1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglass. Julie, 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: what do you think it would be? Like, we'll live 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: on a square planet? Like you think you've listened to 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: a lot of like Lawrence Welk eat a lot of 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: cheese steak. Yes to Lawrence Welk, No to cheese steak. 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: Cheesteak is kind of a squares food that you gotta admit. 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, cheese steak is quite prized 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: in some cities are and um and it's really been 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: elevated to an art if I can say that as 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: a vegetarian, I guess yeah. I mean you turn into 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: the food shows and it's like, uh, they just go 14 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: on and on about like every city has their grotesque 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 1: um and too in my opinion, square meet sandwich and 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: uh and the people got got for Well you're saying 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: a square not hip? Right? Yeah? Like not hip? You know, 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: like what are the squares doing? Like what the cool 19 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: kids are all going to the midnight puppet show and 20 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: and then the one of the squares are going to 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: their football game. I don't know. Anytime you say squares, 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: I just feel like I should be dressed in all 23 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: black and nothing anytime I agree with something that you say, 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: which is what I'm going to do. But but now 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: we're not We're actually not talking about that kind of 26 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: a square. We're talking about literal square, literal square planet 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: like um David cross as is bit which Matt Frederick 28 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: just reminded us of about the Squaggle, where it's a 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: it's a product that was apparently officially marketed, like produced marketed, 30 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: and he talked about it in a stand up bit. 31 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: But it's a bagel. It's a real square. Yeah, it's 32 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: a real thing. It's a square bagel, so that it's 33 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: not like rolling. What's the opposite of snapping your fingers 34 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: to disagree? I don't know. That doesn't make sense. I 35 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: don't know I'm saying that that's not going to be 36 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: transmitted by my voice. I guess like lengthy discussions over 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: some freestyle jazz. I don't know. But basically, imagine a 38 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: square planet. If you're into comics, then you may know 39 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: that the bizarro world where Bizarrow hails. Okay, and we're 40 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: not talking about a square planet made out of bagels. 41 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: We're talking about a square planet. Like the idea that 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: we're gonna talking about today is what if our what 43 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: if our earthwork square? Which is, like I said, Bizarro 44 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: Bizarro Superman familiar with this, right, yes, Sam, he's like Superman, 45 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: except he's like an albino or something. Um and he's 46 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: not really well but he's white. He's like really white 47 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: really and uh and uh and and kind of dumb. 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: And it's like you might be familiar with the concept 49 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: with Bizarro Seinfeld to right, right, Yeah, yeah, they they may. 50 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: They referenced this particular comic creation. So, yeah, imagine the 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: world that we live on seeing it from space and 52 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: seeing not a sphere but a square, a cube, which 53 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. Right. Yeah, It's not possible, but 54 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we can't talk about it because 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: lots of let's people have talked about this or dreamed 56 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: what would it be like if our Earth was squared? 57 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: And and actually it gets down to the question of 58 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: why why do we have spheroid like planets and moons? Anyway? Right, 59 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: what's the whole deal with that? To be sun filed 60 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: in about it? What's the deal with the actual formation 61 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: of planets. No, no, no, Like, hey man, why do 62 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: we why don't we have a square for a planet? Yeah, 63 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: well I'll tell you why. Gravity, my friend. Yes, gravity 64 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: is the key to it all, because at heart we 65 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: have this thing called accretion. Like this is the way 66 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: everything forms. Right. So you know, if you if you 67 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: go back in time before there's a planet, and even 68 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: planet or star, you have a whole lot of little 69 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: bits of dust floating around, and each of those little 70 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: bits of dust, no matter how small, has mass and 71 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 1: exerts gravity. Okay, so everyone with me. So you have 72 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,839 Speaker 1: dust dust mote number one meets the cosmic dust mote 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: number two and they attract to each other. Suddenly they 74 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: have more mass. Then surrounding they have more gravitational pull. 75 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: They begin to pull in other little bits of of dust, 76 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: and so you end up with this kind of cosmic 77 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: snowball effect where the gravity builds, it accrues more mass, 78 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: and it eventually it gets bigger and bigger and becomes 79 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: a you know, it in literally becomes like a star 80 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: or a planet or some other kind of astral bodies. 