The Skeptics Guide #173 - Nov 12 2008
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 15 November 2008
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:07.3 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:14.5 | Today is Wednesday, November 12, 2008, and this is your host, Stephen Ovella, president |
| 0:19.9 | of the New England Skeptical Society. |
| 0:21.9 | Joining me this evening are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey, novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein. |
| 0:30.9 | Happy exploding whale day, everybody. |
| 0:33.5 | Whoa, it's the most wonderful time of the year. |
| 0:37.3 | Remember that? |
| 0:38.3 | How's that? |
| 0:39.3 | In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting, beached sperm whale |
| 0:44.6 | with explosives leading to the infamous exploding whale incident. |
| 0:49.1 | So look it up, it's on the internet. |
| 0:51.5 | It's video. |
| 0:52.5 | I haven't seen it in a long time. |
| 0:55.7 | So you got this carcass on the beach and they don't know what to do with it. |
| 1:00.0 | So there's a news report going on during the time and the highway division is out there. |
| 1:04.8 | They're stuffing the thing with dynamite all around it and then they take footage of |
| 1:08.0 | it and that thing blows up. |
| 1:09.9 | It spreads the carcass and like a half mile radius. |
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