease that we00:05:57
see at the moment in uganda00:05:59
emerged in sudan in the 60s little is00:06:02
known about it00:06:04
it turns people almost into vegetables00:06:06
you get00:06:07
kids affected by this thing they rock00:06:10
backwards and forwards00:06:11
they nod their heads it affects their00:06:13
brains00:06:15
they look at times like they're near00:06:17
death or dead00:06:19
ultimately it kills but before it does00:06:22
that00:06:23
these children can become violent they00:06:26
become mindless00:06:28
but the nodding disease is not alone in00:06:30
causing disturbing zombie-like symptoms00:06:34
there is also the human variation of mad00:06:36
cow disease00:06:37
called variant krutzfeld jacob disease00:06:41
or vcjd it's caused by a mutated protein00:06:46
there are new indications that vcjd can00:06:48
be transmitted00:06:49
from person to person through blood00:06:51
contact on top of that00:06:53
the symptoms are evolving it causes you00:06:56
going violently insane00:06:58
so much so that some experts have00:06:59
recommended that if someone starts00:07:01
showing advanced signs of00:07:02
vcjd you should lock them in a room00:07:04
until they die because it's 100 fatal00:07:06
there's no treatment00:07:08
and if that person who's violently00:07:10
insane attacks you gets their blood on00:07:12
you or in you00:07:13
then it's a hundred percent communicable00:07:16
to me that looks a lot like what we00:07:18
think of as a type of zombie sickness00:07:23
if the cause of a zombie-like pandemic00:07:26
is an infectious disease00:07:28
it may be only a matter of time until a00:07:30
local outbreak00:07:31
transforms into an apocalyptic global00:07:34
disaster00:07:36
the nightmare scenario is something00:07:38
airborne with a slow incubation period00:07:41
somebody breathes into your face and you00:07:43
catch this thing but you don't feel ill00:07:45
for several days00:07:47
in that time you're in public places00:07:50
you're getting on a plane this thing00:07:52
could be halfway around the world before00:07:54
you even know you're sick00:07:57
and then it would have the ability to00:07:58
mutate to drugs00:08:01
to our immunity it may be that we are00:08:04
nothing more than the cattle00:08:06
to the virus the harvest00:08:12
if a zombie-like disease ravages the00:08:14
planet in our future00:08:16
the world could quickly devolve into a00:08:19
nightmarish hellscape00:08:22
imagine a rage disease spreading like a00:08:25
plague throughout the world00:08:28
the government and the military would00:08:30
step in00:08:32
rounding up the population00:08:36
it's panic it's blood it's destruction00:08:39
your civil liberties would cease to00:08:41
exist00:08:42
you might be quarantined you might be00:08:45
experimented on00:08:47
you might even be killed it would be the00:08:50
end of the world as we know it00:08:53
if we went 10 years in a00:08:56
unstoppable flu that destroyed brains00:09:00
created zombies00:09:03
there would be nobody there to do00:09:04
research00:09:06
there would be nobody there and that's00:09:09
frightening00:09:12
if there is a zombie-like disease00:09:14
outbreak in our future00:09:16
it could be the spark that ignites the00:09:18
flame of our demise00:09:21
so matt moak head of the zombie research00:09:23
society00:09:24
is leaving nothing to chance00:09:29
to survive a zombie apocalypse you need00:09:31
to worry about the basics00:09:34
you need to worry about water you need00:09:36
to worry about food you need to be00:09:37
worried about shelter and you need to00:09:38
worry about security00:09:39
this is a essentially a battle00:09:41
flashlight it's got the stun on the end00:09:43
of it00:09:44
it's also designed to be a bludgeon00:09:45
weapon so if push comes itself you can00:09:47
actually use this00:09:48
in the same way you might use a baseball00:09:50
bat so it's got several different uses00:09:54
weapons are an essential need in a00:09:56
zombie apocalypse00:09:57
because the reality is others will have00:09:59
weapons themselves00:10:01
got a hybrid weapon which is the00:10:03
gunstock war club00:10:05
what i would really want to do is aim00:10:06
straight for the head with this so00:10:08
you come down over the top of your head00:10:10
and hit right on the top00:10:11
of your threat set00:10:16
12-gauge shotgun is a very popular00:10:17
zombie weapon00:10:19
you just pull the trigger uh the00:10:21
problems with the shotgun00:10:22
is that they're very loud so they draw a00:10:25
lot of attention to yourself the last00:10:26
thing you want to do00:10:27
in any sort of major disaster or00:10:29
