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Cool Stuff Daily

Brightest Light in Space, Fossil Race Against Time, and Grenade Found in Bathroom Wall

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The brightest light in space is identified, times running out for one rare dinosaur fossil, an explosive surprise in the wall of one Seattle home, and on this day in history, an historic moment as the US flag is raised Iwo Jima. Brightest Light in Space (ESO) Pliosaur Race (BBC) Grenade Found (Fox News) Flag Raised at Iwo Jima (History.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Instagram - Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.5

Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride.

0:32.9

Homies Reggie Rizzou.

0:34.1

I'm Marcus Paff.

0:35.0

On today's episode, the brightest light in space is identified.

0:39.8

Times running out for one rare dinosaur fossil, an explosive surprise in the wall of one Seattle home,

0:46.3

and on this day in history, an historic moment as the U.S. raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

0:52.3

That's coming up on cool stuff. Well, like so many cool stories we bring you on this show, this next one comes to us from

0:59.4

a galaxy far, far away. And when I say far, I mean really far. 12 billion light years.

1:07.8

And by the way, to put that in perspective, just one light year equates to approximately

1:12.2

6 trillion miles. So 6 trillion multiplied by 12 billion. That comes out to, I did the math on this

1:21.2

earlier, 786 followed by 23 zeros. I looked this up and I think that I have this right, Reggie. So if anybody

1:29.7

knows or thinks that I'm wrong, please call me out on it. But I believe it would be pronounced

1:34.7

78 septillion, 600 sextillion. You're making those up. Yeah, I know. That's what it sounds like

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