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The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena runs 8.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mike Pearl (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.4listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

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Based on 8.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena at common listening paces
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30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.4 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena is an audiobook by Mike Pearl: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Mike Pearl, released September 17, 2019, on the Social Science and How to Survive Anything shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.4 hrs
Narrated by
Mike Pearl
Released
September 17, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, How to Survive Anything
ISBN
9781508297987

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena as an audiobook?

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.

Is The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena?

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena is narrated by Mike Pearl.