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Wed. 10/07 - Paid to Gate-Crash Funerals

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The twenty-four possible super-habitable planets that could be better than Earth. The man you can pay to gatecrash your funeral. The perfect conclusion to the skateboarding cranberry juice trend, and what the heck that trend was. And the winner of Fat Bear Week 2020. Links: Scientists Have Identified 24 Possible 'Superhabitable' Planets (Vice) 'Coffin confessor' Bill Edgar paid to gatecrash Queensland funerals and speak up for the dead (ABC) Cranberry Juice Skateboarder Gets Surprised With A New Truck Full Of Juice From Ocean Spray (Digg)  The Internet Has An Embarrassing, Dancing Mexican Uncle In Tío TikTok (Mitú) All Hail 747, Your Hefty Fat Bear Champion of 2020 (Earther) 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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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Wednesday, October 7th, 2020.

0:40.6

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

The 24 possible superhabitable planets that could be better than Earth.

0:49.1

The man you can pay to gate crash your funeral.

0:53.6

A perfect conclusion to the skateboarding cranberry juice trend on TikTok,

0:59.4

and what the heck that trend was,

1:02.5

and the winner of Fat Bear Week 2020.

1:06.9

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

1:13.0

Move over Earth, scientists have just identified two dozen other possible planets that are even better for supporting life.

1:22.8

In a new paper published in the journal Astrobiology, scientists point out 24 planets that they call

1:28.6

superhabitable, which means not that they're Earth-like, but rather they hypothetically could

1:34.3

support even more biodiversity and biomass than Earth. This due to a combination of factors,

1:41.2

including the planet's host star and its own mass and temperature.

1:45.7

Dirk Schulze McCook, the lead astrobiologist on the study, said, quote,

1:49.7

we are so focused on finding a mirror image of Earth that we may overlook a planet that is even

1:55.0

more well-suited for life, end quote.

1:58.4

Vace points out that not only does our conception of Earth as the best example of a habitable

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