PARKS! Pt. 4: Death Sea

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A Redditor proposed a quick fix to one of humanity’s greatest threats. But the real threat may be our fixation with quick fixes.

Credits: This episode was written and produced by Dean Russell. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson are the co-hosts.

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0:00.0	W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston.
0:08.0	Amory, Ben, Ranger Dean.
0:11.0	Ranger Dean!
0:13.0	Alright, what is the biggest construction project that you can think of?
0:18.0	Like in all of humanity, what tops the list?
0:21.0	Appearments?
0:23.0	Yeah, but that was built by aliens.
0:27.0	Not humanity.
0:28.0	Oh, in all of humanity.
0:30.0	Okay, yeah.
0:32.0	One of Elon Musk's completely failed tunneling experiments.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	I looked this up, and the real answer to this is kind of sort of the great wall of China.
0:46.0	Oh, duh.
0:47.0	The only one you can see from space, or whatever.
0:50.0	Exactly.
0:51.0	Exactly.
0:52.0	Okay, yeah.
0:53.0	I have a proposed construction project that could be bigger.
0:58.0	Something that could help combat one of the greatest threats to our world.
1:03.0	The greatest threat to our world.
1:05.0	Running out of popcorn eyes high up there.
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