infection outbreak00:10:30
is to draw attention yourself00:10:34
you don't want to use your weapons if00:10:36
you don't have to00:10:37
in the event of a zombie apocalypse i'd00:10:39
be on the roof i'd be under the house00:10:41
easy to escape many different exits00:10:44
you need to be able to survive on your00:10:46
own you need the supplies you need the00:10:48
strategy00:10:49
you need the wherewithal to live in a00:10:52
world that can no longer help you in any00:10:54
way00:10:59
throughout human history mankind has00:11:02
grappled with the mysteries of the00:11:04
cosmos00:11:05
and the possibility of intelligent life00:11:08
existing beyond00:11:09
planet earth we're fascinated with the00:11:12
idea of extraterrestrial life00:11:14
because the question of whether or not00:11:17
we're alone in the universe00:11:18
is arguably the biggest and most00:11:20
profound question we can ask ourselves00:11:23
and if the answer is no what does that00:11:26
mean for the future of our00:11:28
civilization also tied in with the00:11:31
question of aliens00:11:32
is the threat if aliens came here with00:11:36
hostile intent00:11:37
it wouldn't be like the movies if they00:11:39
wanted the earth00:11:40
they'd take it the idea of an00:11:44
alien invasion has saturated popular00:11:46
culture for over 100 years00:11:49
but on halloween in 1938 a broadcasted00:11:52
radio drama performed in the style of an00:11:55
actual news report nearly touched off a00:11:58
nationwide panic00:12:00
it was an awesome wells radio play based00:12:03
on the classic alien invasion novel00:12:05
the war of the worlds it caused mass00:12:08
panic because people thought it was real00:12:10
around the country citizens reacted with00:12:13
terror00:12:14
but as significant as the chaos over the00:12:16
war of the world's radio broadcast was00:12:19
news of an actual alien invasion would00:12:22
be another matter entirely00:12:26
in 24 7 media society the internet00:12:29
social networking sites panic would00:12:31
spread like00:12:32
wildfire if we faced an alien invasion00:12:36
it would be the ultimate shock and awe00:12:40
although some still believe that earth00:12:42
is the only planet that can sustain life00:12:45
others insist that life elsewhere in the00:12:48
universe is not only possible00:12:50
but probable i think in the universe00:12:54
life is more abundant than not00:12:57
places that would develop like a planet00:12:59
earth i don't think they're that rare00:13:02
there are billions of stars in our own00:13:03
milky way galaxy alone out of the00:13:05
billions00:13:06
there must be other earths out there00:13:09
it would be beyond arrogant to think00:13:12
that in this infinite universe00:13:14
it's just us play the numbers game00:13:17
it's inconceivable that we're alone in00:13:20
201100:13:21
nasa researchers discovered that dna00:13:23
molecules found on meteorites00:13:26
were actually created in outer space and00:13:29
not from earth-borne contamination as00:13:31
previously believed00:13:34
this discovery supports the theory that00:13:36
meteorite and comet impacts assisted in00:13:39
the origin of life00:13:40
on earth and if dna00:13:43
the blueprint of all life can be created00:13:46
in the vacuum of space00:13:48
is it possible that similar material has00:13:51
crash landed elsewhere in the universe00:13:53
and helped life take root00:13:56
it's the same on the other side of the00:13:58
universe as it is from here00:14:00
dna builds up into cells larger cells00:14:03
into intelligent life and so this is a00:14:05
process in the universe00:14:07
and it's universal alien life00:14:10
really isn't science fiction anymore00:14:12
it's science00:14:14
and if intelligent alien life does exist00:14:17
what does that mean for when humans and00:14:19
these extraterrestrials do00:14:21
cross paths is the universe00:14:25
fundamentally altruistic or competitive00:14:28
are civilizations going to help other00:14:31
civilizations00:14:33
give them technology give them the00:14:35
secret of interstellar travel00:14:37
or are they going to wipe them out00:14:40
stephen hawking is quoted as saying that00:14:43
if there is intelligent life out there00:14:45
we should not try and contact it and i agree with that00:14:49
100 stephen hawking00:14:52
regarded as the most brilliant00:14:54
theoretical physicist since albert00:14:56
einstein believes intelligent00:14:59
extraterrestrial life poses an00:15:01
enormous threat to humankind00:15:05
he likened it to the european explorers00:15:08
encountering the native americans00:15:10
