WEBVTT - Sharks in Space

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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<v Speaker 1>Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. And

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<v Speaker 1>this is the magical time of the year because it

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<v Speaker 1>is Shark Week, the best time of the year. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got our Shark Week lights up around the office. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we have to look like little sharks. Mandatory consumption of

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<v Speaker 1>gummy sharks. Um, nobody's allowed to bring their line. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just gummy sharks and tap water for everybody. Really builds

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<v Speaker 1>up your constitution. Yep. Yeah. And we we tend to

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<v Speaker 1>just go around circles around each other in the break room,

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<v Speaker 1>which is fun. So it is. It's an exciting time

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<v Speaker 1>and it's also in the lobby. We're not making that

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<v Speaker 1>up now, We're not making that up at all. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>It actually premieers Sunday, July thirty one on Discovery Channel

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<v Speaker 1>for folks who are really excited about sharks, and so

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<v Speaker 1>we thought that we would do a little homage to

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<v Speaker 1>sharks this week and um and talk about how great

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<v Speaker 1>they are. Cool because the week itself was always pretty

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<v Speaker 1>awesome growing up because you turn on Discovery and then

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<v Speaker 1>they're just like NonStop shark attacks, I was gonna say, ma'am,

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<v Speaker 1>and violence no matter where you look, and your parents

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<v Speaker 1>can't say anything about it because there's sharks. Yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>educational yea. And sharks truly are amazing creatures. But the

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<v Speaker 1>one you know, that, the one thing you don't think

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<v Speaker 1>about as much are sharks in space because it just

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<v Speaker 1>seems odd, yeah, or that NASA would it all care

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<v Speaker 1>what a shark is up to or how a shark works.

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<v Speaker 1>It just seems like these are totally different ends of

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<v Speaker 1>the spectrum. Yeah, but as we know, there are definitely

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<v Speaker 1>parallels between the Great Blue Ocean and the sky's above us,

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<v Speaker 1>right right. Uh, So to that point, we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about how sharks have informed NASA and and also

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<v Speaker 1>how they have informed other areas of our lives and

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<v Speaker 1>uh and why Michael Phelps needs to give us shark

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<v Speaker 1>a big hug next time he sees one. Well, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>for starters, there is there's not really need such thing

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<v Speaker 1>as a as a space shark. There of course no

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<v Speaker 1>sharks flying around in outer space. Um. But but dog, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>but not a shark, yes, mummified dog. Right. But as

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<v Speaker 1>as for sharks, we we have a wonder for a

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<v Speaker 1>long time whether or not the moon affects them, even

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<v Speaker 1>if even though there are no sharks on the moon,

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<v Speaker 1>people have always wondered, what is the lunar cycle affect

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<v Speaker 1>the way sharks behaved? As it can? Can we can

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<v Speaker 1>we base their feeding uh uh, preferences of their ferocity

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<v Speaker 1>on what the moon is doing? Yeah, that's true. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And we know that a full moon signals breeding and

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<v Speaker 1>migratory practices. Um. And it also influences the tides because

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<v Speaker 1>the tidle forces add its maximum, so you see a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more intense feeding behavior at that time, right. And

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<v Speaker 1>in tracking shark movement, scientists have observed large congregations of

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<v Speaker 1>sharks during specific lunar cycles as well as intensified feeding habits.

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<v Speaker 1>So we've got NASA definitely has its I on sharks.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah and um and this is just one example right there.

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<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of things that NASA has been

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<v Speaker 1>doing with sharks because some of their technology actually is

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<v Speaker 1>very helpful in tracking sharks. And these are yeah, these

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<v Speaker 1>are definitely more concrete than well, maybe the maybe the

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<v Speaker 1>moon has some sort of influence on their activity. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>The the one that really um first of all, as

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<v Speaker 1>far as just tracking them goes UM. We we do

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<v Speaker 1>use satellites to track sharks because some of these are

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<v Speaker 1>are in either they're endangered species or they're just species

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<v Speaker 1>we want to learn more about. UM. So we have

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<v Speaker 1>two kinds of tracking devices that we attached to the

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<v Speaker 1>sharks fins. We have smart position only tags also called spots,

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<v Speaker 1>and we have pop up satellite archival tags or pats.

