This is an I-Hard podcast.

Guaranteed human.

Ethanol is toxic, but many animals still love it so.

Is ethanol ever helpful?

Please don't tell me no.

When antimatter and matter meet, they totally annihilate.

If you are your own antiparticle, then what is your fate?

If I slurp down loads of seawater, death is my fate.

Ugh, why is it so hard to osmo regulate? And I'm realizing right now we both use the word fate. Ugh, why is it so hard to osmo regulate?

And I'm realizing right now we both use the word fate in a rhyme, and so this is...

Anyway, here we go.

Whatever questions keep you up at night, Daniel and Kelly's answers will make it all right.

Welcome to listener questions episode number 43.

Hi, I'm Daniel.

I'm a particle physicist who loves thinking about aliens. And I wonder if aliens drink alcohol and seawater.

Oh, hello. I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith. I study parasites and space. And so, Daniel, let's go ahead and do what we do to all of our listeners.

What's that? Do you think that aliens drink alcohol or sea water?

I'm sure that aliens know how to have a good time.

Whether that involves ethanol or smoking alien banana peels or the moral equivalent, I don't know,

but I sure hope aliens have figured out how to have fun in this universe.

It would be pretty disappointing

to meet aliens and have them just be bored and boring. Well, hold on. They can be fun without imbibing

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