and he said this time we'll be the00:15:12
native americans00:15:14
look at what's happened every single00:15:16
time you have had00:15:18
a higher technology interact with the00:15:20
lower technology00:15:22
the lower technology is raped and00:15:23
enslaved00:15:25
what happens if they come from outer00:15:26
space with their superior technology how00:15:28
are we going to fight back00:15:31
there's an old expression don't take a00:15:32
knife to a gunfight00:15:35
and that's what we would be doing00:15:38
many believe that the sheer volume of00:15:40
reported ufo sightings in the modern era00:15:43
proves that alien civilizations have00:15:45
been observing mankind for decades00:15:49
there's no smoke without fire even if00:15:52
you eliminate00:15:53
99 out of 100 ufo sightings and say00:15:56
they're hoaxes or misidentifications you'd be00:15:59
left with00:16:00
thousands of genuine reports00:16:04
reports of unidentified flying objects00:16:06
continue to surface00:16:08
throughout the world government and00:16:10
military personnel have also00:16:12
investigated the phenomenon00:16:14
and some have even begun planning for an00:16:17
alien00:16:18
invasion i spent three years researching00:16:22
and investigating the ufo phenomenon for00:16:24
the british government00:16:25
at the ministry of defence i can tell00:16:28
you the whole alien invasion scenario has00:16:31
been planned for00:16:32
has been war gamed there is a culture00:16:36
of high classification and secrecy that00:16:39
runs through the whole relationship00:16:42
between government and ufos00:16:45
they know far more than they're telling00:16:46
the public00:16:49
is it government policy to conceal00:16:51
knowledge of a real00:16:53
extraterrestrial threat and if the00:16:55
threat is real00:16:57
why would earth a small speck of dust in00:17:00
a boundless universe00:17:01
be such an important target for alien00:17:04
invaders00:17:06
just because there's a lot of life in00:17:08
the universe doesn't mean that the earth00:17:11
is not one of the most unique and most00:17:13
valuable places in this galaxy00:17:16
the fact that we have water here which00:17:18
is the rarest element in the entire00:17:20
solar system00:17:22
we have a genetic diversity of races and00:17:26
people here literally a dna warehouse that is a00:17:30
treasure trove you could populate00:17:32
millions of other planets with the00:17:33
different races and beings00:17:36
aliens might come here to colonize00:17:39
aliens might come here because they need00:17:41
us as slave labor00:17:43
or the earth might occupy some sort of00:17:46
strategic position00:17:48
in the cosmos whatever the reason00:17:51
if an aggressive alien force decides to00:17:53
invade earth in the future00:17:56
humankind may be wiped off the face of00:17:58
the planet00:18:02
if you look at the statistical00:18:04
likelihood00:18:05
of us encountering an alien invader00:18:08
with technology just 500 years ahead of00:18:12
our own00:18:13
it's ridiculous we00:18:16
cannot even conceive of some of the00:18:19
weapons that we might face00:18:21
if we can't conceive of them we may not00:18:24
be able to defend against them00:18:27
they could basically just destroy the00:18:28
entire planet to basically a you know a00:18:30
bright blue marble if you will00:18:32
wiping out all life on earth as we know00:18:34
it if they wanted to destroy us00:18:36
no problem we couldn't fight back00:18:40
it would be death it would be00:18:41
destruction game over00:18:45
if an advanced extraterrestrial force00:18:48
launches a global attack on our planet00:18:50
in the future00:18:51
humanity could be outclassed by superior00:18:54
weapon00:18:55
technology and possibly exterminated00:18:58
but as we'll see many believe a more00:19:01
immediate threat to mankind's survival00:19:04
is not in a galaxy far far away00:19:10
with the countdown to apocalypse stoking00:19:12
fears in some circles of alien invaders00:19:15
or exotic zombie-like diseases00:19:18
others are focusing on an even more00:19:20
immediate threat to our day-to-day lives00:19:22
and if this apocalypse does come to pass00:19:26
we may only have ourselves to blame00:19:34
[Music]00:19:36
imagine how dependent we are in almost00:19:38
everything we do00:19:39
on computers a potent cyber weapon00:19:43
could end civilization in the developed00:19:46
western world everything that we have00:19:50
everything that society depends upon00:19:52
runs on electricity runs on power00:19:55
you take down the power you take down00:19:57
society00:19:58
[Music]00:20:01
in june of 2010 a malicious computer00:20:04
