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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 363 - 6/30/2012
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
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June 30, 2012
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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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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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June 30, 1908
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The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Wendy Wright
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Segment: Questions and Emails
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item #1  Science
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Awareness is the birthplace of possibility.
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Item #2 Science
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To know the world feel your body.
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Item #3 Science
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Established in Being, perform action.
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Item #4  Fiction
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Knowledge is the path to your own positivity. http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Ripley: Ash, can you hear me? Ash?
Ash: [speaking in an electronic, distorted voice] Yes, I can hear you.
Ripley: What was your special order?
Ash: You read it. I thought it was clear.
Ripley: What was it?
Ash: Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded.
Parker: The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?
Ash: I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded.
Ripley: How do we kill it Ash? There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?
Ash: You can't.
Parker: That's bullshit.
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
Parker: Look, I am... I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug.
Ash: [Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts] Last word.
Ripley: What?
Ash: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.
Scene from the movie, Alien
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