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<v Speaker 1>Spots attached to a shark's dorsal fins and upload location

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<v Speaker 1>data to a satellite every time the animal surfaces, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>so every time it comes up to eat a surfer

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<v Speaker 1>or something, or to or to attack, Richard dry fuss

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<v Speaker 1>Uh injects in you know, pats. However, record water temperature,

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<v Speaker 1>water pressure, and light levels before detaching from the sharks

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<v Speaker 1>fins at a set time. So so this just sort

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<v Speaker 1>of hangs out with the shark shadows. The shark sees

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<v Speaker 1>what the shark is up to and what kind of

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<v Speaker 1>environments it's been happening, and then after a certain time

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<v Speaker 1>detaches to go report back. Yeah, so whether or not

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<v Speaker 1>the shark knows it, it's in business with NASA and

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<v Speaker 1>UM aggregating a bunch of data for the pat device

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<v Speaker 1>floats back to the surface after it's through, and then

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<v Speaker 1>it transmits the data to the satellite. Yeah. Yeah. And

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<v Speaker 1>then there's a second method to which I think is

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<v Speaker 1>really cool. Um, this is an algorithm. Yes, Now, this

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<v Speaker 1>is pretty fascinating because all right, you look up at

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<v Speaker 1>the night sky and even I mean even if you're

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<v Speaker 1>trained somewhat in astronomy and you can, you know, or

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<v Speaker 1>even if you're you can, you know, you can pick

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<v Speaker 1>out every constellation and you can point to different star systems.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to admit, a really clear night sky can

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<v Speaker 1>be really confusing because there's just so many stars and

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<v Speaker 1>you're just you know, trying to make sense of it all.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot see them from Nakodaye all of them, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So NASA, of course has developed an algorithm to help

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<v Speaker 1>to track this that can know that can allow a

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<v Speaker 1>computer to look at the sky and identify what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on based on this, um, you know, to to to

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<v Speaker 1>the lame and seemingly chaotic array of stars. Yeah. And

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<v Speaker 1>this was originally created by Edward J. Groth, and he

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<v Speaker 1>was using this to try to map the intimidating star

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<v Speaker 1>fields Hubble would uncover falling it's launching. So just so

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<v Speaker 1>everybody understands the context there. But again there's this correlation

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<v Speaker 1>with stars and with sharks. Yeah, because the whole the

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<v Speaker 1>whole deal is, we're really interested in whale sharks, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we want to know which ones which, what are they doing.

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<v Speaker 1>This is species that we would like to to stick

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<v Speaker 1>around for a while and we would like to learn

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<v Speaker 1>more about them. But how do you tell them apart? Right? Um, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it turns out that the spots on their their their bodies,

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<v Speaker 1>especially prominent on their heads and their their head region. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>they're all different. These are like the fingerprints of a

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<v Speaker 1>of a whale shark, so it's unique to each one, right,

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<v Speaker 1>But to the naked eye, it doesn't make any sense.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just like, oh, there's another giant fish with spots

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<v Speaker 1>on its head. But we can actually use the same program,

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<v Speaker 1>the same algorithm that's that's intended to make sense of

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<v Speaker 1>the night sky, and it can make sense of the

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<v Speaker 1>spots on a whale shark and actually identify individual whale

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<v Speaker 1>sharks to the point where just random divers who encounter

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<v Speaker 1>a whale shark can take a picture of it and

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<v Speaker 1>then they can send it in Um. To the Echocean,

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<v Speaker 1>which is e E C O C E a n

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<v Speaker 1>Echo Ocean Whale Shark Photo Identification Laboratory, and they're able

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<v Speaker 1>to through this through these users submitted to photos keep

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<v Speaker 1>tabs on, um, you know, close to two thousand whale

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<v Speaker 1>sharks around the world, which is really cool because it's

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<v Speaker 1>very much a public project as well. Yeah. Um. And

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<v Speaker 1>also the algorithm has been adapted to track the animals

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<v Speaker 1>North American populations as well, Yeah, using the unique whisker