virus known as stuxnet00:20:06
began spreading throughout the world it00:20:09
was followed two years later00:20:11
by a related cyber espionage program00:20:13
called00:20:14
flame these pieces of malware00:20:17
have apparently been out there for quite00:20:19
some time no one knew about them00:20:22
these things were incredibly00:20:25
sophisticated00:20:27
they were targeted to take down certain00:20:29
systems00:20:31
particularly hard hit by these programs00:20:33
was a series of nuclear centrifuges in00:20:36
iran00:20:37
vital to the uranium enrichment00:20:39
necessary for developing nuclear weapons00:20:42
what stuxnet did was it made the00:20:44
centrifuges that00:20:45
enrich uranium run very fast and very00:20:48
slow and very fast and very slow until00:20:49
they burned out00:20:51
while no one officially admitted00:20:53
responsibility for this attack00:20:55
few today doubt who was involved it's00:20:58
been widely reported that flame and00:21:00
stuxnet00:21:01
would develop jointly by the us and00:21:04
israeli government00:21:06
the stuxnet and flame attacks were00:21:08
celebrated in the west00:21:10
for hampering iran's nuclear ambitions00:21:13
but upon closer reflection they raise a00:21:16
troubling question00:21:18
was this just the first shot in a00:21:20
full-fledged cyber war00:21:22
that could spiral beyond our control00:21:26
it's not clear that once you unleash the00:21:28
dogs of cyber00:21:30
that you can always keep the dogs on00:21:32
your leash00:21:34
while miles and oceans have long00:21:36
protected our shores from invasion00:21:39
they provide little barrier to cyber00:21:41
attacks00:21:42
as there's more access to these00:21:44
technologies as the barriers to entry00:21:47
get lower it's not clear how we maintain our00:21:50
superiority00:21:51
right now in cyber all the advantages00:21:53
with the offense00:21:55
terrorist groups could take down the air00:21:57
traffic control00:21:59
computers you could slam aircraft into00:22:01
each other you could take a nuclear00:22:02
power station00:22:04
and you could cause a meltdown you could00:22:06
open the floodgates00:22:08
of a dam and devastate hundreds of00:22:11
square miles00:22:12
of of the countryside and some are00:22:15
fearful that a cyber assault on our financial00:22:18
infrastructure00:22:19
could be even more devastating the00:22:22
entire economy00:22:23
is now what we call photonic where all00:22:26
your money is not00:22:27
gold or silver or even federal reserve00:22:29
note paper that you have in your hand00:22:31
it's all blips of light in a computer00:22:33
somewhere a well-coordinated cyber00:22:36
attack can a country in a matter of00:22:39
minutes00:22:40
all your bank data is gone your money00:22:42
simply isn't there anymore and if pretty00:22:44
soon the whole fabric of society breaks00:22:46
down00:22:47
when you say end of the world people00:22:49
think it means armageddon00:22:51
but it might not happen that way it00:22:53
might simply mean the end of00:22:55
civilization00:22:56
[Music]00:23:00
a successful cyber attack on our00:23:02
infrastructure has the power to bring00:23:04
america to its knees00:23:06
and as our enemies evolve and adapt00:23:09
government scientists struggle00:23:11
to keep up but a cyber attack00:23:14
is not the only threat to our00:23:16
technological civilization00:23:24
an emp creates a huge electromagnetic00:23:26
current00:23:27
that creates a tremendous power surge00:23:30
and the power surge would be00:23:32
great enough to knock out any electrical00:23:34
device00:23:36
the main way to set off an emp blast is00:23:39
with a nuclear explosion00:23:44
that can be as devastating if not more00:23:46
so than the nuclear attack itself00:23:50
ever since the first detonation of a00:23:52
nuclear device in 194500:23:56
mankind has feared the power of the atom00:24:00
but it took nearly 20 years to discover00:24:02
a secondary effect00:24:04
of a nuclear explosion an00:24:06
electromagnetic00:24:08
pulse or emp00:24:11
the starfish prime test in 196200:24:15
really told the world what a problem00:24:18
this was this was detonating a nuclear bomb00:24:22
250 miles up out in space00:24:25
they knocked out the power lines as far00:24:27
away as hawaii00:24:28
the phones went down the power went out00:24:31
radios didn't work there was00:24:33
interference it was all coming apart00:24:37
starfish prime showed that there was00:24:39
more going on00:24:40
with atomic weapons than was perhaps00:24:43
realized and that00:24:44
the electronic pulses and the the00:24:46
magnetism that they produced from a long00:24:48
