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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:31.2 | Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home. We have some of the interesting, intriguing, fascinating, |
0:36.1 | cool stories from around the world. |
0:37.5 | I'm Reggie Rizzou alongside Marcus Paff. |
0:39.7 | On today's episode, a gas giant 500 light years from Earth has the fastest winds ever recorded, |
0:46.7 | and they make a Category 5 hurricane look like a nice spring breeze. |
0:51.0 | Plus, a bizarre chirping in space has scientists puzzled. And on this day in history, |
0:55.4 | the Lego brick we know today is patented. This story comes to us, courtesy of ZME science and author |
1:01.8 | Tibibuyu. Some 500 light years away, a giant gas planet named Wasp 127B is caught in a cosmic |
1:10.5 | tempest. |
1:11.6 | Winds howl across its equator at speeds of up to, get this, |
1:15.6 | 33,000 kilometers per hour, that's 20,000 miles per hour, |
1:21.6 | nearly six times faster than the planet itself rotates. |
1:25.6 | These supersonic jet streams, the fastest ever measured on a planet, |
1:29.9 | are so furiously strong, they're rewriting our understanding of weather beyond the solar system. |
1:35.3 | Per Lisa Nortman, an astronomer and lead author of the study published in astronomy and astrophysics, |
1:41.3 | quote, this is something we haven't seen before, end quote. |
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