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Thu. 12/01 - Your Toilet Could Save Your Life

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Was Mars once hit with an asteroid on the scale of Earth’s own dino-killer? Plus, what if there was a device that listened to your farts and let you know when you should go see a doctor? And the USDA program that’s recognizing indigenous food ways. Sponsors: Shopify, Sign up for a free trial at shopify.com/cool American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 Links: Mars Had an Ancient Asteroid Impact Like the One That Killed the Dinosaurs, Scientists Discover (VICE) Ancient megatsunami on Mars traced to the crater where it began (New Scientist) Giant Asteroid Unleashed a Devastating Martian Megatsunami, Evidence Suggests (Science Alert) Dino-Killer Scale Asteroid Impact Might Have Caused Martian Megatsunami (IFL Science) Farts say more about your health than you think — now, scientists are listening (Inverse) National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) – a new public health tool to understand COVID-19 spread in a community (CDC) USDA Program Recognizes Indigenous Food Ways (The Daily Yonder) Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative (USDA) The Case of the Missing Scorsese Film (Kottke.org) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's thursday december 1st twenty 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Was Mars once hit with an asteroid on the scale of Earth's own dino killer?

0:47.0

Plus, what if there is a device that listen to your farts and let you know when you should go see a doctor?

0:53.7

And the USDA program that is recognizing indigenous food ways.

0:58.9

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:04.0

A new study has given further credence to the theory that three and a half billion years ago,

1:10.4

Mars experienced a similar fate

1:12.9

that Earth would many millions of years later. An enormous asteroid, whose impact caused a

1:19.7

mega tsunami and forever changed the landscape of the planet. Only in Mars' case, it wasn't

1:26.2

dinosaurs who got wiped out. Now, not only that, but it

1:29.6

turns out that the very first images we ever got back from the surface of Mars from the Viking

1:34.8

1 lander in 1976 showed evidence of this mega tsunami. We just didn't quite know it at the time.

1:42.7

That evidence for such a huge event may have been there all along is kind of bittersweet.

1:49.0

Viking 1 was the world's first successful interplanetary landing mission.

1:53.9

Launching just six years after we landed on the moon, the Viking mission was a huge feat for NASA,

2:00.1

and a lot of hopes rode on it. But what the

2:03.0

lander found was a bit underwhelming. It didn't find solid evidence of an ancient Martian

2:08.6

ocean or much promise for life at all. IFL science cites that underwhelm as one of the key

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