Black hole death

In this hilarious, entertaining and informative discussion writer and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses death by astrophysical phenomena including being sucked into a black hole and being wiped out by an asteroid-impact tsunami. Discussing the possibility of avoiding a specific asteroid impact that may occur in 2036 by blowing the thing out of the sky Tyson says "We, particularly Americans, are very good at blowing stuff up... we're less good at understanding where the pieces go after it blows up." So much insight in so few words. The other interesting fact about the larger asteroid impacts (like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs) is that subterranean bacterias are in the best place to survive them, perhaps another reason to think of those bacterias as "the most intelligent organisms on earth". Here's the link to the full program (well worth it for the extra five minutes of this gem).