distance could affect the power grid in00:24:50
a way that people hadn't really00:24:51
anticipated00:24:52
as rogue nations and terrorist entities00:24:55
acquire more and more powerful weapons many fear00:24:59
that a crippling00:25:00
emp attack may not be far00:25:03
off a lot of people take the emp threat00:25:06
very seriously there's a us emp00:25:09
commission00:25:10
they've issued several damning reports00:25:12
about the preparation00:25:14
or rather the lack of it speaker00:25:16
gingrich for example has been very00:25:17
public about this as well as some00:25:18
members of parliament in the uk00:25:20
that within a few days you could00:25:24
essentially turn our civilization back a00:25:26
thousand years00:25:28
a devastating emp attack would mean the00:25:31
end of the electronic age and ultimately00:25:35
the components of modern civilization00:25:37
will topple00:25:38
one by one first you knock out00:25:42
all of the communications it's gone in00:25:44
an instant communication's out00:25:46
that means transportation's out00:25:48
emergency resources are out00:25:50
uh health personnel can't find out00:25:52
what's going on in the next block a lot00:25:54
across town there would be several00:25:57
strife of00:25:58
catastrophic proportions there's a very00:26:02
very thin line between civilization00:26:05
and our collapse into complete and utter00:26:07
barbarism00:26:08
have we become so dependent on machines00:26:11
and technology and comforts00:26:13
that if that's taken away from us our00:26:16
very survival00:26:18
is at stake ordinary members of the00:26:20
public are terrified about this this is00:26:22
run for the hills stuff00:26:26
a major emp attack would threaten the00:26:29
very framework of modern civilization00:26:32
and in case this doomsday scenario00:26:34
should come to pass00:26:36
preppers like utah housewife peggy00:26:38
layton00:26:39
are hunkering down and making00:26:41
preparations00:26:42
people are afraid i'm talking to people00:26:45
every day and00:26:46
kind of getting a sense for where00:26:47
they're at and people really are scared00:26:51
we're going down underneath the building00:26:56
this is my bunker anything from nuclear00:26:59
attack00:27:01
to an emp we could bug out here and we00:27:04
could use this facility00:27:05
we have everything we need here we have00:27:07
enough for six people00:27:09
we have a lot of these five gallon00:27:10
containers of water00:27:12
i have all of the food to last about two00:27:15
or three years00:27:16
sanitation is a really big issue when00:27:18
you've got people in tight quarters00:27:20
so i've got a couple of porta potties00:27:22
with everything that we need00:27:23
for sanitation here also00:27:27
the dollar is going to be worthless and00:27:30
so i've started collecting silver00:27:32
i really feel like this will be a00:27:33
currency that we will be able to trade00:27:35
and barter with00:27:37
yes i have a bunker yes i have food00:27:40
stored yes i have silver i have all of00:27:43
the practical00:27:44
preparations so that we can survive if00:27:47
we need to00:27:53
[Music]00:27:54
as technology continues to advance in00:27:57
the 21st century00:27:59
many fear that the lines of science00:28:01
fiction and reality have already00:28:03
merged is humanity prepared for when our00:28:07
greatest technological creations evolve00:28:10
beyond our control a robot apocalypse is00:28:17
almost like your children00:28:18
turning on you that's the point00:28:22
where we've created not homo sapiens but00:28:25
homo superior00:28:28
that's the point where the human race is00:28:31
no longer at the top of the evolutionary00:28:34
tree00:28:36
through technology we are creating new00:28:38
threats for ourselves00:28:42
there is a chance i think everybody00:28:44
agrees that00:28:46
we will not survive the next hundred00:28:47
years00:28:48
[Music]00:28:50
many point to recent advances in00:28:52
artificial intelligence00:28:53
not only as the greatest example of00:28:55
humanity's technological prowess00:28:58
but also signs of an evolution that may00:29:01
be our undoing00:29:04
let's say you develop true artificial00:29:06
intelligence00:29:07
an ai that can actually think that can00:29:09
reason that has00:29:11
logic let's just say that their00:29:14
prerogative is to00:29:15
save the earth let's say they come to00:29:18
the conclusion00:29:19
that the real threat to the earth is man00:29:24
so in order to save the earth humanity00:29:27
must be destroyed00:29:28
[Applause]00:29:32
we can write code00:29:35
and we can create artificial00:29:37
