Season 1
6 episodes
43 min. per episode
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A brilliant scientist confronts humanity's darkest fears, unraveling unsettling truths while racing against time to save civilization.
Episodes
Using weather footage of past hurricanes and typhoons, Bill Nye builds a believable scenario of the simultaneous landfalls of five Category 5 storms, blended with scientific demonstrations for understanding, and lessons for survival.
Bill Nye predicts the nightmare scenario, an eruption of the supervolcano existing in the Yellowstone Caldera. He explains current efforts to monitor abnormal activity signaling impending eruption, earthquake, or hydrothermal explosion.
Bill Nye explains how a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), greater in scope than those experienced before, could overload the world's electrical grids, triggering failure with a technological domino effect, bringing darkness worldwide.
Bill Nye explains how the dust bowl days of the 1930s could be triggered again soon, through soil degradation through resource profligacy, conglomerates draining aquifers, lack of regulatory oversight, and climate change induced droughts.
Bill Nye informs of the probability that interstellar debris from an errant comet may cause a global calamity, changing how survivors of the event live decades into the future. Early detection and planetary defense theories explored.
Explore the myths and realities of both natural and unnatural threats, from viruses to volcanoes, asteroids to authoritarianism, and climate change to chemical warfare.