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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 382 - 11/10/2012
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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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Podcast
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November 10, 2012
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This Day in Skepticism: Goddess of Reason
News Items: Life in the Universe, UFOlogy Dying, Chelation Therapy, Psychic Fail
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Universe Rotating
Science or Fiction
In Memorium: Mike LaCelle
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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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: Crow T Robot
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Segment: Questions and Emails
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Question #1: Universe Rotating
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Simple question so a simple answer, (I hope.) Why does everything go round, rotate I mean and not just when your drunk! Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and maybe the whole Universe? Why, how did they get going. And, how come when I take off the front wheel of my bike and hold the axle on one side doesn't it fall down when it's spinning. Bending gravity? I know about precession but I'm still confused. Thanks Guys and remember take care out there.
Ian. Redmond
Zimbabwe
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: In Memorium
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Mike LaCelle
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The Rogues remember Mike LaCelle - the 7th Rogue, who died on November 6th
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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"[Space exploration] is in financial trouble. Yet by many standards, such missions are inexpensive. Mariner Jupiter/Saturn costs about the same as the American aircraft shot down in Vietnam in the week in which I am writing these words (Christmas 1972). The Viking mission itself costs about a fortnight of the Vietnam war.
I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use similar technology and manufacturers, and similar human qualities of organization and daring. Can we not make the transition from automated aerospace killing to automated aerospace exploration of the solar system in which we live?"
-- Carl Sagan (1972)
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