Short: The Vela Incident

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 23 June 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On September 22, 1979, a Vela satellite picked up a hallmark double flash, signifying that a 2-3 kiloton Nuclear bomb had been detonated. However, the people in charge of investigating this explosion have refused to confirm it was a detonation, instead suggesting it was a malfunction.

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0:00.0	Thinking sideways.
0:07.0	The invocation is not complete.
0:12.0	It's a mystery.
0:15.0	Short stories of things we simply don't know the answers to.
0:20.0	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways.
0:24.0	This one's a shorty.
0:26.0	A bonus episode.
0:27.0	We haven't done it for a reason a while.
0:28.0	It's been a while, yeah.
0:29.0	Sorry about that.
0:30.0	We'll try to be better about that.
0:31.0	We won't though.
0:32.0	No, we're lazy.
0:33.0	Yeah, we are.
0:34.0	If you're joining us for the first time, I'm Devon joined by...
0:38.0	Steve and Joe.
0:40.0	And we're going to talk about the Vela incident today.
0:44.0	This is one of the scarier ones.
0:47.0	Well, not really.
0:48.0	No, because it's in space where nobody can hear you scream.
0:51.0	Don't remind me.
0:52.0	Don't remind me.
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