81 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 1: And these are all spherical for a reason because it's 82 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: because at the center that you have a center of mass, 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: and it is when we're standing on a planet, the 84 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: mass is more or less the same. No matter where 85 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: you go on the globe. It does differ. There areas 86 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: on the earthware where the the where where gravity is 87 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: stronger but for the or weaker. But for the most 88 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: part you have more or less uniform gravity. So a 89 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: square would not form because a square or a cube 90 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: would not have uniform gravity. Yeah, and it's sort of 91 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: but still I still sort of wonder, like why not 92 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: the shape of a banana or well, I think because 93 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: the square is a very um it's it's the opposite, 94 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: you know, it's uh, it's the squiggle versus the bagel idea. 95 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: It's like the square is very uniform. There's an episode 96 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: of Look Around You season two where they have a 97 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: soccer ball um um or you know in football in 98 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: in Britain and you push a button on it and 99 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: it transforms into a cube so that you can store 100 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: it on a shelf without it rolling off. There's you know, 101 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: it's just something on a very like mathematical basis, like 102 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: the cube is a very ordered what they're both very 103 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: ordered shapes, but but but they're very opposite, you know. 104 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: And uh, and so we can't help but but but 105 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: think of things in terms of their ridiculous opposites, you know, 106 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: like you know, we would look in the mirror. It's like, well, 107 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: what if what if I was a woman instead of 108 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: a man? You know, what if? What if? What if 109 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: that horse flew instead of walked? What if the world 110 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: were a cube instead of a sphere? And uh and 111 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: and when you when you look back at some of 112 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: the things that have been written about this, I mean, 113 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: there have been times where people have made some surprising 114 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: arguments for the existence of cubes in nature. Now, now, granted, 115 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: cubes do can form in nature. Rough cubes conform in nature. Obviously. 116 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: We've all seen blocks of stone that have fallen off 117 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: of something that may be roughly cubicle. You've seen tricksters 118 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: using bubbles to you know, tricks tricks. Well, I guess 119 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: they're bubble artists or something, blowing bubbles and then piecing 120 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: them together in forming that square, that cube at the center. 121 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: So it's not like a natural impossibility. But you see 122 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: fewer of these in nature than you do spheres. Well, geographically, right, 123 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: you tend to see more of the spheres right, certainly 124 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: in the universe. So yeah, I found it really really interesting. 125 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: Looking back to four, there was a Swiss astronomer by 126 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: the name of Aren't a r N d T. And uh, 127 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: this is like the only name he was attributed in 128 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: this particular chair. But Aren't Yeah, and he made the 129 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: headlines back in the day when he claimed to have 130 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: discovered a very curious planet in the orbit beyond Neptune, 131 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: a cubicle planet. Even in eighteen a four astronomers knew 132 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: better there was. There was a New York Times article 133 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: titled the Cubicle Planet, November sixte edition. The the author 134 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: talked to a physicist by the name of Dr Theodore 135 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: Van Kirk. It's it's a great article because it's this 136 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: is the Gilded Age of newspapers, so it's extremely long, 137 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: and it's like it's written in the style of like 138 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: and then the writer asked, and then he's like, oh, 139 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: good boy, let me explain it to you, and and 140 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: and and so like the first debt is the professor 141 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: just saying this is complete whuie, this this is just 142 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: I'm not yeah, he says who he and he's He's like, 143 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna dignify such an idea. But then 144 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: he goes on to say, oh, but this is what 145 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: it would be like, you know, because because at the heart, 146 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: that's the cool thing about thinking about a cubicle planet 147 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: is that, um it it illustrates some of the things 148 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: that we take for granted about life on an actual 149 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: spherical world. Yeah, so what would a cube shape Earth 150 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: look like? You know, would it? Would it? Is this 151 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: some sort of like parallel universe where Picasso just exist 152 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: and well for and then this cubical form. Well, the 153 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: important thing to realize is the way center of gravity 154 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: affects everything. Again, um gravity more or less uniform across 155 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: the planet because the center of the Earth is always 156 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: directly beneath your feet. No matter where you're standing. You 157 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: can point down at the space between your feet and say, 158 