Ep 157: Science... sort of - Gravity and Stupid Dreams

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2012

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - First off, our hearts go out to those affected by Sandy, Ryan did his part by promoting crowd-sourced science from the storm, but Ben recommends the Red Cross. Ben has also written a paper all about explaining the physics behind an H. P. Lovecraft short story. Hear him explain it to Ryan and Jacob while waiting to the inevitable quacking of the timer.

00:24:40 - Drinks are a lot like non-Euclidean geometry in that they make things wobbly. A roughed-up Jacob tries to take flight with a Red Bull. Ben has a pennywort soda/juice/thing, it yet another in his long line of weird beverages, but he claims this one will improve his brain. And Ryan lets the other guys chose what he drinks from the Sierra Nevada beer camp collection. They disagree so Ryan winds up with an Imperial Pilsner AND an Imperial Red Ale.

00:31:17 - Trailer Trash Talk gets nostalgic with the remake of the 1980's classic Red Dawn (original trailer here). 10 points to the first person to calculate the time spent talking about the original relative to the new one.

00:49:48 - Red Bull decided to outdo NASA by dropping Felix Baumgartner from near space. Jacob is impressed, and he's happy to tell us all why.

01:09:46 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like HALO jumps, risky and of questionable merit. Ryan starts off with a Facebook comment left by Brittany V., who finally understands the purpose of this very segment. Jacob then breaks down the chaos by responding to Jeffery W. and his critiques of The Butterfly Effect. Finally, Ben explains to fellow Canadian Lorant how the universe expanding doesn't prevent the Milky Way from colliding with Andromeda.

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Music for this week's show provided by:

Dreamland Island - Jimmy Newman

Imperials - Ratatat

When The War Came - The Decemberists

Long Way To Fall - Autopilot Off

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, well, I'm going to cut all this, and I'm going to jump straight ahead to saying...
0:03.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:11.9	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of, episode 157.
0:16.0	Our theme this week is Gravity and Stupid Dreams.
0:18.8	I am your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that
0:21.0	are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science, are the
0:25.1	waterlogged East Coasters Jacob Stump. What's going on, paleo punks? And Benjamin Tippett.
0:31.6	Good evening, my friends. So before we get started, we obviously want to let everyone who is
0:36.9	affected by Hurricane Sandy know that our thoughts have been with you. And I wrote a post up on motherboard about some crowdsourcing from the science, some crowdsourcing of science that's come out of the storm. So that's my personal silver lining, but we know a lot of people were affected. So hopefully everyone out there is doing okay. And, uh, and yeah, we just, good luck. I don't know really know. I'm bad at, I'm bad at this stuff.
0:59.7	Ben, you're more eloquent. All right. Here's how it goes. Thoughts aren't, you know, we're men of
1:05.3	science. Women of science also listen to this and contribute to this show. So we're people of science.
1:13.3	Thoughts are wonderful, but they don't do much.
1:16.9	If you can, donate money to the Red Cross or give blood because those are the things that are in need.
1:19.8	So contribute to your greater national community,
1:23.7	Americans who are listening to this,
1:25.1	and help your poor country folk who are living in the city and swimming.
1:31.7	See, you're so much better at this than I am, Ben. I didn't even prep. I didn't even warn you you were going to have to do that. You just pull that out.
1:37.8	I'm very impressed. Well, we're going to ask you to pull out some more science, especially on the sort of side, because you've been blowing up, Ben.
1:44.9	That's right. You blew up and you put out a fake paper, or should I reveal that it's fake,
1:51.0	or should we pretend that it's real for... No, we'll say that it's fake, everybody. It's like
1:55.9	my Superman paper and my zombie papers. Yeah, so this is a callback to episode nine when we first had our dear
2:02.0	friend Ben on the show before he was a dear friend when he was just some wacky Canadian that
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