The Skeptics Guide #161 - Aug 20 2008
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 23 August 2008
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:07.3 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:12.2 | Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:14.5 | Today is Wednesday, August 20th, 2008, and this is your host, Steven Novella, president |
| 0:20.6 | of the New England Skeptical Society. |
| 0:22.8 | Joining me this evening are Bob Novella. |
| 0:24.6 | Hey everybody, Jane Novella. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey guys. |
| 0:28.2 | And Evan Bernstein. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:30.2 | We have a double this day in history. |
| 0:33.6 | 1975 Viking Program, NASA launches Viking 1 towards Mars. |
| 0:39.2 | And in 1977, the Voyager Program, that NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. |
| 0:45.3 | It's a one with the disk on it with all the pictures and the music and the sounds of |
| 0:49.3 | the earth. |
| 0:50.3 | The Chuck Berry. |
| 0:51.3 | Yep. |
| 0:52.3 | Send more Chuck Berry. |
| 0:53.3 | That's the one that has like the size chart of how big a human would be standing next |
| 0:58.9 | to the actual spacecraft. |
| 1:00.9 | Right. |
| 1:01.9 | The man and the woman they get and didn't say you can have a hand in that? |
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