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: if I were to go straight down from you know, 159 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: straight down towards the center of gravity, I would hit 160 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: the core of the No matter where you were, gravitation 161 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: is um it's always going to point roughly towards the center, 162 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: right right. So imagine you're facing once one square one 163 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: side of the six sides of the queue. If you 164 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: were standing the exact center of that it would be 165 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: like on Earth because the center is directly below you. 166 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: You're standing standing straight up, You're standing straight up on 167 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: the Okay, So let's say you're out near an edge. 168 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: If you're out here an edge, you would be technically 169 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: you may be standing straight up on that particular side, 170 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: on that particular plane, but it would feel like you 171 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: were standing on a hill because the exact center, the 172 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: center of the planet's mass, is not directly beneath your feet. Okay, Yeah, 173 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the idea of this. So you've 174 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: got the you've got these six sides, and it's almost 175 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: it would almost feel like it's forming a bowl right right, 176 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: Like like, let's say again, you're standing at the center 177 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: of one of the six sides, okay, and then you're 178 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: gonna walk towards the edge. The closer you came to 179 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: the edge, the more it would feel like you were 180 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: walking up the side of a mountain. Only if you 181 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: were to actually reach the very edge and stand on 182 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: the edge, would it feel like Earth would Only then 183 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: would the center of the planet's gravity be directly beneath you. Okay, 184 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating. There's some This question was posed 185 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: to ask mathematician slash physicists. These are the guys that 186 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: show up at Burning Man, So take this for what 187 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: you will. But they had some very interesting thoughts about this, 188 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: and they said that Earth would take the form of 189 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: a vast barren expanse of rock directly exposed to space. 190 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: And if you were standing on the edge of a 191 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: face and look back toward the center, you'd be able 192 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: to clearly see the round bubble of air and water 193 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: extending above the flat surface with the poles in the 194 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: center of the two faces. Then then two of those 195 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: bubble seas that were created. Right, wait, are these the 196 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: cornels as physicist? No, this is different. This is why 197 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: I say these are These are the guys that show 198 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: up at Burning Man. And they have a tent. Actually 199 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool, and it says ask uh. 200 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: Mathematicians are asking a physicist, right, they're one of each. 201 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: So guys are wandering up to be a burning man 202 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: and going like, dude, what if? What if? Like a cube? 203 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: It was cube and it was completely pupiled by a 204 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: bunch of Picasso's and they were fragmented faces, and one 205 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: of the areolas was on his ear. That's that's what 206 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: they're asking. So that's why I say take it, take 207 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: it what you will out of this. But I do 208 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: think it's really you're standing on the edge, you're looking down, 209 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: and you're seeing the seeing the bubble of the atmosphere, 210 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: right Okay, So that in and of itself is pretty 211 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: cool to imagine, and that you're you're on this the 212 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: face of the square and you're seeing this atmosphere because 213 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: right now we can't we don't perceive that right well, 214 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: and we wouldn't be able to perceive it. And then uh, 215 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: these bubble seas would create solid ice cot ice cap blocks, yeah, 216 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: and that this would be an entirely weird area that 217 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: that life probably wouldn't be supported in um but if 218 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: it were, it would it would be in this ring 219 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: around the shore of those bubbles bubble seas that were created, 220 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: and the leaning tower of piece would be straight. And 221 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: actually a Dr Karen L. Masters, who was coming in 222 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: on Cornel's Aaska Physicist page, she pretty much backs this up. Yeah, 223 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: she's got some good mouth. Yeah, and I'm not going 224 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: to bore everybody with the numbers, but she conscious the 225 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: numbers and says, yeah, based on the way the atmosphere 226 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: works on the Earth we actually live on. If the 227 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: Earth were impossibly a cube, the edges of the cube 228 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: would be Titanic mountains just jutting far above the atmosphere. 