intelligence systems00:29:38
that are beyond the reach of00:29:41
the human ability to control them00:29:43
[Music]00:29:44
artificial intelligence has already been00:29:46
integrated into the mainstream00:29:49
smartphones that can understand voice00:29:51
commands00:29:52
autonomous cars that can drive00:29:54
themselves00:29:56
but the science of a.i is being pushed00:29:58
beyond the realm of modern convenience00:30:01
and amusement more recent approaches to00:30:04
artificial intelligence are mimicking00:30:07
what we now understand00:30:08
the human brain to do as the human brain00:30:10
is designed in sort of modules00:30:12
and that modular ai may get us to the00:30:15
point00:30:16
where you actually have creative00:30:18
thinking and context and judgment00:30:21
that may be a game changer the ultimate00:30:23
moral question is going to become00:30:25
do we really want machines that are00:30:27
smarter than us do we really want00:30:29
machines that00:30:30
think for themselves00:30:34
many believe that the next arena for00:30:36
artificial intelligence is on the00:30:38
battlefield00:30:39
as military tactics continue to00:30:41
integrate emerging technologies00:30:45
ai is scary at the best of times but00:30:48
when you're dealing with00:30:49
military ai it's even more scary because00:30:52
there's a weapon attached to it00:30:55
[Music]00:30:59
we already have devices on ships00:31:03
that can engage missiles autonomously00:31:07
but having machinery that can do that00:31:10
without a human being in the loop00:31:12
offensively that's another step00:31:16
combat drones are remotely piloted00:31:18
aircraft00:31:20
that have traditionally required a human00:31:22
finger on the trigger00:31:24
but according to the u.s air force's00:31:26
unmanned aircraft systems flight plan00:31:28
report00:31:29
by the year 2047 advances in artificial00:31:33
intelligence00:31:34
will enable these flying robots to make00:31:37
attack decisions without00:31:39
human intervention00:31:42
this is the ultimate nightmare you have00:31:45
the machine00:31:46
deciding whether or not it's going to00:31:47
attack someone00:31:49
and this is not science fiction people00:31:51
are planning for it right now00:31:53
when you have technology00:31:56
divorced from compassion and morality00:32:00
you have a horrible danger00:32:03
and without regulations advances in00:32:05
weaponized ai00:32:07
may spiral out of control00:32:10
there need to be international00:32:13
conversations about00:32:14
conventions to prohibit autonomous00:32:17
offensive lethal engagement00:32:21
there should always be a human being in00:32:23
the decision loop00:32:25
we could lose control over this one00:32:29
and of course ai with the power to kill00:32:32
is not just morally troubling but can00:32:35
threaten our very survival00:32:39
what happens when it malfunctions00:32:41
turning on the very humanity that00:32:42
created in the first place00:32:45
a future where artificial intelligence00:32:47
holds the key to life and death00:32:49
decisions is not00:32:50
far off but there's another terrifying00:32:53
vision of a robot00:32:54
apocalypse one where microscopic00:32:58
intelligent machines destroy us from the00:33:01
inside out00:33:04
nanotechnology is a fancy word for00:33:06
microscopic physical engineering00:33:08
these are minuscule billionth of a meter00:33:11
objects00:33:13
you might call them robots sometimes00:33:14
called nanobots00:33:16
and they have tremendous possibilities00:33:18
in theory00:33:20
we're gonna have nanotechnology to solve00:33:24
all sorts of illnesses and disease00:33:27
we're going to inject ourselves with00:33:29
nanobots00:33:30
and they're going to wipe out cancer00:33:32
cells cure heart disease00:33:35
they're going to take the clogging out00:33:36
of our arteries00:33:39
but while some see nanotechnology as a00:33:42
cure for everything from disease to world00:33:44
hunger00:33:45
others are far more wary00:33:51
what if something happens to them00:33:53
because of the way that our bodies00:33:55
affect them00:33:57
that causes their programs to00:33:59
malfunction00:34:01
what happens when you have this00:34:02
nanotechnology and it's it's inside your00:34:05
body and it starts off zapping the the00:34:08
disease cells and and the bad stuff but then it00:34:11
starts zapping the good stuff too00:34:14
all machines can break down technology00:34:17
can go wrong00:34:19
as intelligent machines continue to00:34:21
develop00:34:22
and integrate deeper into our lives00:34:25
many fear the future rise of the robots00:34:28
