Summary: <p>If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27<sup>th</sup>, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of <i>Big Picture Science</i> separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction.</p> <p>In this second episode: a global viral pandemic … climate change … and the threat of assimilation by super-intelligent machines. </p> <p>Presented as part of the Bay Area Science Festival.</p> <p><a href="http://radio.seti.org/pages/Doomsday_Resources">Find out more </a> about our guests and their work.<br></p><h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kvgilardi/">Kirsten Gilardi</a></strong> – Wildlife veterinarian at the University of California, Davis. leader of the Gorilla Doctors program, and team leader for the US-<span class="caps">AID</span> Emerging Pandemic Threats <span class="caps">PREDICT</span> program</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/">Ken Caldeira</a></strong> – Climate scientist, Carnegie Intuition for Science at Stanford University</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://lukeprog.com/">Luke Muehlhauser</a></strong> – Executive Director of the Singularity Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://darb.ketyov.com/">Bradley Voytek</a></strong> – Neuroscience researcher at the University of California, San Francisco</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-apocalipsis-en-vivo-2a-parte/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p>
