Messages From The Deep: The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For years, fast radio bursts have mystified astronomers across the planet. These millisecond-long blips of intense, unexplained radio signals pop up all over the sky, temporarily outshining radio pulsars despite being perhaps a million times farther away. Before 2013, many astrophysicists doubted that they even existed. Now their existence is undeniable — but what exactly are they?

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.7	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:11.6	A production of I Heart Gradio's How Stuff Works.
0:24.1	Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel.
0:26.9	They call me Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer, Paul Mischa Control
0:31.2	Deckons. Most importantly, you are you, you are here. And that makes this stuff they don't want
0:37.7	you to know at the very end of a world-wind week as we record this. So as we've been doing recently,
0:44.8	we just want to check in with each other. Matt, how's it going?
0:48.4	It's going really well. Just finished an interview with John Douglas, the FBI profiler for Mindhunter.
0:54.7	About Wayne Williams. It was awesome. Nice, nice looking forward to hearing that.
0:59.0	Yeah. No, how you doing? I'm okay. Me and you had a little bit of a Chicago adventure
1:04.4	doing stuff for ad sales and just got back. I want to learn more about that.
1:09.2	What we basically just present kind of a faux podcast for advertisers so that they understand how
1:14.6	ads work in podcasting because you'd think it'd be obvious but a lot of people don't really,
1:19.6	old school marketers are more into like radio and like television and more traditional forms of
1:24.4	advertising. So we literally do a kind of pretend podcast with panelists who are executives in our
1:30.0	company and then there you go. And Summer great on Mike, which is yeah, yeah. And you know the week
1:35.2	before that I was in Texas doing it doing a similar thing. So we've been a bit on the road and I
1:41.6	think we'll, I think all of us will end up traveling over the summer. But of course,
1:46.7	the best part of this crazy job is getting together to hang out with you three in the studio
1:54.2	and all of you listening today. But if you say I love listening to show, I also love communicating
2:03.1	in my own way. You know, I have ears, but I also have a voice and I have something to say we
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