could endanger our very00:34:30
existence the problem probably00:34:33
isn't gonna be any of these things00:34:35
individually00:34:37
it's gonna be when they start happening00:34:38
together and we may not know where that00:34:41
point is00:34:43
where so many of them are interlinked00:34:45
that the thing effectively becomes00:34:46
one super organism suddenly you can't00:34:49
stop00:34:50
it it's irreversible and that's when you00:34:52
get the robot apocalypse00:34:56
if technological growth continues on its00:34:58
present course00:35:00
humanity's supremacy on earth may come00:35:02
to an end00:35:03
[Music]00:35:05
but even if we are able to harness this00:35:07
threat00:35:08
our day of reckoning could still be at00:35:11
hand00:35:15
as the countdown to apocalypse looks to00:35:17
the exotic00:35:18
terrors of the future zombie-like00:35:21
pandemics00:35:22
alien invasion and modern technology run00:35:26
amok there is a ticking time bomb we may be00:35:29
missing00:35:30
a doomsday scenario that is already00:35:32
underway00:35:35
in human history we've gone from horse00:35:38
and cart to space rocket and stealth fighter00:35:42
in just a couple of hundred years the00:35:44
population00:35:45
has increased exponentially00:35:47
[Music]00:35:49
at the dawn of agriculture the00:35:51
population of earth numbered00:35:53
approximately 5 million00:35:55
it took nearly 10 000 years for that00:35:57
number to increase to 1 billion00:36:00
around the turn of the 19th century00:36:03
today just over 200 years later00:36:07
there are 7 billion people on earth00:36:10
and this population surge was made00:36:12
possible by the energy that fueled an00:36:14
industrial revolution00:36:20
power oil gas petroleum00:36:24
everything in modern life runs00:36:27
on it people don't realize00:36:31
just how much is essentially made from00:36:34
oil00:36:35
it's not just your gas it's fertilizers00:36:39
pesticides plastics clothing00:36:43
if the supply shrinks if you take it00:36:45
away everything begins to collapse00:36:48
there probably isn't a product in the00:36:51
supermarket that doesn't have petroleum00:36:54
in it somewhere petroleum is just00:36:58
central to every aspect of our lives00:37:02
while demand for oil is ever increasing00:37:05
many believe that the supply of this00:37:07
finite resource00:37:09
has already peaked and will soon drop00:37:12
off rapidly00:37:14
the scary thing is that peak oil is here00:37:17
now according to opec00:37:20
the world's proven reserves are00:37:22
estimated to hold 1.500:37:24
trillion barrels of crude oil while00:37:27
global consumption00:37:29
is over 85 million barrels a day00:37:32
and rising more and more countries00:37:36
are becoming industrial nations more and00:37:38
more countries00:37:39
are using power in ways that they've00:37:42
never used them before00:37:44
[Music]00:37:46
right now we are withdrawing petroleum00:37:48
from the ground consuming it00:37:50
three times the rate of it it's being00:37:52
discovered00:37:54
in the face of this frightening math00:37:57
pressure is mounting to increase00:37:59
oil output and keep up with soaring00:38:01
demand00:38:03
no matter the economic and environmental00:38:06
cost00:38:09
it's a scary situation nine out of the00:38:13
2100:38:14
major oil fields are already declining00:38:17
in terms of production00:38:20
studies have shown that most of the easy00:38:23
to get to00:38:24
oil has already been gotten out the oil00:38:27
that's left00:38:28
is the tough to get stuff what will00:38:31
happen to life on earth00:38:32
as runaway population growth consumes00:38:35
more and more of the available energy00:38:38
supply00:38:39
the minute population continues to grow00:38:41
and production stops00:38:43
whatever that surplus population is must00:38:46
die00:38:48
without oil huge swaths of the planet00:38:52
will fall into starvation00:38:55
it's estimated that it takes 1000:38:59
units of energy mainly from petroleum00:39:02
to produce one unit of food energy on00:39:06
your dinner plate00:39:08
it just indicates that every bit of our00:39:11
food supply is dependent on petroleum00:39:14
if you don't have gasoline you can't get00:39:17
food from the farms00:39:19
into the stores and so the food rots on00:39:22
the farms00:39:25
and people they are starving i mean00:39:28
that sort of thing multiplied a million00:39:30
times over00:39:32
is the kind of problem you have in the00:39:34
shortage of petroleum00:39:37
we cannot support our present population00:39:41
in the long term we don't have the00:39:42
energy resources we don't have the food00:39:45
