Excrement of the Stars

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of years ago, a massive meteoroid seared through the Earth’s atmosphere and split into fragments over Greenland. Its pieces were later used for toolmaking by the Inughuit that inhabited northwestern Greenland. In other words: Inughuit people used space knives.

This fact, featured in a viral Reddit post on r/todayilearned, spurred an Endless Thread deep dive into a forgotten history of American exploration and exploitation abroad.

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0:00.0	WBUR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to
0:11.4	let mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.3	WBUR Podcasts.
0:22.3	Boston.
0:31.9	This is a story about the ancient, the present, and about learning to forget the difference
0:37.1	between the two.
0:39.4	But it starts and ends with this man.
0:42.6	I was born in a little village, the last village you meet before the North Pole.
0:48.9	They used to be about 70 people.
0:52.7	When I grew up, the time didn't exist.
0:57.2	The distance didn't exist.
1:00.6	Everything was harmonized.
1:04.5	This man is a shaman.
1:06.4	If you can find this shaman after searching for a long time, he will meet you on Zoom.
1:13.0	Can you tell me what's on the wall behind you?
1:15.8	Drums.
1:17.4	What kind of drums?
1:18.8	They are in with drums all of them.
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