The Skeptics Guide #412 - Jun 8 2013

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 8 June 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Joshie Berger; This Day in Skepticism: Missile Mail; News Items: Star Trek Review, Kepler Broken; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Small Hadron Collider, Carnivorous Sponge, Pollen; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptic Sky to the Universe.
0:06.4	You're escape to reality.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptic Sky to the Universe.
0:12.8	Today is Wednesday, June 5th, 2013, and this is your host, Steven novella.
0:18.0	Joining me this week are Bob novella.
0:19.9	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.8	Hello everyone.
0:23.0	Jane novella.
0:24.0	You and Evan Bernstein.
0:26.3	Good evening my friends.
0:27.5	Good evening.
0:28.9	Hey happy firing male using a missile with the nuclear warhead removed day.
0:36.8	What, that's not a holiday.
0:39.6	It's, you know, I'm petitioning the president to make it official.
0:43.6	But on June 8th, 1959, the USPS, the United States Postal Service, or what would eventually
0:51.9	become the United States Postal Service, tried missile mail for the first and last time.
0:58.8	Using a cruise missile from a submarine parked just outside Newport, Virginia, and they
1:05.5	aimed the missile at a naval station in Mayport, Florida, and successfully shot a load of
1:12.7	mail there.
1:14.3	And it was considered very exciting at the time.
1:18.4	The post office really thought that this was the future of mail delivery is.
1:25.1	It was, it was the future of fallick in your windows.
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