The Skeptics Guide #1018 - Jan 11s 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2025-01-11 15:34:40 +0000 UTCQuickie with Steve: Primate Twins: News Items: Mars Sample Return, Unique Glacial Microbiomes, Transatlantic Tunnel, Alcohol Advisory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Flu Vaccine, Cryptid Mascots; Science or Fiction
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FYI the title of #1018 has typo, please change 2024 -->2025 :-)
Maoz Maylat
2025-01-19 09:31:07 +0000 UTCHey that noisy of the burning wood, I saw that video, the microphone that was used to record the sound is called a Geophon it’s a geophone microphone that has been adapted to use with normal sound recorders. In the video a probe was attached to the mic and then pushed into the wood. The sound travels up the steel probe to the mic. It records waves from inside materials. It’s a really neat mic! I have used it to listen to the sound of Arbutus trees in high wind. Their wood is very hard and transmits the waves effectively enough to strap the mic to the trunk.
Harrison Campbell
2025-01-17 23:57:05 +0000 UTCSo the movie that referenced Karl wasn't Mr. Popper's Penguins? 😊
Davy Crocker
2025-01-14 17:50:35 +0000 UTCBest wishes to everyone affected by the fires! I'm glad to hear Cara is safe!
Davy Crocker
2025-01-14 17:49:01 +0000 UTCThe spice dispenser is like an old lame Ronco product! Did the company do any consumer polling on this stupid thing!
Dan Lee
2025-01-14 02:40:44 +0000 UTCYes, you should keep us updated on Cara please.
Dan Lee
2025-01-14 02:21:40 +0000 UTCShes fine. The fire is not heading her way and the smoke is getting better. Thanks!
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
2025-01-14 02:08:35 +0000 UTCI think Steve was saying that Mars atmosphere is 1% pressure of Earth (which is also what the internet says) and it would have to be .1% to be 1/1000, which is what Bob originally said it was. Just a little confusing.
Mikah Woodward
2025-01-13 13:51:09 +0000 UTCWell, that would have been clever, if underhanded.
Chris Holder
2025-01-13 08:50:12 +0000 UTCAny updates on Cara?
Jim Sky
2025-01-13 06:28:04 +0000 UTCThoughts are with Cara
susan grant
2025-01-12 17:13:01 +0000 UTCWay back in the day at work, someone came up with a cost savings idea. We used a lot of reel-to-reel tapes. His idea was to wear white gloves to prevent the skin oil on our fingers from tainting the tape. This meant that more tape could be used to record on. Over the high volume of recordings across the entire program this would save a lot of money. He got a monetary award, and we all had to wear these gloves (at an additional cost). He soon came up with another idea, get rid of the white gloves. Fibers from the gloves were gumming up the tape recorders and interrupting recordings. We could save money and time on performing less maintenance. He got a monetary award and we all stopped wearing gloves.
Asymetra
2025-01-12 16:50:38 +0000 UTCThe Government and NASA definitely need to completely break with the private sector (in terms of taking over actual projects) because these always end up being massive wealth transfer upwards. Much of the supposed greater efficiencies turn out to be imaginary or greatly exaggerated.
Chris Holder
2025-01-11 23:02:38 +0000 UTCHeat issue: when you dig a deep hole, the rock gets hotter until it no longer is solid. That would probably be a significant problem for a transatlantic tunnel.
Christer Jansson
2025-01-11 16:20:39 +0000 UTCJust a little basic math here: 0.1 % = 1/1000
Christer Jansson
2025-01-11 16:03:22 +0000 UTC
