The following episode, which recorded on June 20th and 21st at the amazing meeting 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is a compilation of those two live recordings that we did at the meeting.

You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. You're escape to reality.

Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

This is our first live podcast from the amazing meeting.

Today is Friday June 20th, 2008, and joining me as always are Bob Novella, everybody.

Rebecca Watson. Hello everyone. Jane Ovella. Hey guys. And Evan Bernstein.

Morning everyone. On this date in 1947, Bugsie Siegel met his demise, died this day in 1947 at the age of 41.

That's good work boys. I can't seem to recall exactly how he died.

He died a moida. That's right. Gunned down in New York City. Supposedly by the mob, but who really knows these things.

It's a good happy fact to get us started today. Thank you.

Well it's appropriate because Bugsie Siegel was the brain behind the flamingo hotel where we are right now.

Well we do have, we're going to do some news items and then we will do some Q&A at the end.

First we wanted to thank James Randy for giving us this podium during the amazing meeting six.

So far we've been here for a couple of two or three days already and the amazing meeting six.

What could we say? I can't think of any other word to describe it other than fantastic.

See what you did there Steve. That's good.

Take me all day. All right let's do some news items.

This is a picture taken just recently from the Mars Lander.

That is a scoop taken by the robotic arm out of the Martian soil and there is some glinting white material in underneath the top soil.

Now there's lots of things that could be white and reflective on the surface of Mars. It could have been salt for example.

However, cocaine. That's a, that was one of the hypothesis.

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