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<v Speaker 1>markings on their muzzles. Yeah, so that's that's from NASA actually. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's really interesting that they are trying to learn

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<v Speaker 1>about the stars and they were able to use this

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<v Speaker 1>to try to learn a little bit more about our

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<v Speaker 1>own environment. Right. And it's another great page from the

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<v Speaker 1>whole book of of space technology, improving life or improving

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<v Speaker 1>research on the planet itself, you know, hand me down technology,

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<v Speaker 1>but but very useful. This is another interesting NASA connection

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<v Speaker 1>that was a surprise to me but actually has to

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<v Speaker 1>do with Julia Child. Julia Child, Yeah, the famed chef TV,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the first but to just wonderful spirited woman

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<v Speaker 1>who who assured the American Palette into the twentieth century.

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<v Speaker 1>The reason really that we have to suffer through all

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<v Speaker 1>these more annoying TV chef today on various reality shows. Right, possibly, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>except she was nice. She was she was nice, and

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<v Speaker 1>she she Calaroche Booth Vignon that was awful. But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>she she has a lot of that she contributed to

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<v Speaker 1>our society. But people I think are pretty familiar with

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that she was a spy of sorts um

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<v Speaker 1>and this is from NPRS. The lady was a spy.

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<v Speaker 1>Julia Child worked for the OSS, which is a precursor

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<v Speaker 1>to the CIA. It was assigned to solve a problem

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<v Speaker 1>for the U s Naval forces during World War Two.

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<v Speaker 1>Sharks would bump into explosives that were placed underwater, setting

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<v Speaker 1>them off and warning the German U boats that they

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<v Speaker 1>were intended to sink. So they asked her to work

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<v Speaker 1>on a recipe as it were, of shark repellent and

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<v Speaker 1>um and together they all cooked up the shark repellent

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<v Speaker 1>and that was used to cope the explosives. So the

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<v Speaker 1>shark repellent recipe was then later used to protect astronauts

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<v Speaker 1>and space capsules landed in shark infested waters. Yeah, because

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<v Speaker 1>especially like the Apollopope program and everything. Um, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they're returning to earthen the capsule capsule is landing in

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<v Speaker 1>the open ocean um in many cases, and you would

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<v Speaker 1>rather you're highly trained astronauts not get eaten by a

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<v Speaker 1>shark immediately. No, no, no, not after all that training.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just that that would be a big bummer. And

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<v Speaker 1>the Soviets were very interested in this as well. I

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<v Speaker 1>read a like a nineteen seventies something NASA report on

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<v Speaker 1>the Soviet interest and shark repell and there was you know,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of interest and a lot of tests

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<v Speaker 1>and a lot of sort of oh, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if it works, so maybe it works enough, And generally

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<v Speaker 1>it would decided that it at least did worked, it

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<v Speaker 1>worked enough to use it, you know, like it was

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<v Speaker 1>better than nothing. Say, there was no other alternatives, so

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<v Speaker 1>no other alternates. Um, so, actually sharks have taught us

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<v Speaker 1>a lot, and definitely through bio mimicry as well. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>not just lessons in how to avoid them and how

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<v Speaker 1>to keep them from eating us, but yeah, we can

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<v Speaker 1>look at the shark and say, hey, that is an

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<v Speaker 1>excellent design. What can we learn from this evolution home design. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and it turns out that their skin is of particular

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<v Speaker 1>interest first because it's able to move through water really quickly, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and second because it keeps bacteria at a minimum. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>The skin itself has these consists of these tiny tooth

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<v Speaker 1>like scales that prevents small eddies and vortices from forming,

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<v Speaker 1>which can slow you down. So it's it's so Speedo

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<v Speaker 1>was instantly interesting. Yeah. Yeah, and this is so cool

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<v Speaker 1>because they what they discovered is that that friction is

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<v Speaker 1>different over different parts of the shark's body. So the

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<v Speaker 1>skin on the shark, the texture changes to better manage

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<v Speaker 1>the flow of water. Huh. Yeah. And Speedo of course

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<v Speaker 1>was like, oh hey, we could apply this, we can

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<v Speaker 1>make some money off of this. Yeah. And it was

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<v Speaker 1>actually when this first made the rounds and the news,

