The Skeptics Guide #1006 - Oct 19 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Fringe-science, Skeptic, Skepticism, Psuedoscience, Science, Paranormal

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Christian Hubicki; From TikTok: Fake Spacestation; News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Myopia; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.0	Today is Wednesday, October 16th. Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday October 16th, 2024,
0:15.9	and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.4	Hey everybody.
0:20.0	Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.3	Howdy.
0:21.8	Jay novella. hey guys and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.0	Good evening everyone.
0:27.0	Hey so has anyone seen this once in 80,000 year comment recently?
0:31.0	Oh, no, I've not seen it.
0:34.0	Does a photo count?
0:35.0	No, I mean in person.
0:37.0	No.
0:39.0	No, it doesn't count.
0:41.0	I tried to see it twice so far have not been able to spot it. I just think there's too much
0:47.6	light pollution where I am to be honest with you. And what time of day or even?
0:51.8	Just after sunset, if you look to the west just after sunset
0:56.5	But it's sort of climbing in the sky every day and also getting farther away that close approach was Saturday before this recording. By the time the
1:04.3	show goes out, it's be at the very tail end, pun intended, of the visibility in the north. This is the
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