229 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: They would be space mountains in a very atmosphere. Yeah yeah. 230 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: And the oceans would be uh, would be pooled at 231 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: the center of the six square planes. So each side. 232 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: If you think of this cubical planet as a dice, 233 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: each face of the die would be like a one 234 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: when that one would be an ocean. Yeah. Um. And 235 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: then and then you have to also take into account 236 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: how weather and seasons work. What is a pretty complex system, 237 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: and gravity is one of the key players. And gravity 238 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: holds the atmosphere to the Earth, and again it holds 239 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: it uniformly, so in the shape of this cube. That's 240 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: when you have the mountainous edges piercing above the atmosphere. 241 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: But then rotation also plays a role because you have 242 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: alternating periods of night and day of heat and cool 243 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: that end up stirring the atmosphere into motion. And then 244 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: a number of other geological and gravitational factors complicated even 245 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: more untill you have this vast and largely unpredictable system. 246 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: But climates would basically depend on exactly how it's rotating, 247 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: because there's you know, a sphere is only going to 248 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: rotate pretty much. I mean, it's it's a it's a sphere. 249 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: Everything is is more or less uniform. So if it's 250 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: rotating up and down side the side, it doesn't matter. 251 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 1: This position is still gonna look the same shape wise. 252 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: Whereas a cube, how is that going to rotate? Is 253 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: it gonna be like if I were to lay a 254 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: dice down on the table and just rotated it around. 255 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: Is one of the six sides gonna face face down 256 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: or yeah? Or is it gonna be on edge? Is 257 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: if I were to take a die and spin it 258 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: like a top on the table. Now if I were 259 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: just if it we're gonna rotate like like you spin 260 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: it on the top of the table, you would have 261 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: more or less uniform coverage from the sun. But if 262 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: it were like a die setting on the table, you 263 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: would have like an entire the entire top and bottom 264 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: uh squares, The entire top and bottom planes would be 265 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: like our north and south pole, and then everything else 266 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: would be like like the equator, So it would be similar. 267 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: Then in terms of our weather, Yeah, except weirder because 268 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: you would have like you'd have six six sides six sections. 269 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: Four be equator land and two would be um Arctic 270 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: or antarctic land. So it'd be like you're rolling. If 271 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: you were to then roll it on the table, you're like, well, 272 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: I have a two and six chance that I'll roll 273 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: snow and a four and six chance that I'll roll 274 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: the crazy vacation. Well, and that's what I was just 275 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: thinking too. All of a sudden, your wind patterns are 276 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: going to be completely different because what feels like wind 277 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: coming out us right now across our localized area, if 278 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: if you are at an extreme point, I would imagine 279 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: that the wind would act in a very different way 280 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: because it's one of the things about the way that 281 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: the wind works on Earth is you have a global 282 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: system where what's happening on one side of the globe 283 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: affects the other because you have you have heat here, 284 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: cool here. It's all one system. But in this scenario, 285 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: we have the space mountains the edges of the cube, 286 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: so each face will have its own atmosphere basically, I 287 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: mean it's it's cut off from the other atmospheres. So 288 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: it would have its own isolated weather So each side 289 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: of the die would have its own weather system, would 290 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: have its own biosquare too, right, because you would have 291 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: completely if you did have some sort of life form 292 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: in there, that's rightly different from one. That's another thing 293 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: that factor, because the emergence of life on Earth had 294 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: a huge role in the amount of oxygen. So what 295 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: would that be like for the north and south section? 296 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: We would you even have life emerged there? If they 297 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: were lifeless planes of extreme cold? You know, what would 298 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: the atmosphere be like? Maybe they wouldn't have breathable atmosphere. 299 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: You might have different, vastly or slightly different atmospheres depending 300 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: on which side of the die you were visiting. And 301 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: that's what what these burning man, the physicism mathematician actually 302 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: brought that up. They said, if the biospheres are bio squares, 303 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: took different routes in terms of these isolated regions, you 304 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: could have a nitrogen oxygen atmosphere on some faces like 305 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: we have, and a hydrogen nitrogen carbon dioxide atmosphere on others, 306 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: kind of like our old atmosphere for a billion years ago, right, 307 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: So that's crazy, And then what would cheesteaks be like 308 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: in each of these zones vastly different. What would what 309 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: would warfare be like between the six zones? I mean 310 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: there's I'm surely somebody has written a book about politics 311 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: of a of a cubicle world. That would be yea 312 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: like who who becomes the master of that world? Right? 