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Offline Steven Novella

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Episode #363
« on: Jun 30, 2012, 11:41:42 AM »
This Day in Skepticism: Tunguska Event
News Items: The Science of Prometheus, Time Slowing Down, Higgs Update
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nessie Disproves Evolution
Science or Fiction
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #1 on: Jun 30, 2012, 01:08:34 PM »
Thanks for the podcast and the community!
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #2 on: Jun 30, 2012, 01:27:55 PM »
What a fun episode, thank you! Although, I can't believe you guys didn't mention the Golgafrinchans from The Hitchhiker's Guide during your discussion of Prometheus. It't not a perfect parallel, but the Golgafrinchans send the most useless third of their population to crash land on Earth which in turn wipe out the natives and become the ancestors of modern humans.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #3 on: Jun 30, 2012, 01:32:47 PM »
Thanks again folks.

WTN starts at 53:45 and the new noisy is at 56:33.

Hmm .. music derived from something scientific .. wasn't someone a while back making music from DNA sequences? Time for a bit of YouTube searching I think.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #4 on: Jun 30, 2012, 01:59:21 PM »
Cellulose Nitrate Film Negatives WERE deemed a fire hazard in the 30s.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/cellulose.pdf

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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #5 on: Jun 30, 2012, 02:20:53 PM »
All I could see between you and George Hrab tearing this film (Prometheus) up was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000... Someone has to do it.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #6 on: Jun 30, 2012, 04:04:27 PM »
Given the ending of Lost there should be no surprise that Prometheus sucked. The reason is Damon Lindelof. He's someone who is ignorant of how science works but seems to be a little interested in it but at the same time he's obviously a theist and that gets in his way of actually understanding any of it.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #7 on: Jun 30, 2012, 04:46:25 PM »
Just watched the whole interview referenced in Whose That Noisy. It was... really difficult to watch.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #8 on: Jun 30, 2012, 05:20:02 PM »
I think the Noisy is Tau, although that is partially based on the fact that Tau Day was this week.  Do I answer here?
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #9 on: Jun 30, 2012, 05:20:16 PM »
WTN - A heart murmer?
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #10 on: Jun 30, 2012, 05:21:20 PM »
Quote from: Protesilaus on Jun 30, 2012, 05:20:02 PM
I think the Noisy is Tau, although that is partially based on the fact that Tau Day was this week.  Do I answer here?

Yes... if you mean the alternate to Pi day.
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #11 on: Jun 30, 2012, 05:23:44 PM »
Yes, Tau being 2 Pi...I hope this works: Tau (τ)
« Last Edit: Jun 30, 2012, 05:26:06 PM by Protesilaus »
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #12 on: Jun 30, 2012, 06:14:44 PM »
The bit about time slowing down was reported in New Scientist 21 Dec 2007

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626354.000-is-time-slowing-down.html

(not sure if you have to login or not to see this link.)

It seems like an analogue to MOND as an alternative to Dark Matter.    I wonder if anyone is working on unifying MOND and Time Slowing to come up with a unified alternative to both Dark Matter and Dark Energy?    .... or is MOND completely dead now that folks are mapping the distribution of Dark Matter?  How a bout a quickie with Brian Greene to sort all this out for us?  :)

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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #13 on: Jun 30, 2012, 06:28:26 PM »
Re: Prometheus:  One possible reason for the crew to be clueless idiots is that they were "hand picked" by an elderly billionaire.  Imagine what sort of crew would have been hand picked by Howard Hughes near the end of his life.

Maybe the movie is a subtle ploy to improve science education going by the number of science bloggers pointing out the scientific errors.  ::)
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Re: Episode #363
« Reply #14 on: Jun 30, 2012, 09:11:57 PM »
WTN:   Fractal structured music? 
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