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The Fastest Winds Ever Recorded, Bizarre Chirping in Space, and TDIH - The Lego Brick Design

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A gas-giant 500 light-years from earth has the fastest winds ever recorded – and they make a category 5 hurricane look like a nice spring breeze. Plus, a bizarre chirping in space has scientists puzzled. And, on This Day in History, the Lego brick we know today is patented. A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h | ZME Science A bizarre ‘chirping’ in space is puzzling scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine The day the LEGO brick was born - January 28, 1958 [Feature] - The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick The History of Interlocking Bricks - From Kiddicraft to the LEGO Group – Brick Me Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building | TIME Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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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