313 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: And why how long does it take you to even 314 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: discover other faces of the cube? Because you've got to 315 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: be capable of climbing a space mountain or drilling through it, right, 316 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: unless there are naturally occurring tunnels that can be taken. 317 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: I like the I like the tunnel route. Yeah, but 318 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: what does that do to your perception too? Right, especially 319 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: if you can see the bubble of the atmosphere? Yeah, 320 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: I mean the interesting thing is we're talking about this earlier. 321 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: Even though we live like everyone, I doubt we have 322 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: any flat landers out there listening to this who think 323 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: that we live on a flat world and the ocean's 324 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: empty off and uh and drip off into the void, 325 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: or that we live in a discworld. If you're up there, 326 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: tell us of your time traveling secrets. Do do tell 327 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: us if if you do, you do hold that opinion. 328 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: But now we we all know that the Earth is 329 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: spherical and that we're standing on a plane that wraps 330 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: around on itself, but we still have the experience. We 331 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: still more or less feel like we're on a flat 332 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: world because we can't we we can't see the curvature 333 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: of the Earth. We can't poke our head out above 334 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: the atmosphere or anything like that, so we would still 335 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: experience the cube world more or less the same. Uh. 336 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: And and even as we approach those mountains, they would 337 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: feel like mountains. So I can easily imagine like a 338 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: map of a cubicle planet made by inhabitants of a 339 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: cubical planet, like they well, you know, if they didn't 340 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: know about the other sides, they would just see the 341 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: world as, oh, well, we live in the valley and 342 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: the mountains rise up on either side of us, and 343 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: beyond the mountains is who knows. Well, instead of having 344 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: a flat or of theory, perhaps it would be like 345 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: the triangular earth theory, right, because you can't quite wrap 346 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 1: your head around it. Alright, We're gonna take a quick 347 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: break and then we're gonna get back to all this, 348 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: So hanging there for one second. This podcast is brought 349 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: to you by Intel the sponsors of Tomorrow and the 350 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: Discovery Channel at Intel. We believe Curiosity is the spark 351 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: which drives innovation. Join us at curiosity dot com and 352 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: explore the answers to life's questions. And we're back. So 353 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: let's get that to gravity and why why the Earth 354 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: will never be a cube or it could never have 355 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: become a cube? Well particular Earth. Well, it comes down 356 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: to a creatum starts Earth. You know again, like is 357 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: all these particles come in, there's gonna be one to another. 358 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: That's gonna be You're gonna have the center of gravity 359 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: pulling things in and applying and pulling things in more 360 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 1: or less uniformly. So like a cube just wouldn't form. 361 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: I mean, you could conceivably a significantly advanced civilization could 362 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: build a giant planet sized cube. But still it's going 363 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: to warp. Right still, it's gonna warp because you're going 364 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: to have that uniform of gravity pulling in. It's gonna 365 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: like things are gonna conform. That's this is what I 366 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: thought was interesting that the weight of the material begins 367 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: to overwhelm the strength of that material and then the 368 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: planet is pulled into a sphere. So you can't help 369 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: that the force from rotation actually like squashing it into 370 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: a sphere alike or spheroid nature is going to abhor 371 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: a giant cube because the sphere is the uniform forces 372 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: at work. Yeah, And just an example of this, one 373 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: of the two moons of Mars Phobos. It's not large 374 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: enough to produce enough gravity to become a proper sphere. 375 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: So you look at that and you see that it's 376 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: kind of it's sort of like egg shaped, but then 377 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: it has this gigantic crater on one side. It's called 378 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: the Stickney crater, and it kind of looks like a 379 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: fish that's been punched in the mouth and you just 380 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: can see you like, oh, this mean that's just never 381 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: going to quite become like a billiard ball here. Yeah, 382 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: Like think of this all right, Say here at the park, 383 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,439 Speaker 1: right and say let's say, I don't know, Lady Gaga 384 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: shows up too, and she just starts performing in the 385 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: center of the park and everybody's interested in so they're 386 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 1: going to gather around to see her. Only so many 387 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: people can fit in any given space. So and as 388 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: the crowd gathers around her, which shape do you think 389 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: they're going to take? Do you think it's gonna roughly 390 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: be spherical or roughly be a big square. It's gonna 391 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: be spherical or at least roughly. So it's gonna because 392 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: people are gonna be drawn in towards the center of attention, 393 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: and in our universe, the center of attention is always gravity. 