Tue. 10/13 - A Star Spaghettified By a Black Hole (Yes, that's the technical term)

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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What’s up with all those merpeople and sea monsters on old maps? Why Peru opened up Machu Picchu after seven months for one single man to visit. The supermassive black hole that spaghettified a star. And the Anti-Ad Ad Club paying influencers to trash talk corporations. Sponsor: FightCamp, joinfightcamp.com/RIDE Links: Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere? (Literary Hub) In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons (Atlas Obscura) Peru opens Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after almost seven-month wait (Reuters) After a 7-Month Wait, This Tourist Got Machu Picchu All To Himself (NY Times) ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole (Science Daily) Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole (Bad Astronomy) Get paid for shitting on Amazon, Facebook, and other big brands (A/V Club) Anti Ad Ad Club 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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0:31.6	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.3	What's up with all those mur people and sea monsters on old maps?
0:48.0	Why Peru opened Machu Picchu after seven months for one single man to visit.
0:57.1	The supermassive black hole that Spaghettiedified a Star and the anti-ad ad club paying influencers to Trash Talk corporations.
1:07.1	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:19.6	I'm sure you've seen images of old European Renaissance-era maps depicting all manner of mythological creatures, giants and dragons on the land, sea serpents and myrrh people in the seas.
1:24.6	But what's up with that? Did people at the time actually believe in it?
1:29.2	Did the explorers themselves believe that they had seen sea monsters and report it back to the
1:34.5	mapmakers? Well, drawings of various geographic attributes and features or obstacles one may
1:40.8	encounter on a journey was commonplace at the time due to the fact that so many people were illiterate, so the illustrations were an informational necessity.
1:50.0	But why did so many veer towards the fantastical instead of representing the actual attributes and people of the land they were depicting?
1:59.0	Well, I think we know some of the reasoning behind that,
2:01.4	but here's a great example of one instance, quoting from Atlas Obscura. In southern South America,
2:06.9	Spanish chartmaker Diego Gutierrez shows two members of the Tuelce tribe as large giants looking
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