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Science... sort of

Ep 51: Science... sort of - Area-51

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7674 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 – The Paleopals Ryan, Patrick and Charlie are all drinking beers (shocking!) and they're all in locations (also: shocking!) but the only way to learn what those beers are and where they're being consumed is to listen!

 

00:05:44 – This week the Paleopals are talking with Dr. Seth Shostak (http://www.seti.org/) who hunts aliens and has a real radio show. (He also uses radios to hunt aliens.) They're talking specifically about an article positing that the search for ET may need to focus more on the AI than the squishy EBE's that made them.

 

00:33:03 – Because everybody loves George Clooney this week's Trailer Trash Talk features The American (not the one from The Bugle).

 

00:42:23 – Charlie, widely considered the most energetic of the Paleopals, brings us a story about some of the problems facing alternative energy. The guys are sure to get this problem solved, they just need some organic matter to be broken down over a few million years until it's some sort of fuel… made from fossils. That would do the trick!

 

01:03:01 – PaleoPOWs are as follows: Patrick cheated by using a facebook post from David Precht (http://hancomic.com/) earlier when we talked with Seth Shostak. H. Elliot wants to know if you can smell in space. And Ryan gets some love for the “sort of side” from Danielle (http://www.upendedblog.com/) when it comes to stripping.

 

Thanks for listening, be sure to check out our blog for regularly updated content all week long at http://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/!

 

 

Music for this week's show:

12:51 – The Strokes

Aliens Exist – blink-182

American Idiot – Green Day

Royal Oil – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

I like to call us the Trinity, a meeting of the Trinity.

0:03.1

Yeah.

0:03.5

Yeah.

0:04.2

Meeting of the three wins.

0:08.5

I think Patrick, you're the father and I'm the son and Charlie's the Holy Ghost.

0:12.2

I think that's how it works.

0:13.7

Okay.

0:14.2

If I had to figure it out.

0:16.2

Yeah, I think that's good.

0:19.1

The Holy Ghost is the only one I think I might actually subscribe to.

0:22.9

And I mean, the Holy Ghost, I feel like is the dude who just hangs back like you do and then just throws out a lobs of bomb every once in a while.

0:30.6

Yeah. Oh, blasphemy.

0:33.1

That's fun.

0:35.1

Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.

0:43.6

Hello and welcome to Science Sort of, episode 51.

0:47.6

This is the show that brings you conversations about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.

0:54.8

The theme this week is Area 51.

1:00.0

I'm your host Ryan, and joining me as always are my paleo pals from the hot West Coast, San Francisco, Charlie.

1:08.6

Got foggy here now, gentlemen, paleo posse, good to see it. It cooled down on you?

1:13.2

Yeah, it rolled in about five.

1:15.4

Good, that means it's headed my way.

1:16.7

I was going to say, and moving to the east over in Percule is Patrick.

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