The Fastest Spinning Star, Voyager One Switches to a Radio for the First time in 43 years, and TDIH - The Movie Rating System, Old and New

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Scientists spot a star spinning at so fast, it’ll make you dizzy just thinking about it – now the fastest spinning object ever observed and staying in space, another issue for the Voyager 1 probe causes it to use a radio for the first time in over 40 years. Plus, on This Day in History, the motion picture rating system is unveiled – you may be surprised to hear what we using before the familiar classifications of “G” “PG”, "PG-13", "R", and "NC-17". One of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe | ScienceDaily Voyager 1 Ghosts NASA, Forcing Use of Backup Radio Dormant Since 1981 (gizmodo.com) The Hays Code: History, Rules, and Why It Ended | Backstage History (filmratings.com) Contact the show - [email protected] Thank you to our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code COOLSTUFF at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/coolstuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.3	Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode, another issue for the Voyager 1 probe causes it to use a radio for the first time
1:12.7	in over 40 years. Staying in space, scientists spot a star spinning so fast it'll make
1:19.2	you dizzy just thinking about it. It's now the fastest spinning object ever observed, by the way.
1:23.5	Details coming up. And on this day in history, the motion picture rating system is unveiled.
1:29.3	You may be surprised to hear what we were using before the familiar classifications of G,
1:34.3	PG, etc.
1:35.3	That's coming up on cool stuff.
1:37.3	Well, kicking things off once again with Science Daily, as new research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates
1:46.5	around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins, get this, 716 times per second, making it
1:56.4	it one of the fastest spinning objects ever observed. Of course, the Milky Way still holds many secrets about
2:02.4	the universe. Now researchers from DTU have managed to uncover one more of them using an X-ray
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