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<v Speaker 1>there were some people that were like, is this really

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<v Speaker 1>fair that people can wait because they was, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>shaving some considerable time if you were wearing like a

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<v Speaker 1>full shark skin body suit. Where I think at the

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<v Speaker 1>actual name that this Peto product is a fast skin

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<v Speaker 1>one word, um, and I don't know, there's so there's

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<v Speaker 1>I can kind of get some of that argument, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like can if they're they're improving their performance purely

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<v Speaker 1>through this awesome outfit. I mean maybe maybe I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>putting this out and maybe all competitive swimming should be

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<v Speaker 1>done naked, because then it's well, you know, Greek Olympic style. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Olympic style. Okay, So I mean I would definitely think

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<v Speaker 1>that viewership would go up. Yeah, yeah, Um, it's a possibility.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Maybe if they you know, to to

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<v Speaker 1>get around the TV sensors, maybe that they just dyed

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<v Speaker 1>the water like a real murky color and then it

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<v Speaker 1>would be you know, instantly, you know, covering any potential nudity.

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<v Speaker 1>They would show up right, you know, just to to

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<v Speaker 1>ratch it up the fun factor. They could put sharks

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<v Speaker 1>in the water while the naked swimmers. Yeah, but no,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean they really the suit I think made a

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<v Speaker 1>big difference. It's a three percent improvement in swimming speed

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<v Speaker 1>due to the original shark skin suit, which likely contributed

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<v Speaker 1>to the fact of the swimming medals one in the

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand Olympics were one by athletes wearing speedos fast

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<v Speaker 1>skin suits. Um and then also those some of the

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<v Speaker 1>swimmers broke thirteen of fifteen world records. That's that's I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>when you're talking about a tenth of a second here,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that is that's that's that's a huge difference

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<v Speaker 1>in this sport. Um So Speedo has made further amount

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<v Speaker 1>of occasions of fat skin suit based on continued research

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<v Speaker 1>and it now has something like a four percent reduction

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<v Speaker 1>in friction. Well and the sharks of course getting no credit,

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<v Speaker 1>yeah none, yeah, yeah for you guys. Um, we've we've

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<v Speaker 1>used but we've also used the sharks skin technology for

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<v Speaker 1>other things. Um, we've been able to use this technology

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<v Speaker 1>to create a fast traveling ship holes that also deter

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<v Speaker 1>the attachment of underwater organisms, you know, like whatnot. And

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<v Speaker 1>m Australia's Biopower Systems has been working on a really

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<v Speaker 1>cool shark inspired innovation. Uh. The company hopes to anchor

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<v Speaker 1>mechanical fins based on you know, the shark's body in

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<v Speaker 1>the middle of sea currents in order to generate hydro

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<v Speaker 1>electric power. So it's kind of like a wind meal,

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<v Speaker 1>except yeah, in the ocean, and it looks like a

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<v Speaker 1>giant you know, whale, giant shark fit that is going

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<v Speaker 1>to scare the pants off of someone. It's just in

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<v Speaker 1>a boat having a nice leisurely day on the ocean,

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<v Speaker 1>or or scare the fast skin body suit off of

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<v Speaker 1>someone happens to you can just go over for the

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<v Speaker 1>naked thing here. Yeah, yeah, all right, we'll chew on that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll just leave on the naked note. Yea to chew

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<v Speaker 1>on that while we do a quick break, and we'll

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<v Speaker 1>be back right after that. This presentation is brought to

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<v Speaker 1>I know you got some email there, Yeah, it's time

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<v Speaker 1>for a little listener mail. We actually quite a bit

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<v Speaker 1>um the other podcast we recorded this week with the

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<v Speaker 1>electronic music one, which went a little along. Starting to

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<v Speaker 1>get to to read some of the wonderful comments and

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<v Speaker 1>emails were received from everyone, but I have a handful here. First,

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<v Speaker 1>let's hear from j from Arkansas at Ja writes them. Hi,

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<v Speaker 1>Robert and Julie, longtime listening, huge fan of your podcasting blog.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate you covering the method of loki uh. This

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<v Speaker 1>of course was discussed in our Memory power eliso UM.

