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Full video: Nathan Myhrvold at Code 2016

Watch for falling asteroids.

What happens if an asteroid hits the Earth? Spoiler alert: Nothing good.

Here’s the full video of Intellectual Ventures founder Nathan Myhrvold speaking about our historical (mis-)understanding of asteroids at the 2016 Code Conference. He talks about what we got wrong in the past and what efforts are underway to detect asteroids before they enter the atmosphere.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.