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Cool Stuff Daily

Mon. 08/24 - No Asteroid Apocalypse, But Maybe Aliens?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It turns out the ‘Oumuamua might be alien tech after all. The truth behind that asteroid allegedly hitting earth the day before America’s election. Finnish scientists have discovered an effective hangover cure. And the weird 1970s commercials hidden in a Disney+ special. Sponsor: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/REPORT Links: Mystery of Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Gets Trickier (Scientific American) Wild Idea: What If Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is an Alien Light Sail? (Space.Com) Here's The Real Truth About That 'Election Day' Asteroid on Its Way to Earth (Science Alert) Hangover Cure Successfully Tested on Drunk Subjects in Finland (Bloomberg) Finnish Researchers Think They've Found a Real Hangover Cure (Food & Wine) Disney+ Mouseketeer Special Full of Commercials From 1977 (Gizmodo) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cocky ride home for monday August 24th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:41.7

It turns out the Omuamua might be alien tech after all.

0:46.6

The truth behind that asteroid allegedly hitting Earth the day before America's election,

0:52.5

Finnish scientists have discovered an effective hangover cure,

0:56.6

and the weird 1970s commercials hidden in a Disney Plus special.

1:02.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:07.1

Do you remember Omuamua?

1:09.6

It's the mysterious object that vaulted into our solar system at the end of 2017.

1:15.1

Its mystery comes from both its unknown origins and its very uncharacteristic appearance and

1:20.5

behavior compared to other interstellar objects. Omuamua Mua is long and thin, twice as narrow as the most narrow objects in our solar system,

1:29.8

and it also tumbles from side to side as it rotates.

1:33.3

And scientists found that it was accelerating, but they had no idea why.

1:38.3

The main running theory was that it was made mostly of hydrogen,

1:42.3

and that solid hydrogen was blasting off of Omuamua causing it to

1:46.1

accelerate. But a new study published last week in the astrophysical journal letters by Harvard

1:51.1

astrophysicist Avi Loeb and T.M. Huang, an astrophysicist at the Korea Astronomy and Space

1:57.2

Science Institute, rejects this hypothesis, leaving us with only one other relatively

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