394 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: I feel like you have a secret agenda to insert 395 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga in as many podcasts as possible. I don't know, 396 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: it's a good reference. I mean, it's one of those 397 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: things you get Lady Gaga is performing in the park. 398 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: I mean, i'd go see what it was about. I'm 399 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: just I'm just clocking it. Lamb. Okay, well, we we've 400 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: shown that she showed up in studies before. There's that 401 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: Psychology Today paper that made some arguments about decision making 402 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: and Lady Gaga. So yeah, yeah, about motivational forces and 403 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: how you should probably align yourself with Lady Gaga. Rather, 404 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: I really need to do some searches and find out 405 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: how many peer of view papers have been Lady gagat paced. 406 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: I think we should just do a podcast on Lady Gaga. 407 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: Let's just get that out of the way. So anyway, 408 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: I hope the Gaga explanation here work. I mean that 409 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: because that's basically you know why nobody would would stand 410 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: at the edge of that cube if they could be 411 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 1: closer to the actions by standing a little more to 412 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: the left of the right, Like, why would they? Why 413 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: would they form it? They wouldn't because they want to 414 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: see what's happening. We want to be closer to the action. 415 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: They're being pulled towards her right, so she wants them 416 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: to be pulled toward her. Yeah, so that's basically why 417 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: we we can't have a cubicle planet. But it's it's 418 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: fascinating to think about it, and and we may it 419 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: may be overlooking some some key ramifications here. So by 420 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: all means, for sure we are. Yeah. So by all means, 421 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: if we missed anything, or if you have any crazy 422 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: thoughts about how anything would work on a cubicle planet, 423 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: you should let us know, just as some other people 424 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: have let us know about things via listener mail. And 425 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: I have a whole stack of them here. Let me 426 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: go through and read a couple of them. Jackie writes 427 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: in and says, Hey, they're listening to the Bees Versus 428 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: Wasts episode and listening to your comments on how bees 429 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: would make a bad and non aggressive mascot. Um. I 430 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: can go one better when it comes to unthreatening mascots, 431 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: the Pretzels. My high school in Freeport, Illinois is the 432 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: proud home of the Freeport Pretzels, apparently named after a 433 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: beer and pretzel making company that used to be located 434 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: in town. I just thought you might be amused by this. 435 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for the brilliant podcast. I just can only hope 436 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: that those are the big, soft, puffy pretzels instead of 437 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: a little crunchy wan. Yeah, doesn't make it even better. Well, 438 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: It's what I love about that too, is that the 439 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: company is not even there. They're no longer tied. It's 440 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: not like it's a major sponsor or a major economic 441 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: force in the area. They just remember the pretzel factory 442 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: that was, so they're still the fighting press and that's 443 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: what they do. I'm going to remember the Pretzels, public 444 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: their work, and how does that mascot costume work. You'd 445 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: have to be super twisted to say I'm thinking like 446 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: to slay retiree. We also heard from a listener by 447 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,719 Speaker 1: the name of Carlo and Carlo Retzin and says, greetings 448 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: from sunny Dominican Republic. It's pretty awesome. I am relatively 449 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: new to your podcast just a few months now and 450 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: want to congratulate you on your excellent work, very interesting 451 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: and diverse subject matter, approach, creative. But I find myself 452 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: not listening to my radio on driving to and from 453 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: work now as I'm usually glued to your show as 454 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: well as stuff you should know, I must admit regarding 455 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: this podcast, I believe an interesting example of socially accepted 456 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: liars and lying are actors. When you think about it, 457 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,479 Speaker 1: they might just be the most admired professional liars around. 