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<v Speaker 1>I have found it unusually helpful and extremely entertaining. I

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<v Speaker 1>can definitely identify with Julie's comment on how the very

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<v Speaker 1>premise of how this method works causes her to conjure

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<v Speaker 1>up dreamlike situations, which of course make them more memorable.

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<v Speaker 1>I am a very visual person and have adopted this

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<v Speaker 1>memory approach almost daily since listening to your podcast. I

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<v Speaker 1>have used it to memorize the original Thirteen Colonies, numerous

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<v Speaker 1>shopping lists, and also to wow friends by memorizing lists

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<v Speaker 1>of twenty plus random words in a very short period

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<v Speaker 1>of time. Most recently, I have used this method to

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<v Speaker 1>memorize all of the U S presidents in order. There

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<v Speaker 1>were definitely some colorful images generated to memorize that list.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh and he gives the example of puke cannon for

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<v Speaker 1>Buchanan and a tea glass that continually refills itself for fillmore.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks again and keep up a great work. Well, that

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<v Speaker 1>was awesome to hear somebody take the method of Looky

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<v Speaker 1>the Memory Palace and start ramming it into their life

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<v Speaker 1>on a basis. Yeah, I'm still using it myself. Yeah yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>would you use it for last some appointments that I

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<v Speaker 1>needed to make? Uh? So yeah? Cool? Um. Here is

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<v Speaker 1>another listener email, and this is from Molly. Molly right

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<v Speaker 1>in and says, hey, guys, just finished listening to your

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<v Speaker 1>Space Religion podcast. Interesting. My immediate thoughts when you mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>designing a religion Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Hyland. Granted,

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<v Speaker 1>this is kind of the opposite of what you mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>in this case of Martian who is really human but

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<v Speaker 1>raised as a Martian by Martians, comes to Earth and

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<v Speaker 1>designs a religion. Here excellent book if you haven't read it.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting thought provoking ideas about the nature and need of

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<v Speaker 1>religion and the nature of humans at any rate. I

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<v Speaker 1>gave the pot guest loved the mentions of my favorite books,

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<v Speaker 1>music movies, for instance, a shout out to Doune in

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<v Speaker 1>this one. Um, and then she also mentioned Robert Anton

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<v Speaker 1>Wilson as being particularly interesting along these lines. Uh so, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I have actually not read Stranger in the Strange Line.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's definitely on the list, but your summer reading

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<v Speaker 1>list maybe I don't know. My reading list is out

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<v Speaker 1>of control. Yeah, I've seen that stack of books in

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<v Speaker 1>your dusk But but no, I was really, uh really

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<v Speaker 1>pleased with some of the feedback we got on this

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<v Speaker 1>because we actually we didn't get any like crazy grumpy

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<v Speaker 1>feedback from I think anyone, like everybody that has something

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<v Speaker 1>to say. It was you all along the lines of oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I think you know space and religion means this.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it means that, and several people wrote in

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<v Speaker 1>with the examples of of space religions from science fiction.

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<v Speaker 1>I think somebody on Twitter mentioned the religion that shows

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<v Speaker 1>up in the Warhammer forty thousand universe, which is uh

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<v Speaker 1>a gaming tabletop gaming kind of universe. But there's definitely

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of a lot of ideas that are brought

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<v Speaker 1>together in that regarding what a science fiction interplanetary species

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<v Speaker 1>religion would consist of. Um. So it was a pleasure

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<v Speaker 1>to hear all that. Yeah, and I think that we

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<v Speaker 1>are fortunate to have such a thoughtful audience with a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of moxie. I might add moxie mind blowers out there.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna read just one quick one here before we close,

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<v Speaker 1>And this is from James responding to our Funnier Dive podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>which we also we receive a lot of cool stuff

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<v Speaker 1>um later later, but that he just wanted to throw

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<v Speaker 1>in some some quick funny words and he said, supple

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<v Speaker 1>pork loin, I love that one and toot. So he

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<v Speaker 1>also said that anything with loin in it is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be pretty funny tender loin loincloth, and and yeah

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's a funny shop, pork shop. Yeah. All right.

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