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How would a supervillain get Jupiter to blow?

Not that anyone wants to, but would it make a great show?

Norwegian kids are often born blonde, but end up brunette.

Why? Did this help our Viking ancestors fend off some threat?

Imagine aliens on a planet without iron to find.

Could they still discover magnets and send us messages from their alien minds?

Ooh, whatever questions keep you up at night.

Daniel and Kelly's answers will make it right.

Welcome to listener questions number 45 on Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary universe.

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Hello, I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith. I study parasites and space, and I am getting a little bit concerned at all of the questions we get from our listeners that suggest they're researching how to become supervillains.

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist who loves thinking about aliens, and I'm happy to grow the supervillain demographic in our audience.

And you are. And so, Daniel, give them something to work with.

If you were going to be a super villain, what would you do with your physics or cosmology knowledge to do the most super villainy thing you can think of?

I think I've advertised this on the show already.

I would gamble or trade away the entire Earth to super intelligent aliens

if they could offer us some insight into the deepest questions of the universe.

Oh, that's super villainy for sure. And we all knew that you valued the aliens you've never met

much more than every human on this planet. But I'm talking about, like, you know, would you push Jupiter into the Earth or, or you just, you have very tunnel vision on this

alien thing? Wow, you really want me to be a super villain here, huh? I mean, I'm giving the people

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