Short Stuff: Smoke Signals

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Were smoke signals real or a Hollywood invention? Turns out, they were indeed a thing and invented by the Chinese, even.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:36.0	Everybody, pipe down.
0:37.3	We've got to get started.
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0:40.4	Let's go.
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0:41.8	Stop laughing.
0:42.7	Boy, that's never going to get old, is it?
0:46.4	Not to me.
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0:52.8	but I always feel so anxious.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.8	Well, join the club, pal.
0:58.7	So I wrote this article on smoke signals many years ago.
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