resources00:39:46
we've planned our society into a dead00:39:48
end00:39:49
[Music]00:39:52
history tells us every00:39:56
empire that has ever existed has fallen00:40:00
something brings their reign of power to00:40:02
an end00:40:04
is oil gonna be what brings our00:40:06
civilization down00:40:09
as the peak oil crisis threatens to00:40:11
bring on societal collapse and00:40:13
starvation00:40:14
peggy layton has taken the necessary00:40:16
precautions to ensure00:40:18
her family's survival if we have a gas00:40:21
crisis and the00:40:22
the trucks stop bringing food to our00:40:25
local grocery stores00:40:27
we are going to have to be the grocery00:40:29
store but without food and water00:40:32
you won't last very long00:40:35
so we have our short-term emergency00:40:37
supply then i00:40:39
also have a three-month supply i have a00:40:41
six-month supply00:40:42
a one-year supply this is our 185-gallon00:40:46
water tank that we store00:40:47
extra water that's all purified and00:40:50
ready to drink00:40:52
i want to show you my greenhouse right00:40:55
now we've got some plants that are00:40:56
started00:40:57
and then just as soon as the weather00:40:58
breaks outside we can get them out into00:41:00
the garden00:41:02
you have to have a water tank in the00:41:04
greenhouse00:41:05
and so this is an 800 gallon water tank00:41:07
and it is specifically for keeping the00:41:09
temperature constant00:41:11
year-round so that it never freezes and00:41:13
it never overheats00:41:15
we are trying to make our entire00:41:18
property productive00:41:20
got about a quarter of an acre that we00:41:22
utilize for our garden area00:41:25
in this small amount of space we get00:41:27
enough food for about three families00:41:31
i know we could be wiped out at any00:41:33
moment but we have the skills to rebuild00:41:36
we can grow a garden we know what to do00:41:40
and so if we had to start over we could00:41:43
do it00:41:46
zombies aliens00:41:49
runaway technologies peak oil00:41:53
as our feet remain planted in an00:41:55
uncertain present00:41:57
these future terrors could make our00:42:00
current concerns seem00:42:01
quaint by comparison if we do not00:42:04
prepare00:42:05
for the dangers of what is ahead of us00:42:09
what conceivably could occur in the00:42:10
future then00:42:12
folks lights out parties over with a00:42:16
countdown to apocalypse ticking down00:42:19
how much longer can we hope to survive00:42:22
the answer to this question that has00:42:24
preoccupied mankind for millennia00:42:27
will only truly be revealed when the00:42:29
doomsday00:42:30
clock strikes midnight00:42:47
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Nightmarish terrors long relegated to the pages of science fiction are threatening to become a reality in the 21st Century. As science continues to evolve, the boundaries of fantasy and reality have blurred, in Season 1, Episode 6, "Future Terrors." #CountdowntotheApocalypse Subscribe for more from Countdown to the Apocalypse and other great The HISTORY Channel shows: https://www.youtube.com/user/HistoryChannel/?sub_confirmation=1 Find out more about the show and watch full episodes on our site: https://www.historytv.fi/fi Check out exclusive The HISTORY Channel content: History Newsletter: www.history.com/newsletter Website - https://www.historytv.fi/fi Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Twitter - https://twitter.com/history Although they proved inaccurate, we all heard the prophecies about December 21, 2012. Whether they came from the Mayan calendar or the wrath of Revelations, several cultures and traditions believed the world would end on that date. Countdown to Apocalypse explains the origins and traditions behind end-of-the-world prophecies. From purchasing underground shelters and securing “bug-out” rooms, to preaching the message of God’s divine fury many people all over the world prepared themselves for the end. Each episode will take you through the history of the prophecies, and people’s plans of protection and redemption. Modern scientists also dissect the potential apocalyptic threats to see if there’s any fact behind these premonitions. As ancient prophecy and modern science collide, Countdown to Apocalypse begs the question, “are you prepared?” The HISTORY Channel® is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive, and entertaining manner across all platforms. The network's all-original programming slate features a roster of hit series, premium documentaries, and scripted event programming.
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