overharvesting the oceans, we have dragnets that could drag the entire ocean. that s how efficient our technology is. food production, we have to worry about, because water, water is the key to food production and there are going to be perhaps water wars in the future. arthel: are you concerned about water wars and concern about running out of water? there will always be water on the earth, the question is what it takes to irrigate, and the kind of commodities start to rise. so because we re at the top of the top chain doesn t mean that we re invulnerable to what s happening outside where bio diversity is threatened. you mentioned insects could overrun the earth. that s in science fiction. but the cockroach, they never seem to go away. we ve got to figure out a way to get rid of them. dr. michio kaku, thank you very much. the new book is physics of the future .
breaking news. we re continuing to follow out of bahrain the nighttime shots just coming in the continuing protests. soldiers firing tear gas. they shot heavy weapons into the air. we do believe that many of the people who have been sent to hospital, some of them seriously injured, were hit with rubber bullets. we re going to continue to follow this breaking news out of the middle east for you. in the meantime, a little science. quite a show in the skies. on monday the sun erupted into what was essentially a temper tantrum of solar flares, the biggest we ve seen in four years. that radiation is just hitting the earth now, and it could affect everything from satellites to power grids. a professor of physics at city university in new york and author of physics of the future which is coming out next month. always good to see you, michio. what s behind the solar show?
a minuscule, little bit of a chance, one in 250,000. better than winning the lottery. and we have a physicists professor at city university of new york. he is also the author of physics of the future, and a new book coming out in a month. we will tell you about that in a month. so, good to see you. 2029, it flies by under the satellite. mark it on your calendar, friday 13, april 26, on the second pass. the first pass, like you say, is under our satellite, and you can actually see it whizzing right overhead and on the second path it could actually be a nation buster. it will take out germany, it will take out france, england, and, or the entire northeast of the united states. it will hit with the force of
show a complete sue of the sun s entire surface and atmosphere. you can see sort of the edges of it in a way we haven t seen in pictures. joining us is michio kaku, professor of physics at the university of new york and author of the upcoming book physics of the future which is going to be fascinating. we re going to talk about that about him in the future but today, the sun. fascinating. what are we going to learn from this? we take the sun for granted. for the first time we have these glorious pictures of the sun. but it s also an early warning system. every 11 years, starting next year, the sun throws a temper tantrum that could wipe out or damage our satellites and power systems, so we need a system like this to give us 3d motions of the sun as it actually is. martha: we re going to know when what is about to happen? it s swift, right? the north you explain it. the north pole and the south pole, the sun actually flips every 11 years, releasing a burst of energy, and when th
years but it s under there. it s there and it will happen. at one point it will destroy north america as we know it. scary. always great to talk to you and thank you very much for joining us. thank you. you can check ous hi physics of the future that will be coming up soon. welcome to the department of negotiation. home to the latest deal making technology. our highly advanced thingamajigs and whatchamacallits are constantly gathering