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Skeptoid #141: Listener Feedback 6: I Want to Believe

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2009

⏱️ 15 minutes

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More fun from the listener feedback files.

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0:00.0

The center of the Pacific Ocean, claim some, is a gigantic island of garbage, so thick

0:09.4

you can walk on it, and said by many to be twice the size of Texas.

0:14.0

But if this is true, then why isn't it visible on Google Earth?

0:19.1

And Hawaii is right there in the center, why is there no sign of such a thing visible

0:23.4

in Hawaii?

0:25.0

This is just one of many listener feedback questions we're answering today.

0:30.5

Right here, Unskeptoid.

0:32.5

Hey everyone, Brian here.

0:40.2

A quick favor, we're conducting an audience survey.

0:44.0

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

0:47.9

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

0:51.7

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish.

0:55.3

So please check it out.

0:57.0

Also surveys are fun.

0:58.2

You get to talk about yourself.

1:00.2

Please visit survey.prx.org slash skeptoid to take the survey today.

1:07.5

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

1:15.2

Thanks.

1:21.0

We're listening to Skeptoid.

1:22.5

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

1:26.1

Listener feedback, six.

1:28.1

I want to believe.

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