458 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Well, that's 459 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: that's that's interesting because you know, we we talked about 460 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: lying liars and how lying is in a way like 461 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: reshaping reality and creating a false reality in which the 462 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: participant and the listener is is a part of. And yeah, 463 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: to a certain extent that the theater, somebody gets up 464 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: on the stage and they just start lying their butt off. Well, 465 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: and I remember when we were talking to Dr Ellen Arkin, 466 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: professor at George Tech and Robotics, and he was talking 467 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: about his decepticonic Believes. I don't know if that's like 468 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: the real name for the bo I think that was 469 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: the ternament ended up being on their own arm by 470 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: the media, you know, science journalists, but you know they're 471 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out how to program lying and deception. 472 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: And he was talking about how we are constantly self 473 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: deceiving and how and I was thinking about the actors. 474 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: He was saying, why do we pay good Funny to 475 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: go to a theater and see these pixels projected on 476 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: a screen just so that it moves us in somewhere 477 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: brings up some sort of emotions. So yeah, absolutely, the 478 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: actor's biggest players out there and we pay them to be. Yeah. 479 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: We heard from a listener by the name of Jim 480 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: who wrote in with a Higgers guy to the Galaxy 481 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: reference on the whole I Don't Eat the Panda episode 482 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: about our relationship between animals and food. They pointed out 483 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: that there is a quadruped in the books that basically 484 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: it's a cow that's been genetically engineered to want to 485 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: be eaten and to verbalize this desire. Because therefore the 486 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: cow wants to be eaten, we're just giving into its 487 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: wishes by eating it. In therefore it's moral, which ends 488 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 1: the whole problem right there. Boom. Yeah, I love an 489 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: elegant but ridiculous answer, you know, to a to a 490 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: quandrit And certainly that's that's kind of like that's what 491 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: his Checkers guy is all about. We also heard from 492 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: a list of my Name with John John writes and 493 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: says and your Don't Eat the Panda podcast today, you 494 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: found it hard to grasp that people could raise monkeys 495 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: as pets and still eat monkeys as food. It is 496 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: really not much different than having fish in your fish 497 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: tank or birds in your bird cage and still eating 498 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: fish or chicken without giving it much or maybe for 499 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: Julie the vegetarian, having a chia pet but still eating 500 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: chia seeds. How do you what do you have to 501 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: say to that man? I gave this up at his 502 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: only timing out. It was so hard for me etho 503 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: seeds and then look over and see the innocent chia 504 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: pet sprouting forth. Yeah, I just at first I started 505 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: turning it to the window so it couldn't see me 506 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: eating its seeds, and eventually I just had to take 507 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: it out of my diet. Yeah, well you don't see 508 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: as men anymore because said like the chia pet has 509 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: been hunted near to the point of extinction, so except 510 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: for in variety stores. Yeah near you. Yeah, and I 511 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: think that Turner has a big reserve of them up 512 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: the north. But it's but it's only a matter of 513 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: time until he opens that new chain. It's like a 514 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: chia pet salad store. It's gonna be like super Crackers 515 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: or something. Super Salad. Now, super Salad is the real one. 516 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: Super Crackers is the one from Party Gap. Yes, it's 517 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: gonna be that. Um so hey. We also received a 518 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: lot of other emails, and we seem to be getting 519 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: more and more of them, to the point where I 520 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: can't really keep up with uh. I mean, we tried 521 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: to respond to a lot of these, but are we 522 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: are getting a lot of them these days. But bear 523 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 1: in mind that that we definitely read them all, even 524 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: if we don't get to read them on the air, 525 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: or if we don't if we don't, actually we'll get there. 526 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: I can touch with you. Yeah, yeah, but but they 527 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: are greatly appreciated. And the other way to interact with 528 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: us is of course to find us on Facebook and Twitter. 529 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: You can find us on both of those as blow 530 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: the mind, and we update those feeds all the time 531 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: with all sorts of cool stuff, so check it out. 532 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: It really do send us an email because we will 533 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: read it and it certainly helps us. Uh inform us 534 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: the sort of topics that we want to cover for you, 535 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: and we always love to hear what you guys want 536 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: to know about next, so send us an email at 537 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: Blow the Mind at how stuff works dot com. Be 538 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: sure to check out our new video podcast, Stuff from 539 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,959 Speaker 1: the Future. Join how Stuff Work staff as we explore 540 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: the most promising and perplexing possibilities of tomorrow.