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Tue. 10/27 - Kazakhstan Is Very Nice, But Venus Is Not

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Throwing cold water on that whole signs-of-life-on-Venus news. A new travel guide to haunted hotels, based on bad Tripadvisor reviews. A study looking into why we don’t click or comment on certain posts online. And Kazakhstan changes their stance on Borat. Sponsors: The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/subscribe  Fundrise, Get your first 90 days of advisory fees waived at fundrise.com/kottke Links: New analysis casts serious doubt on the claim of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus (Bad Astronomy) 12th order polynomial explanation (Bad Astronomy) Ghost Stories of Tripadvisor is a dreadful directory of hotel hauntings (It’s Nice That) 3 Things Drive Our Social Media 'Non-Click' Decisions (Futurity) Why don't we click on some social media posts? (UMich) Kazakhstan stops resisting Borat, adopts "Very nice!" tourism slogan (A/V 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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0:00.0

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the cocky ride home for

0:27.7

tuesday october 27th 2020 i'm jackson bird throwing cold water on that whole signs of life on venus news

0:36.9

a new travel guide to haunted hotels

0:40.3

based on bad trip advisor reviews, a study looking into why we don't click or comment on certain

0:48.2

posts online, and Kazakhstan changes their stance on Borat.

0:56.6

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:05.5

After all, the excitement of water molecules on the moon yesterday, it's time for some more disappointing space news.

1:08.1

Those promising signs of life on Venus may not be so promising after all.

1:14.1

So a few weeks ago, you may remember a lot of buzz about a team of researchers who detected

1:18.1

indications of phosphine in Venus's atmosphere.

1:21.9

Phosphine is a gas that on Earth is created by life, so could it mean that the searing hot planet perhaps has some type of

1:30.8

life in its atmosphere? Well, the reviewing of their research by other scientists that the

1:36.9

original team asked for has occurred and it doesn't look good for us getting some new neighbors.

1:43.4

Quoting sci-fi's bad astronomy.

1:45.8

The team's initial observations of Venus were made using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, or

1:50.7

JCP, in Hawaii, which looks at light in the sub-millimeter wavelength region, far longer

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